When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartneys press conference.
I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.
I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.
I emcee how I feel for the moment. I'll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a lot of different flavors! I'll keep it vintage Tribe if Tribe decides to do another LP... which, in my heart, I'd love to do for the fans.
He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.
A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.
Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.
You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.
Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.
I'm sautéing emcees with fried rice up in the wok without the MSG and chopped celery.
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.
Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.
Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more before I go for mine And that's 21 emcees ate up at the same time.
Gimme a couple G's for every emcee I knocked to his knees. Verbally useless, 'Oh you got the juice?' I squeeze you juiceless.
I break an emcee off proper Yo don't check me, Ask your Moms and Pops, Yo they respect me, But here you stand, tryin' to get yours, but gettin' nothin' You probably can't spell "Boogie Down" or "Productions"
What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and you were always winning things, the world offering them up with a big grin, like an emcee's: Here you go, Hollis. Here is a motorcycle. Here is a little boy who loves you. Here is a weird experience, here is something bad that you should mull over because it will make you a better person. What if you could think that life was this free vacation you'd won, and you won just because you happened to be alive?
To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.
A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn’t really respected. The sentiment was emcees only did that if they couldn’t write. The coming off the top of the head rhymer had a built-in excuse to not be critiqued as hard
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