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Nerdcore hip hop, or geeksta rap, is a subgenre of hip hop music that is performed by nerds, and is characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds. Self-described nerdcore musician MC Frontalot coined the term in 2000 in the song "Nerdcore Hip-Hop". Frontalot, like most nerdcore artists, self-published his work.

Popular nerdcore subject matter includes Star Wars (Frontalot's "Yellow Lasers", 2 Skinnee J's "Mind Trick", mc chris's "Fett's Vette"), science (MC Hawking's "Entropy", 2 Skinnee J's "Pluto"), and computers. Many non-nerdcore hip hop compositions exist that focus on these and similar topics.

Nerdcore artists

Although the following commercially-released hip-hop albums and songs do not meet the necessary and sufficient conditions of nerdcore, they do feature themes typical of the genre:

Media coverage