Geek rap from Stanford U
A stereotypical geek is someone who is fascinated by knowledge and imagination but with uncombed hair and zero social skills. This image is all about to change. Thanks to a new school of hip-hop music called geek rap or geek rhythms.
What’s geek rap? Artists rap about things that matters to geeks, as oppose to women, drugs and gangs. Some artists have the goal to get young hip-hop fans interested in science and engineering. Some others have the goal to change the antisocial image that is typically associated with geeks.
A friend recently sent me a geek rap made by monzy (Dan Maynes-Aminzade), a PhD student at the Stanford University. The song is well produced and the lyrics is very clever. Somehow he and his friends figured out a way to rap with geek words like C++, Red-Black Tree, malloc, kill -9 and dead lock.
monzy is an instant hit on the Web, especially on YouTube. A German Television show even interviewed him. monzy believes that geeks are the new “bling bling” — I agree.
Geek rap has been around for few years, but why we only hear about it recently? Geek rap’s increasing popularity is probably contributed by video sharing sites like YouTube. In 2004, Rajeev Bajaj made a geek rap CD and sold 2000 copies. On YouTube, one of monzy’s video has been watched 136,273 times (as of March 23, 2007).
Geek rap is great, but I doubt any record companies will take it seriously any time soon. Nevertheless, as a geek myself, I love to see more of geek rap productions on YouTube and other video sharing sites.
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Pingback by Daniel Lewis » Blog Archiv » Geek Rapping — April 7, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
Oh they might, if we fans keep listening to them, and they get bigger.
Comment by Kit — May 12, 2007 @ 1:23 pm