And they all lived rap-pily ever after. Hip-hop musician MC Frontalot is best known as the godfather of nerdcore rap — a genre that mixes hip-hop with geeky topics such as video games and good grammar ...

When MC Frontalot (born Damien Hess) coined the term “nerdcore,” which inspired his 2000 single “Nerdcore Hiphop,” he wasn’t part of a movement. But around then, when artists like YTCracker and MC ...

Not to be outdone by the birthday-related antics of a certain Jonathan Coulton earlier this week, Godfather of nerdcore Hip-Hop and the self-proclaimed “world’s 579th greatest rapper” MC Frontalot ...

During PAX Prime I headed into a panel on Nerdcore Rap. It was kind of a history lesson, in a sense, but nothing that I already didn't know. It was moderated by young rapper and producer Klopfenpop.

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Nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot just dropped this video for his song "Stoop Sale" and it's pretty cute. Frontalot (a.k.a. Damian Hess) describes it as an all-puppet extravaganza about buying a mystical ...

Damian Hess, better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is an Brooklyn-based hip-hop performer, web designer and professional geek. He was a musical guest on Wyatt Cenac's Night Train, a judge on ...

Gizmodo actually crawled out of our basements last night to venture into the harsh lights of the Lower East Side (or that’s where we think we were—the signs declared it the ‘Bargain District’) to The ...

MC Frontalot’s song “Spoiler Alert” is all about giving away the plot to your favorite movies (and real life), so it’s hilarious that the song’s brilliant video is spoiler-proof. There’s no way to ...