Talk:MC Frontalot
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Uncategorized crap
[edit]Pretty sure Del named nerdcore, not Damian Hess, in "Both Sides of the Brain", which predates Hess' material. -- Stonecypher, too lazy to log in —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.18.224.47 (talk) 07:17, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
What the heck does 28 and 22/50 squared mean? Is there some mathematical significance I'm missing?
- First of all, note that he's saying that "DJ CPU" has that formula. DJ CPU was simply the name he gave to his drum machine at the time (more for the sake of the lyrics in that song than anything else). If you work out the formula as , it works out to 808.8336. Follow the rest of the lyrics, he says "just a little bitty bit more than the beat...", and 808.8336 is in fact "just a little bitty bit more than" 808. I'm guessing that while writing the song he calculated the square root of 808 and then worked out a way to turn it into a decent rap lyrics... which he did, obviously. - Ugliness Man 12:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Hm. I always parsed this line as , that is to say, 1. I figured it was an ironic way of using apparently complex math to denote a simple number. --Shorn again (talk) 01:08, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
- I withdraw the above conjecture. I see now from Front's website chatter that Ugliness Man is in fact completely and utterly correct. --Shorn again (talk) 23:15, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
It is so sad that the Front is hanging up his fro. I hope it's another front. -CVS-
Front just released a new CD, anyone up to making an entry for it? Nerdcore Rising Fo0dNippl3 06:04, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Cleaned up, could still use some help
[edit]In honor of the Nerdcore Rising disc, I did some clean up on the Front entry. Expanded some stuff, reorganized some stuff.
It still needs some help because I are not smart always. I "previewed" it and still didn't catch basic clerical errors. Eugh. Anyway, have at it. I'm on my way to do the Nerdcore Rising CD article now.
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[edit]Someone went through and took out his real name? Anyone know why? I think it is important to the wiki article. If nobody objects I will revert it back tonight. Schalicto
Alright, reverted. Schalicto 15:32, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
The good MC would like to maintain a veil of mystique.
His name appears to be missing again. --Khaim 22:40, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
- Yeah... person up there said "The good MC would like to maintain a veil of mystique". I guess we could oblige to that. --Schalicto 23:28, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
Whether or not he does, this is still an encyclopedia article
(okay, so why don't you post your real name, then?)
Despite me being unencyclopedic? Richard William Fitch III, born September 3, 1986 at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Deleware to Richard William Fitch Jr and Kathy Lynn McCoy Fitch, happy?
- the III? nerd
If someone doesn't wish to include their real name as part of their public persona, it's not necessarily encyclopedic to include it. It might be encyclopedic to mention this fact, though. I suggest that the name be removed. I'll contact the artist. Fearwig 01:47, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
- I disagree for two reasons. I feel that the persons name is exactly encyclopedic and Front seems to have droped the whole anonymous thing. --Schalicto 02:31, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
- Your first reason is nonsense (this is the internet, not Hollywood--doing something significant doesn't make your life public domain) but your second is absolutely correct, as has now been verified. Carry on! Fearwig 03:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
Cleanup and talk
[edit]One, I like the article and am an MC Frontalot fan. However, the article needs some serious work (sources, images, etc.). It would also be nice if users would observe standard talk page practices, including organization and signing of comments. Thanks! /Blaxthos 23:19, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Personal Life?
[edit]A lot of articles about celebs have sections regarding the celeb's personal life. Could someone add something along those lines to this?
Thematically Appropriate
[edit]I'm also a big fan of MC Frontalot. I have to say that when I saw the text "this article or section may contain original research or unverified claims" at the top of the entry, I burst into laughter. If you know anything about the Front, you'll have to admit that such an accusation is well in keeping with everything he stands for. MC Frontalot is all about unverified claims. It's what he does, from his spurious boasts of criminal activity to his "thousands of uncleared samples." I know that this is an encyclopedia and should therefore be as accurate and well-cited as possible, but please don't ever take that heading down.
I'm a huge dork. I finally created a wiki account just so that I could say this.
Ninjaziggy 13:05, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Age
[edit]Frontalot's website, although randomly changing his name, consistently lists his birth year at 1973. Also, his MySpace page lists his age at 33. Is this mere fronting, or is the bio on this page wrong?
- I'd also like to know where the current 1981-01-16 date comes from, I'm going to remove the dates until we can get some credible reference on it. – Quoth 00:00, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- I've found a February 2007 Newsweek article listing his age as 33, which corresponds with his MySpace page. Additionally, his MySpace page lists him as a Sagittarius, supporting the IMDB which currently states the 6th of December as his birthdate. I've replaced the old birthdate with this one for the above reasons, knowing full-well that IMDB should not be trusted as a source of information anymore than Wikipedia should, but it's a plausible date until we can get confirmation. – Quoth 00:43, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well, I was close, the man himself tells me it's 1973-12-03 – Quoth 23:46, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
LiveJournal
[edit]There was a time when the LiveJournal account "frontalot" was indeed being used by MC Frontalot. He the user info simply said "the Front does not blog", and he never made any entries, but he did sometimes use the account to make comments on other people's entries. For example, if an mp3 community made any of his non-free music available, he'd post a polite note asking that it be removed and perhaps replaced with some of his free material.
Then at one point there was an entry made saying that he (or whoever was typing at the time) was going to start using the account. Now there are entries being made occasionally, which seem to be written from the perspective of someone in the US military. One might think that they're fictional blog entries as some sort of creative writing project, but people have responded to these entries, not just as people responding to the writing, but in some cases responding as if the things he's describing actually happened to him, and the people responding are aware of these things... and they're calling him "Sean". Does anyone know what's going on here? Did he give the username to someone else? Is he messing with our heads by taking on a new persona and having people play along? Is he actually in the military between shows? I once posted a comment to one of the entries asking what's going on, but he doesn't seem to respond to comments. Here's the journal. - Ugliness Man 07:44, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Emerald Rain Productions & Zombies in Love
[edit]Front fronting as Damien fronting as Frontalot fronting as Damien Hess (sorry...) was part of Emerald Rain Productions in CA. He wrote a rock musical "Young Zombies in Love" in which Jess Klein (with whom he later performs Soda Water) played the lead character. Gaby (a frequent Frontalot collaborator) also took part. There's a bio of Damien (complete with pic) accessible at ERP's site. As the site uses frames, I'll direct link it here: www.emeraldrain.com/folk/hess.html. We should snarf information from that bio for inclusion in the article. This also means that parts of the article should be tweaked to reflect the fact that he's not "just" a rapper. Gskuse 02:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
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Zero Day
[edit]If anyone has a better link for the announcement of Zero Day, replace the one I just added. Anarchangel23 (talk) 22:49, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
Atheist
[edit]Anyone have a citation? Just because he is critical of creationist doesn't exactly make someone atheist, especially when a lot of theistic scientist shoot the same criticisms towards that specific group. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.98.96.198 (talk) 08:10, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Image
[edit]I don't know much about Nerdcore (it doesn't seem like it's a popular subject), but the infobox image is from 2004. I think we should use a more recent one, like the one I have here. This one is from 2007, 3 year after the infobox image was taken. This image sohuld replace the infobox one, and the current infobox one could be used somewhere in the page, like at the bottom. TomUSA 20:37, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
Assessment comment
[edit]The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:MC Frontalot/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
Some good information, but this article needs some heavy cleanup, more images, and references. There's a lot of original research. /Blaxthos 00:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC) |
Last edited at 00:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 22:42, 29 April 2016 (UTC)