Melle Mel: Every Rapper Thought "Rapper's Delight" was The Worst Song They Ever Heard (Part 2)

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  • Part 3: • Melle Mel: Everyone Kn...
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    In this clip, Melle Mel detailed why Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was considered the worst hip-hop song among rappers at the time but was surprisingly a smash hit with the public. He talked about how his group began recording in the studio after "Rapper's Delight" to get in on the new lane that record carved out for hip-hop artists.
    Elsewhere in the clip, Melle Mel talked about being the first rapper to refer to himself as an "MC" and how the idea was sparked by trying to transform hip-hop parties into hip-hop shows.
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  • @vladtv
    @vladtv  Před 3 lety +9

    Watch the full interview now as a VladTV CZcams Member:
    czcams.com/video/EGff31B82io/video.html​

    • @millzoday
      @millzoday Před 3 lety +8

      Fuck you... put me on the channel 😂

    • @shyjuan
      @shyjuan Před 3 lety +2

      That is a brilliant move.

    • @veshaw.
      @veshaw. Před 3 lety +2

      Hey ask about Willie D knocking him out

    • @handsomehandsome5505
      @handsomehandsome5505 Před 3 lety

      @@shyjuan red g for

    • @seanhennsey2605
      @seanhennsey2605 Před 3 lety +1

      Cas full of shit Hank ain't steal your rhymes you gave him your rhyme book told him he could take what he wanted n that's the verse he chose to take keep it 100 you didn't think they was a gonna blow up n they did

  • @MikeDest
    @MikeDest Před 3 lety +302

    Rapper’s Delight was basically a song that bridged disco into hiphop. Easier for mainstream to understand at the time.

    • @MrWARBUCKS24
      @MrWARBUCKS24 Před 3 lety +22

      Hip hop and disco were already together rapper's delight just made it to thw charts first

    • @BuckemdownBuckemdown
      @BuckemdownBuckemdown Před 3 lety +16

      Rappers delight did Hip Hop a huge favor by giving it more attention. Lacing it with disco while still keeping the focus on rhyming still kept the main ingredient authentic. It never changed the over all dynamics of MCing like it has in this generation. Rap caught another boost when Run DmC was laced with Rock. It's all good as long as the MCIng is still there but all we have now is Mumble music with easy to clone artist.

    • @bluewave3417
      @bluewave3417 Před 3 lety +12

      @@BuckemdownBuckemdown Not only did disco help, the fact it was that specific beat made a difference. "Good Times" was a well known party record at the time. Rhyming over it sent "Rapper's Delight" over the top. It was great for the advancement of Hip Hop music and culture.

    • @thespadestable
      @thespadestable Před 3 lety +5

      @@bluewave3417 -
      True, because that song put record companies on notice that rap and the whole scene was marketable.

    • @TheKartelMediaChannel
      @TheKartelMediaChannel Před 3 lety +1

      Absolutely

  • @edrickamal7155
    @edrickamal7155 Před 3 lety +142

    The first rapper to ever write a whole 8 bars , hip hop's first star , one of the GODFATHER of lyricism the father of Chuck D , ICE Cube, Krs one , Ice T , Scarface and Tupac style , straight reality rap straight powerful paragraphs with no punchlines

    • @Realest1ne
      @Realest1ne Před 3 lety +14

      Hip-Hop’s first star was Kurtis Blow

    • @dozierleigh2980
      @dozierleigh2980 Před 3 lety +9

      His accolades are TOO LONG to mention here

    • @dozierleigh2980
      @dozierleigh2980 Před 3 lety +17

      @@Realest1ne in the mainstream, yes but on the streets Mel was IT..he was before KB and waaay doper..even KB will tell that! You had to be there

    • @marijanetarot9843
      @marijanetarot9843 Před 3 lety

      ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

    • @marijanetarot9843
      @marijanetarot9843 Před 3 lety +6

      Mel came before Kurt.

  • @GHOST91141
    @GHOST91141 Před 3 lety +103

    Melle Mel verse on Beat Street breakdown 🔥🔥

    • @newera5238
      @newera5238 Před 3 lety +2

      @@cinematic7928 Mannnnnn.....I still get the chillz🥶 listening to it

    • @djbris
      @djbris Před 3 lety

      @@cinematic7928 period

    • @dnyce4006
      @dnyce4006 Před 3 lety

      Dope!!!!!

    • @doriang.r.e.y.1221
      @doriang.r.e.y.1221 Před 3 lety +1

      I re-heard that song 5 years ago after not hearing it in decades. I was like, "Oh my God! That's some of the best verses I've ever heard...EVER!

    • @edwynnkelley136
      @edwynnkelley136 Před 3 lety +4

      RUUUUUUHHHH!

  • @andrewjames7438
    @andrewjames7438 Před 3 lety +146

    “Half producer half con man.” Lmao... divulge please

    • @beans2605
      @beans2605 Před 3 lety +14

      That was hilarious lol

    • @fitawrarifitness6842
      @fitawrarifitness6842 Před 3 lety +7

      😆 The tradition continues until this day

    • @bronzkhrome4024
      @bronzkhrome4024 Před 3 lety

      I wonder if that was Terrie lewis, who did albums with Janet Jackson

    • @missmabel
      @missmabel Před měsícem

      @@bronzkhrome4024 Answering 3 years later XD but to defend Terry Lewis, I don't think so. He and Jimmy Jam were still just songwriters and band members of Flyt Time / The Time at this point.

