Word: mc
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...eyes. In its time, hip-hop's gone from Hollis to Hollywood to the halls of museums. Now it's time to wade through the enormous creative output of the last two decades to separate the wheat from the chaff, the hits from the misses, the heroes from the (MC) Hammers. Is Rakim the microphone god before whom we all must bow down? Is KRS-One still number one? Was Vanilla Ice an unappreciated genius? Is LL a phony hero or really the G.O.A.T? Here's your chance to name...
...Check the Rhime" A Tribe Called Quest My all-time favorite - breathtaking rhyming skills, tricky abstract poetics creating mental aerobics for the listener, and a profound musical commentary on the MC as bebop inheritor...
Long before closing time, the Mix Master ceded his set to a freestyle free-for-all that proved to be a second highlight. Canadian MC Choclair, blatantly pushing all things Toronto in his Raptors jersey, offered some quality pro-Canadian rhymes over Black Rob's "Like Whoa," and Rahzel continued to amaze, though his freestyle abilities are clearly an order of magnitude weaker than his skills as the human beat...
...Digga's new album. Dirty Harriet is an impressive debut for the only woman in Busta Rhyme's Flipmode Squad. True to her name, Rah Digga's sound is raw, with hardcore lyrics underscored by a deep, commanding voice. Rah Digga displays the skills of a first-class MC in lines like "I'll be stashing marijuana/In my Dolce & Gabbana" from "What They Call Me" and "Best believe where I'm going you a goner/I spit more rhymes than silicone in California" from "Straight Spittin', Part II." Unlike other female rappers, Rah Digga does not rhyme about sexuality...
...have a problem exploiting my youth and my looks to sell my rhymes--but I don't want to push the sexual stuff to the forefront," she says. "I would rather push my MC skills. But if you do happen to notice that I look good or that I got bodacious ta-tas, that's all good...