Nah, I'm not totally sure what a conscioius emcee is, but I know he/she wouldn't write a song like "Girls Girls Girls"








"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
--Henry D. Thoreau

"Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor wherever moves a (wo)man: that a true (wo)man belongs to no other time and place, but is the centre of things."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds......"
--Romans 12:2

"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."
--Bertolt Brecht

"Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape, now let it fall..."
Mos Def

"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
--Satchel Paige