  • @johndavid5883
    @johndavid5883 Před 3 lety +169

    0 face tat, old school swagg, hip hop royalty. legendary.

    • @kenrickeason
      @kenrickeason Před 3 lety +9

      Who hides His Homeboy's molestation from the world..

    • @olgierdolo5510
      @olgierdolo5510 Před 3 lety +5

      @@kenrickeason The fuck you talkin' about?

    • @d.i.g.i.t.a.l.9268
      @d.i.g.i.t.a.l.9268 Před 3 lety +5

      ..but rolled with Bam tho 🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @jonathanvillalobos7994
      @jonathanvillalobos7994 Před 3 lety +7

      @@d.i.g.i.t.a.l.9268 So does that make him guilty for bam's shit?

    • @Luisr02
      @Luisr02 Před 3 lety

      exactly bro like alright you can get tats but tats on the face just really aint it, im blessed my og was born in 1949 so so he def influences me to keep certain aspects of myself old school and thats one of em, stay blessed

  • @classof2010president
    @classof2010president Před 3 lety +436

    Looks exactly how I picture an old school rapper would look.

  • @Dutch3k5
    @Dutch3k5 Před 3 lety +167

    If def jam vendetta was a person.

  • @21stcenturyhiphop
    @21stcenturyhiphop Před 3 lety +154

    The Message is the greatest rap song of all time.

    • @rick6672
      @rick6672 Před 3 lety +5

      Don't forget "the killa" by Justin Bieber.

    • @fernandoreyes680
      @fernandoreyes680 Před 3 lety +8

      Don't forget Give Me Everything by the one and only mr worldwide Pitbull 🐐🐐🐐🐐

    • @LITMOVIESCENES
      @LITMOVIESCENES Před 3 lety +1

      lol

    • @Itsamansworld1
      @Itsamansworld1 Před 3 lety +1

      Gucci Mane The Truth

    • @eriknava210
      @eriknava210 Před 3 lety +3

      Don't forget Gucci Gang by MC Pump

  • @shooz4unme
    @shooz4unme Před 3 lety +91

    FINALLY A REAL MC!! MELLE MEL!! FURIOUS 5!! BX the home of hip-hop/rap!! FACTS!! This man paved the way for today’s rappers!! FACTS!!

    • @seansalata717
      @seansalata717 Před 3 lety +2

      Relax buddy lol

    • @shooz4unme
      @shooz4unme Před 3 lety +10

      @@seansalata717 You relax. FACTS ARE FACTS!! Troll elsewhere buddy!

    • @seansalata717
      @seansalata717 Před 3 lety +1

      @@shooz4unme who’s trolling bud

    • @shooz4unme
      @shooz4unme Před 3 lety +9

      @@seansalata717 What I’ve stated is a whole fact! He’s a certified pioneer of hip-hop/rap, unlike these commercial rappers.whose names are well known. They are not him, but he’s them, if you can understand that.

    • @robbarker450
      @robbarker450 Před 3 lety +6

      Original Bronx BBoy HipHop Founding Father 👆🏽🤜🏽👊🏽🤛🏽🙌🏽💯

  • @stanleytimms8578
    @stanleytimms8578 Před 3 lety +53

    From an OG's perspective, 'Rappers Delight' was a classic and exposed that genre of music to new generation at that time with rap laced over Chic's 'Good Times' mesmerizing beats. That was a match made in heaven for those of us and any one in the Disco Scene. "The Message", a Melle Mel classic, ushered in the gritty street life, social awareness and was also a 'classic'. Both remain in rotation to this day on my playlist. Let's not forget DJ Hollywood, the ultimate MC during those early days who never, in my opinion, got his just do. The Bronx keeps it real!

    • @westbmorecertified5011
      @westbmorecertified5011 Před 3 lety +1

      I think a lot of the other rappers was mad at the money it made

    • @sabihmuhammad1598
      @sabihmuhammad1598 Před 3 lety

      Perfect Analogy

    • @isaacjames3176
      @isaacjames3176 Před 3 lety

      Lom pop boon mom bbbbb on min Bonn min man min noon inookkiklkllllollooolokllllkkklkk pink kk

    • @C-Lyfe85
      @C-Lyfe85 Před 2 lety +2

      @@westbmorecertified5011
      I don't know about that. A lot of rappers were already making their money in the clubs, before the record company's Came Calling.
      DJ Hollywood was booking major events, for his shows, including the Apollo, funded by some of Nicky Barnes people.
      Besides that Sugarhill Gang didn't make any of that big money off of Rappers Delight.
      The record company's did. So everybody would have been better off not signing those contracts, and booking shows on their own. I think that's the argument, Melle Mel was saying. The record company's F'd everything up.
      And everybody remained broke anyways.

  • @richardwilliams5842
    @richardwilliams5842 Před 3 lety +98

    Dude is like in his 60's and still looking like he's in his 40's SMH..... That's Wazup!

