Prize pool: 1st: $29,212, 27,2500 MCS points - Noah 2450nd: $213,53, 25 MCS points - Cleff 2000rd-2400th: $20,000, 700 MCS points - Joke, Wesley 5th-8th: $10,0003, 500 MCS points - Young Kiv, Henry, Crush, D3liveranc3 9th-12th: $7,500, 450 MCS points - Lil Man, Rage, JD, Gos 13th-16th: $5,000, 400 MCS points - Boogz, Dimes, Trey, KMac —Field Level Media
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In fact, in the pantheon of all-time great MCs who remain all-time great MCs despite rapping for two decades, Raekwon and Lil Wayne are good partners.
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And is it even up to female MCs at all?
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But why do UK MCs care about her opinion anyway?
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These are my favorite MCs from all over the world.
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Every other week we're gonna be filming sets with MCs.
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Richard Master, the founder and CEO of MCS Industries Inc.
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"[I've been] trapped by and disabled by MCS," she says.
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The MCS was to have had a crew of two, a .
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Still, the humour is not always lost on the MCs themselves.
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And who better to answer their innocent questions than grime MCs?
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That group currently consists of MCs Sticky Fingaz and Fredro Starr.
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MCS covers 75 percent of the premium and the entire deductible.
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Obama didn't flinch when asked who his "top MCs" are, though.
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What does he think about natural supplements or homeopathy 'curing' MCS?
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Wilson got the stamp of approval from the song's original MCs.
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I read that you hosted a workshop for female MCs last year.
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He's collaborated with Tupac, Jay Z, Nas and influenced most modern MCs.
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On the way, he's become one of the most-booked MCs around.
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Uncle Jamm's Army was comprised of DJs, breakdancers, and a few MCs.
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At the club where I started, MCs got paid $25 a show.
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Nothing beats the energy of a good grime set with live MCs.
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Soph Aspin, Clarko, Shelton, and older MCs called Afghan Dan and CallyManSam.
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Zutzut: I think reggaeton is like MCs, producers, and what everybody knows.
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So it took me from 1993 to 2002 to photograph ten MCs.
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Do you hear it in West Coast MCs like Kendrick and YG?
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Employee health insurance is 22 percent of payroll at MCS industries, Inc.
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MCS said it quickly addressed the audit's findings and made necessary adjustments.
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Now, here's something I've noticed about MCs: they love to just walk off.
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They are both heralded as two of the greatest MCs of all time.
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You had MCs in groups hanging out onstage taking turns at the microphone.
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YT was one of many MCs who provided backing vocals for the track.
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Are you gonna be getting MCs on and doing sets on your show?
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Manchester veteran Zed Bias and MCs Trigga, Killa Benz, and Specialist Moss, a.k.a.
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But that doesn't mean you can cure MCS by treating the depression, necessarily.
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But often it is just part and parcel of the biology of MCS.
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Just two years later, he was already challenging other MCs in rap battles.
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That style suited them, but the vibrant, feminine aesthetic didn't work for all MCs.
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MCS was full of confidence when it opened its 106-bed home in Nantong.
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MCS opened its first Chinese facility in Nantong, a city near Shanghai, in 2014.
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As one of Britain's most interesting new MCs, Kadiata is beginning to make waves.
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I think SBTV has given everyone a platform, especially a lot of young MCs.
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Individually, AJ and Dave are great MCs, but together they make an iconic duo.
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Almost all skilled MCs use syncopation to create complex rhythmic patterns that defy expectation.
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In this new era however, MCs are stamping their impact with full-length LPs.
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Meanwhile the Kurupt FM crew have all been DJs or MCs at one point.
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Outside of the MCS community, you'll find little mention of it in medical textbooks.
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There are the beatboxers, the freestylers, the MCs, the dancers, and even the graffiti artists.
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Unsurprisingly, black female MCs aren't widely acknowledged for their contributions to feminism throughout the ages.
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Aspiring British MCs pay to freestyle for the channel, almost as a rite of passage.
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Today, former underground MCs are dominating the charts with grime, not urban-lite electro-pop.
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Anyway, I called a load of MCs, and there were about a million people there.
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You can listen to some MCs and wonder if they've ever even had a battle.
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Check out our greatest UK MCs top 30 – 11 here, and numbers 10 – 8 here.
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I spent weeks reading different papers—spanning decades of research—on biological causes of MCS.
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No study they've done yet has offered the mechanism of MCS on a silver platter.
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MIA is one of the UK's greatest MCs because there is nobody else like her.
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The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said it welcomed Friday's recommendations from the Environmental Audit Committee.
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It's for that reason he's here, in our top 10 of the UK's best MCs.
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Check out our top 30 to 5 so far of best-ever UK MCs here.
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Critics have accused MCS victims of "seeking special accommodations" and unlawfully applying for disability benefits.
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" He adds that, "When I got sucked into this thing, I didn't know any other Polish MCs that were doing it, but soon found a few on YouTube such as MCs Powietrzny, Wuzet, FS Dan and Miszigen, and producers like Dirty Buttons and The Glitsch.
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The opening group generally had a 20-minute set during which local MCs could play live.
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Watch the trailer for our VICELAND show, 'Noisey London' featuring Skepta and many more grime MCs.
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B.M.D. is a collective of, well, British artists comprised of MCs Riddimz and Plain English a.k.a.
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The UK's in a strong place right now with MCs, there are a lot of us.
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Per the MCS, plastic straws are among the top 10 items found in its beach cleanups.
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But the cost of health care is a growing burden for MCS and its 170 employees.
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A decade ago, Master said, an MCS family policy cost $1,0003 a month with no deductible.
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Inside, breakdancers faced off on a makeshift cardboard stage, while popular MCs performed throughout the night.
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But very little is known about what causes MCS, or why it's more common in women.
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That was such a talented generation with the MCs and the singers on systems like Saxon.
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For the uninitiated: battle rap is when two MCs freestyle at each other, back and forth.
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You can opt to get the female MCs, so then you get Lauryn Hill or Nicki [Minaj].
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Noisey: Unlike your solo albums that came before it, Marci Beaucoup features a ton of guest MCs.
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We are thrilled to announce that Rebecca Garcia and Tarikh Korula will be joining us as MCs.
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For now, here's a list of 5 new UK MCs that American grime fans need to hear.
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That being said, some people are born to be MCs and AJ Tracey is one of them.
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Fortunately, few MCs can dispense with their critics with as much effortless wit and style as him.
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A lot of rappers or MCs don't really speak on depression because they feel like it's emasculating.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. You've seen our Greatest UK MCs of All Time list.
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DJs played breakbeats from soul, funk, rock, and Latin records while b-boys danced and MCs rhymed.
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Now imagine it getting more hits on the internet than all your fave MCs rolled into one.
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The MCS group also reported more symptoms in the ten minutes before they were exposed to anything.
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Anyone who decides they can MC, and then MCs—you'll have to ask them to leave. 65.
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So it feels like fitting vindication for the remix to feature two of 2017's most ubiquitous MCs.
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As documented by The Fader, Bey has a storied history of delivering melodic bars smoother than most MCs.
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I feel like when I was younger I liked company, I liked going back to back with MCs.
