Best Emcee Quotes

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

Ice-T

#2. 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"

KRS-One

#3. You know, when I'm looking at these '08 yachts that are for sale, I think "I could have just walked in with a briefcase of cash and put it on the table and walked out with a yacht."

Will Ferrell

#4. I won't ever do e-mail.

David Mamet

#5. And I never missed one concert. In 89 shows, I think I did one a bit suspect show. In the old days, I'd pull gigs left, right and center because I was too f - - up.

Ozzy Osbourne

#6. I emceed in metro Detroit throughout college, and even when I moved to New York, I would actually fly back on a Friday, emcee on a Saturday, and fly back on Sunday so that I could audition during the week. It was a big part of my life.

James Wolk

#7. It's a total big difference between a person that got lyrics and a person that can make hit singles. I'm a person that can make some hit singles. I'm not in no booth trying to be a lyrical genius. I'm preparing to make me some singles, and as I develop as a man, then they'll respect my emcee skills.

Waka Flocka Flame

#8. 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.

James Wolk

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

Kool Moe Dee

#10. I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

John Williams

#11. The attraction here is based on man's need to conquer and tame, but also to hoard and deprive others of the prize.

Francisco X Stork

#12. 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.

Talib Kweli

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

KRS-One

#14. You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

Franz Kafka

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

Ice-T

#16. I'm a terrible cook, so I usually eat out with friends.

Moby

#17. I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

Amanda Burton

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

Kurupt

#19. Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.

Rico Love

#20. When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.

Nina Blackwood

#21. The man who ten years earlier and one year later was considered a bandit and outlaw is sent a two-day sail from France, to an island given into his possession, with his guards and several million, which are paid to him for some reason.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. Bitch your tee is the shit."
"Don't call Mace's Mom a bitch.

Kristen Ashley

#23. 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.

Phife Dawg

#24. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot.

Kate Atkinson

#25. 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.

Michael Eric Dyson

#26. Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah. I take the stage to the sound of, my hand to God, one person clapping once and only once, and then I start into my act.

Patton Oswalt

#27. 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.

Joell Ortiz

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

Doug Davidson

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

Lazarus Of Bethany

#30. 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.

John Mulaney

#31. Like Emily Dickinson, I ain't afraid of slant rhyme / And that's the end of this verse; emcee's out on a high.

John Green

#32. I worked at an all-black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, I was involved in what the Negroes, I mean, blacks were thinking, what they were feeling.

Joe Biden