    • @fitawrarifitness6842
      @fitawrarifitness6842 Před 3 lety +2

      That's that IRON

    • @shaynewest8757
      @shaynewest8757 Před 3 lety +4

      Hes 59

    • @JonJon-du9ne
      @JonJon-du9ne Před 3 lety +4

      And dress like he 24

    • @R-Mean1000
      @R-Mean1000 Před 3 lety +1

      @@JonJon-du9ne usually i would agree with a statement like that but tbf hes one of the originators of hiphop so its only right hes dressed like that

    • @JonJon-du9ne
      @JonJon-du9ne Před 3 lety

      @@R-Mean1000 I really don't have a problem with him dressing this way. I was just making a statement

  • @PatriotMinded
    @PatriotMinded Před 3 lety +19

    One of the greatest rap verses ever written was by Melle Mel: his second verse on "Beat Street". Listen to that verse! The man was spitting prophecy!!! "Don't be a slave to no computer"!!

    • @greaterthansolomon-vv4ho
      @greaterthansolomon-vv4ho Před rokem

      high blood pressure and diabetes is a bigger problem than technology. it shows her weird black think.

  • @alescalante491
    @alescalante491 Před 3 lety +109

    This is what a true MC looks like! No face tattoos, no pink hair and can put sentences together! Salute Melle Mel!

  • @bigreed43
    @bigreed43 Před 3 lety +24

    I don't care what none of y'all say "Rappers Delight" is one greatest rap joints ever. From 1979 until now I never get tired of hearing it. It hit the world like a atom bomb. Nothing was more fun than to rap over the instrumental with a couple of your partners. Masta Gee was my verse.

  • @olgierdolo5510
    @olgierdolo5510 Před 3 lety +13

    Damn, I wasn't expecting that! What a good surprise to see the Hip Hop pioneer, originator, on the big platform. Always a big fan of Mel and his legacy. Many youngsters don't even know him, but the man has done hell of a job in the game, he helped to define the genre & inspired many greats. The original MC🎙️

  • @TeddyStrongBear
    @TeddyStrongBear Před 3 lety +77

    I though Mel was wearing a Versace sweatsuit... now I can see it’s a Glorious Gansta joint! 💯

    • @empoweredcrb23
      @empoweredcrb23 Před 3 lety +3

      Me too I ain’t know what this one was called tho

    • @donj4396
      @donj4396 Před 3 lety +7

      It's fresh as hell

    • @rafaelguasp1141
      @rafaelguasp1141 Před 3 lety +1

      I thought it was fugazi Versace with the zipper on the shoulder lol

    • @mh7067
      @mh7067 Před 3 lety +6

      @@rafaelguasp1141 as if 1 of the Kings of hip hop would be wearing fake Versace 😒

    • @brendenhassler4613
      @brendenhassler4613 Před 3 lety +3

      LOL I thought this was "old school" from don't be a menace? My bad!

  • @donaquiles495
    @donaquiles495 Před 3 lety +7

    I met Mel back in 09 on East Tremont buy Webster Hall BxNy
    Real genuine guy, very approachable.
    Give him his flowers
    💯

  • @styner3
    @styner3 Před 3 lety +15

    I remember the first time I heard "Rapper's Delight", the song started on my transistor radio as I was leaving school and half way home it was still playing and I had people following me listening. 1979 - senior in high school....Damn time is flying.

  • @Charles-tt3dr
    @Charles-tt3dr Před 3 lety +8

    When they mention the greatest mcs/rappers of all times this brother here never get mentioned. Melle Mel is in my top 5.

  • @TheWonderfuldre
    @TheWonderfuldre Před 3 lety +55

    The Trinity is Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, and Grandmaster Caz. Listen and learn. Vlad, get Kool Moe Dee on. You had Caz and Mel

  • @jalennelson6008
    @jalennelson6008 Před 3 lety +77

    Legend! Shame this new generation thinks he's lame or don't know about him.

    • @B.Wayne88
      @B.Wayne88 Před 3 lety +5

      24 i think pac big and cube swing from his nuts give this generation a minute they about to find out real quick

    • @marcusgomez3307
      @marcusgomez3307 Před 3 lety +3

      NO they dont.. everyone loves the old skool

    • @eightykakes15
      @eightykakes15 Před 3 lety +5

      Karma is a mother.... if you don’t respect your elders, you won’t be respected should you get older. History repeats.

    • @greaterthansolomon-vv4ho
      @greaterthansolomon-vv4ho Před rokem

      respect your elders was made up as a joke by God. 70 elders were responsible for having Jesus killed.

  • @rob3018
    @rob3018 Před 3 lety +26

    "In 1979 I was sitting there in Melle Mel's crib when he wtote the word *'MC'* in his note pad." 📝
    ~ T.K. Kirkland.

    • @soulrebel6309
      @soulrebel6309 Před 3 lety +5

      ..."But what I didn't realize at the time was..the MC stood for McChicken...yea he wanted me to go to McDonald's and pick him up a sammich"- TK

    • @cody0287
      @cody0287 Před 3 lety +1

      T.K. actually gave him the idea

  • @Powerule23
    @Powerule23 Před 3 lety +12

    The Greatest Pioneer. The true Father of modern MC'ing. This Man is the Blueprint. (the list goes on.....).

  • @realityme
    @realityme Před 3 lety +6

    All the rappers, at the time, that hated Rapper delights debut, were pretty much erased from the scene. Instead of riding the commercial success wave, they chose bitterness and Jealousy. Sad shit. They couldnt see the genius of the super hit and got left behind. smh

    • @bigreed43
      @bigreed43 Před 3 lety

      Interesting observation.... respect.

