And that is what I love most about Melle Mel. He will not sugarcoat his message to sound more palatable to the new generation of listeners. Truthfully, he has always been a staunch critic of the rap game. Hell, he dissed the Sugar Hill Gang and Run DMC, so he's not just partial and biased towards the old school.
Nothing but praise and respect for Melle Mell. What he's saying is dead on BUT as a young female in the 80s. I related to Queen Latifah, Salt/Peppa ams MC Lyte. Although Lyte was hard-she made me harder which actually helped me survive these streets and i could relate to what she was sayin.. "I still ♡ a Rough Neck" ; ). Melle Met my daughter a few weeks ago and it was one of my proudest moments when he and my child spoke of the Todays Hip Hop-and real hip hop-she was so educated and up on True School Rap and where Hip Hop started and it's demise.. He was very impressed and so was I♡
Understand, he's not talking about those artist you mentioned. Those females were very lady like with just enough edge to let you know they could go there. Many female rappers as well as female singers of today are anything but lady like. As a result, many of our young girls following them are becoming just as hard....if not harder than the boys.
Truth! The industry has turned so negative its ridiculous, we need get back to passing along the positive message through music. And when there is a sad story use it in a positive manner, not promoting more negativity. Peace Love Unity and having fun, Hip Hop baby!!
Talib kweli, Mos Def, Vo from Chi Town... there are still good rappers out there talkin real shit. These promoters, stations and companies won't promote that. Sad.
I miss when Hip Hop had true diversity in styles. It forced it to grow and expand and change communities and now it is forced to copy & dumb down and tear away at the very fabric that built it. what was once intricate and inspiring is now a chase for money, popularity and trends which produces a lot of manufactured music without true expression and feeling. Hip Hop as we hear it in the mainstream is numb!!!
"WE GAVE ALL THESE DUDES VOICES, WHAT ARE THEY (REALLY) SAYIN'?" Everybody can't sell drugs! The message has truly been diluted. Hip didn't use its "megaphone" to promote the community. It has been misused, abused to promote unnecessary violence within the community. Heavy duty thoughts being presented.
🕺🏾We Should Have Melle Mel As Our Hip Hop Prez 2day's Generation🏃🏾♂️He's Sayin Some Stuff Dat Contains A Lot Of His Own Personal Acknowledgement About Our Music Culture!!!!!!
they just got Mel hyped thats all cause theyre so damn closed minded with their watered down opinions....the reality is that if they didtn have a time limit, im almost sure he would have given better light to some female MCs. kats just got him hyped so its hard to get him to slow down after putting him on the fast lane. If it wasnt in such a rush, chances are he would have broken things down to a core. Kats just have to stfu and listen well on how times were back then and how we can all use his and many other practitioners(not only in Rap) experiences as a lesson to learn.....think about it. peace from Puerto Rico
On that gang $h!t, Ive been saying what Mel saying for years w/ the NY Hip Hop scene. Originally Hip Hop eliminated the gang culture in NY which innovated the creative process. Now lyrically the culture gave rebirth to the Gang culture where the created process has diminished and that's where NY lost it's edge. We went @ss backwards. And to add insult to injury we added that LA Blood and Crip $h1t to the NY scene. I'm as fukd up as you Mel!!!
big up from ancient persia "mel" the legend. greatest of all time saying the realest and it all fell/falls on deaf ears. larger than life mel, will never again be replicated
Truth spoken. I like how he shut down that ol tired excuse of "this is what they see so they rap about it". Need another strong political type group of people like the 'Ghetto Brothers' again. Them dudes stopped gang violence and hip hop culture became something born out of it for the black and brown (and whoever else) people there. And now look at hip hop. I honestly feel it's too late to save it. It's gone, man. Too many knuckle heads now that's willing to use messages in rap to destroy people to get money. They don't care bout no hip hop no more. It's been going in the wrong direction since the late 80's/early 90's. And you can walk a long ways in 30 years. I haven't listened to any mainstream hip hop or music in over 10 years. I know the agenda now. It became very clear when I saw my 7 year old niece singing the lyrics to Ginuine songs. Talkin bout "Ride my pony".. It's song after song after song they play on the radio and everywhere else that they're pushing these words into young minds and having them repeat it themselves over and over again. Grown people too.
Respect to Eric for letting Mel speak on these topics. And respect to Mel for keeping the conversation respectful to the OGs. Hip Hop is dead, I left and in other field.
all i can say about his female synopsis is LAURYN HILLLLLLLL! has he never heard her? MUCH respect to Melle Mel, but she's the quintessential female MC.
it may sound like a rant but truthfully he is telling it like it is, the folks at the station probably are too young to related to what he is saying, the young guy was on it when he spoke about the government, the game of Tricknolegdy has been played on the masses of Black people through the media and music,He,s just too young to realize it and the Grand Master wise enough to see the effects of it,if he's wrong challenge him on the history?they can't because he's speaking from the heart of age, experience ,realality, knowledge, wisdom, truth mixed with understanding, hip-hop needs a wake-up call, but money ,power and fame is blocking the line !!!!
