Definitions

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  • noun slang, humorous An unfashionable, nerdy individual who performs gangsta-style music.

Etymologies

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Blend of geek and gangsta

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Examples

  • While gangsta rap is seen as celebrating the violence and aggression that claimed two of its brightest stars, "geeksta" rap is a hip-hop genre celebrating coding skills and school grades.

    My Posse’s In The House: Welcome To Nerdcore « open thinking 2005

  • While gangsta rap is seen as celebrating the violence and aggression that claimed two of its brightest stars, "geeksta" rap is a hip-hop genre celebrating coding skills and school grades.

    Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore 2005

  • I think there has to be a geeksta with all the growth nerdcore is having as a genre.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Updated Geeks 2007

  • But Plus+'s flow is dissed on the opposite coast by geeksta peers like Dan Maynes-Aminzade, aka Monzy, a 25-year-old Minnesota-born Stanford grad student who recorded a dis track specifically to insult his rap rival.

    Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore 2005

  • The self-proclaimed "#1 greatest computer science gangsta rapper ever" is MC Plus+ , a geeksta leading light whose moniker comes from the C++ programming language.

    Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore 2005

  • The self-proclaimed “#1 greatest computer science gangsta rapper ever” is MC Plus+, a geeksta leading light whose moniker comes from the C++ programming language.

    Nerdcore Rap not Hardcore Rap | Impact Lab 2005

  • While gangsta rap is seen as celebrating the violence and aggression that claimed two of its brightest stars, “geeksta” rap is a hip-hop genre celebrating coding skills and school grades.

    Nerdcore Rap not Hardcore Rap | Impact Lab 2005

  • Henry Lin, a geeksta fan and graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, said: The lyrics are full of inside jokes that only those knowledgeable in computer science would understand.

    Nerdcore Rap not Hardcore Rap | Impact Lab 2005

  • Elvis Costello and The Talking Heads’s David Byrne popularized a cool geek style that’s led to Moby, Weezer, Vampire Weekend and even self-styled “nerdcore” rock and geeksta rappers.

    Geek and Ye Shall Find 2008

  • Henry Lin, a geeksta fan and graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, said: "The lyrics are full of inside jokes that only those knowledgeable in computer science would understand.

    Rap Marketing Comes to Nerdcore 2005

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