I'll slice you up like you's a cherry tree

In this past Sunday's New York Times, there's a big article about nerdcore, the white-kid rap movement featuring songs about things like Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons. And it's about time nerdcore got its due, really, because MC Chris is a frackin' GENIUS.

But I submit that there's something out there even more cutting-edge - even nerdier than nerdcore, if you will. The next great hip-hop movement? Historycore.

I've been skimming around the interwebs in search of (non-protest) songs about U.S. Presidents to make a themed mix CD, and I've run into this fantastic new trend in the process. Whether it's extra credit projects for some kids' social studies class or some really bored, really knowledgeable, really nerdy folks, there seems to be a preponderance of rap songs with history as their subject matter (to varying degrees of accuracy, of course).

I refer you to this (which is very funny but not work safe if your workplace frowns upon profanity):


I also saw this recently, if you'd like a historycore interpretation of the Reformation.
And yet more historycore here.

And, of course, the original historycore rap video that started it all: the brilliant "Washington" by Cox and Combes/Creased Comics.