DeKALB | Monday night saw perhaps the nerdiest show that the House Cafe, 263 E. Lincoln Highway, will host all year. Diminutive rapper MC Chris hit DeKalb, bringing his nerd-based brand of hip hop to a capacity crowd.

“I’m a giant diaper-wearing spider aficionado,” said Shaun Wiese, sophomore music education major, referring to MC Chris’s character MC Pee Pants from Cartoon Network’s “Aqua Teen Hunger Force.”

Opening with a profanely twisted version of Gary Glitter’s “Rock & Roll, pt. II,” the Libertyville native expressed first extreme anger then extreme gratitude toward his crowd. He jumped into “White Kids Like Hip Hop,” discussing such “white kid” activities as having small genitalia, drinking boxed wine and listening to Weezer. In his lyrics, he addressed the virtues and dangers of drinking cough syrup, the frustration associated with flirting with married women and how Boba Fett finances his Corvette.

Between songs, Chris found time to ridicule celebrities such as Kenan Thompson, Justin Timberlake and Dane Cook.

“I’m very enthused to have MC Chris back at the House,” said John Ugolini of Kickstand Productions. “As a person, and this is no discredit to the artist, I am easily star struck by popular culture. Having this amazing rap act, who also happens to be ‘Hesh’ from ‘Sealab 2021,’ makes me happy on many levels.”

On Sept. 9, Chris’s latest album, “Dungeon Master of Ceremonies,” was ranked the ninth most downloaded hip hop album on the iTunes music store, outselling major label acts such as the Black Eyed Peas.

Hyper-spastic nonsense dance masters J+J+J brought its blend of a rave, a frat party, educational television programming and a violent seizure to the show as well, putting on a performance that was well received.

“You know what would be awesome, other than Jo-Jo taking off her blouse,” Ludwig asked the crowd. “If we could eat lightning instead of food.”

Ludwig and musical partner Joanna Jablonski then launched into a song about doing just that.

Vaguely neurotic indie-poppers Skybox opened the show. The country/roots rock/cabaret/pop was vastly different from the exclusively electronic music on the rest of the bill, but they were just off-kilter enough to fit.