I'm a big fan of Kentucky native emcee-producer Theory Hazit, so I was intrigued to see him combine with Cream of Beats under the moniker DC Comets. Peep DC Comets' new video Astro, where Hazit gets his MF DOOM on courtesy of a cheap gladiator helmet...
Before someone writes me about how Theory Hazit is "biting" MF DOOM, I guess I will give my own impression. Like DOOM, Vast Aire, Pharoahe Monch, Jean Grae, Sean Price and more, I suspect Theory Hazit is into comics and other assorted nerdery (what my dudes Rapture and 7even:Thirty call Dirty Nerd Shit). I suspected as much from the magnificent single Ole Dirty Hazit off his album THR3E. Besides the obvious Wu-tang reference of the song's title (for the record, it doesn't get any more raw nerdcore than Wu-tang), he wears a hoodie with Superman's face on the side in the video.
That's the kind of wardrobe choice that is meant to call out to fellow nerds in the audience in a song that chronicles how he gave up his life as a half-way crook. As far as nerdcore emceeing is concerned, DOOM is the emperor of that shit, so biting could happen unintentionally, but that mask is too much to excuse... except I don't think he's into making his own face unknown and creating a whole identity out of it as DOOM has. Plus, he's rocking a viking helmet in his Twitter avatar. I think he's broadcasting his nerdcore status more than he's specifically thinking about building a schtick around it.
Anyways, using the name DC Comets and then rapping in a style that isn't particularly aimed at non-hip hoppers gets Hazit another cool point from GhettoManga. This is nerdcore rap for hip hoppers, not aimed at all comics heads, just the hip hoppers at the local sci-fi convention. Whether or not that is an important feature of what DC Comets is trying to do as a group remains to be seen of course, but for now...
Anyways, using the name DC Comets and then rapping in a style that isn't particularly aimed at non-hip hoppers gets Hazit another cool point from GhettoManga. This is nerdcore rap for hip hoppers, not aimed at all comics heads, just the hip hoppers at the local sci-fi convention. Whether or not that is an important feature of what DC Comets is trying to do as a group remains to be seen of course, but for now...
Excelsior, son...-samax.
Samax Amen has been mixing his comics with hip hop since the late eighties. One of his goals is to draw at least fourteen nerdcore-themed hip hop album covers in 2014. Click here if you wanna get down with that.
Samax Amen has been mixing his comics with hip hop since the late eighties. One of his goals is to draw at least fourteen nerdcore-themed hip hop album covers in 2014. Click here if you wanna get down with that.
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