MC LARS photo credit: NICK KARP

"Daenerys Targaryen is such an amazing character to me. She's a boss," says nerdcore rapper MC LARS about the subject of his brand new song and video"DRAGON BLOOD" which gets released exclusively today via NERDIST.com. Based on HBO's massively popular series GAME OF THRONES, the song is a paean to the regal character Daenarys (played by actress Emilia Clarke) who is adamant in establishing her reign via the help of her small cluster of dragons ("It's the mother of dragons, with my gigantic army / We be marching to Meereen but, no, we didn’t come to party"). "I'm excited to partner with Nerdist to premiere this video," Lars says. "I have been a fan of Chris Hardwick's empire for years; they are always on top of the coolest things happening on the underground but also nerd culture stuff in the mainstream."

The video for "Dragon Blood" can be seen here: http://nerdist.com/mc-lars-premiere

"We live in an age of changing spheres of power and Daenarys reflects this for sure," he explains. "This is my first song ever written from an entirely female voice and I wanted to channel someone with whom people can identify, so I rewatched all of the episodes to date and went deep into any online Thrones resources I could find. I made spreadsheets of all of Martin's rhyming terminology, spending a whole week looking for words that would sound good together and matching them in Excel ('Tyrion / High Valyrian' for example). I never thought I could reference Cersei Lannister, Migos, Kanye West and Rage Against the Machine all in the same song, but I guess crazier things have happened in hip-hop!"

"Dragon Blood" single artwork

"Dragon Blood" is the first song and video released from his upcoming album (to be released later in 2015; more details soon). "We filmed the entire video in an office building one weekend," Lars laughs. "We hired a crew of stunt people to tell the story of what would happen if Daenerys were fired and returned to a workplace to get revenge on her former employers."

MC Lars kicked off his self-penned "post-punk laptop rap" career in 1999 and rose to acclaim with the release of his first debut recording The Laptop EP in 2004. Rooting out source and sample material from punk and emo bands, he was quickly revered as an important music voice and was runner up on 2005's Yahoo! Music's "Who's The Next Big Thing" award. A big advocate of education and the literary elements of hip-hop (he's a Stanford University alum), Lars has incorporated Shakespeare, Ray Bradbury, novels by Herman Melville, and such atypical subjects and unexpected topics as killer robots, retro video games and indie comics into his music. His most recent release was The Edgar Allen Poe EP which revisits the famous author's poetry and prose in a hip-hop context, with songs like "The Tell Tale <3", "Lenore (I Miss You)", "Mr. Raven" (featuring the Dead Milkmen) and "Annabel Lee R.I.P."

2015 is shaping up to be another transformative year for MC Lars. "I'm excited to be touring the UK again and then returning to my third summer on Warped Tour," he says about his upcoming summer dates in support of his new album. "After being in the studio nonstop for over a year, it will be dope to finally play some shows again!"