When did "MC" go out of style?

[Mac Ten]

Once the Mafioso/Coke era in Hip Hop came..

Notice more rappers were naming themselves after gangsters and crime figures in history and movies.

-Nas Escobar
- Kool "Giacana" Rap
- Biggie Smalls aka Frank White
- Daz Dillinger
- Kurupt "Young Gotti"
- Gillie the Kid(named after Billy the Kid)
- Raekwon the Chef
- Beanie Sigel
- Twin Gambino
- Capone
- Rick Ross
- Freeway
- Scarface
- Foxy Brown
- Charlie Baltimore

 

[Taadow]

last person i that i recall referring to themself as "mc" was MC Paul Barman

Came in to say him or MC 900-Ft Jesus was the last ones I remember coming out stressing that on their names

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

When MC Hammer changed his name to just Hammer & dropped that gangster rap album

Man, to this day I’m embarrassed af I begged my aunt to buy me this album. Definitely on my Mt. Rushmore of “why tf did I own this mf album”

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Story time.

My first rap name was Kydd Krush. The big homie around the way used to call me Krush Groove Number One in like 83 when I was 8. That's another name for the song Sucker MCs by Run DMC.

When I started rapping I used that, but bit off another local rapper called Kid Krush - I never met him until about a decade later, I saw his name tagged up in a tunnel.

I was MC Krush up until about 94, when I decided I need a more modern rap name.

I say that to say: I considered MC passe by then.

Ended up with Ed.[Blank]. Which was a random alias I came up with working at a call center. We had to say our name at the beginning of the call and were allowed to use an alias. My coworkers would hear me saying Ed Blank and they started calling me that. They thought it was hilarious. So I stuck with it.

I say it stands for Educated Niqqa.

 

[Braman]

Prolly round the time Snoop and the WU got big so like 93 or 94. After that point, Hip Hop was mostly being made by street adjacent brehs and the identity of being a "nice MC" became less and less important.

I like this answer. This is what started to close the door….and then I’ll credit jay z with completely slamming it. He really ratcheted up the whole ‘eww you a rapper ‘ vibe

Which makes sense bc all the hustlers and dope boys looked down on rappers. At the time we thought jay was just another ngga pretending, but in hindsight we know he acted like that bc he really was living that life before rap

 

[Zero]

De La told yall in the "golden era"

 

[Art Barr]

Do you mean mc as title.

Or an actual mc.


Actual mc'n was phased out by puff.


Once that degradative period started.
concretely rap as a business connected to the culture of hiphop.
Would eventually become no more.

Art Barr

 

[JustCKing]

Around the time Mariah Carey started calling herself MC.

 

[valet]

Do you mean mc as title.

Or an actual mc.


Actual mc'n was phased out by puff.


Once that degradative period started.
concretely rap as a business connected to the culture of hiphop.
Would eventually become no more.

Art Barr

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