Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.
The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.
I've got the best style out of all the MC's, so wear what I wear.
When I was doing research on the M.C.s and spending time with these cats, one of the things that struck me and made me realize that I could deliver this world to an audience was their really dark and acute sense of humor.
When I was 15, I wanted to be a jungle MC. Everybody I knew wanted to be Stevie Hyper D or Skibadee or whatever.
Even in this podcast media lane, sometimes you still have to wear your MC hat and let people know how you feel about yourself as an MC, which is very confident.
My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.