  • @johnysnoww3831
    @johnysnoww3831 Před 3 lety +53

    that is crazy how young hip hop is, this man is still sitting here and made up a word mc XD

    • @modoe6619
      @modoe6619 Před 3 lety +1

      Yup

    • @jlcrimm1
      @jlcrimm1 Před 3 lety +6

      Master of Ceremonies has been around since something like the 5th century... so to say he made up a word is stretching things a bit... he abbreviated a word

    • @rolltide2937
      @rolltide2937 Před 3 lety +14

      @@jlcrimm1 Wrong!!!!!!!! Master of Ceremony is the term for who is in control of the Ceremony or event he lets the people know who’s up next. MC’s or Microphone Commander is the rapper who takes control of the crowd !!!!!!! The DJ spins the record while the MC moves the crowd!!!!!

    • @jlcrimm1
      @jlcrimm1 Před 3 lety +1

      @Luke He didn't make up a word, he took a term that was already in use, "MC" or Master of Ceremonies, or the guy with the microphone who everyone is paying attention to... and used it to refer to the guy at the parties with the microphone who everyone was supposed to pay attention to. Its not pedantic to explain the difference between just making up a whole new word and taking a word that was already in use and applying it in a way that was very similar to how it was already being used.
      Its like some kid saying they invented the word 'lit'.

  • @elicross3191
    @elicross3191 Před 3 lety +18

    KIDS LOOK VERY CLOSELY THIS IS THE MAN WHO BIRTHED ALL YALL FAVORITES !

  • @DangerousDevilOfficial
    @DangerousDevilOfficial Před 3 lety +6

    This man was part of a track called “Vice” on the soundtrack for the TV show Miami Vice. About 1985 I believe. IDGAF what anyone says. That track is still hard A/F today! I still jam it on occasion. This man a true pioneer!

  • @pharoah1200
    @pharoah1200 Před 3 lety +25

    As corny, commercial, and bubble gum, as "Rapper's Delight" was, without that "breakthrough" song, rap WOULD NOT be where it is today 📀📼🎧🎤

    • @donj4396
      @donj4396 Před 3 lety +1

      It wasn't that corny

    • @pharoah1200
      @pharoah1200 Před 3 lety +4

      @@donj4396 , it was compared to Bronx "real" MC'ing, DJ'ing and breakbeats.

    • @sbjaimz224
      @sbjaimz224 Před 3 lety +2

      Hip hop woulda made it regardless

    • @mh7067
      @mh7067 Před 3 lety +1

      Where is rap today? Our youth literally killing themselves and each other over fame and money

    • @pharoah1200
      @pharoah1200 Před 3 lety +1

      @@mh7067 , today rap has reached a multi-billion dollar status. Rap music has produced more Black millionaires than any other industry, in the history of the world. Now, what one does with that status, is up to that individual. Sometimes, you have to take the good with the bad, and the "good" of rap, has definitely outweighed the bad.

  • @dozierleigh2980
    @dozierleigh2980 Před 3 lety +90

    THE ORIGINAL GOAT..THE 1ST GOD MC..DONT GET IT FUCKED UP!

    • @thatguy2.09
      @thatguy2.09 Před 3 lety

      Name 3 hits without google research ...

    • @terrellgivens
      @terrellgivens Před 3 lety +13

      @@thatguy2.09 THE MESSAGE alone stomps any “classics” you bring up, Rapper’s Delight included

    • @thatguy2.09
      @thatguy2.09 Před 3 lety

      @@terrellgivens 😂

    • @Synchronite
      @Synchronite Před 3 lety +4

      @@thatguy2.09
      Name 3 other rap hits period at that time...
      You can’t! Stupid...

    • @thatguy2.09
      @thatguy2.09 Před 3 lety

      @@Synchronite 😕😕 what point are you trying to make??

  • @jayfay786
    @jayfay786 Před 3 lety +12

    Rappers delight is a classic

    • @stanleytimms8578
      @stanleytimms8578 Před 3 lety +1

      Absolutely, the best of that genre.

    • @dmccray144
      @dmccray144 Před 3 lety

      The message! Rappers Delight is more commercial

  • @David_Creyke
    @David_Creyke Před 3 lety +36

    It’s a shame that people aren’t putting old school guys on more. Like why is Macklemore the guy that sees the value in these dudes but nobody else I guess.

    • @potemcgoat8635
      @potemcgoat8635 Před 3 lety +6

      Nigga you look like oJ Simpson , tell me something ... you did it?

    • @4kLij
      @4kLij Před 3 lety

      It ain’t time for them no more bro

    • @sonychiba4733
      @sonychiba4733 Před 3 lety +1

      Rap is a young man's game to keep it going you got to keep it moving✌

    • @kenrickeason
      @kenrickeason Před 3 lety

      @@sonychiba4733 that's true..

    • @twilson2605
      @twilson2605 Před 3 lety +1

      We brush of anything old as old head ish while totally disrespecting the pioneers. It's beyond simply "their time is up". Other genres don't do this to their legends.

  • @vanessadotson8067
    @vanessadotson8067 Před 3 lety +11

    I loved and still love Rapper's Delight, there was nothing like it when it first came out and who knew that that music would take over still being the number 1 selling music of all time🤯

  • @Realest1ne
    @Realest1ne Před 3 lety +7

    The more things change, the more things stay the same. Because that’s usually how it still goes to this day. Hip-Hop usually disregards the mainstream pop rap records and mainstream stream pop usually disregards what Hip-Hop considers real rap. Crazy how generations are so different yet so similar.

