He’s been a reactor core engineer in an underwater research lab, a rapping cow and even a reincarnated spider bent on releasing the hordes of hell upon an unsuspecting planet. The voice of MC Chris, ...

Last year for Black History Month, I marathoned as many 1970s Blaxploitation classics, deep cuts, and spoofs as I could stomach. This year, though, there’s only one movie I want to recommend. A few ...

Somewhere in the course of making his mark as a mastermind behind Cartoon Network’s smartass Adult Swim programs, Christopher Ward found time to concoct a junk culture/computer nerd rap persona that ...

In the nonsensical comedy “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” a giant diaper-wearing spider named MC Pee Pants raps about candy. The man behind MC Pee Pants and other Adult Swim characters is independent rapper ...

Ambivalently melancholy nerd rap sounds like it should be an oxymoron, but in Open Mike Eagle’s compellingly odd forebrain, it’s the foundation for the sublime. The Chicago-born hip-hop artist’s mix ...

The nerd becomes the teacher. The rapper once known for his Revenge of the Nerds mixtape is now going to be teaching rap at MIT, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a part of MIT’s MLK ...