{"id":192,"date":"2003-09-18T01:47:17","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T05:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/09\/top_50_emcees\/"},"modified":"2003-09-18T01:47:17","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T05:47:17","slug":"top_50_emcees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/18\/top_50_emcees\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 50 Emcees"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve just come across another top MCs\/Emcees list<\/a>. If you thought my top MCs list<\/a> was controversial, wait until you see theirs. I haven’t even heard of about half of the people on the list. I guess I’m just too damn old to keep up or the voters for this list are just trippin’.
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I’ve just come across another top MCs\/Emcees list. If you thought my top MCs list was controversial, wait until you see theirs. I haven’t even heard of about half of the people on the list. I guess I’m just too damn old to keep up or the voters for this list are just trippin’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":292,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/20\/kool_mo_dees_new_book_ranks_the_50_greatest_mcs\/","url_meta":{"origin":192,"position":0},"title":"Kool Mo Dee’s New Book Ranks the 50 Greatest MCs","date":"March 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Let the greatest MC argument begin anew. Kool Mo Dee was on Tavis Smiley's show last night promoting his new book, There's a God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs. 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