MC Router

Who is MC Router?

Kristin Nicole Ritchie, is a former Nerdcore rapper, better known by the stage name MC Router. The self-proclaimed "First Lady of Nerdcore" founded the group "1337 g33k b34t" with friend Tanner Brown in 2004. Although the two are still friends and occasionally collaborate musically, the group disbanded in late 2006 to leave each of them to perform as solo acts. Late 2006 also marked the birth of "Tri-forc3", a joint effort between MC Router, Beefy, and Shael Riley. After Wired Magazine published an article on the Nerdcore scene in late 2006, she wrote a letter to the magazine editors and composed a song entitled "UNwired", explaining why she felt that the Nerdcore scene was misrepresented in the article.

As year 2007 began, Router released another new track entitled Trekkie Pride, which is known as "The First Nerdcore Song of 2007". The song appeared on a Drown Radio podcast less than a week later. She has also performed with such notable Nerdcore artists like MC Frontalot, MC Lars, Beefy, YTCracker, and mc chris.

As of the end of 2007, MC Router left the nerdcore scene due to a friendly disagreement between her and her producer. T-Byte and MC Router are still friends and continue to work on their own music separately leaving T-Byte moving on to work with other Nerdcore artists and with MC Router no longer doing Nerdcore or nerd related music at all.