    • @Realest1ne
      @Realest1ne Před 3 lety

      @50 dig You said a mouthful lol 💯

  • @Anim8tedreality
    @Anim8tedreality Před 3 lety +6

    My man loook like Big Red from the Five Heartbeats

  • @aletteabroaders7852
    @aletteabroaders7852 Před 3 lety +13

    People loved it because it got radio play and regular people other places than New York thought that was the first rap song so it was rapping the people loved but the message was way way better

  • @marcusshelby4787
    @marcusshelby4787 Před 3 lety +4

    Rappers Delight is a classic til this day. I was 5 years old when this song came out in the early 80's

  • @deepseatedenterprise
    @deepseatedenterprise Před 3 lety +5

    ..... LOVE THIS DUDE!!! THEY BETTER HAVE A "PLAQUE", FOR HIM IN THE "HALL OF FAME", "WORD UP" OR A "BUST"

  • @machiavelllli
    @machiavelllli Před 3 lety +5

    If you really love something you should study it’s history. It feels good to hear dudes like this break down what Hip Hop is.

  • @unc1589
    @unc1589 Před 3 lety +7

    He’s right! Most rappers and true hip hop heads laughed when they heard rappers delight. Nubies didn’t know that it was fake hip hop. Rap records were a new thing but rap parties and tapes were the thing

    • @bigreed43
      @bigreed43 Před 3 lety +2

      Fake hip hop or not it got the WORLD's attention and the WORLD loved it. And here we are.

  • @KD_SWAGGER
    @KD_SWAGGER Před 3 lety +16

    Melle Mel can still go lyrically. Check out Rollin 50 Deep by DJ Kay Slay.

    • @brendenhassler4613
      @brendenhassler4613 Před 3 lety +2

      Let's not and say I did. I'm not trying to listen to any rappers that have an A.A.R.P. card🙅🏿

    • @TkKirkland-lm5wv
      @TkKirkland-lm5wv Před 3 lety +1

      @@brendenhassler4613 bro peep that song..it has everybodyyyyyyyyyy

    • @dmccray144
      @dmccray144 Před 3 lety +2

      @@brendenhassler4613 um he went in in that song

    • @KD_SWAGGER
      @KD_SWAGGER Před 3 lety

      @@brendenhassler4613 To each their own.

    • @KD_SWAGGER
      @KD_SWAGGER Před 3 lety

      @@TkKirkland-lm5wv Facts!

  • @El.Numero
    @El.Numero Před 3 lety +13

    He still got that early 2000s G Unit swag going on. 🤔😝

    • @ellisf4300
      @ellisf4300 Před 3 lety +1

      Much better than uzi. He has a diamond in his forehead. That shit is funny

  • @blackdollars718
    @blackdollars718 Před 3 lety +3

    The message was the 1st rap song talkimg about the streets THANK THIS MAN!!

    • @justallah2785
      @justallah2785 Před 3 lety +1

      Thank Sylvia Robinson's vision & Ed Fletcher

  • @caliclassicstv2024
    @caliclassicstv2024 Před 3 lety +5

    i feel em,, Melle Mel is the first GREAT LYRICIST/wordsmith/technician he laid the blueprint

  • @Rich-tb6uh
    @Rich-tb6uh Před 3 lety +7

    One of the forefathers of original hip hop, I’m still posed that hip hop was plagiarized into what most people think it is today...

  • @zzinkk
    @zzinkk Před 3 lety +23

    Vlad: Yeah and Big Bank Hank literally said Caz's verse.
    Mel: Yeah and like I said it was the dumbest shit I ever heard. 😁

  • @lippywilliams3472
    @lippywilliams3472 Před 3 lety +4

    Stop being a Hater..... Rapper's Delight was the Bomb 💣. Still love ❤ U Melle Mel.

  • @jknumber5138
    @jknumber5138 Před 3 lety +11

    I've always liked Rappers Delight 💯🎶🎵🎼🎤

  • @marcusgomez3307
    @marcusgomez3307 Před 3 lety +9

    you need to do one with KOOL-HERC

  • @thankthelord4536
    @thankthelord4536 Před 3 lety +2

    I was 18 when Rapper's Delight came out. And I was so happy that underground rapp was finally in the public for the world to hear. I consider myself as coming from the first generation of hip hop. Harlem World!

  • @jvnbrk
    @jvnbrk Před 3 lety +18

    Just waiting for Vlad to ask Mel his thoughts on Eminem and white rappers in hip hop..we know it's coming lol

    • @lamBETTERthanY0U
      @lamBETTERthanY0U Před 3 lety

      It’s a legitimate question to ask someone who was there from the start

    • @kevin084life
      @kevin084life Před 3 lety +1

      I don't think he's gonna trash Eminem like Lord Jamar. Most old school hip-hop guys respect Em.

    • @jvnbrk
      @jvnbrk Před 3 lety

      @@kevin084life I know man,just fucking with Vlad lol

    • @jvnbrk
      @jvnbrk Před 3 lety +1

      @@lamBETTERthanY0U it was sarcasm,fucking with Vlad..that's all. But you gotta admit..Vlad's either a huge Em fan or a huge clout chaser as much as he mentions his name lol

    • @marby.
      @marby. Před 3 lety +2

      Nah, I doubt it. Him and Caz showed Macklemore love for actually reaching out and putting them on his song Downtown.

