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Hmmm, this leaves me more confused, all the things he said as the definition of MCing is stuff that describes rappers like E-40 (saying fly shyt, stuff you wouldnt think of to rhyme about, colourful descriptive language in the rhymes) and as has been pointed out so many times by elite Brooklyn MCs such as The Notorious Biggie Smalls and AZ, premiere basketball players of their era such as Rasheed Wallace and legendary DJs and radio personalities Funkmaster Flex and Peter Rosenburg, E-40 most certainly is not an MC and by most accounts not that good of a rapper either. But according to Clark Kent things like flow, intonation and the style in which you say your rhymes are attributes of rapping and not MCing so that would not affect it. Dialect and location also apparently do not have a bearing on whether or not one can be considered an MC. So yeah, still pretty confused as to the definition of an MC. When I first started listening to this music I thought I understood what an MC was, it was actually a pretty simple definition, a master of ceremonies, someone who can move the crowd with the words they said. But in the late 80s that all changed, and so began a 30 plus year debate as to what was and what was not MCing and who was and who was not a real MC. Ive watched many of the documentaries and read much of the literature on this subject and still am no closer to finding an asnwer. I have even studied and found patterns in the top 10, 20 and 50 greatest MCs lists by apparent hip hop credible publications and outlets such as Billboard, Complex, XXL, MTV and The Rolling Stones Magazine. Unfortunately those patterns did not lead to any conclusive definition as the patterns were based on location, distinct dialects and what labels they were signed to and as most MC authoritarians will tell you, those things dont have anything to do with who gets to hold the title of MC
They played a lot of bullshyt around the clock, the fact his biggest mainstream songs were remixes of pop songs helped too. He wouldn't have been as big as he is without Pac and the fact he died after Pac and their beef. He would have gone down as a fat Fabolous without Pac. The fact remains you can talk about Pac without mentioning Biggie but you cant do it vice versa. The whole world knows Pac is the GOAT, even New York but there's a portion of you New Yorkers who have a complex and try to grasp at straws to claim a GOAT
Pac stans, turning this into a GOAT convo...I ain't arguing about who the GOAT is, just the notion that Big wasn't one of the biggest rappers in the 90's...cool if Pac is ya favorite rapper, but let's not rewrite history breh
Right, but based off of the definitions of what "lyrical ability" is rappers who possess all those qualities are still labeled as not being MCs, such as E-40 who I mentioned, members of Bone Thugs, most rappers from the Bay, the Midwest and the South get the "not a real MC" label, even rappers with "MC" in their names often get dismissed as "gangsta rappers" so I have to wonder if this "MC" label is maybe a loose term that over the years has lost its meaning and everyone just defines it differently with their own bias.
They played a lot of bullshyt around the clock, the fact his biggest mainstream songs were remixes of pop songs helped too. He wouldn't have been as big as he is without Pac and the fact he died after Pac and their beef. He would have gone down as a fat Fabolous without Pac. The fact remains you can talk about Pac without mentioning Biggie but you cant do it vice versa. The whole world knows Pac is the GOAT, even New York but there's a portion of you New Yorkers who have a complex and try to grasp at straws to claim a GOAT
