Top 32 Quotes About Emcee: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Emcee

#1. 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

#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. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Kool Moe Dee

#7. 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

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

KRS-One

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

Ice-T

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

Ice-T

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

Rico Love

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

Nina Blackwood

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Doug Davidson

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

Lazarus Of Bethany

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.

Benjamin Jowett

#22. I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.

Augusta Scattergood

#23. When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.

Plato

#24. Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.

David Foster Wallace

#25. My vision for Scotland is one in which we fight together for the values we are care about: equality, fairness and social justice. Those values are the same whether you live in Dumfries or Carlisle.

Douglas Alexander

#26. He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.

Grant Fuhr

#27. It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.

Eric Bogosian