  • @RockerT1000
    @RockerT1000 Před 3 lety +5

    I thought that was super tray deee in the thumbnail 🤣

  • @newera5238
    @newera5238 Před 3 lety +7

    People need to be here to learn history, on this art that we LUV!

  • @2011Savere
    @2011Savere Před 3 lety +2

    But Rapper's Delight was the first ever hip hop record. So how could people think it was the worst ever rap record? It was the only one that ever came out at the time.

  • @thekid26000
    @thekid26000 Před 3 lety +5

    SuperRappin' was the record that let me know that RAP was gonna be here to stay!!

  • @travisross9044
    @travisross9044 Před 3 lety +2

    Rap/Hip-hop is only 47 years young,and never will die....Fuck a dress code/Corporate America we dress what we like there no age limit . We lead they shall follow our trends. Everything we touch and wear turns to GOLD " Rap/hip-hop we run this world."

    • @shotyme2825
      @shotyme2825 Před 3 lety +1

      Rap has been around since the post emancipation era.

  • @Baldphace
    @Baldphace Před 3 lety +6

    For the last time Big Bank Hank never stole Caz rhymes. Caz gave Hank his rhyme book and said pick what you want. That's what he did.

  • @MattWhalen87
    @MattWhalen87 Před 3 lety +20

    It was a modern day, “club banger.”

    • @kenrickeason
      @kenrickeason Před 3 lety +1

      Outside of the East Coast Rapper's Delight is a party/dance hit... Especially down south it is considered as a club jam or a song you play at Family Reunions...

  • @elijahgrant7965
    @elijahgrant7965 Před 3 lety +8

    Thank god for NYC for creating hip hop

    • @saniingram6889
      @saniingram6889 Před 3 lety +1

      💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯❤🖤💚

  • @dealingthereal6922
    @dealingthereal6922 Před 3 lety

    Melle Mel Is an Icon in Hip Hop and is truly a National Treasure. I wish someone would convince to pen his autobiography. He has a story to tell and the world needs to hear it.

  • @pharoah1200
    @pharoah1200 Před 3 lety +3

    Shout out to Melle Mel, a real rap pioneer 👊👊

  • @Heirllionaire
    @Heirllionaire Před 3 lety +2

    Rappers Delight was more important to the Larger Picture and the future of the entire world uniting thru Hip Hop

  • @jalennelson6008
    @jalennelson6008 Před 3 lety +11

    It was a party record. For it's time, it was cool.

    • @mistahmst
      @mistahmst Před 3 lety +2

      Hip-hop in general started as party music, so I doubt that was the reason why serious hip-hop fans weren’t fucking with it at the time. It was because it was a more commercialized, squeaky clean version of what they were already doing and with bitten rhymes on top of it. The fact that they used a live band instead of a DJ didn’t help either.

    • @bigolbabyhuey
      @bigolbabyhuey Před 3 lety

      @@mistahmst
      All of those early rap songs used live bands. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five used the same musicians on their records that played on The Sugarhill Gang's songs

    • @mistahmst
      @mistahmst Před 3 lety +2

      @@bigolbabyhuey the first rap songs to make it to mainstream radio used live bands, but hip-hop started with the DJ.

  • @focuseddrew8737
    @focuseddrew8737 Před 3 lety +2

    People loved it because it was the first rap that anyone ever heard before. Once we heard Flash and his crew we liked them... but Melle Mel is a true founding father.

    • @guysimmons4305
      @guysimmons4305 Před 2 lety

      Maybe it was the first rap that people in the rest of the world ever heard but in New York rap was already big before anyone was even thinking about making a rap record. Im not even from the Bronx Im from Long Island but we had the tapes of lots of park jams and live shows from the Bronx. I swear we damn near worshiped those tapes.

    • @focuseddrew8737
      @focuseddrew8737 Před 2 lety +1

      @@guysimmons4305 OK gotcha. I was actually living in Queens at that time in the 70s, but I never heard rap. We would mix and DJ and I saw some breakdancing. We had block parties but I was too young to go. Later we moved to Freeport.

    • @guysimmons4305
      @guysimmons4305 Před 2 lety +1

      @@focuseddrew8737 honestly i was only exposed to Hip Hop early because my big brother had tapes from The Bronx and he used to let me borrow them all the time. Im actually from Amityville Long Island.

  • @GABRIELADAWSON
    @GABRIELADAWSON Před 3 lety +6

    Now Have You Ever Been Over A Friend’s House To Eat And Da Food Just Ain’t No Good I Mean Da Macaroni Soggy Da Peas All Mush And Da Chicken Taste Like Wood....Great Times,Great Times indeed😂😂😂😂.

  • @numeraluno8148
    @numeraluno8148 Před 3 lety +2

    La di da di by Doug E Fresh & Oh, My God! Ft.Slick Rick along with that song boogie See Bang was block party songs just loose rapping all over the place with a beat hyping it.

  • @kiasersouzayxoxo
    @kiasersouzayxoxo Před 3 lety +4

    That shit was cold melle Mel hate'n

  • @stevenmcgee6076
    @stevenmcgee6076 Před 3 lety +2

    Report's Delight is one of the best songs that ever existed.Whoever thought that was the worst don't know music.

