Hello. My name is Gabriel Jacob Luansing, they call me mr. master because I told them to. I'm a 21-year-old musician from National City, California. I rap, sing, and produce instrumentals. And eight years ago, this website was my entire life.
I joined Know Your Meme in 2009, when I was 13 years old. All through middle school and high school, I participated actively on this website. Doing my own personal research on specific memes, working really hard on making submissions that were relevant, original, and well-documented. Posting on the forums everyday, making very real friends. There was a running joke in the forums that I was a Red Panda, I think it started in a Red Leader thread.
Around the same time I joined KYM, in real life, I had started writing my own nerdy raps, and was already performing for my classes. Directly inspired by MC Frontalot, whose music made me feel so genuinely proud to be a nerd, proud to be myself that writing these weirdo nerd raps felt like the most normal thing ever. And while I was figuring out how to be a rapper, I was sharing my songs on the forums. And all the research I was doing for my submissions started bleeding into my raps. I literally was just always writing raps and always on this website. To the point where somebody made their own meme rap and posted it, and it was so bad that I was personally offended and felt obligated to show him how it's done.
All that to say that I took this website incredibly seriously when I was younger, made a lot of genuine friends, and honestly learned so much about memes and myself.
I kept working on my music until now and on April 16, 2018, I released 15 nerdcore hip-hop songs that I feel are the best work I've created so far, and I would love to share it with this community. I feel like the style is really clear to anyone who listens to the project but as an introduction, it's my nerdy raps over very noisy, cartoon-y hip-hop/trap production. Lots of screaming, lots of tongue twisters, lots of really obscure references, lots of controversial subject matter played for laughs. Really dense, and intentionally very off-putting.
I haven't posted on this website in over five years, but I'm incredibly proud of this release and I'd love for as many people to hear it as possible, especially if there's anybody like me lurking in the forums today. This site was incredibly important to me growing up and was incredibly important to my early songwriting, and I'd love to hear what the community on this site today thinks of my work now. Thanks so much.