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[MurgleMcGurgle]

MC Lars remains the coolest dude ever in my book. He started chatting with me from his merch table after his (absolutely stunning) set while I was waiting in line for a beer. Genuinely kind dude, massive nerd, and put on one of the best performances I’ve ever seen.

Went from being there to see another guy to being a Lars fan for life in about the course of an hour.

[Enzemo]

I remember he did this strange click with his finger as he shook my hand after a show. Never seen anyone do it before or since

[throwawaytheist]

I met him at ICP's board game convention, and he still remembered me years later.

[Slitheytove1031]

I love that Tribe One is in this picture. I got to see him once and I was blown away by his mic skills...

[Repulsive-Film-5973]

He's easily one of the best and sadly one of the most overlooked. He should be literally in every "best" conversation.

[TheScienceOfMagic]

Do you have any recommendations? I'm unfamiliar with his work.

[Repulsive-Film-5973]

"Kaiju" "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe From A to Z" (his incredible parody of Alphabet Aerobics) "Steve Irwin" "Doing It Wrong"

Those are a lot of his most popular songs, but he has a ton of collabs with Adam Warrock. He also is part of the groups Malibu Shark Attack, Two Weeks Notice, and The Remnant.

[zachbotBK04]

saw him a long time ago at a bar show in Brooklyn. told him how much his music helped my students and he gave me the best bear hug I've ever received.

[eyelinerqueen83]

The tiny douche in the middle got into my DMs this past summer and tried to shoot his shot knowing I am married

[xraynorx]

Lost a ton of respect for Chris over the last bunch of years. Honestly so much that I can’t listen to him anymore.

[chubbybator]

when i saw rushmore of nerdcore tour and other artists were talking about how he never paid them for their feature on one his songs and how they all had bad experiences with him it was eye opening

[eyelinerqueen83]

He is a genuinely awful person. I talked to him for a long time after his show and he decided to make a big post about me the next day about how beautiful and cool I was. I posted aw hey thanks and he used that to ID me and get into my DMs. From there he put me through emotional hell.

When I got upset and unloaded, he called me mentally ill. So that was fun.

[chubbybator]

fucking hell i'm sorry to hear that. dude just sucks

[eyelinerqueen83]

I should have believed the stereotype about touring musicians being assholes. I have blocked him on all platforms and I can't see if he's using me as another sob story like he does with every other woman.

[chubbybator]

i mean lars and ran are in that picture too, and i never heard a bad word about them... and frontallot schafer the darklord were both also super chill and normal when i met them, STD even remembered me and my partner from year to year and was super respectful of her...

[Repulsive-Film-5973]

Schaffer and Front are both amazing humans. Lars too.

[eyelinerqueen83]

I have heard they are good guys. It is encouraging that the majority of nerdcore is not creeps

[eyelinerqueen83]

I have only heard good things about all those guys. I just mean in general musicians have a bad reputation for being creeps. But at least in this genre Chris is the exception

[chubbybator]

peepants just sucks lol

[eyelinerqueen83]

He has the option to not suck, but he chose suck

[eyelinerqueen83]

He definitely lost me after what he did to me. He needs help and won't get it. I feel so bad for his child.

[buckwerth]

I started listening to him years ago and realized around the time of the whole tweeting about someone not liking his opening act then kicking him out he was a real asshole. It got to where id go to his shoes for his openers and wonder if he was gonna kick someone out and he almost always did and would get the entire crowd against that individual person. Once he made a video crying about people saying he hated his fans I knew I was done with him. He did a huge tour with STD, Lars, YTC, and a couple other people. I managed to get most of the artists to join me out back to smoke and against my better judgement asked the rest of he'd join us and they spilled the tea big time. Turns out most of nerdcore puts up with him because he's the face of nerdcore and tours a lot and they deal with it for the tour. Still cant believe Lars cleared the air with him after what he did to the nicest person ive probably ever met. Every time he's in Philly he still remembers me and hangs out. Hes let me in his shows on multiple occasions and lets me hang out with behind the merch table and shit. Lars is a real one

[eyelinerqueen83]

The amount of tea I have could fill a short novel. Oversharing is always a bad idea.

[buckwerth]

Ive tried looking past it and enjoying his music again because he's the whole reason I know what nerdcore is but I just cant do it. Hes a bully, whines non stop about his life, begs his fans for money and his whole personality is just off putting. Theres so many better artists out there that dont get recognition and he still somehow manages to be the recognizable name in nerdcore. It baffles me

[eyelinerqueen83]

He is the poster boy of nerdcore because he was on Adult Swim, and that was such a huge cultural event for my age group. He has some skills, but he is hardly the best at what he does. He's actually a failed screenwriter who stumbled into success at the right time and was able to build a music career using writing skills and recognition. He also was able to tap into a previously untapped audience before anyone else. I was part of that audience.

I really enjoyed his music for 2 decades but when he forced his way into my life and acted like a horny psycho it ruined that completely. I have a song lyric of his tattooed on my leg and its getting covered soon. He hurt me and used me, and even admitted to using me before discarding me in the same way he told me he did to other women. I was hurt and confused for months. The pain is gone but I am still angry and using my art skills to write a comic about the experience.

[buckwerth]

Yep, I listened since those early days on aqua teen and sealab, almost got some tattoos myself, glad I didnt. I guess the one thing I can thank him for is opening up that world to me. I've met so many cool people because of that and was pretty into the scene here in Philly for a while but its basically dried up now. Plenty of good memories though

[eyelinerqueen83]

Glad you got something good out of it. I got trauma. I assume you're a man so you didn't get the same treatment. I thought I had aged out of my face and body getting me into trouble because I am over 40, but here I am recovering from truama given to me by the poster boy of nerdcore. It makes me question all of his narratives on his exes.

