Meanest Man Contest is a hip hop and electronic music duo based in San Francisco, California.
As college roommates, Noah Blumberg and Eric Steuer started making lo-fi rap songs on a 4-track, then recruited friends to create the Santa Barbara hip-hop crew mic.edu.
[1][2][3] The duo formed Meanest Man Contest after a move upstate to Oakland, where they searched through stacks of flea market records looking for samples.
From this effort came a series of short tracks that would form MMC's collage-like first single, Contaminated Dance Step.
[4][5][6] More recently, the duo has expanded its musical approach with releases like the off-kilter pop EP Some People, the electro-tinged single Throwing Away Broken Electronics,[7] and the hip-hop releases Split[8][9] and Partially Smart.