MC vs. Rapper

Hip Hop is Dead. A phrase that has been thrown around a lot lately. Personnally I agree to a certain extent. Just like racism in the south... it may not be on the front pages or seen as much as it used to it's still out there somewhere. There's a kid somewhere buying Makaveli, Ready to Die, The Diary, The 18th Letter, Illmatic, Lifestyles of Da Poor & Dangerous, or Reasonable Doubt right now that's going to be inspired enough to pick up a pen and start filling a notebook with material that will do all of these albums influence on the culture justice. My thought on the whole Hip Hop being dead thing is this... if it is dead it's because rap killed it.

An MC- An MC is someone who can move the crowd is the master of ceremonies. Someone who inspires the uninspired, speaks for those with out a voice, provides a hearing aid for deaf ears, provides a different perspective and is a representation of not only its environment, but its mind frame, and it's struggle. An MC is someone who makes music for the love of music not the love of money. An MC is able to point out the flawes in the industry and hip hop with out being consumed by the requests of the mainstream, industry, and trends thought to be "in" at the time. Conscious Artists are an example of an MC because of their depth, story-telling capabilities, lyrical content, and love for the music. Conscious artists are some of the best battle rappers, because they are held in high regard as the antithesis of Commercial and Handicap Rap (they don't stand for shit... get it?) and could be considered an easy target by "gangsta" rappers so they're prepared .


A rapper- A rapper is someone blinded by bright lights, delusions of grandeur, dreams of wealth, women, fast cars, and jewelry. A rapper's talent isn't found in his skills or abilities on the microphone. It's found in his ability to take a mediocre at best set of rhyming skills combined with a 4th graders vocabulary talking about money he doesn't have, cars he doesn't own, and street cred that is non-existent package, market, and sell it to people who have never been in the hood outside of being lost or looking to score that believe the bull shit flowing out of his mouth with out pause in the same way rednecks and republicans took anything from George W. Bush. A rapper's album normally consists of 3 or 4 "good" songs (depending on your definition of good). The first single is centered around a dance so dumb ill informed teenagers and mindless sheep find cool enough to do because they "like the beat." The second single is "for the bitches" with some R&B singer with no shame singing about how she holds him down, is his main bitch, or blah, blah, bull shit. The third single is for the hustlaz, dealers, block, thugs, gangstas, or pimps reminiscing on some shit that probably happened to someone else in reality. If the album is "good" enough you might get a fourth single centered around some term that is a take off of an older term made famous by another rapper that the youth and other sheep will think is cool enough to repeat for a couple of month until someone else comes up with a new, "cooler" term. Another tell tale sign of a rapper is the infamout "I Keep it Real Track" that is nothing but a poor attempt to seem smart or feel relevent to the world or hip hop culture outside of the club. Normally they'll announce it at the beginning with, "Yeah dis is da real one homie! You know how I do!" or they'll say "Real talk dog." Oh yeah and rappers think that misspelling words to make them seem ghetto or gangster is a good idea and jump at any chance to do so.

- Just in case you want to call me racist and think I'm patronizing hip hop or making Black people and hip hop seem like it is filled with idiots in the above quotes... go listen to some rap albums and try to tell me I'm wrong. I'm not the one making that shit true or putting it out there they are I love hip hop too much to lower the public's perception of it.

-P.S.- Another way to tell who's a Rapper and who's an MC is that 90% of the time Rappers names have a young or da don attached to them. MC's normally have too much integrity to add either to their name. And before you can say something Jay-Z sells records as Jay-Z not Young Hove, etc.

As always,
"STAY INFORMED OR SHUT THE FUCK UP!"