MC Frontalot

Damien Hess ( born December 3, 1973 in San Francisco ), better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is a rapper from the United States of America. He is the founder of Nerdcore and at the same time a most important representatives. MC Frontalot describes himself ironically as " number 579 on the list of best rappers ".

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Childhood

Hess was born in San Francisco, but grew up in Berkeley, where he made his first experiences with the black horse.

Career

Early years

Hess began in 1999 music under the pseudonym MC Frontalot be published. He began his songs on their website and upload it nerdcore under the category hip -hop to catalog. He first mentioned the term Nerdcore, which is representative for a whole subgenre of rap music today. He was first attracted by Song Fight!, A songwriting competition on the Internet, in which he could always win.

Nerdcore

In 2000 he released the song Nerdcore Hiphop, who quickly gained cult status in the circles of the so-called geeks and nerds. This song also coined the term Nerdcore simultaneously for that subgenre of hip-hop, which deals mainly with topics such as mathematics, biology or engineering which are widely among young people as " uncool ". Frontalot extended the texts with a typical occurrence. At concerts he often occurs, for example on horn-rimmed glasses and tie and thus forms a counterpoint to the U.S. gangsta rap. His first studio album Nerdcore Rising Hess published on 27 August 2005. In 2002, MC Frontalot was known to a large audience, as the authors of the Penny Arcade webcomic designated him as one of their favorite rappers, which led many fans of the webcomic on Frontalots homepage. In thanks about this spontaneous mention, he wrote a few months later, the Penny Arcade Theme as a tribute to the comic, which helped him to break through. Since 2004, Hess is on every Penny Arcade Expo, a major computer game exhibition in the United States, represented as a musician. His songs have already been integrated into several commercials and computer games. The comic artist Tony Morre made ​​to the performer Frontalot a comic series.

Live performances

Although the majority of his fan base on the Internet is active, Frontalot gave already some live performances in San Francisco or New York. In addition, he was for a time on tour in the United States.

Film

MC Frontalot is often mentioned in the documentary Nerdcore Rising, which deals with the roots and current trends of Nerdcore. There are also many other Nerdcore rappers like MC Lars and mc chris to speak.

Discography

Albums

  • Nerdcore Rising ( 2005)
  • Secrets from the Future (2007)
  • Final Boss (2008)
  • Zero Day (2010)
  • Solved (2011)
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