MC Quotes

The rap game without me would be like woofers without bass.

You know, Slick Rick was tight at telling stories.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

When I started listening to rap music, I loved the fact that there were stories being told in 16 bars.

Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.

I still very much appreciate the storytelling of the best rappers.

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

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

We all knew how talented K.Dot is. We knew how dope he was lyrically.

They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

Growing up in the mid-to-late '90s in London, you start seeing the explosion of drum'n'bass and then the birth of U.K. garage and grime. I decided to focus a lot of my energies as an aspiring MC. It was a very natural way to express yourself as a kid from a certain kind of neighborhood.

I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

A good rapper is an amazing thing to me. It's like a 17th-, 18th-century poet.

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

I tell people all the time, I'm Mix-A-Lot. I'm not a rocket scientist.

I definitely am the best rapper alive, mark my words.

I feel like I'm really accomplishing something with harmony and melody. Ultimately, again, I'm not a singer, some people can sing with an "I" or an "a," some people can sing and they can sang. I think I can "sang" more than anything. I'm not a formal singer and I'm an MC, but it's secondary to the second nature of just melody. You know but ultimately I'm a writer and I do soul music. Whether it's in song form or rhyme scheme, it's soul.

My music isn't rappity-rap-rap-rap.

It takes a certain type of rapper for me to really get into the album.

I'm a retired MC.

You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.

First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.

By the age of 17, Wayne was confident. He knew, 'This is what I am. I'm an MC.' You had Missy Elliott saying she loved Lil Wayne. Lyrically, he was getting better and better.