Best Emcee Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.”

My Favorite Rico Brandy Vocalist Biggie Emcee

“The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."”

Author:Ice T

“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.”

Knows Stars Rocks Newspapers Bars Locals Insane Ads Rock Star Detroit Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah Emcee

Author:James Wolk

“Back in the days the great emcees made singles, had great shows, won battles, had all the girls and dressed fly. That¹s what I'm about...the total package emcees.”

Made Shows Girl Battle Packages Singles Emcee

Author: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 think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.”

Thinking Artist Stage Rapper Translate Phenomenal Technicians Emcee

Author:Joell Ortiz

“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.”

People Ifs Wells Perfect Opinion Stage Interviews Persona Well Rounded Emcee

Author:Joell Ortiz

“People didn't really take white rappers seriously until Eminem, because he was better than everybody. Like female emcees, you need to be like Lauryn Hill or Nicki Minaj or killing everything before somebody takes you seriously.”

People Needs White Female Killing Hills Rapper Emcee

Author:Talib Kweli

“It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.”

Shows Mercy Clubs Weekend Pranks Emcee

Author:John Mulaney

“Legions of young hip-hop fans are as against this as hip-hop's most fierce critics. There is a huge underground movement within hip-hop circles that against these representation. You can hear this message on tons of lyrics and rap songs produced by independent emcees. But they are fighting against a well-oiled and well-financed machine.”

Wells Young Song Fighting Fans Movement Huge Messages Machines Independent Critics Hip Hop Rap Circles Hips Hops Fierce Representation Legion Rap Song Emcee

Author:Bakari Kitwana

“To me, part of being an emcee is dedicated to speaking out about what's going on around us.”

Dedicated Speaking Out Emcee

Author:Lazarus of Bethany

“An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.”

Ifs Knows Mean Stills Fans Masters Appreciate Rhyme Ceremony Emcee Master Ceremony Appreciate Me

Author:Styles P

“I've got to show at all times that I'm willing to tear any emcee a new asshole, at any given moment.”

Moments Shows Given Tears Willing All Time Emcee

Author:Styles P

“There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.”

Hero Hip Hop Producers Hips Hops Imagery Persona Super Hero Emcee

Author:Ali Shaheed Muhammad

“Actually, I started as a ventriloquist and my music teacher said, "Why don't you emcee the talent show?" My act was out of the back of Boys' Life magazine-they had a whole series of jokes in the back of Boys' Life magazine for Boy Scouts. So my act was jokes with my ventriloquist figure, and it was really bad, but I walked into the classroom afterward and the kids went, "Wow, you're cool." I wasn't cool at all, but I thought, "Well, this is a pretty good deal."”

Wells Said Whole Shows Kids Deals Boys Teacher Talent Figures Jokes Series Magazines Wow Classroom Boy Scout Music Teacher Talent Show Emcee

Author:David Copperfield

“A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.”

Way Different Limits Different Ways Rhyme Emcee

Author:Ice T

“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?”

Ifs Thinking World Should Littles Persons Bigs Winning Boys Alive Happened Love You Drawing Prize What If Vacation Offering Better Person Little Boys Motorcycle Emcee

Book:Among the Missing

Source: Among the Missing

“Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.”

Broken Emcee

Book:A Hologram for the King

Source: A Hologram for the King

“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.”

May Stills Hip Hop Rap Artistic Hips Hops Rapper Compelling Gifted Influential Emcee

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“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"”

Asks Break Mom Hip Hop Productions Pops Checks Spells Your Mom Respect Me Boogie Emcee

Author:KRS-One

“Food for thought, eat my words with your mind: Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.”

Mind Wine Hip Hop Rap Crushed Grapes Emcee

Author:MF Grimm

“Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.”

People Hip Hop Rap Uplifting Illegal Rapper Entertaining Rhyme Entertainers Spit Rhyming Rap Song Emcee

Author:KRS-One

“Too many MC's take that word 'emcee' lightly; They can't Move a Crowd, not even slightly.”

Moving Hip Hop Crowds Rap Emcee

Author:KRS-One

“I'm sautéing emcees with fried rice up in the wok without the MSG and chopped celery.”

Hip Hop Rap Rice Celery Emcee Msg

Author:Redman

“Gimme a couple G's for every emcee I knocked to his knees. Verbally useless, 'Oh you got the juice?' I squeeze you juiceless.”

Couple Hip Hop Rap Useless Knees Juice Emcee

Author:Kurupt

“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.”

Thinking Poetry Lines Mines Brother Add Hip Hop Rap Ems Rhyme Emcee

Author:Rakim

“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”

Ifs Writing Hard School Artist Built Excuse Sentiments Old School Freestyle Emcee

Author:Kool Moe Dee

“When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartneys press conference.”

Presses Entertainment Tonight Conferences Press Conferences Emcee

Author:Nina Blackwood

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Believe Artist Hell Honesty Beats Appreciate Appreciated Props Emcee

Author:Talib Kweli

“One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.”

Thinking Needs Guy Silly Silliness Emcee

Author:Doug Davidson

“I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.”

Knows Giving Energy Battle Emcee

Author:Kool Moe Dee

“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.”

Ifs Feels Heart Different Moments Fans My Heart Tribes Flavor Vintage Emcee

Author:Phife Dawg

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