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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.

I'm a retired MC.

I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

I was 17 when I first started rapping and 18 before I started taking it seriously - when I really knew I could rap and have fans and be a trendsetter.

Even in this podcast media lane, sometimes you still have to wear your MC hat and let people know how you feel about yourself as an MC, which is very confident.

I've been a fan of Bunji's freestyling since the first time I saw him perform, back in the early 2000s.

Just give me a mic, and I'll rock it.

To the extreme I rock a mike like a vandal.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

But I've been freestyling and messing around with rhyming since I was 13. That's when I really started listening to hip-hop music.

Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.

I say what's on my mind and have a good time. I try to give people a show. It's all about giving people a good time once you get out under those lights.

Rapping for me is more about being entertaining and giving something back to the fans. I want people to say, 'There goes Pooch holding his own with Consequence, Rick Ross, and Drake.'

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

I've been trying to nail it into everyone's heads that I feel like I am the most versatile rapper.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

All rappers are princesses like me.

You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.

I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.