Notable Nerdcore Artists
There is no canonical definition of nerdcore. The most general definition of a nerdcore artist would be "a rapper who is also a nerd". However, not everyone accepts this. Some limit the genre to artists who openly proclaim themselves as "nerdcore", which automatically precludes any artists who stopped recording before Frontalot coined the term in 2000. Others consider bands to be nerdcore if they are called nerdcore by other nerdcore artists. Many automatically exclude artists who have been released on a major label or had some level of commercial success, while others consider this irrelevant. Further, "notability" is somewhat hard to define in a nerdcore context, due to two facts: almost all nerdcore is self-produced and self-distributed, and the genre has not broken into mainstream success (with the small exception of MC Lars who has received limited airplay on British video channels, as well as 2 Skinnee J's "Riot Nrrrd" receiving brief airplay on U.S. alternative rock stations in the late 90's). Any list is therefore inherently incomplete and subjective. That said, any list of major players (past and present) in the nerdcore scene would include most if not all of the following:
- 2 Skinnee J's
- Beefy
- Commodore 64
- Jesse Dangerously
- mc chris
- MC Frontalot
- MC Hawking
- MC Lars
- MC Plus+
- MC Router
- Mega Ran
- Monzy
- Optimus Rhyme
- Schäffer the Darklord
- YTCracker
- ZeaLouS1
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