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The author addresses the "Why is $RAPPER not on the list?" on the larger reddit threads:

http://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/24neym/rappers_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/24nw9p/rapp...

My gut feeling is that the nerdcore guys would be decidedly middle-of-the-road, but I'd love to see the result!

author here: indeed. thanks for adding this to the thread.

I don't see why novelty acts would be relevant.

Why do you dismiss nerdcore as "novelty"?

because most of the artists are gimmick acts.

I'm not really sure that the other acts totally lack artistic integrity, but I'm pretty sure that ytcracker isn't a novelty act.

Some of them aren't serious and have the overdeveloped sense of irony that you expect from people kidding around, but I'm not sure that that makes them novelty music any more than, say, The Electric Six are.

Downvoters, explain please?