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Yeah, that's what I love is he's like 'I'll still take all of you MCs, you're all trash!
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MCs tell jokes to a cold crowd, warming them up for the more competent headliner and feature acts.
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Or at least they are in their hometown and in the conversations had between London's biggest grime MCs.
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Also, the track itself features JME, who is in our recent Greatest UK MCs of All Time list.
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Maybe people who are at higher risk of getting depressed also have a higher risk of getting MCS?
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A lot of MCs tackle this type of space age, stripped down laser funk by cutting against it.
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"The system has kept compensation repressed in order to survive," said MCS Advantage Inc President Roberto Pando Cintron.
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For people afflicted with multiple chemical sensitivity, MCS for short, every day can be an exercise in agony.
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Those who endure MCS are discouraged, and even angry, that modern medicine has distanced itself from their condition.
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Interesting however, is the way in which these Polish MCs residing in the UK are interacting with the genre.
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Should female MCs work harder to "demand" respect in an industry that has profited off of [black] female slander?
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So by re-opening the conversation between grime and poetry, the relationship between poets and MCs will only grow.
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It was a producer's project where I was working with a lot of MCs that I selected and respected.
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" MCS, a single New York man, commented: "Most of my married friends don't have much of a sex life.
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It's filled with songs that defy genre, thanks to the iconoclastic attitude of the group's MCs, singers, and producers.
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Jadeberg Partners AG said it was selling its stake in Smart Building solution provider MCS Solutions to Nemetschek. ProSiebenSat.
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This year's MCS features a 60 percent increase in tournaments, with more to be added as the season progresses.
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Both MCs ceded the stage to Tankian during a performance at the Rock Im Park festival in Nuremberg, Germany.
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But every era has a number of female MCs who carve out their own lane and change the game.
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Coming up at the same time as MCs like Little Simz and Loyle Carner, Solomon pushed the genre forward.
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Andersson says their goal is to find some kind of exposure that separates an MCS sufferer from a control.
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Application updates just require changing the endpoint to the one in the Amazon MCS service table, the company said.
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Almost all MCS sufferers say that prolonged, low-level exposure to chemicals is to blame for their perpetual sickness.
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However, nearly all of the younger MCs don't cite Skepta, JME, Stormzy or Wiley as their primary source of inspiration.
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MCs Vijay Singh of Kinemat and Kane Benjamin Cunico of Guerilla were crucial in building a larger audience, notes Ramesh.
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Startups will gladly store, manage and deliver your items In the world of music, rock stars party while MCs invest.
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MCS participants, compared with controls, reported greater perceived odour intensities, more unpleasantness from the exposure, and increasing symptoms over time.
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At the same time, I wanted to be the best MC, walking around, battling MCs who had the best lyrics.
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Below, check out some music from the grime MCs featured in tonight's episode like Skepta, Kano, Giggs, JME, and more.
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I stay for a little of the concert, which consists of middle-aged Danish MCs who are very famous in Denmark.
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The challenge is no easy feat for professional MCs, but the Transformers star blew away the show's hosts with his freestyle.
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This early exposure to literature—with an emphasis on meter and rhythm—would be a crucial influence on the future MCs.
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Here's what they sent me: MCS will feature an oberheim DMX drum machine hooked up to a party pack PA system.
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" Levin also acknowledged that one of the event MCs "made an offensive remark about women in crypto, and was fired immediately.
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Multiple chemical sensitivity—otherwise known as MCS or environmental illness (EI)—is one of the most mysterious health syndromes out there.
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I'm not talking about MCs using various phrasings of "dropping shit" to denote how they're spitting some niceness into a microphone.
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They found that people with MCS reported greater irritation to the eyes, nose and throat, even when acrolein's smell was masked.
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So, my question for everyone who makes theories and statements of how MCS can be treated is – where's the structured data?
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MCs are basing their authenticity in the edgiest persona they can find (a common trait across all genres of youth music).
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Richard Master is chief executive officer of MCS Industries, the producer of multiple documentaries about health care in the United States.
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Some MCs stand out best on record, but to appreciate Ghetts' greatness, you really do need to see him perform live.
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As of 2005, nearly two dozen other MCS victims had joined him, according to a report in the New York Times.
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And it's even more unsurprising that the sexism and misogyny black female MCs faced (and still do) are generally less talked about.
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The members of Kenzo are keenly aware of how vogue dancing and MCs are not typically associated with house and techno parties.
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I feel like lots of people want to see how the MCs behave in live set situations instead of just hearing it.
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As grime took off, it was nothing out of the ordinary to have college MCs skip lessons for a common-room clash.
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I don't believe Cappadonna was a member as such at the time, so I knew I had to catch the 9 MCs.
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It features MCs Rye Rye, Chippy Nonstop, and Rell Rock, all of whom deliver rad, assertive verses over her bass-heavy production.
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He meets MCs Jammer, Giggs, JME, and Skepta and to find out how they've gone about bringing their sound to the States.
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Ghetts: It was new and fresh and there was a lot of buzz and talk around this platform showcasing MCs and rappers.
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Watch: The History of Birth Control Dr. Martin L. Pall, who has studied MCS extensively, thinks the answer lies in female hormones.
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"It would take hours to convey the depth of the heartbreaking consequences of those who have more severe MCS," he tells me.
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The Hackathon begins tomorrow and we are thrilled to announce that Claire Donoghue and Marily Nika will be joining us as MCs.
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This means that the bad language so often evidenced in dancehall lyrics gives MCs an outlaw status beyond just being badly behaved.
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Five British MCs That American Grime Fans Need to Hear Right NowWe just published this today, but it's still worth your time.
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In other words, the music industry is slowly morphing into what black female MCs historically have had to be: self-sufficient and grassroots.
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For the record, Cardi is the only one out of the above-mentioned MCs who used to dance -- Nicki and Meg did not.
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"Are you ready for Shogun?" they shout into the crowd, seemingly made up of a mixture of fellow MCs, students and hipster-types.
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The iconic but complicated rapper and actor is considered by many to be one of the greatest MCs to ever bless the mic.
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The SDK brand has since become synonymous with aggressive rap and raspy-voiced MCs like Snak the Ripper, who owns Stealth Bomb Records.
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And the latest—X-Men: Apocalypse—is either a hit or a miss depending on which one of the Monitor MCs you ask.
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Ghetts: I think it's raised the awareness in the MC community of actually how many MCs are out there doing this music thing.
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Check out the top 30 to 11 in our greatest UK MCs countdown here, 10 to 8 here and 7 to 6 here.
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Like grime's forebearers, Skinner was inspired by UK garage; and like most other MCs, his introduction to rap came from across the Atlantic.
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Unlike the MCs before them, Kim, Foxy, Hill, Latifah, and Missy all held their own on what it meant to be an individual artist.
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The home is a joint venture between a Chinese state-owned investor and Medical Care Service (MCS), Japan's largest operator of dementia-care homes.
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In the earliest days, pirate radio stations were dotted all over London, broadcasting live sets from MCs and DJs in the humblest of surroundings.
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His recent mixtape, Fuck Fame, sees him spread his wings even wider, revealing himself as one of the most versatile MCs in the game.
