High-C is the nerdcore rap persona

Persona

A persona, in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor. The word is derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask. The Latin word probably derived from the Etruscan word "phersu", with the same meaning, and that from the Greek πρόσωπον...

 of Jason Z. Christie (born in 1970). The persona was created in 1988. As founder of the Rhyme Torrents nerdcore hip-hop compilation project and nerdcorehiphop.org, High-C was often found at the center of the nerdcore scene, and was the biggest early promoter of the genre.

He also brought some fifteen nerdcore artists to perform at the Consumer Electronics Show

Consumer Electronics Show

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 in Las Vegas for Divx

DivX

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. A producer as well as an MC, High-C produced the track "Nerdcore For Life", the first nerdcore posse track, and also the longest, with thirteen MCs in sixteen minutes.

High-C has also appeared in the film Nerdcore For Life, and was cut from the film Nerdcore Rising.

External links

• http://www.nerdcorehiphop.org