Nerdcore – the geeky offshoot of rap and hiphop, more concerned with witches and trolls than bitches and hoes – where the size of your RAM is far more important than the size of your gun has thus far been a very American institution. But things change.
Thanks to a man named Milk Plus and the homeless of London (yes, really) The UK now has a Nerdcore scene to call it’s own.
Who is behind the UK revolution? Matt Catlow is a music production trainer for a large homeless charity by day…. and nerd rapper “Milk-Plus” by night. (Milk-Plus being a reference to the fictional drink in the book/film ‘A Clockwork Orange’) Through his work with the homeless he works in a fully equipped recording studio in Covent Garden, London providing music production training and recording opportunities for homeless clients. A lot of the service users are rappers and most of them rap about the streets and the negativity inherent in gang culture. Nerdcore offers geeksta as an alternative to gangsta rap and because of the aforementioned wide lyrical playing field rappers can find something positive to rap about and still fit right in.
So, UK nerdcore now has a home, and a de facto leader. The tenth anniversary of the word Nerdcore (as coined by MC Frontalot) is coming up and now is the time for British nerdcore to rise up and get elevated. Go here and join in the fun