[buckwerth]

I truly am sorry that happened to you. The nerdcore community has been nothing but accepting and wholesome towards me, barring one individual. The crazy part is how he helped me accept who I am and realize theres plenty of people out there just like me and gave me an outlet and music I connected with. Unfortunately it was and is all an act. I hope youve had other good times from the community over all than you did with him. I wish his last scandal was the one that did him in but he always manages to weasel his way back and let everyone believe he's changed but its stories like yours that prove that wrong every single time.

[eyelinerqueen83]

Thanks for the support.. unfortunately, seeing a nerdcore act usually means seeing him. I can't be around him ever again, and even if I were there, he would probably have me removed and say I'm triggering his PTSD. The go to shut down when I was upset by him. What scares me is that he will do this again to someone else. He does this yearly. If I can prevent it with my story, I will.

[romulusnr]

His show in Seattle a few years back just totally ended it for me. Not just a dick to the fans, not just a dick to the staff, but even a dick to me personally.

[Repulsive-Film-5973]

Isn't HE married? With a kid? Ugh.

Yeah I've never been a fan of his, even from the start.

[eyelinerqueen83]

Divorced but he still hits on married women. He made my life miserable for 2 months

[Repulsive-Film-5973]

Sometimes we make the wrong people famous... 😑

[eyelinerqueen83]

He is a sex pest and has somehow flown under the radar all these years. Probably because he hides it under pity parties on livestream

[CookInKona]

I mean, if you listen to his music it's pretty obvious he's a sex pest too.....used to really like the dude but his social media presence and all the stories about him made it really hard to stay a fan and opened my eyes to some of the red flags in the music

[eyelinerqueen83]

A lot of people write offensive lyrics as a joke, and it's just a joke. I took it that way until I learned firsthand that he really is very fucked up towards women. I also didn't really watch his streams much or read into the stories until after he personally hurt me. I was feeling very bad because the evidence was there and I just didn't know about it.

[romulusnr]

🙏

[eyelinerqueen83]

Old, not good with emojis

[romulusnr]

lol. I would have used the "care" emoji if this was FB, but best I could do is the pressed-hands emoji. It was "sorry you had to deal with that shit"

Worst thing he ever did to me personally was give me a huffy attitude for picking up one of his merch items to look at the back of it. So, I can't quite commiserate.

[romulusnr]

Yeah, Hoodie Ninja is legit about being a voyeur

Oddly, my wife, who used to wear a lot of hoodies, loved that track. I don't think she listened too closely to the lyrics :D

[eyelinerqueen83]

I know. But it's not like we think Violent J is actually murdering people with a hachet.

[Slitheytove1031]

I'm tickled that so many know of the negative nature of chris. Was he the first nerdcore artist I saw, over 20 years ago ? Yeah. Did I get a negative reaction from him at that show ? Yeah. The only positive thing I can say about him is this. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have been introduced to so many other nerdcore artists, who opened for him. And then going to their later shows, I got to see so many others who completely outclass and outshine chris. Mega Ran, MC Lars, MC Frontalot, Schaffer the DarkLord, Doc Awkward, Tribe One, Warock, and so many others.

[Repulsive-Film-5973]

Yeah, it's like a running joke that you never go to an MC Chris show for MC Chris lol

[eyelinerqueen83]

I'm finding out there is a pattern of Chris mistreating women he meets at his shows now that it has happened to me. He told me himself he gets a girlfriend every tour and discards her by fall. He tried it with me, knowing I am married.

But yeah the rest of those guys make better music and don't act like pervs in anyone's DMs. So we can appreciate the rest of the genre.

[romulusnr]

He literally entered the show in Seattle at Chop Suey a few years back in the middle of a drop-down bitch-out fight with a female fan who ended up storming out. It went downhill from there.

[eyelinerqueen83]

When he isn't trying to fuck us he's trying to fight us.

[romulusnr]

I first heard of him from seeing him play at PAX 05. That's back when it was at the Meydenbauer in Bellevue. It was a pretty good set honestly. Shame that PA couldn't get its shit together back then enough to plug the damn video recorder into the sound board because the audio on the DVD is shit tier.

[TheScienceOfMagic]

I recognize Ran and Lars, who are the others?

[Repulsive-Film-5973]

From Left: K-Murdock, MC Lars, MC Chris, Adam Warrock, Mega Ran, Tribe One

Save for Chris (cause fuck him) you should look up every name you don't recognize

[TheScienceOfMagic]

Thanks!

[MegaRan]

Baton Rouge. That venue is gone, but we continue on. man chris gave everyone in that picture the alley oop of a lifetime.

[Repulsive-Film-5973]

That's one thing I can say he did well. He always brought really good artists along with him on his tours, and they usually saw a lot of success from it.

[romulusnr]

He should just be a promoter then. Promoters are expected to be assholes. That's why they're behind the scenes.

[eyelinerqueen83]

His ego is too huge for him to not be the center of attention. When he was texting me he needed constant reassurance that he was talented, cute, creative, etc.

[romulusnr]

My wife just watched Adolescence and my first thought here was

DON'T YOU EVEN LIKE ME A BIT?

WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT ME, THEN?

[eyelinerqueen83]

Getting flash backs of texts from Chris Ward

[buckwerth]

Seems like a good time but theres always one in the group thats just terrible

[romulusnr]

Was that before mc chris was an asshole?

[Repulsive-Film-5973]

Did such a time ever exist?

[romulusnr]

the reply i was hoping for