Look, just because of where your from shouldnt shake your understanding of Hip Hop, which aint rap. Rap started with the West Coast movement, "Fresh Rhymes Daily" by common explains this. This is universal music, for others in other countries as well as our own. Hip Hop is Jamaican Disco, in roots, Rap is hip hop, in roots. How many of you got "Criminal Minded" by BDP? how many of you have watched roots to begin with? For those of you who do, i salute you!
An MC speaks over music, in any way. A rapper speaks over music, in rhythm. A grime MC is rapping over a grime beat. A Hip hop MC raps over a hip hop beat, so he is a rapper. Soulja Boy is a rapper, so is Pharoahe Monch. If you're a rapper you're an MC.
@NickWSax No No No, you youngsters have this shit all on backwards! LMAO. If that is your reasoning I think you need to go back to Beat Street and Wild Style for an education as a basic starting point. Your logic would only apply if we were still living in the late 1980s. as the dude above has stated, there became a DEFINITIVE SPLIT in the 2 genres since then, with Gangsta/Mainstream/Party going one way, and Hip Hop remaining in the other. The conventions &requirements 4the 2 are different.
How is someone going to discredit this man as an MC and stick em in the rapper category, mannnnn I wish I could reach through this screen and choke da' shit out of you...
Dont got to even rhyme ...does anybody remember how rap even started? it was plain poetry from the soul and now adays people are just forgetting their roots lil wayne is speaking about nonsence just so he can make it rhyme smh kids now a days would listen to anything
@intent100 well sorry but where im from an MC is alot different to what he is...an MC is more grime music! so for me im correct and there is no need to be horrible you should actually listen to some of his lyrics it might make you a more peaceful person instead of calling someone an idiot because they asked a question. Thank You
@graciexqx Pharohe was an MC before Grime even existed, half these young kids can't even rhyme these days, it was out of order on the idiot front though!
@graciexqx if you aren't going to take an American's word from it let me drop some knowledge for you from a UK perspective. You Grime "MCs" think that just because the British Media & therefore Grime artists label themselves "MCs" they are on the same level as artists that actually follow the conventions of their craft within Hip Hop. Not so. The trend for Grime MCs being called such comes from Garage (2 Step) music which in turn comes from Ragga/Dancehall MCs in the mid 1990s.
@graciexqx The pioneers for Grime in 2003 were ALL successors to the So Solid/Wiley GARAGE style of Mcing in the 90s. The reason why the confusion arose is because the government organised a series of laws (called the Public Order Act 1994) and councils were actively encouraged to discriminate against allowing Hip Hop venues. So Solid etc were marketed as RAP, paving the way for Grime artists to be as well. UK Hip Hop was completely ignored to this day & Rapper/MC now wrongly refers to Grime.
@graciexqx MC in hip-hop is some1 who A. is a Mic Controller. and grasp the audience with lyrics. B. Master of Ceremonies, some1 who controls the crowd and ceremonious activities such as shows and stages performances and involves the crowd. C. says what he feels and is a complete artist. A rapper is just someone who makes rhymes over beats and is usually contemporary and doesn't last long.
@graciexqx An MC or "Emcee" basically means, at least from a Hip-Hop standpoint, someone who can control the mike masterfully. The real word means "Master of ceremonies". Does that make sense? It's like the difference between rap and Hip-Hop, the term rap refers to the vocal style, while "Hip-Hop" has a more cultural standpoint in the music, the term is credited with being created by Keith Williams.
@alchiado haha you'z iz ignant
TheHALFsavage 3 weeks ago
hey you queers are having a stupid ass conversation haha emcee... rapper... you are all bitch ass fags
alchiado 1 month ago
oldschool ghetto
Loulukekunoeddudo 2 months ago
WHO THE FUCK DISLIKED THIS ?!?!?!?!
IdiocyEncarnate 3 months ago 8
Look, just because of where your from shouldnt shake your understanding of Hip Hop, which aint rap. Rap started with the West Coast movement, "Fresh Rhymes Daily" by common explains this. This is universal music, for others in other countries as well as our own. Hip Hop is Jamaican Disco, in roots, Rap is hip hop, in roots. How many of you got "Criminal Minded" by BDP? how many of you have watched roots to begin with? For those of you who do, i salute you!
TheHALFsavage 3 months ago
@TheHALFsavage Don't say shit men rap is one of the 4 part of hip hop it wasn't called rap, that was rhyming
hugo070992 2 months ago
Dam, these fools need to go listen to some KRS-One. "The MC", or look up djghostmixtapes for a good Dilla, Nas, Kweli, KRS remix. Fluid i mean fluid
TheHALFsavage 3 months ago
Actually the correct term in Hip Hop is emcee
BoxingBeatsAndRhymes 3 months ago
An MC speaks over music, in any way. A rapper speaks over music, in rhythm. A grime MC is rapping over a grime beat. A Hip hop MC raps over a hip hop beat, so he is a rapper. Soulja Boy is a rapper, so is Pharoahe Monch. If you're a rapper you're an MC.