Ohhhhhh Man!! I almost forgot the females who really played a vital role in my♡for Hip hop from the very start☆☆ Sweet T, Jazzy Joyce, Sha-Rock &The Real Roxanne!!!!!!
I must admit he does have some valid points, but some things he didnt touch on the right way. The last group of great rappers came out in the 90's. Just about every rapper then was a beast. Whats this about the females rappers being butch-like. I thought he woud give props to Salt N Pepa at least. The problem today is too many people are allowed to be rappers. Anybody can do it. All they rappin about is sex, drugs, and money. Theres no substance, nothing for us to reflect on. so much can b said
Wow. The great Melle Mel summed up in little more than five minutes what the heck they did not only to hip hop but to the last couple of generations who have been hoodwinked to believe that the life of a pimp, gangsta, gang banger, ho and straight up thug is what we should be aspiring to. The only path that leads to is jail and eternal hell. I remember when NWA came out with Gangsta Gangsta the whole world went nuts and went out and tried to be like them and forgot about BDK, Public Enemy, KRS and the likes of the X Clan and Poor Righteous Teachers, Lakim Shabazz and Chill Rob G and the Flav Unit trying to teach us what time it was and how to be a better human being. They done messed up our minds and now we seem to be beyond redemption. How can any people's think it's right, it's good, it's cool or it's funny to present themselves and their women as pimps, hos, crack heads, murderers, rapists, gangstas and whatever other freak nasty business we got today. We all done lost our minds and got brainwashed and should be ashamed of what's being pumped out today as hip hop and rap. Melle Mel was so right to say that in the ghetto the people's was right minded folks trying to make an honest living, with respect for themselves and others. We know it wasn't all sweetness and light but people had respect for their neighbour's and got along just fine. Today no one even knows their neighbour and the first time they meet it's to bash each other's brains in! What happened to the hip hop saying of Keep it real? Today all these cats is wack and fake. I suggest people go back and listen to World War III New York, New York The Message Survival and so many other titles penned by Melle Mel and realise what garbage is being peddled today. It's a crying shame to see what rap has become today. A crying shame.
New Yorkers wasn't raised to be Bloods and Crips. If anything Gods and Earths. Each one Teach One, and Building. 2010-11 New York Disgusts me right now. Remember that movie "Escape from New York"? It's coming to that.
Agree ... 70's-80's B-boying my generation. As soon as Hip Hop went West Coast it turned to shit ... but more than that it was Run DMC that spelled the end for the whole thing - turned to shit after 1984.
Mele is 1000% correct & on point. It's not the art form "Hip Hop " it's what's been incorporated into "Hip Hop". Remember Jazz, Gospel, The Blues, Funk, Soul, R&B ect..came from us to. Why don't you hear all that foul behavior in those forms of music?
word!!!! gods and earth.you got to realize we were puting out science and the hiphop days people were getting to educated they had to silence the gods by puting out nwa sorry i love u guys out there n la but true shit melle talkin,
Melle Mel is spot on man - Rap died in the 1980s, fuck Tupac, Biggie and the rest. Chuck D and Grandmaster Caz still kick it. I'm white and let me tell you black folk something, Jay Z is more white than me as he aligns himself with white corporate America just like the rest of the hip hop artists now.
craig lucas fuck you bitch... The real emcees after rakim kept it strong. He said up until it got to the west coast shit. Stop making it levels because... who else is keeping it alive?? Learn more... Melly Mel can't deny KRS-one... gtfoh
***** , first off I hope you have more than a high school education by starting off with "fuck you bitch. For god sake I hope that" Evil Priest" is not your rap name either and if it is go to church and pray for a successful career. Furthermore more, to my point I did not say KRS one was a poor rapper I respect KRS One, but after 1992 rap/hip hop died along with its political movement for the social justice and awareness of what was an issue in the USA. It was guys like DJ Kool Herc, Gandmaster Caz, Melle Mel, DJ Clark Kent, etc.. the list goes on that started a whole social and positive movement. The vast majority of new rappers from the early 90s and on, really have no relevance as they all rap about the same thing, sell it to white middle class America and get rich. I do not think that many of them even give back to their own neighbourhoods to assist in raising the standard of living to help their fellow bretheren. I'm not making any levels, my point is that rap / hip hop caters to mainstream white America along with corporate America all in the name of selling merchandise and records. It is sad the the grandfathers of hip hop and rap are being forgotten by many except the older people, and to your last point NOBODY is keeping hip hop alive except for the pioneers of rap such as KRS One, Public Enemy etc.... but what exposure do they get now......not much.
