Nerdcore

This month’s hottest Nerdcore Hiphop releases: Already Out: Childish Gambino – Royalty Just in time to celebrate the anniversary of America’s independence, Community’s Donald Glover dropped a brand new mixtape under his rap alter-ego, Childish Gambino. Between a solid chart showing for his commercial debut, Camp, and long overdue recognition from HipHop aficionados thanks to advance leaks from this very mixtape, one might wonder if the slightly geeky tones that have endeared Gambino to many Nerdcore fans (to Glover’s chagrin at points) are buried and over. However, it’s clear between track titles like “1up”, references to Adventure Time, and guest appearances from people like Tina Fey and Kristen Schaal that there is still a geek streak that runs through Gambino’s work. At the same time, guest verses from Rap luminaries including ScHoolBoy Q, Ab-Soul, RZA and Ghostface Killah underline that Childish Gambino is anything but a novelty act at this point as well. Various Artists – The Nerdcore Now VPC 2011 Compilation On a more strictly nerdy tip is this