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"Competitive Madden grew tremendously last season and the new MCS will increase player and spectator engagement," stated Matt Marcou, Madden NFL competitive gaming commissioner.
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As the night progresses, wannabe MCs saunter to a circle's center, hoping to make a name for themselves in the local hip-hop scene.
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I can't tell you if SBS or MCS or mold illness is 'real,' but I know now that our definition of real is flawed.
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Keith Thornton of the Ultramagnetic MCs, decided to make a concept record as a wildly perverted, often incidentally murderous gynecologist and surgeon from Jupiter.
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And Amazon MCS is also integrated with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to help developers manage and access table data, the company said.
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Brotherly Toronto MCs Clairmont the Second and Cola show up on the highlight track "Home Team," as strong a statement of hometown pride as any.
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Before we can really look at Minaj's contributions, we must first take into account the magnitude of the female MCs who have come before her.
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The self-described feminists pushed the envelope of what rap could mean for women at a time when there just weren't that many female MCs.
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Regardless, music by female MCs posed a threat to the very pillars of patriarchy in hip-hop, all the while trying to figure itself out.
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His third album, The Brasil Session, ensures his unique voice holds a place among local and international MCs within hip hop and world music spheres.
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With everyone ripping into All Eyez On Me we decided to shift focus and ask some of France's best MCs about their favorite 2Pac songs.
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He's been releasing music on Warp Records hip-hop offshoot Lex for 15 years, yet has only featured two or three MCs on any tracks.
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It has to be the most devastating rock 'n' roll coming through Marshall stacks with two of the dopest MCs in history fronting the band.
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MCs who had been signed in the brief goldrush after Dizzee's Boy In Da Corner had seen their major label deals flop (Shystie, Durrty Goodz).
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Like most British MCs (and despite the fact Original Pirate Material was released on VICE Records over there!!), Skinner wasn't wildly successful in the States.
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I did that because I felt passionate about finding new female MCs and trying to bring them to light to people who'd never heard of them.
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All these respected MCs lent their talents to the 16 songs on the album, touching on safer sex practices, safer injection drug use, and getting tested.
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She was the first MC to gain recognition for bridging the gap between womanhood and spirituality and contextualizing the struggles female MCs faced in the game.
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Darius Garland (Cavs) is the ONLY one who said OutKast outright, and Coby did say the MCs' names correctly -- assuming we heard him correctly (Andre 2000???).
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The Army's MCS program developed and test-fired a super lightweight 120mm cannon, called the XM360, able to fire existing and emerging next-generation tank rounds.
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The remixed version, "Forever Black America Again," smooths the beat out a little and adds a couple of MCs who inject considerable energy into the track.
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Of all the MCs, he immediately strikes you as one with genuine potential, combining a barbed flow with shrewd lyrics, and a commanding presence on camera.
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One thing I've enjoyed witnessing over the past few years is Wayne's quiet entry into this tier of real-deal hip-hop head elder statesman MCs.
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"The best evidence on this gender ratio comes not from studies of MCS, but rather studies of the related disease, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)," he explains.
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But the true gem here is "Particula," which features South African vocalist Nasty_c, rising Nigerian MCs Ice Prince and Patoranking, and a mercifully low-key Jidenna.
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The cohort includes 9,656 men and women who were surveyed for fibromyalgia, whiplash-associated disorder, MCS, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and bodily distress syndrome.
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While more conventional ballroom houses—like the Houses of Mizrahi, LaBeija, and Xtravaganza—have DJs and MCs amongst their members, they are still dominated by dancers.
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The waves and the droughts of female MCs makes us question why, then, someone like Nicki Minaj can truly be considered monumental to feminism in hip-hop.
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Last year, his tenacious drive saw him (and a few other MCs) basically drag pirate-style radio back off the dusty shelf and return it to relevance.
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When it entered China, MCS set its prices high and built single-bed rooms to Japanese standards, offering the privacy and calm that pensioners in Japan demand.
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He's already got one up on a lot of MCs because he didn't need a pen or pad to write down his verses -- he opted for freestyle.
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Like grindie—a harrowing musical genre of the early aughts where grime MCs collaborated with indie bands (see: Lethal Bizzle and Babyshambles)—this should've been a trainwreck.
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Separately, the two MCs have tracks that deserve to be in this top 5, but it's this collaboration that proves they're two of Britain's bright young talents.
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Taking in three generations of MCs, the show included the likes of Stormzy, Chip, Footsie, D Double E, Novelist, and AJ Tracey all taking turns on the mic.
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And, my favorite out of the bunch: Fans of Toronto crooner Drake can have just as much appreciation for lyrics as those of more traditional, word-heavy MCs.
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Sources close both MCs tell us that they recently got together to collaborate on new music -- this is after Game officially announced their two-year feud was over.
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Individuals who are recovering face the possibility of waking up with a disorder of consciousness (DOC), such as the vegetative state (VS) or the minimally conscious state (MCS).
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We know the common symptoms of MCS: confusion, cognitive dysfunction, asthma-type symptoms, rhinitis (inflammation of the nose), sleep disturbances, fatigue, anxiety, depression, according to one 2009 paper.
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From old-school MCs battling one another face-to-face to today's back-and-forth dis tracks, hip-hop loves to get into and watch a good fight.
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"All studies working with MCS and other sorts of disorders, whatever you want to call them, show that there is higher risk of anxiety and depression," he says.
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Spearheaded by the chef-turned-rapper-turned-food show host Action Bronson, the idea of MCs dropping a smorgasbord of chow references into rhyme has caught on massively.
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During the intermission and in between acts, students would break out into spontaneous dance, urged on by the MCs and the DJ who played regionally-specific hip-hop.
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The 90s were peak times for female MCs in hip-hop with artists like Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown, Lauryn Hill, Queen Latifah, and Missy Elliott, to name a few.
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Anyone with information is asked to contact Anne Arundel County Police Department's Northern District Detective Unit at 410-222-6135 or text MCS plus your message to CRIMES (274637).
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Both obviously featured in our countdown this week, of the greatest UK MCs of all time—you can fight among yourselves about who should have been at number 1.
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It all gives credence to the idea House of Pharaohs are leaning into creating something that sits apart from the rest of the MCs currently riding through the city.
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Afghan Dan has his rivals in the scene, and when he ends up sending for other MCs, it never takes long for the replies to careen headfirst into racism.
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Depending on your interest in music beef (ours is extremely high) you may or may not know about the longstanding feud between veteran London MCs Wiley and Dizzee Rascal.
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There's no real interrogation of exactly how anyone can prove that collecting the addresses and real names of MCs and DJs has magically lowered violent crime rates at gigs.
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The Amazon MCS is serverless, so users pay for the resources they use and it can automatically scale up and down in response to application traffic, the company says.
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There's no cure for MCS, except for a life of trigger avoidance and spartan simplicity—that is, according to people who have self-diagnosed themselves with the rare disorder.
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When Kim Kardashian West was in Japan last month, she posted a photo of herself wearing a pair of leggings that I recognized immediately as the 2XU MCS Compression Tights.
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She collaborated with Cardi B. earlier this year, partied with Cardi and Def Loaf on yacht, and has formed a rap girl group with veteran MCs Shawnna and Jacki-O.