I have to disagree with melle mel's idea that hip hop went down hill after Rakim and Kane, While 90's lyricism was built on the back of Rakim, It's not even arguable that lyricism started to evolve during the 90's.
Once it’s co-opted by THE STATE and big business, it loses its meaning. That’s why all these corporations are looking for “culture creators” and we confused and constantly trying to find ourselves. Keep creating, y’all. It’s just what we do.
nice! Melle speakin da Truth! he used da word n**ga about 50 times! literally! but other than that good message, p.s clean dat up Melle u sound like one of dese youngbulls. cmon man you a Legend.
That Brotha is right on point & people can't stand the truth. Are todays Rappers apart of the problem or the solution? Do they uplift our Nubian Brothas & Sistas? How? When? Where?
rap hasnt stopped after rakim... i agree with mel about the gang shit and how every1 trys to copy but mobb deep and nas were hard gangstaz when they were young so they aint emulating anyfing there just telling there story and my opinion is that artists like mos def and talib kweli are bringing back hip hops original culture
Melle Mel the original but he's not touching Rakim. Every great rap lyricist if they know history know who it is that took rap to the next level. Not just lyrically but he changed the flow.Even though a lot of rappers won't admit it or maybe don't even know it. You have the R to thank for elevating the way you rap now and he did this over 30 years ago.
The god speaks the truth! Although i have to disagree as the early to mid 90's saw so much talent and diversity were almost everyone had they own style
So Nas, Wu-Tang, DMX, The LOX, Big Pun, Busta Rhymes, Big L, and GangStarr among other NYC dudes weren't real rap? I respect Mellie Mel, but he lost me there.
We need some females, hip-hop heads and black americans to comment on this video please! This is so wrong! He has a few valid points, especially about Obama and hip-hop as a platform but his scew on women and black american culture is wack!
The old heads have a part in this too they didn’t tell the next rappers up to keep the music amongst themselves as opposed to them signing with WHITE LABELS WHOSE MAIN POINT IS TO CHARACTERIZE BLACK PEOPLE AS SAVAGES, IMMORAL, IGNORANT, AND UNDESIRABLE. Not once did he say that we as black people should’ve kept the culture to themselves and have people like him decide who can rap and who cannot you hear him they should do that, my question is this where you when you say rap devolving? Did you tell the younger cats about the industry and how these label execs rob you, pimp your culture, and only reward you for portraying a negative image. All in all it’s to easy to blame black folk for all their shortcomings but there is a lot of forces in play. P.S. Also remember this the relationship between money and art has never been beneficial to the artist and the culture it represents in terms of the image.
Most of the things he complains about he was doing. He came out wearing costumes and the rappers after him built off what he started. The only exception is that they made more money and now he is little bitter.
If you are not no hard "nigga" than why on your record "Mama" you portray yourself as being hard in a shot out and going to prison and everything else on that video?
So if he is a pedophile or a rapist that's what he should rap about? Rappers need to understand that there are people in this world who will listen to their music and take it literally.
"They respect a nigga coming out of jail, but you don't respect a nigga coming out of college?"
- Melle Mel
Mel ain't gonna sugar coat shit for yall
He's 1000% correct in what he's saying
And that is what I love most about Melle Mel. He will not sugarcoat his message to sound more palatable to the new generation of listeners.
Truthfully, he has always been a staunch critic of the rap game. Hell, he dissed the Sugar Hill Gang and Run DMC, so he's not just partial and biased towards the old school.
melle mel is talking some serious shit right there people need to listen and wake up to what he is talking about
He's exactly spot on. Maturity & experience talking.
misc yes indeed
Nothing but praise and respect for Melle Mell. What he's saying is dead on BUT as a young female in the 80s. I related to Queen Latifah, Salt/Peppa ams MC Lyte. Although Lyte was hard-she made me harder which actually helped me survive these streets and i could relate to what she was sayin.. "I still ♡ a Rough Neck" ; ). Melle Met my daughter a few weeks ago and it was one of my proudest moments when he and my child spoke of the Todays Hip Hop-and real hip hop-she was so educated and up on True School Rap and where Hip Hop started and it's demise.. He was very impressed and so was I♡
Understand, he's not talking about those artist you mentioned. Those females were very lady like with just enough edge to let you know they could go there. Many female rappers as well as female singers of today are anything but lady like. As a result, many of our young girls following them are becoming just as hard....if not harder than the boys.
By the way, great story about your daughter meeting Melle Mel!
much respect to GrandMaster Melle Mel
Melle Mel is spitting straight fire...still prophetic til this day...
Truth! The industry has turned so negative its ridiculous, we need get back to passing along the positive message through music. And when there is a sad story use it in a positive manner, not promoting more negativity. Peace Love Unity and having fun, Hip Hop baby!!
