What does "MC" stand for

all these guys who are calling you a noob probably just know what it means and are too proud to admit. And for all of you, MC means master of ceremonies.
 
no it means microphone or 'mic' or 'mc'. i don't think 50 cent talks about master of ceremonies much.
 
uh id say the abbreviation MC has been around longer than rap/hip hop, so its safe to say that the original meaning of MC is master of ceremonies
 
me and a friend were arguing over this for like a month a while back....straight off rapdictionary.net

Probably Jamaican, in which case it comes from the TV game shows, Master of Ceremonies (although the term existed before TV). It was the only person at a gathering that was allowed to use the microphone. Could also stand for Microphone Controller, Mic Checka. The term, MC, stand for Master of Ceremonies --- A Tribe Called Quest (Midnight Marauders [1993]).

MC, (or Emcee) a skilled rapper. True MCs use skills that are often ingnored in hip hop today. These skills include wordplay / punchlines, metaphors, similies, multis, flow and switch ups. To the party people out there, we want y'all just to know that we are the four MC's and we are the star of the show -- Afrika Bambaataa Zulu Nation Cosmic Force (Zulu Nation Throwdown)
 
rappers are the "mc" in hip hop.

four elements of hip hop:DJ, breakdance, graffiti, and MCing.

MCs are the most important mert there for they are the master of ceremonies
 
well it all started when flava flave was so stoned that he couldnt remember how to write anything but M C and he could only say YEAA BOIII. so he went around writing MC on everything and saying YEAAAH BOIII. And since flava flave is so cool and is in public enemy everyone started using the term MC.

THE END
 
MC's started off as the guys that announced the next break at the dj dance partys and they just got the crowd going and stuff and they slowly evolved into doing more stuff, eventually rapping.

back in the day the DJ was #1 not the mc
 
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