By: Connor

Allow me to present one of my favorite groups: Futuristic Sex Robotz
They encourage you to pirate their music, which was available on their website as to do otherwise would be pretty hypocritical. How so, you ask? well, check out “Fuck The MPAA” As the title suggests, the song contains explicit lyrics: don’t play it for any 4 year olds, no matter how pissed off at the RIAA you may be.

Nerdcore is a genre of hip-hop that’s defined as “A sub-genre of hip hop music characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds, though it can appeal to others as well.” Further, Nerdcore used to be relatively unique in promoting free music and online distribution. As this is becoming increasingly more common and popular, it’s no longer so defining to the genre.

Unfortunately, Futuristic Sex Robotz have been inactive since early 2007 or so, and their website is now inactive. Further, being nerds – and therefore knowledgeable about computers and html and how search engines work – they’ve excluded it from crawlers and it can’t be accessed via the Wayback Machine either.

For more FSR, check out the two videos embedded below, The Positronic Pimp, a rap about the Star Trek character Data and Back To The Future, a rap about the titular movie. Alternately, browse around on Last.fm or google “Futuristic Sex Robots +torrent”
What you’re looking for is their album ‘Hotel Coral Essex.’ Here’s the track list:

1. Van on Fire
2. Welcome to the Internet
3. Back in the Day
4. Law & Order
5. ***** the MPAA
6. The Positronic Pimp
7. Hey, Ladies
8. WoW
9. Dishwasher
10. LiveJournal
11. Back to the Future
12. Don’t Make Us Kick Your Ass
13. Empornium
14. If I Ruled the World
15. Checking Out

Next up, MC Frontalot, another nerdcore artist. He’s widely credited with coining the term ‘nerdcore’ in 2000, although there were arists rapping about nerdy subjects prior to him. He gained fame through his victories on SongFight! where he was known for never losing a songfight – in the case of Romantic Cheapskate he rips on Songfight and its users, and still recieves 614 votes. The runner up? 28 votes.

He still tours , and in the nerdcore tradition his music is freely available in multiple formats on his website, although he’s not adverse to accepting your money in exchange for cool merch either. Check out his song as an example of entertaining ways to ask your fans to pay you.Charity Case

Finally, if any of this nerdcore talk tickles your fancy, check out Nerdcore Rising, a documentary style film about the Nerdcore movement

Futuristic Sex Robots – The Positronic Pimp

Futuristic Sex Robots – Back to the Future (Fan made Video)

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