First, I’m not sure I can stand by my whole-hearted endorsement of VH1’s The White Rapper Show anymore. I mean, it’s still entertaining (and I’m definitely watching next week’s episode), but it’s quickly become Just Another Trashy Show on VH1, instead of trying to be something more. Sillly competitions, drunken shenanigans, and not nearly enough MCing have made this show another Real World wannabe, this time with an incredibly specific demographic.

But this post isn’t about that. It’s about other (mainly white) rappers. The trailer was released for the documentary Nerdcore Rising, which follows nerdcore pioneer MC Frontalot on his first national tour (Frontalot was mentioned over on SLOG a few months back). What’s nerdcore? One could argue that Weird Al is a father of the genre, but nerdcore is rap for geeks, replacing talk about girls and grills with gadgets and gaming. It’s very much a niche thing, but for those in that niche, they treat it like the greatest thing since the pixellated boobs in Leisure Suit Larry (I was at that performance at the close of the trailer, and people were WAY more into it than I’d expected). The film looks interesting as a primer to the genre.