NickWSax 4 months ago
@NickWSax No No No, you youngsters have this shit all on backwards! LMAO. If that is your reasoning I think you need to go back to Beat Street and Wild Style for an education as a basic starting point. Your logic would only apply if we were still living in the late 1980s. as the dude above has stated, there became a DEFINITIVE SPLIT in the 2 genres since then, with Gangsta/Mainstream/Party going one way, and Hip Hop remaining in the other. The conventions &requirements 4the 2 are different.
JayGriffinblaze 2 months ago
@NickWSax ah not necessarily, soulja boy is rapper, but could never be an emcee. An emcee can be a rapper, but a rapper can't be an emcee...
MCJay2daSun 1 month ago
How is someone going to discredit this man as an MC and stick em in the rapper category, mannnnn I wish I could reach through this screen and choke da' shit out of you...
FUFALLGTBKUPNRDE 4 months ago
Dont got to even rhyme ...does anybody remember how rap even started? it was plain poetry from the soul and now adays people are just forgetting their roots lil wayne is speaking about nonsence just so he can make it rhyme smh kids now a days would listen to anything
LusiulOinotna 4 months ago
hes too ill man love hes claim clear reassured flow
89karnage 6 months ago
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graciexqx 7 months ago
@graciexqx HES ABOUT AS MUCH AS AN MC U CAN GET IDIOT
intent100 7 months ago
@intent100 well sorry but where im from an MC is alot different to what he is...an MC is more grime music! so for me im correct and there is no need to be horrible you should actually listen to some of his lyrics it might make you a more peaceful person instead of calling someone an idiot because they asked a question. Thank You
graciexqx 7 months ago
@graciexqx Pharohe was an MC before Grime even existed, half these young kids can't even rhyme these days, it was out of order on the idiot front though!
edkitchen66 6 months ago 12
@edkitchen66 lmao....
str8nochaysa 4 months ago
@graciexqx if you aren't going to take an American's word from it let me drop some knowledge for you from a UK perspective. You Grime "MCs" think that just because the British Media & therefore Grime artists label themselves "MCs" they are on the same level as artists that actually follow the conventions of their craft within Hip Hop. Not so. The trend for Grime MCs being called such comes from Garage (2 Step) music which in turn comes from Ragga/Dancehall MCs in the mid 1990s.
JayGriffinblaze 2 months ago
@graciexqx The pioneers for Grime in 2003 were ALL successors to the So Solid/Wiley GARAGE style of Mcing in the 90s. The reason why the confusion arose is because the government organised a series of laws (called the Public Order Act 1994) and councils were actively encouraged to discriminate against allowing Hip Hop venues. So Solid etc were marketed as RAP, paving the way for Grime artists to be as well. UK Hip Hop was completely ignored to this day & Rapper/MC now wrongly refers to Grime.
JayGriffinblaze 2 months ago
@graciexqx MC in hip-hop is some1 who A. is a Mic Controller. and grasp the audience with lyrics. B. Master of Ceremonies, some1 who controls the crowd and ceremonious activities such as shows and stages performances and involves the crowd. C. says what he feels and is a complete artist. A rapper is just someone who makes rhymes over beats and is usually contemporary and doesn't last long.
MCJay2daSun 1 month ago
@graciexqx also an MC can be rapper, but a rapper can't be an MC
MCJay2daSun 1 month ago
@graciexqx An MC or "Emcee" basically means, at least from a Hip-Hop standpoint, someone who can control the mike masterfully. The real word means "Master of ceremonies". Does that make sense? It's like the difference between rap and Hip-Hop, the term rap refers to the vocal style, while "Hip-Hop" has a more cultural standpoint in the music, the term is credited with being created by Keith Williams.
ExpertHipHop 4 months ago
droppin knowledge, "if we took all the money we spend on rims..." crazy
MASTEROFTHEHERB 11 months ago
the most skillfull mcee out there he make niccas go back in the studio and re due there albums keep bringing the heat monch
legendary1973 11 months ago
No offence to the producers... I know how that sounded.
Superheavyweight 1 year ago
Pharoahe Monch is the greatest emcee... get him with Dre, Premier, everybody.
Superheavyweight 1 year ago
@Superheavyweight haha yea that did sound bad. never but dre. and Premier in the same sentence thats real hip hop 101.
PerfectCompositions 10 months ago