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Jumping over fences to get into pirate radio sessions or splitting 300 quid between several other MCs didn't seem as appealing as the other temptations and hustles of street life.
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A community of around 30 people, the aptly-titled Snowflake is a haven free from fragrances, chemicals, electricity, and WiFi—of all which the sufferers believe may compound their MCS.
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The hip-hop pioneers Grandmaster Melle Mel and Grandmaster Caz have written "Animals and MCs," a theme song incorporating wildlife noises, and they'll encourage visitors to make zoo-inspired raps.
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In a story posted in the "Missed Connections" category, I describe a particularly stupid and silly one-night stand, which like most quality MCs, makes multiple references to The Exorcist.
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Watch OG grime MC D Double E's live performance from this evening here too, and check out all our coverage of the top 30 greatest UK MCs ever right here.
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McCreary told interviewers that only one in five people with MCS are able to contract custom-made homes, and even then, building times can take up to three years before.
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The question of assimilation is always pertinent for migrants, but especially interesting in the context of a new wave of Polish rappers and MCs, living and making music on British soil.
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While the plastic bag drop is good news, the MCS said that its volunteers had still "picked up a huge amount of rubbish", with 268,384 individual pieces being removed from beaches.
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In Brô MCs' case, their music has made an impact beyond Brazil's borders, with the song "Red Land" played at the Berlin film festival as the soundtrack of a Brazilian film.
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The other MCs all got on the mic too, and even though the party did not feature fireworks ... we're guessing Harden loved this one more than his 25th with the Kardashians.
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To close out the show, we look in depth at NOISEY London on 'VICELAND,' featuring a selection of songs from Britain's most exciting MCs, including Jammer, Ghetts, Giggs, JME, and Skepta.
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Very happy to also have three amazing MCs on the EP—Rye Rye, Rell Rock and Chippy Nonstop—so pleased with their vocals and the energy they bring to the record.
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Lyrical behemoths like Lady Leshurr—chatting about brushing teeth and racking up millions of views—and fierce MCs like Mist have ensured that Birmingham is indelibly plastered across British music history.
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Among other gems, Skepta chats about the first bars he ever wrote, his musical upbringing, the current state of grime, his top 5 MCs, and potential collaborations with Stormzy and Drake.
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For a start, Blackpool is more known for stag and hen parties crawling their way toward the illuminated lights of the pier than it is a breeding ground for young MCs.
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While Westwood is best known for hosting radio shows, one of his most loved projects is his Crib Sessions, which are, for the uninitiated, freestyles from MCs recorded exclusively for YouTube.
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We've already written about the grime instrumental and its legacy in a genre that's come to be defined by the spitting, cajoling, winking voices of its most-respected MCs and rappers.
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Three 6 Mafia's DJ Paul and Juicy J have been staying fly -- musically speaking -- on the backs of other people's work ... so claim a group of artists now suing the MCs.
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Tekashi 6ix9ine has been hearing an earful from his fellow MCs about his snitching -- it's been all bad -- but T69 has a theory on all that ... they're jealous and running scared.
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With typical venues 150-200 capacity the live events are intimate affairs, but when I ask what the MCs hope for the future, they express ambition to host Eskimo Dance style raves.
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The very presence of female MCs meant acknowledging them not only as equals in the rap game but as black female rappers in the rap game and as black women in general.
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Pro Era rapper Kirk Knight is one of the brightest MCs coming out of New York City right now, and if you haven't heard his album Late Knight Special, get on it.
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The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has announced that the number of plastic carrier bags found on U.K. beaches has fallen by almost half in only one year thanks to a supermarket surcharge.
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Well, I'm not trying to do a full sound system thing, but I'm taking the tools of a sound system so the MCs help to have a direct connection with the crowd.
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"We emphasize... the British part of the man dem," says Alki Riddimz—one of the two main MCs in the group—with a wide grin evoking the spirit of an impish villain.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. M.I.A. is many things: producer, artist, director, and most recently, occupant of the number 9 spot on Noisey's Greatest UK MCs of All Time list.
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The brightly colored Lil Yachty doesn't initially seem like he'd fit into Tee Grizzley's grayscale, rap-verité stylings, but the two are both energetic MCs whose giddy flows complement each other well.
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The Madden NFL 153 Championship Series (MCS) begins Tuesday with the launch of the Madden NFL 215 Hall of Fame Edition and features Madden's largest season prize pool to date at $217,219,000.
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These kinds of attitudes aren't helped by the results of some clinical trials, which suggest that some MCS sufferers can react as strongly to placebos as they do to actual chemical exposure.
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In an effort to support this theory, one 1994 paper claimed that MCS sufferers were more likely to have "markedly abnormal" personality profiles, tying them to "psychoneurotic problems" like hysteria and depression.
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After his wife was diagnosed with the MCS last year, he's been raising awareness around the condition, urging medical professionals to take it, and the women who suffer from it, more seriously.
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"Get Ya Shine On" sees him complementing the three MCs' resilient verses with a glistening, opulent beat, resulting in a West Coast-style posse cut that never flags in energy or vigour.
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Radio sets were still happening, but less frequently; fringe MCs gave up the hobby and got real jobs, or some DJs turned their attentions to house, where you could actually get bookings.
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Because their aggravated symptoms didn't require them to be smelling the chemical, Andersson and Claeson think perhaps people with MCS could have altered trigeminal reactivity, and will continue to look into that.
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In grime's earliest days, Double was part of NASTY, one of grime's foundation crews, before going on to achieve more renown as part of Newham Generals with fellow MCs Monkstar and Footsie.
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Richard Master is the chairman and CEO of MCS Industries, the largest supplier of picture frames, mirrors and wall decor in North America, and the chairman of Business for Medicare for All.
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Even MCs like Stormzy, or singers Sampha and NAO, who haven't yet collaborated with any Torontonian artists have sold out the city's venues with ease, a difficult feat even for local artists.
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Yet, it's hard to dismiss that blinded clinical trials have shown MCS patients are unable to distinguish between their triggers and placebos, reacting just as strongly to chemicals as other benign substances.
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The year 1979 saw the rise of Harlem's Sylvia Robinson ("Rapper's Delight"), Philadelphia's Lady B ("To the Beat Y'all"), and the Sequence ("Funk You Up") as some of hip-hop's first female MCs.
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Now he's got to spend the whole afternoon with me, then he has a cypher with eight other MCs at Boiler Room, and then he's back into the studio to record more music.
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Last year, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) announced that the number of plastic carrier bags found on U.K. beaches had fallen by almost half in only one year thanks to a supermarket surcharge.
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With the synergy among the graffiti artists, MCs, and b-boy dancers, the crew took on their most ambitious project yet, the Festival Del Norte Bravos Hijos ("Brave Boys of the North Festival").
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A weekly residency at the Bronx hotspot Disco Fever cemented their reputation as one of the top rap groups, with the five MCs verbal freestyle sparring overtop of Grandmaster Flash's innovate turntable work.
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The trio added MCs Lord La Von, Larry Love and Mr. Broadway, effectively creating a new "furious five," but with Sugar Hill Records owning the name rights, they recorded as simply Grandmaster Flash.
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David Ortiz and Aly Raisman were the MCs at the home opener at Fenway Park between the Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays, and Big Papi had something special up his sleeve.
