![]() ![]() Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don’t translate on stage.” ~ Joell Ortiz “You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won’t translate on the stage.I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.” ~ John Mulaney You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 – and get fired. “It was funny to be an emcee, because you’re so at the mercy of the club.“When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartneys press conference.” ~ Nina Blackwood.“I didn’t know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.” ~ Kool Moe Dee.What if you could think that life was this free vacation you’d won, and you won just because you happened to be alive?” ~ Dan Chaon 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 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. ![]() 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.” ~ Phife Dawg Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.” ~ Michael Eric Dyson “He was not hip-hop’s most gifted emcee.“The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics.“If you can perfect the booth, the stage and just your persona, like maybe in interviews and when people talk to you, then you’re a full well-rounded emcee in my opinion.” ~ Joell Ortiz.They can’t Move a Crowd, not even slightly.” ~ KRS-One “Too many MC’s take that word ’emcee’ lightly.And I’m basically a silly guy.” ~ Doug Davidson “One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. ![]() “A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways.“Food for thought, eat my words with your mind:Įmcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.” ~ MF Grimm.“To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what’s going on around us.” ~ Lazarus of Bethany.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.” ~ Talib Kweli ![]()
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