HIPHOP文化里的MCING 和DJING的英文介绍

Adoption in popular culture
Mcing
In the 1970s and 1980s, the term MC became associated with hip-hop music, and is the traditional title for a person who today is commonly called a rapper. Traditionally, an MC uses rhyming verses, whether pre-written or freestyled, to introduce and praise the DJ he works with, and hype up the crowd. Within hip-hop, "MC" is also a backronym for "Microphone Controller", "Mic Checka", "Music Commentator" and one who "Moves the Crowd".

Uncertainty over the acronym's expansion may be considered evidence for the ubiquity of the acronym: the full "Master of Ceremonies" is very rarely used in the hip hop scene. This confusion prompted the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest to include this statement on their 1993 Midnight Marauders album:

The title 'MC' means 'Master of Ceremonies'. Some people who MC don't know what this term means. Ag