MC Chris

At this point, irony is no longer involved when Dungeons & Dragons and leetspeak commingle with hip-hop, beefy beats, and gangsta-speak. Nerdcore rap is a well-beaten horse, but it’s one that’s usually synonymous with squeaky-voiced MC Chris—even though he usually tries to distance himself from the genre. That must be pretty hard to do, given how Chris Ward (known as the voice of MC Pee Pants from Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force) raps about ninjas, Boba Fett, and robots as often as he does about masturbation, being shy, and spliffs, and recently wrote theme songs for two of Kevin Smith’s podcasts. Besides his ongoing philanthropic work to fight cystic fibrosis, MC Chris found time to release two albums in 2011, the children’s record Marshmellow Playground and his straight-ahead “Knight Rider/disco vibe” record, Race Wars.

Updated 07/25/2012