It's my duty as a journalist, I suppose, to listen to some of the top entries and report on their lyrical content and artistic merits. But, hey, what's the last time I did my duty as a journalist? Nerd rap is shitty enough when it's talking about stuff like Star Wars and, uh, Star Wars (all nerdcore is about Star Wars, come to think of it), but I have to draw the line at corporate-sponsored wackness. Especially when Symantec is co-opting "wack" for its own square-ass purposes — now that the folks there have ruined that word for us, how the hell are we supposed to describe how lame they are?

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