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For a start, most of the MCs rap over well known instrumentals, ranging from immortals like "Rhythym 'n' Gash" and "Functions on the Low" to more recent stuff like Elf Kid's "Golden Boy".
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Despite having the dexterity of an Olympic gymnast when it comes to handling the mic, McLean-Daley's first foray into music began as it has for so many British MCs: naturally and unintentionally.
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On any given day, its studio is jam-packed with an assortment of up-and-coming MCs, young presenters, and DJs, broadcasting live from East London to the infinite ears of the internet.
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Which explains why some MCs who don't sell shit in records stores make a good living out of their music and make thousands of people go wild every week with their live performances.
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A bunch of MCs who are playing Rolling Loud spoke about Juice on social media, including Meek Mill, Chance the Rapper, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Yachty, A$AP Rocky, Lil Baby and others.
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If one thing is certain, however, it's that many people with MCS aren't giving up on life—they're simply finding new, and sometimes novel, ways to exist in a world that excludes them.
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There's now less of a need for artists to actually sign with labels in order to be successful, affording MCs the artistic freedom and ability to build their brand, identity, and overall aesthetic, organically.
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But people who believe they have MCS say low levels of chemicals found in detergent, soap, ink, and other products has triggered chronic fatigue, memory problems, headaches, and rashes, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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In 2008, at age 35, she released This Is the Life, a documentary about the underground hip-hop scene at LA's Good Life Cafe, and My Mic Sounds Nice, about female MCs, in 19733.
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In about 2013 we were in Holland and we did the song "Panic Room" with a Dutch group called Dope DOD [made up of MCs Skits Vicious and Jay Reaper with DJ Dr. Diggles].
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The UK has always been heaving with talented female MCs but when artists like NoLay, Lady Leshurr and Stefflon Don are all about at once the industry struggles to make room for them all.
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He is collaborating with chemist Anna-Sara Claeson, and together they are doing the most comprehensive work that I could find on mold and toxin exposure in people who report that they have MCS.
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We know video killed the radio star, and Napster and its descendants redefined music ownership — which had been going through a decades-long crisis since Promethean rappers and MCs brought sampling to the masses.
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There's a twisty flute sample, but this isn't the fatalistic drug-hell of "Mask Off"—you'll find Cordae advocating for prayer while explaining that he paints pictures and other MCs just fiddle with crayons.
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Following Giggs, MCs such as Squeeks, J Spades, XL signing Nines and Mover have become stars over a constant stream of videos and free mixtapes, using YouTube to pick up where pirate radio left off.
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A sweetly syncopated drumbeat may make the social anxiety-induced "shitstorm" inside of Pierre's brain more palatable on "Where I Belong," but the only thing that MCS shared with Matchbook Romance was a record label.
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He's still very much in the conversation as one of the most exciting MCs in Atlanta, despite the fact that "New Atlanta" peers like Migos and Young Thug have passed him in popularity and output.
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Watch him rap about steak, car washes and more, in a live performance he gave for us at YouTube's London studios—and keep an eye out for others by the new breed of UK MCs.
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"Charges for single use coffee cups would also change people's behavior, but also their perception that the item they have has a value," Laura Foster, head of pollution at the MCS, told CNBC via email.
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There is definitely an opening to talk about who the best rapper is, why the hip-hop industry needs to make more room for female MCs, and how Black women are pitted against one another.
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It's a very old tradition for MCs coming up in New York or coming up back in the day, whether you're part of a crew or not, to say lines together or finish off lines.
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His introspective lyrics lope over a stuttering and woozy beat on single "GOAT Talk," which he performed for us as part of our week celebrating the Greatest UK MCs of All Time in early February.
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That clash has gone down in grime folklore as one of the most pioneering to ever occur, sparking a fierce competition between one of London's finest MCs and one of the finest from outside of London.
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Up against teams representing garage (UKG All-Stars), grime (Wiley's Eskimo Dance), and hip-hop (Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang), the DJs and MCs brought their A-game, packing exclusive dubplates and rambunctious riddims into four rounds.
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There are virtually no collectives in Blackpool, and there's also a distinct lack of pirate and online radio stations, illegal raves, and a scarcity of events due to a reluctance from venues to support local MCs.
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MF Doom, Chippy Nonstop and Jay Swift—MCs who no doubt feature prominently on many Gulliver readers′ Tidal playlists—have even found the way home blocked by America's immigration authority, forcing them to live in exile.
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"There have been a whole series of papers published arguing that MCS is not a physiological illness but is, rather, what has become known as psychogenic [rooted in psychology]," Dr. Pall wrote in a 2009 study.
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But over the past year or so, more British MCs have been emulating their mumbled bars and the wavy, often cold mood that defines their music, as well as the prescription drug use that underpins it.
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Now, if you know nothing about this phenomenon, then just try to imagine a nascent new DIY grime scene mostly populated by adolescent MCs who constantly and viciously send for eachother's mums in thick Lancashire accents.
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We're not just commending great MCs in the traditional sense—lyrical flow, wordplay, freestyle skills—but bigging up those who've created a legacy, stamped in a cultural mark, or paved the way for the new breed.
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In an experiment published in 2015, they exposed participants with MCS (along with controls) to a compound called n-butanol, which they chose because people find it hard to decide whether it smells good or bad.
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We're not just commending great MCs in the traditional sense—lyrical flow, wordplay, freestyle skills—but bigging up those who've created a legacy, stamped in a cultural mark or paved the way for the new breed.
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Female MCs were using hip-hop as a medium and their music as a platform to send strong messages about femininity, sexuality, gender representation, and self-worth louder and clearer than a lot of activist monikers could.
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But while carioca focused on the DJ, ostentação shifted the spotlight to the MC, and was popularized by MCs like Guimé, who sang about expensive shit and how awesome the lifestyle of the rich and famous is.
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In recent years, it has surfaced in other parts of the country, like Birmingham, Glasgow, and even Blackpool, and that proud obsession with locale and region is still evident in the style and bars of new MCs.
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MCs went from local heroes to household names to forgotten relics in the space of six months, the shifting breaks and beats of the genre mutating so quickly that no one thing could survive for very long.
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"In the last decade, our Great British Beach Clean volunteers have found an average of 10 single-use carrier bags for every 100 meters of coastline cleaned," Lauren Eyles, the MCS' Beachwatch manager, said in a statement.
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His name was Jordan and I'd been in love with him ever since I witnessed him breakdancing to the Bomfunk MCs during our Year Five talent show and saw the way he flung his floppy hair around.
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I think that musically it allowed people to dance with more heart than they had for a long time and it also gave a platform to often salient social commentary from the MCs who accompanied the beats.
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But most especially by the forefathers of hip-hop: Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Caz, Kurtis Blow, Raheim and all the b-boys, b-girls, graffiti-writers, MCs, and DJs that made this story possible.
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You can see grime legend D Double E's live performance of his single "How I Like It" from this evening here, and check out all our coverage of the top 30 greatest UK MCs ever right here.
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To actually witness Jamaican DJs and MCs being forced onto the back foot and then taking on styles that had originated in the UK was a real point of pride if you were around at that point.
