Clever Quote by Gza

Emceeing has always been about making the most intellectual, most creative, wittiest rhyme as possible regardless of any subject. It was always about bringing…

— Gza

As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You…

— Omari Hardwick

When I was 18 or 19, I started writing raps properly.

— Stefflon Don

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

— Ice T

For those of us who grew in the early hip hop era, that music shaped us in a way to be in a position…

— Rick Famuyiwa

If you're a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. When you're an artist…

— Rick Ross

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…

— Kool Moe Dee

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…

— Styles P

To me hip-hop is a culture and I became an MC to be recognized as a dope lyricist. That's what I wanted to be…

— Big Daddy Kane

That's something I can never lose: my love for the art of rap. As I grew older and became more interested in song writing,…

— Vic Mensa

I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind of came…

— Sasha Grey

When rap music needed to have a teacher, I became it.

— KRS-One