In terms of popularity, nerdcore occupies a space somewhere between underground hip-hop and the end of the universe, according to rapper and educator Mega Ran. Nerdcore is a brand of hip-hop ...

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 ...

MC Frontalot — the rapper credited for defining the hip-hop subsect of “nerdcore” — is back this April with his fourth album, and the leadoff track, quite appropriately, is an anthem written for Wil ...

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 ...

Finally, someone’s making beats dedicated to all the skinny, pimply, white nerds out there. White (as in skin color) boys have long had a place up on hip-hop stages, but hip-hop has never really ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. When Mama Hess birthed her little boy Damian some 37 years ago, little did she realize that he would become the ...

Since coining the term “nerdcore” in 2000 to describe his corner of the hip-hop universe, MC Frontalot has come to be defined by his Comic-Con-friendly subject matter. Over the years, the ...

MC Frontalot is a 30-something former web designer, graduate of Wesleyan University, and a current resident of Brooklyn. He' s also at the forefront of the hip-hop genre known as "nerdcore." MC ...

I feel at home at hip hop shows. I am in my element. I am around people who love the same kind of music I love. This past Wednesday night, however, for the first time in my show-going life I was at a ...

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