Geeksta Rap

[cheerful_deviant]

A subculture of hip-hop music has developed recently among computer science professionals, who taunt each other in verse much as mainstream rap artists do, according to a June report on Wired.com. "Geeksta" rappers like Ytcracker and MC Plus+ spin verses such as the latter's "I'm encrypting shit like every single day / sending it across a network in a safe way / protecting messages to make my pay / if you hack me you're guilty under DMCA" (referring to a federal copyright law). Explained another, "Monzy": "(I)nstead of boasting about our bitches, blunts, Benzes or Benjamins, maybe we talk about our math skills or the efficiency of our code." A hip-hop journal editor doubted the genre would endure, though, because so far the major artists are males: "You're going to need some females." [Wired.com, 6-23-05]

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Just when you think the world is strange enough.... it gets stranger.

 

[Guest]

A subculture of hip-hop music has developed recently among computer science professionals, who taunt each other in verse much as mainstream rap artists do, according to a June report on Wired.com. "Geeksta" rappers like Ytcracker and MC Plus+ spin verses such as the latter's "I'm encrypting shit like every single day / sending it across a network in a safe way / protecting messages to make my pay / if you hack me you're guilty under DMCA" (referring to a federal copyright law). Explained another, "Monzy": "(I)nstead of boasting about our bitches, blunts, Benzes or Benjamins, maybe we talk about our math skills or the efficiency of our code." A hip-hop journal editor doubted the genre would endure, though, because so far the major artists are males: "You're going to need some females." [Wired.com, 6-23-05]

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Just when you think the world is strange enough.... it gets stranger.

Without females, perhaps the species will quickly die out.

Maybe.

Hopefully.

 

[rgraham666]

Without females, perhaps the species will quickly die out.

Maybe.

Hopefully.

Most of them grow out of it. The few who don't kinda disappear into the ether.

There are a very few who become fabulously wealthy. Which means they have women lining up. So the species will not die out.

Dunno if that's good or bad.