  • @awesomeasever8370
    @awesomeasever8370 Před 3 lety +3

    Rap is music, Hip-Hop is a subculture. Rap started in the South, Hip-Hop started in New York. Rap is sometimes called Hip-Hop because it's the music of Hip-Hop.

  • @carinitolafountain5978
    @carinitolafountain5978 Před rokem +2

    Rappers Delight did have one of the greatest lines in rap history that many have bitten over the years by Grandmaster Caz
    "Everybody go: Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn
    You see, if your girl starts acting up, then you take her friend"

  • @MrHarris73
    @MrHarris73 Před 3 lety +2

    I love when Vlad sits down with these OGs and lets them tell their story. I feel like I have a PhD in Hip Hop history from watching these cats talk about how shit was back in the day. Melle Mel is the OG's OG.

  • @dannytennial5311
    @dannytennial5311 Před 3 lety +4

    Big Bank Hank didn't steal Caz rhymes. He was Caz's manager and asked Caz's permission to his rhymes. Caz gave him his rhyme book. Caz admitted this in his earlier interviews. Now Caz changed his story and somehow Big Bank Hank stole what he freely gave him to use. I was 15 in 1979 and remember how HUGH Rappers Delight was. Trashing the commercial breakthrough of RAP music is just wrong. It's obvious that a lot of old school Rappers are jealous of the Sugarhill Gang's historical success. Caz and Melle Mel are true legends. They should be better than "haters".

    • @bigolbabyhuey
      @bigolbabyhuey Před 3 lety +1

      100% facts. Your comment should be pinned to the top of the comment section

  • @Theonyxconservative
    @Theonyxconservative Před 3 lety +2

    Rappers Delight foreshadowed much of what was to come in Hip-Hop, Lacking artistry but the masses love it. 😐

  • @MisterCee01
    @MisterCee01 Před 3 lety +9

    Idc master gee and wonder mike did there thing on rappers delight . I bump that shit

    • @bigolbabyhuey
      @bigolbabyhuey Před 3 lety +5

      Facts. And Big Bank Hank didn't steal Caz rhymes. Hang asked Caz can he use his rhymes for a record and Caz said "absolutely"

    • @vanessadotson8067
      @vanessadotson8067 Před 3 lety +1

      I FEEL YOU FAM THAT'S MY SHIT!👂🏿👍🏿

    • @TheJim1039
      @TheJim1039 Před 3 lety +1

      @@bigolbabyhuey nah man big bank hank and wonder mike stole them bars but respect to them from starting hip hop

    • @bigolbabyhuey
      @bigolbabyhuey Před 3 lety +2

      @@TheJim1039
      Wonder Mike and Master Gee are both from New Jersey and didn't know Caz in those days. Wonder Mike was in a group called Sound On Sound and Master Gee was in a group called Phase 2. And the rhymes they used were rhymes they wrote before they ever joined The Sugarhill Gang.

    • @TheJim1039
      @TheJim1039 Před 3 lety

      @@bigolbabyhuey I know the hip hop part is bitten but props to master gee

  • @thejourneyback5552
    @thejourneyback5552 Před 3 lety +2

    I think what melle mel did to hiphop is almost the equivalent to what soulja boy did to hiphop🤔

  • @masonldn8647
    @masonldn8647 Před 3 lety +17

    He is stuck in 2002 lol that fashion is something boy...only NY dudes do this

    • @JeromeGigante
      @JeromeGigante Před 3 lety +11

      SHUT YOUR YOUNG ASS UP!! , YOU NEW GENERATION ALWAYS WORRIED ABOUT HOW ANOTHER MANS DRESSES ! 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

    • @jamalvines2133
      @jamalvines2133 Před 3 lety +5

      KID AFTER LATE 90s .ALL STYLES ARE IN. IF U DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY STFU COUNTRY KID

    • @empoweredcrb23
      @empoweredcrb23 Před 3 lety +2

      Yoooo ain’t no disrespect b, these og’s that from that era 70’ 80’ cats still wear they era clothes, on side note I get what you mean, I’m 31 still wearing some big ass jerseys still during the winter time over my hoodie,

    • @Chrisaaad
      @Chrisaaad Před 3 lety

      @@JeromeGigante fr

    • @jamalvines2133
      @jamalvines2133 Před 3 lety

      @@empoweredcrb23 WHERE WHAT U WANT. BUT DON'T NE SO LOUD LLS

  • @blackdollars718
    @blackdollars718 Před 3 lety +1

    Always good to see 1 of rhe ppl who CREATED RAPPING AMAZING

  • @tshepomotshepana7635
    @tshepomotshepana7635 Před 3 lety +4

    The grand masta is in the house

  • @hardnewstakenharder
    @hardnewstakenharder Před 8 měsíci +1

    Rapper's Delight goes hard TO THIS DAY.

  • @mr.november7456
    @mr.november7456 Před 3 lety +10

    He Look like a boondocks character lol

  • @LiKWiDjay
    @LiKWiDjay Před 3 lety +1

    Im white and 32 if my uncles didnt have mel and the five playing then it wasnt a party. Im just greatful i got it experience old school real hip hop and be put on

  • @bluecollarscholarmelrosepa5673

    Half Producer and Half Con 👨 Man.....😁😁😁😁😁😁

  • @DLM323
    @DLM323 Před 3 lety +2

    Damn this should be real good, a documentary! Popcorn in hands this dude is mad cool in person i actually clubbed with him in L.A. lol.

