TL;DR I’ve been listening to a new musician/rapper that I like a lot, and if you’re into rap but more of an adult, you might want to check him out. His name is Crypt and there’s a link below.

For many years I have been into rap music. I love words, and wordplay, so it’s a natural fit. But I never liked traditional rap topics. If you haven’t noticed I’m white and also a computer programmer and so I have little in common with gats, or the hood. When I was a kid that meant the Fresh Prince, but as I got older there started to be this weird little niche called “nerdcore”, with artists like MC Frontalot and MC Chris. A characteristic of these early rappers is that - although they were talented - they were often gimmicky and wrote about extremely nerdy topics, on purpose. A few artists, such as Jesse Dangerously, tried to split the difference and wrote songs about, for example, pacifism. But by and large these were nerd rappers, not rappers who happen to be nerds. But finally, in 2019, there are such things, and one of them is Crypt. I found Crypt because I was looking for reaction videos for Epic Rap Battles, and he did one, and it was really popular but I didn’t know who he was. Following his channel though quickly led me to understand that he was, himself, a rapper. His songs were good, but recently he released an album, and I think it’s finally time to recommend him. It’s great. In particular, there are a few songs that hit me, the best by far being “I’m Not Okay”, which is really well done and touching, and not really at all about being a nerd per se. But the guy is clearly a nerd. He likes video games and Mountain Dew and sometimes worries about girls and is very white and grew up in the ‘burbs. But he doesn’t play off of that, there’s no schtick. He is unironically a rapper and goes on tour and does rap about being awesome and having a big dick sometimes. (Not a lot of shooting people, though, and easy on the misogyny).

Anyway, I liked it. Check it out.

https://youtu.be/a64YRBmjM-4