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Template:Infobox musical artist 2 Bryce Case, Jr. (b. August 23, 1982), otherwise known as YTCracker (pronounced “whitey cracker”), is a rapper, former cracker, and Internet entrepreneur. YTCracker began producing rap music in 1998 in the genre that has since become known as nerdcore hip hop. His early work mainly focused on documenting and amusing the participants of the America Online hacking scene. YTCracker is a self-proclaimed "jack of all trades", also making a name for himself as a professional disc jockey, computer programmer, graphics designer and webmaster.

Biography

Childhood

Bryce was born in La Mirada, California, U.S. to parents Bryce Case, Sr. and Mary Case.

He has stated in interviews that he was exposed to computers by his father and mother, learning to program BASIC from age 4. From there, his father taught him how to navigate MSDOS and System V. Before long, he was involved in the local bulletin board systems and learning various other programming languages by reading books and examples.

Bryce attended William J. Palmer High School in Colorado Springs. He was involved in the International Baccalaureate program.

Ties to the computer underworld

In 1999, Bryce gained notoriety, media coverage, and a hefty restitution bill for defacing the web site of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with a modified frontend for a commonly used msadc.pl exploit, along with other government websites.

These defacements launched him into the spotlight, making him a resource for the media, commenting on other hacking-related events, such as the denial of service attacks on Yahoo, eBay, Gay.com, and other well-known websites in 2000.

Professional career and adulthood

Bryce dropped out of high school at the age of 17 to focus on a career in the information technology field. Bryce briefly worked as a senior systems analyst with a Big Three automobile finance division.

YTCracker's first company was Digital Gangster Enterprises, LLC. Initially organized in 2001, its sole purpose was to focus on music promotion and production in the Colorado Springs area. Eventually it branched out into more online ventures, including various website assets.

YTCracker then partnered with longtime online friends and spamtec groupmates phlow, eGod and rmk focusing on utilizing income gained from their online web properties and investing into brick-and-mortar businesses and real estate.

Music

Not only does YTCracker often find himself creating promotional songs for various web sites, he also performs (as both an MC and a DJ) at many events. Most notably, he has DJed for a party of thousands at Club Ice in Las Vegas, and performed alongside such musical legends as Xzibit, Cypress Hill, Digital Underground, George Clinton and Too Short at the infamous Players’ Ball. He also received a writing credit (credited as “whitey cracker”), for his contribution to PIMPANDHO.COM (NWS), a song by famous rapper Too Short on his 2003 album Married to the Game.

Aside from traveling around the country as a disc jockey, he recently held a weekly residency at Club Eden in Colorado Springs.

Most of the songs by spamtec are pro spam and YTCracker claims to have drawn income from this market in the past ().

Downloads

Since 1998, he has sporadically released his songs as they’ve been completed. In late 2004, he and rhyming partner phlow released stc is the greatest , a compilation of their works as the duo spamtec. The album was comprised of background instrumentals that are common on the file sharing networks, giving the music a familiar sound to the musicians who frequent these downloads.

Releases

In May, 2005, YTCracker released NerdRap Entertainment System, (download), a seven song album. Six of the tracks had not been previously released. All of the beats on this album are original reworkings based on background music from Nintendo Entertainment System games. This album features a little something for every geek, from tributes to Surge, to introspective rhymes about the hardships faced daily by nerds across the globe.

spamtec released their second, double-disc album, still the greatest in December 2005.

In December 2006, YTCracker released nerd life , a full 17 track album of original material.

In 2008, YTCracker released the Serious Business EP.

At the end of October 2008, YTCracker and MC Lars released The Digital Gangster LP.

YTCracker released a concept album in January 2009 featuring beats from the DeKalb County, Georgia police website.


Discography

  • stc is the greatest (2004) (as a member of spamtec)
  • Nerdrap Entertainment System (2005) (solo effort)
  • still the greatest (2005) (as a member of spamtec)
  • Rhyme Torrents Volumes I & II (2006) (Nerdcore Hip-Hop Compilation)
  • Nerd Life (2006) (solo effort)
  • Dirty Nerdy (2007) (featuring many other nerdcore artists)
  • Serious Business EP (2008) (featuring Elijah Lucian)
  • The Digital Gangster LP (2008) (with MC Lars)
  • dcpd bangerz vol. 1 (2009) (featuring the Dekalb County, Georgia Police Force)

Media coverage

Abridged list of news and periodicals

Books

This list was compiled utilizing Google's Book Search with this query.

  • Scott, A Hugh. Computer and Intellectual Property Crime: Federal and State Law. Washington DC: BNA Books, 2001.
  • Pipkin, Donald L. Halting the Hacker: A Practical Guide to Computer Security (with CD-ROM). Indianapolis: Prentice Hall PTR, 2002.
  • Lilley, Peter. Hacked, Attacked, & Abused: Digital Crime Exposed. London: Kogan Page, 2003.

References

  1. http://spamkings.oreilly.com/archives/2004/10/spammin_is_slam_1.html
  2. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3074397/
  3. http://www.hipsterplease.com/2007/04/we-hustle-bytes.html
  4. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=594935971
  5. http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32729,00.html?tw=wn_story_related
  6. http://security.itworld.com/4339/ITWwin-kelly-0303/page_1.html
  7. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4191/is_20000510/ai_n9971550/
  8. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HJE/is_2_1/ai_66012329/
  9. http://web.archive.org/web/20020324174436/http://digitalgangster.com/
  10. http://www.digitalgangster.com/4um/
  11. http://www.supload.com
  12. http://www.made2own.com
  13. http://www.iconosystems.com
  14. http://decaturmetro.com/2009/01/23/dekalb-police-funkified/

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