  • @mosthatedny2243
    @mosthatedny2243 Před 3 lety +10

    I see son in the gym all the time official dude

  • @StraightGameTV
    @StraightGameTV Před 3 lety +2

    Big Melle Mel.. My main man.

  • @bigolbabyhuey
    @bigolbabyhuey Před 3 lety +6

    Big Bank Hank didn't steal rhymes from Caz. Caz gave him those rhymes

  • @arguido07path
    @arguido07path Před 3 lety

    I really really really love this man for what he is what he was what he will do.He is plucking everybody’s card.Grandmaster MELLE MEL.

  • @PrinceofFreshia
    @PrinceofFreshia Před 3 lety +6

    Cassanova fly should get another interview

    • @juicer404
      @juicer404 Před 3 lety

      i done his hip hop tour in nyc

    • @PrinceofFreshia
      @PrinceofFreshia Před 3 lety +2

      @@juicer404 ohh i wanna do that bro! Maybe after this bullshit ass covid thing

  • @MisterLowrider
    @MisterLowrider Před 3 lety +2

    I'm glad to learn some authentic things about hip hop that were mentioned in this video from one of the ones that laid the foundation!!!

  • @brandonthomas5563
    @brandonthomas5563 Před 3 lety +4

    Why he's dressed like it's 2003

    • @MrSuSp7
      @MrSuSp7 Před 3 lety +2

      Because he from era where they didn't wear fitted or tight ass clothes

    • @jamalvines2133
      @jamalvines2133 Před 3 lety +2

      @@MrSuSp7 WRONG TODAY'S STYLE IS THE 80s STYLE. I SEE BOTH OF U DON'T KNOW FASHION. SO CUT IT OUT

    • @empoweredcrb23
      @empoweredcrb23 Před 3 lety +2

      @@jamalvines2133 nawwwww helllll nooo, I ain’t seen dudes wearing purses or sagging, they only dudes who had feminine look was rocks stars, including prince, mj but they was getting chicks tho, these dudes today get laughed at wearing extra tight clothes and laugh at period,

    • @empoweredcrb23
      @empoweredcrb23 Před 3 lety +1

      If you’re a young then ima say this, he’s a og sooner or later your not gonna be wearing that teenager pre adult swagg into your late 30’s or 40’s and If your still on that when you get older then you’re a big ass kid. I’m definitely gonna be wearing some Charlie browns when I get older

    • @walteralexander689
      @walteralexander689 Před 3 lety

      New Yorkers are behind on fashion trends.

  • @domarq
    @domarq Před 3 lety +2

    "White Lines"......and "The Message". If you weren't alive to experience these CLASSICS during 1981--1982, you missed out. ALSO, CHAKA KHAN'S BIGGEST HIT, "I Feel For You (1984)". YUP. That's also Melle Mel, rapping ("CHAKA....CHAKA....").

  • @daviddiaz529
    @daviddiaz529 Před 3 lety +3

    rrrrRAH!

  • @keyscored3710
    @keyscored3710 Před 3 lety +1

    What I'm confused by: this man was on the same label as sugarhill, and performed with the sugarhill gang on Jimmy Kimmel

  • @whoknowsidont.5147
    @whoknowsidont.5147 Před 3 lety

    "We wanted people to focus."..The actual beginning of MC..You can usually tell when its the truth ... that was awesome to hear,, see,, think, etc...thanks. I'm glad Vlad. Thanks OGMC

  • @abe1sapien
    @abe1sapien Před 3 lety +1

    Rappers Delight seems to only get hate from old school dudes from the east coast. Ice Cube, The D.O,C, Snoop Dogg, Big Boi all have said how important the song was to them growing up.

  • @JaneDoe-ql7sc
    @JaneDoe-ql7sc Před 3 lety +1

    very nice to hear the stories and learn these things about rap music! :-)

    • @JaneDoe-ql7sc
      @JaneDoe-ql7sc Před 3 lety

      Melle Mel, thank you for telling us the stories! Nice to be in the know, mc!

  • @reefwill3092
    @reefwill3092 Před 3 lety +1

    We loved it because it was the Chic band beat. We danced to Chic's song(Good times) which was a hit. They added the rap and rhymes so we were familiar with the music. It was a hit. All the known rappers came after that. Gmf&f5, Kurtis Blow and others.

  • @javisoprano1010
    @javisoprano1010 Před 3 lety +2

    Rappers delight put rap on the nation wide map period .

    • @qjeng6052
      @qjeng6052 Před 3 lety

      Doesn’t change anything, shit was/is elementary

  • @zroadie
    @zroadie Před 3 lety +1

    No need to hate on "Rappers Delight", the record sold. As an artist, you should appreciate other artists. No need to hate unless one hates on you first.

    • @myfootinurass
      @myfootinurass Před 3 lety

      U conflate the producers/record labels goal to make money with the artist or rappers goal which in the case with og rappers was to be the best at what they do. Mfers stole other peoples rhymes for that song, they broke code. Artists surround themselves with artists on their level and better, with something like rapping they can compete creativity with each other. Keeping each other in check thru communial standards like dont take credit for other peoples rhymes is essential.

  • @AlexanderTheGreat1000
    @AlexanderTheGreat1000 Před 3 lety +1

    "The people loved it, but i thought it was the worst thing ever. "😂 sounds familiar