I haven't seen Kes or Neelix
Oh yeah, well you just stay away from her with those lyrics
Please ain't nobody fucking after her
I'm out of here soon as I fix the flux capacitor...
Is that MF Doom line the greatest black nerd quote of all time or what? Are there even any other contenders? Star Trek: Voyager. (He actually does Neelix's annoying ass voice!) Back to the Future. Hood slang. All of that in two couplets.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
When I read the first line, I was like WTF? I got *down* for Voyager back in the day.
Um, I've heard Lupe name-check the string theory...
MF Doom can go eff himself. The guy is the Gallagher of rap. His "shows" consist of getting some skinny "Doom" impostor to lip sync for about 25 minutes. Anyone who so blatantly rips off his fans deserves zero respect.
Actually the constant references to star wars, star trek, kung fu movies, video games, comic book characters and superheroes in Hip-hop suggest that the what defines a "nerd" in black culture is substantially different than what white people consider nerdy. It's not just MF Doom, you don't get much more mainstream than Jay-Z and there is he is calling himself "the Bruce Wayne of the game".
I've gone to mostly white schools and mostly black schools. In both spaces I encountered violence, but white kids were mercilessly cruel to me because I was nerdy, as opposed to the hoodlums in training who were just looking for people to fight in order to build a rep. In the latter case it was easy not to internalize and not take it seriously, in the former I started wondering what was wrong with me and took to everything I could do short of a perm to straighten my hair, to look and act as much like them as I could. Since I'm mixed, it was easier than it would be for someone else. But it didn't stop the tormenting or the beatdowns. In black schools, no one thought my love for comic books, video games or sci-fi made me a nerd, (or professional wrestling, if that was your thing) because people LIKED that shit. It's not really related, but black people are also far more accepting of people who are overweight, another youthful quality of mine that inspired a violent reaction inmy white schoolmates, but that black kids didn't seem to think was a problem.
I went to a mostly white elementary school, and mostly black schools after. And I could not possibly have continued learning in that environment. I was a steady C student in elementary school, most of the white kids who tormented me would love to have the academic qualifications I have now.
It's a beautiful thing, even if I hated Star Trek Voyager. :)
QT
Deltron 3030 is a whole ALBUM full of black sci-fi that cool.
@ That Dude:
I was a nerdy, overweight white guy who grew up in a white suburb and I found that Elementary school was mostly the worst of it. That isn't to say that your observations aren't right overall. Star Trek fandom definitely wasn't something you would have talked about too openly at my school (any grade level).
Neelix was always horribly annoying.
"Offsides, like how Whorf ride with Starfleet"
Im not a sci-fi dude like that, but i always thought that that line was kinda funny AND informative.
Ceez,
If your gonna quote, you gotta quote brother:
Off pride, tikes talk wide through scar-meat
Off sides, like how Worf ride with Starfleet...
Black (female) nerd here. Grew up on Star Trek (movies and TV shows), and any rapper who can reference Kes (especially since she wasn't on the series in its entirety) deserves mad props.
LOL.
Sorry yo. I racked my brain but couldnt think of what the hell he said before "Offsides". Even now, i still dont know what the hell that means. Thats one of those tricky word jumbles he gets into that take a pair of tweezers and a scalpel to dissect.
"subtle-less bubble tip midget"
Wha?
PS. Where the hell did doom go? seems like only yesterday he used to do his thing tri-yearly