Last year for Black History Month, I marathoned as many 1970s Blaxploitation classics, deep cuts, and spoofs as I could stomach. This year, though, there’s only one movie I want to recommend. A few ...

The Hip Hop community is obsessed with labels. From gangsta rap to nerd rap, everything is broken down and placed into categories. But Cannibal Ox’s front man Vast Aire is not having it. With a ...

He’s been a reactor core engineer in an underwater research lab, a rapping cow and even a reincarnated spider bent on releasing the hordes of hell upon an unsuspecting planet. The voice of MC Chris, ...

In the nonsensical comedy “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” a giant diaper-wearing spider named MC Pee Pants raps about candy. The man behind MC Pee Pants and other Adult Swim characters is independent rapper ...

Remember when being a nerd meant you could look forward to daily beatings from peers, and complete alienation from the opposite sex? Well, thanks to the commercial success of such geek-friendly mass ...

Ambivalently melancholy nerd rap sounds like it should be an oxymoron, but in Open Mike Eagle’s compellingly odd forebrain, it’s the foundation for the sublime. The Chicago-born hip-hop artist’s mix ...

Choose a band name like "The Cool Kids" and, obviously, a tongue is in a cheek somewhere. With stripped-down, vintage-style production and unaffected lyrics, this retro-nerd rap duo from Chicago has ...