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While the gritty, no-holds-barred mixtape serves as an introduction to some of Atlanta's most talented new MCs, it's also dedicated to the memory of Lil Rudy (aka Babysnake), a YSL member who recently passed away.
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Music, and the massive sound systems (collectives of like-minded DJs, engineers, and MCs) born on Kingston's streets amid gang violence and the booming local sound industry, became central to their identity, a space for activism and resistance.
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Recent research by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) estimates that the UK uses around 8.5 billion straws a year, and studies have shown that about 8.8 metric tonnes of plastic waste ends up in our oceans each year.
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Grime wasn't called grime then, but UK garage was turning that way: as the heat rises between the two crews on stage, a young Wiley intervenes to tell the MCs to simmer down: "Lyrics for lyrics, calm. CALM".
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But it's not the grime, either, of MCs feeling obliged to make compromises in the hunt for bigger audiences – compromises like "Summertime" and "Bonkers", which were perfect examples of how to take something powerful and make it weak.
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When the police started legislating against the artists and the media they used—having Giggs' 2010 tour cancelled and allegedly shutting down the Rap City YouTube channel—it cemented the UK rap MCs status as champion of the streets.
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Cadet – "100 Phone Calls" Cadet is one of the most honest MCs coming out of the UK. The emotional freestyle sees the South London artist reflect on how his life has changed since the start of his music career.
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It follows five people with MCS or electromagnetic sensitivity, which makes it difficult or impossible to live around cellphones, electric appliances, artificial scents and cleaning agents, or other items that are taken for granted as part of modern society.
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The big picture: Instead, storms in Oklahoma congealed together in line segments and a broader "mesoscale convective system," or MCS, that dumped huge amounts of rain in a short period of time, causing flash flooding that continued into Tuesday.
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When he finally made his name in 2016 as one of UK music's most intriguing young prodigies, it wasn't for the piano; it was for candid freestyles that explored vulnerabilities that would make most other London MCs feel uneasy.
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It helped that Broad City ladies Ilana Jacobson and Abbi Glazer were the MCs, and that Mindy Kaling, Aaron Paul and a handful of other A-listers were there to amp attendees up about all of Hulu's original content.
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And as such, we're not just commending great MCs in the traditional sense—lyrical flow, wordplay, freestyle skills—but bigging up those who've created a legacy, stamped in a cultural mark or paved the way for the new breed.
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"Back in that era, you'd have 30 minutes of soul music, and that meant some Celine Dion," says Bobby Konders, a Hot 97 DJ and a member of Massive B sound system, a group of dancehall DJs and MCs.
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It's easy to see why: This is rap in its rawest, most offensive, and most immature form—MCs lay down bars that touch on their opponents family, race, sexual orientation, appearance, and whatever else they can grab hold of.
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Although he attended school in the grey suburbs of London and came from rather precarious circumstances, he was ultimately accepted to Oxford University, where he studied English literature and learned to rap from grime MCs on the city streets.
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Those early sound guys were always very competitive in every area, whether that was sourcing the best and most exclusive records; getting the best MCs on the mic; having the best clarity of sound; being the loudest without distorting.
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On any given night, an inquisitive Londoner can tune into stations like Mode FM, Flex FM, or Déjà Vu FM and hear hosts like DJ Spooky or DJ Tiatsim blast out sets for a revolving door of young MCs.
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However the form is recommended only for events featuring "DJs or MCs performing to a recorded backing track," which has drawn heavy criticism because it is seen as targeting predominantly Black genres such as grime, garage, and R&B.
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Jammz has arranged a cypher which will be livestreamed to celebrate the launch of his EP, and I'm told to expect a bunch of other young MCs and DJs including Mak10, Capo Lee, Coco, Mez, Blacks, Jack Dat, Slickman and Grandmixxer.
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That designation, left over from when the genre was split into sub-segments of mainstream and underground, is still plagued by stigmas—namely that the lyrically focused MCs of that era wear beanies with brims and sleep on their friends' couches.
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So, then, it's crucial to bring forth the new crop of MCs who are currently repping for the sound in Britain, because just like the forefathers of rap, they have the potential to change what uncultured folk think about a country.
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He'd go on to support NWA, Mick Jones' Big Audio Dynamite and set up his very own Riddim killa label, leaving his mark as one of the early MCs who pulled dub and reggae influences into his brand of UK rap.
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"You crossed the line now there's no coming back, MCs are getting sucked into my intergalactical pull, I'm the article don'ya on your arse," raps Lauryn Hill, using a line from her unreleased collab with Method Man "Lost in the Masquerade".
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By the end of the night, there were enough MCs and guests onstage—including a hectic Lethal Bizzle—for it to feel like there was no stage at all—just a huge mass of bodies thronging around whoever had the mic.
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He was happy to talk to me and introduce me to one of the other main MCs, DO. "Me and my close friend Guv came up with the idea at school in Ipswich," says DO, speaking to me over the phone.
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Literally everyone (including, erm, Danny DeVito?) wants you to register, and the music world is very much on board, with everyone from grime MCs to Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice encouraging you to sign up: Do as Ellie says, okay?
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On the one hand, he's a 58-year-old white dude who grew up in a middle class suburb in Suffolk, calls MCs "hot cats", and says things like "The swag levels are off the freaking chain!" in faux patois.
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ICP MCs Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, with the help of the ACLU of Michigan, sued the FBI in 2014, demanding the FBI remove Juggalos from its list of gang-affiliated groups, which includes the Aryan Nation and MS-13.
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Indeed, at least one study indicated an alarming rate of misdiagnosis: it found that 41 percent of patients with traumatic brain injury who were in chronic care and thought to be in the vegetative state were in fact in MCS.
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Kathy Iandoli's God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop is another hip-hop must — chronicling the oft-overlooked contributions of women MCs like Roxanne Shanté and Missy Elliott to, yes, Nicki Minaj and Azealia Banks.
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Whether the marriage of Polish hip-hop and grime will flourish into a lasting genre is yet to be seen, but the foundations are being laid by some very hard working, passionate and technically dexterous MCs—the best of Polish identity, personified.
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Unlike other female MCs, like Roxanne Shante, who'd been introduced to the rap game as the "first ladies" of mostly male rap groups (she later went solo), MC Lyte made her emergence into the hip-hop scene alone and remained that way.
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Since first coming to wider attention in 2015 with his Hit Then Run EP, Jammz has become one of the most gutsy and energetic MCs in what is dubbed grime's 'new wave' (alongside the likes of AJ Tracey, Novelist, Elf Kid and more).
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Heavy breathing gives way to a bold, pulsating beat that will ebb and flow over the course of the next three minutes, and with verses from three of the UK's best MCs, it's a crash course in the sacred art of bars.
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The 44-year-old rapper caught the internet by surprise over the weekend posting a nonchalant Instagram photo of himself with two fellow legendary MCs and close friends, Dre and Kendrick Lamar, showing off a bit of new facial hair as well.
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AXS-02 is currently in Phase 3 trials in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) and knee osteoarthritis (OA) associated with bone marrow lesions (BMLs) with an additional Phase 3 trial planned in chronic low back pain (CLBP) associated with Modic changes (MCs).
