The hip hop of Shakespeare: MC Lars at TEDx USC

Andrew Robert MacFarlane Nielsen, more commonly known as MC Lars, has experienced firsthand the power and influence of music. Discovering hiphop for the first time as a geeky, outofplace teen he went on to study English at Stanford. A pioneer of nerdcore hiphop and the selfproclaimed originator of postpunk laptop rap, his music videos such as Ahab White Kids Aren t Hyphy, MC Lars iGeneration, and This Gigantic Robot Kills have swept YouTube with their nerdy charm. Lars is now exploring h