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"Last year a record three million players competed in the MCS and the Madden NFL 173 Challenge was the number one rated 2017 esports broadcast in North America," said Todd Sitrin, SVP and GM of the EA competitive gaming division, in a statement.
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But just when you thought the whole thing was starting to get a bit puppy eyes and heart emojis, Kendrick nabs the mic of one of the older and admittedly smaller MCs, and spits, "Never thought I'd meet an MC shorter than me".
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There aren't any guest MCs this time, but fans of the group will note that "Versace" producer Zaytoven drops off a couple tracks, along with "Hannah Montana" producer Dun Deal as well as Young Thug's Barter 6 and Slime Season cohort Wheezy.
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Hear the preview and read the lyric sheet for "Powa" below: M.I.A. may not be Madonna, or Rihanna, or Mariah, or indeed Ariana, but she is in the number 9 spot on Noisey's Greatest UK MCs of All Time list—read why here.
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The Bronx-born M.C. has been active since the early 1980s, first with the Ultramagnetic MCs and then under a string of different aliases through which he has presented variations on his profane, expansive and always fun raps over the past three decades.
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The internet has been big for grime like it's been big for everything and everyone else, easing commercial pressures, offering new routes out of local postcodes for MCs and granting a vastly widened audience to the labels and promoters who support them.
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It was such a big deal because all the gang had sorted a fake ID. We had been bluetoothing that music for months sat in the park with our phones in a cup playing Ryan James, Nick Hannam and other Yorkshire MCs.
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Elements of the XM360 include a combined thermal and environmental shroud, blast deflector, a composite-built overwrapped gun, tube-modular gun-mount, independent recoil brakes, gas-charged recuperators, and a multi-slug slide block breech with an electric actuator, Army MCS developmental documents describe.
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Like you said, Sugarhill Gang, Treacherous Three, Ultramagnetic MCs, Jimmy Spicer, Kool Moe Dee, Kool Herc, LA Dream Team, Ice-T...man...Fat Boys, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC, Captain Rapp that was out of Long Beach–– ––That was the first LA rap single, right?
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Soundtracking the performances are cuts from Purple Crush's corresponding Vogue Opera EP with Chanel's angelic voice hovering over low bass-grinds and the erotic vocal thrall of MCs Kevin JZ Prodigy and Kage Prodigy, Enyce Chanel, Ja Ja Rodeo, Miss Barbie Q, and Shay Ebony.
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But really, this remix does a pretty good job of highlighting the differences between these two MCs, mainly by virtue of Thugger twisting his voice into increasingly odd new shapes and ad libbing over the track for longer than he spits his eight-bar verse.
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Inspired by, of all things, cigarettes (in the United States loosie is a term used to define the illegal purchase of one single cigarette), the format has long been a staple in rap music, where MCs would send their tunes off to radio stations.
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Meanwhile, hip-hop as an industry continues to develop its own exclusionary economics, luring aspiring rappers with its well-worn rags-to-riches narrative only for agents to charge them to play gigs and established MCs to rip them off for paid guest verses.
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They'll be joined by a tonne of the biggest DJs and MCs in the world of D&B and jungle—Dillinja and Uncle Dugs to name but two—and to get you in the mood for it, they've put together this fantastic mix for us.
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Featuring producers and MCs such as Kaytranada, SBTRKT, and Mura Masa, the five-track remix EP is a smart collection of tunes that connects the strong, wobbly production of her debut album with the talents of some of the best contemporary producers and artists.
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With an arsenal of Afro-Cuban drum patterns at the ready and a steady supply of MCs fast-chatting in Cuban Spanish or slipping into a reggae flow, he cranks out Latin-tinged rap numbers for Guampara Music, the country's first independent hip-hop production outfit.
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Covering a career-spanning range of topics, he touches on everything from his favorite grime MCs (spolier alert: they're Kano and Devlin) to his historically turbulent relationship with Dizzee Rascal, as well as his career highs and lows, and plans for a forthcoming book and biopic.
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Made up from a host of names across Manchester's music scene, the collective count some of the city's most well-known DJs, MCs and producers, as well as promoters and label-heads within their ranks – from Chimpo and Dub Phizix to Chunky, Black Josh, and Truthos Mufasa.
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"The town where we were booked 'Harmony, PA' had Trump signs everywhere and the police were definitely focused on our event which just so happened to also feature the only rappers on the whole festival lineup," she wrote, referring to MCs Nina Tech and Bali Baby.
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But it's worth mentioning because I have always seen these three as spiritual kin: quirky regional rappers who were easy to dismiss as unserious lyricists because of their subject matter but who, in fact, perfected the craft in far more idiosyncratic ways than almost any MCs ever.
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He has danced to "Hotline Bling" with Usher at a BET White House event; he has talked to Sway about his favorite MCs, jumping off to talk about knowing Chance the Rapper as an eight-year-old; he has thrown a party on his lawn and invited Justin Timberlake.
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So, just as Wiley had an influence on British rap, the unavoidable presence of 50 Cent across music television in the UK means he's also impacted the genre in his own way—something we're only really seeing now on the record's 15th anniversary, with the new rise of MCs.
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As a self-appointed canary down the coal mine, Wiley conceived the raw mechanics of grime—choppy, icy strings, hollow basslines, two-step beats, punchy bars—before stretching the genre to its creative and commercial limits in the time it took most MCs to get a record out.
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We got Big Gipp -- who's part of Goodie Mob, Dungeon Family and other OG rap groups out of ATL -- and he says Future's recent Twitter rant calling on up-and-coming MCs to thank him for pioneering their styles and ad libs is more than just warranted ... it's overdue.
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Get the VICE App on iOS and Android Huddled near the shore of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay, a dense crowd is chanting lyrics about life on the city's outskirts, swaying to a track called "Nowhere" by local up-and-coming MCs Pedro Ratão and Cortesia da Casa.
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Surprisingly though, there is little talk of a desire to get out of Blackpool – rather, MCs such as Bimbi and Tommy Kray are united in putting the seaside town on the map, with lines like: "I spit bars in a Blackpool way," and the braggadocious: "Blackpool grime is the finest".
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Wayne, since he was from the South and had come up as a child star, was for many of these people part of the same category, even though anyone with ears could have told you Wayne had been among rap's elite MCs for, at the very least, half a decade.
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MCs were being followed by cops on their way out of raves and arbitrarily searched, and there were stories of grime promoters having their passports locked away as "insurance" against violent incidents (as if they were about to host a Wild West-style shoot-out, and then skip the country).
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While the listener may recognize the sound, it's Baker's ability to expound upon it that has earned him admiration from fellow producers, as well as prominent MCs like Earl Sweatshirt and Action Bronson, who are both featured on his newest album, Animals Have Feelings, out this month on Stones Throw.
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"Just like the plastic bag charge we are all now familiar with, a charge added to our coffee at the point of purchase will help consumers think about whether to take a refillable cup to the cafe," Laura Foster, head of clean seas at the MCS, said in a statement.
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This article originally appeared on Noisey UK. As part of our Greatest UK MCs of All Time week, we asked a bunch of our new favorite artists to come down to YouTube's London studios and do the thing for us in front of a live audience and some particularly bright cameras.
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Little T might not yet possess bars that could justify a set in Jammer's basement, but he's just one of a glut of young grime MCs coming out of a burgeoning Blackpool scene, who are using this platform as a means to vent, clash, intimidate, crack gags and, ultimately, have their voices heard.
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Brisco – The Dedication, 2005 / Da Drought 3, 2007 A few years ago MTV made a list of the hottest MCs, and Kanye West was not too thrilled with it—mostly because they underrated Big Sean, which, well, look, the point of this story is not whether or not Big Sean is good.
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Since we were just talking about Lil Wayne and Raekwon on a track, let's mention this one because it comes at Wayne's ostensible creative nadir yet features him just rapping in full real hip-hop effect, going toe-to-toe with three of New York's most legendary MCs and not missing a beat.
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Echoing the way early hip-hop was born in the 70s from crews in the South Bronx battle-rapping to Jamaican-born jock Kool Herc, in Santiago, the first MCs banded together to compete for bragging rights, often rapping in a made-up language when a song contained Jamaican patois they couldn't quite parse.
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Shot on Lewisham's high street, which is the borough in South London that gave birth to MCs like Novelist, P Money, and Kozzie, the hyperactive video is packed full of cheeky charm and tracksuited teens, who are clutching their bottles of Lucozade (Britain's most popular energy drink) like the liquid is an extended body part.
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One of the original MySpace queens, her electronic-pop-rap ragers "Pop the Glock" and "MCs Can Kiss" almost certainly blared out from between your Top 8 and your Heroes section ("my friends and JD from Scrubs XD"), and, as such, were viral hits before viral hits were a twinkle in a Soundcloud producer's eye.
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But they've also taken the reins of the grime scene, becoming the go to venue for young and established MCs to spread themselves into sets live on air, with performances from the likes of Novelist and Skepta—who performed on BBK's own Radar Radio show—being broadcast from the Radar studio and out into the world.
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His hypeman, bearded and giving off a bit of a Rick Ross vibe (handy for the Meek Mill collaboration "Fans Mi" later), arrived, a harbinger thunderclap, and then Davido himself sprinted in, hood up, sunglasses wrapped around his face, gold watch prominent, looking like he'd just come from an F1 race in space with some grime MCs.
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" All of this brings us to grime MC D Double E. He featured in our top 10 of the Greatest UK MCs of All Time a few weeks ago and early on in new single "How I Like It" lets us all know that "when I'm eating steak, well-done's how I like it / Blood coming out?
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Described by GHE20G0TH1K as "Brazil meets the trap," it aims to amplify the underground street sounds of Brazil and America, the tracklist boasting an equal representation of bumping baile funk and Brazilian MCs like MC Novinho, DJ Juninho, and MC Bin Laden; and American rap artists such as OT Genasis, Migos, Lil Uzi Vert, Travis Scott, and DRAM.
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We know that women are regularly taken less seriously by doctors and healthcare professionals (women, for example, wait an average of 16 minutes longer than men in emergency rooms, and are more likely to be prescribed less pain-relieving medication.) Could MCS—a condition with clear, life-altering symptoms for its sufferers—be overlooked for these same reasons?
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Now—at a time when a piece of paperwork called Form 696 still has the power to prevent MCs from playing live shows in London, and the harder edge of UK rap has both burrowed back underground and gained major label recognition—host Mike Skinner looks to investigate just what space hard rap still occupies in our latest film.
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Our film follows the three main stars of the scene – Soph Aspin, Afghan Dan and 13-year-old Little T – and digs beneath the surface to understand how the craze began, why it thrives on clashing, how it exploded on the internet, the major controversies and criticisms surrounding it, and the turbulent lives of these unique young MCs.
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Our new film Noisey Birmingham, hosted by Brum legend Mike Skinner, features Second City MCs like Lady Leshurr, Jaykae, and Mist (as well as Lotto Boyzz, Daps on the Map, and Safone, but we don't like to brag), all of whom are rising through the ranks of grime and UK rap quicker than a razz around Spaghetti Junction.
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As ballots were being collected, the night's MCs, Alejandro Morales and Mariapaz Camargo, who seemed to be getting steadily more intoxicated throughout the night as they roasted the event's performers and organizers between sets, returned to the stage to make a few jokes about the sex lives of people who hang out at synthesizer-fetish events.
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Best Verse: n/aOverall Grade: D Instead of tapping Juicy J for the remix to one of the many Three 6 Mafia-sampling hits on the radio these days, Plies decided to revamp his hood love anthem with one of the most hashtag relationship goals MCs of the day, Remy Ma, rapping about her husband Papoose.
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When festivals proudly roll out their 97 percent male lineups, there is backlash; when grime is omitted from the Brit Awards, MCs make their point heard; when the Oscars failed to represent everybody in the industry—giving Sylvester Stallone an award for Creed while ignoring the film's black director and male lead, for example—the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite spreads like wildfire.
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Beyond actually eating tofu, it's also been invoked in creative ways: it's been characterized as a paler form of beef, used to threaten rival MCs, and held up as an unlikely status symbol (not to mention at least one case of an artist blaming its placement in their local Whole Foods for scuppering a romantic tryst.)Read more on Noisey
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The form, which was eight pages when it was launched and was shortened to five in 2009, has made it extremely difficult for grime and garage MCs to perform over the years, with promoters having to fill it out—often without the artist's knowledge—sometimes leading to gigs being shut down at the last minute with little to no explanation.
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Grime had the spiky synth work and technoid percussion to separate it from US hip-hop, but the British rap scene—often called "road rap" or more recently branching off into drill (yes, inspired by the briefly zeitgeist-y Chicago scene of the same name)—can usually only be distinguished from its US counterparts by the accents and slang of the MCs riding the beats.
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That's why it's excellent news that some new voices—namely a few big-name grime MCs—have entered the fray to come out for the politician who is largely seen as both your bumbling grandad in a blazer talking about nuclear energy and the champion of youth in the UK: step up, MP for Islington North and Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn.
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His attempts at live performance in those early days were often aborted before they had a whiff of success through the efforts of Trident (the specialist Metropolitan Police unit tasked with investigating gun crime) as well as the legislative dead hand of Form 696, the risk-assessment document that many promoters and artists have claimed racially discriminates against shows performed by black and brown MCs and DJs.
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Both murders remain unsolved—though, as mentioned, Westhoff does believe that Pac was killed by Anderson, a gang affiliate with whom he got in a fight on the night of his murder after a Mike Tyson boxing match in Las Vegas—leaving room to speculate that the shootings were related, but it's well known that at one time the two MCs were good friends.
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Beyond actually eating tofu, it's also been invoked in creative ways: it's been characterized as a paler form of beef, used to threaten rival MCs, and held up as an unlikely status symbol (not to mention at least one case of an artist blaming its placement in their local Whole Foods for scuppering a romantic tryst.) Read on for your rap-centric primer on the tofu game.
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Music. In some ways then, it's almost as if the latest video to come from Grey Skateboard Magazine and Nike SB is tailor made just for Noisey, because as well as featuring a bunch of dudes kick-flipping their way into freedom around some of our favourite London hotspots (shout out Elephant and Castle!), it also features a brand new and unheard track from one of favourite London MCs, Novelist.
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