Talib kweli, Mos Def, Vo from Chi Town... there are still good rappers out there talkin real shit.
These promoters, stations and companies won't promote that. Sad.
That last line bout respect for coming out of jail instead of college sums everything up.
I miss when Hip Hop had true diversity in styles. It forced it to grow and expand and change communities and now it is forced to copy & dumb down and tear away at the very fabric that built it. what was once intricate and inspiring is now a chase for money, popularity and trends which produces a lot of manufactured music without true expression and feeling. Hip Hop as we hear it in the mainstream is numb!!!
4:48 That's the freaking truth! Everybody's trying to rap now and we have the microphone. Do something worthwhile with it instead of spewing garbage.
truth is a bitter pill. melle mel just shoved a whole bottle of wisdom down everybody's throat. read on brother!!!
"WE GAVE ALL THESE DUDES VOICES, WHAT ARE THEY (REALLY) SAYIN'?" Everybody can't sell drugs! The message has truly been diluted. Hip didn't use its "megaphone" to promote the community. It has been misused, abused to promote unnecessary violence within the community. Heavy duty thoughts being presented.
Exactly what year you think hip hop started to decline as a whole
🕺🏾We Should Have Melle Mel As Our Hip Hop Prez 2day's Generation🏃🏾♂️He's Sayin Some Stuff Dat Contains A Lot Of His Own Personal Acknowledgement About Our Music Culture!!!!!!
did this dude wade2bosh say Melle Mel is wrong...Does this dude know Melle Mel is one of the pioneers of Hip Hop..
they just got Mel hyped thats all cause theyre so damn closed minded with their watered down opinions....the reality is that if they didtn have a time limit, im almost sure he would have given better light to some female MCs. kats just got him hyped so its hard to get him to slow down after putting him on the fast lane. If it wasnt in such a rush, chances are he would have broken things down to a core. Kats just have to stfu and listen well on how times were back then and how we can all use his and many other practitioners(not only in Rap) experiences as a lesson to learn.....think about it. peace from Puerto Rico
On that gang $h!t, Ive been saying what Mel saying for years w/ the NY Hip Hop scene. Originally Hip Hop eliminated the gang culture in NY which innovated the creative process. Now lyrically the culture gave rebirth to the Gang culture where the created process has diminished and that's where NY lost it's edge. We went @ss backwards. And to add insult to injury we added that LA Blood and Crip $h1t to the NY scene. I'm as fukd up as you Mel!!!
abxtale All music evolved so D Block or Dipset is that hot NY rap
abxtale Man the streets of New York lost it's ESSENCE. Everybody raps but I ain't seen a cipher in years!
We got to be honest, dipset played a role in the rebirth thru rap music of the blood and crops by representing them in the music and videos too.
big up from ancient persia "mel" the legend. greatest of all time saying the realest and it all fell/falls on deaf ears. larger than life mel, will never again be replicated
thank you mr. melle mel for saying this its very refreshing to hear a man speak the truth on this subject
Truth spoken. I like how he shut down that ol tired excuse of "this is what they see so they rap about it".
Need another strong political type group of people like the 'Ghetto Brothers' again. Them dudes stopped gang violence and hip hop culture became something born out of it for the black and brown (and whoever else) people there. And now look at hip hop. I honestly feel it's too late to save it. It's gone, man. Too many knuckle heads now that's willing to use messages in rap to destroy people to get money. They don't care bout no hip hop no more. It's been going in the wrong direction since the late 80's/early 90's. And you can walk a long ways in 30 years.
I haven't listened to any mainstream hip hop or music in over 10 years. I know the agenda now. It became very clear when I saw my 7 year old niece singing the lyrics to Ginuine songs. Talkin bout "Ride my pony".. It's song after song after song they play on the radio and everywhere else that they're pushing these words into young minds and having them repeat it themselves over and over again. Grown people too.
Mel is 100% exact and correct. The man is a genius. Deal with it!
Damn, if they would only....LISTEN!!!
Respect to Eric for letting Mel speak on these topics. And respect to Mel for keeping the conversation respectful to the OGs. Hip Hop is dead, I left and in other field.
all i can say about his female synopsis is LAURYN HILLLLLLLL! has he never heard her? MUCH respect to Melle Mel, but she's the quintessential female MC.
it may sound like a rant but truthfully he is telling it like it is, the folks at the station probably are too young to related to what he is saying, the young guy was on it when he spoke about the government, the game of Tricknolegdy has been played on the masses of Black people through the media and music,He,s just too young to realize it and the Grand Master wise enough to see the effects of it,if he's wrong challenge him on the history?they can't because he's speaking from the heart of age, experience ,realality, knowledge, wisdom, truth mixed with understanding, hip-hop needs a wake-up call, but money ,power and fame is blocking the line !!!!
Melle Mel is refreshing. props.
Ohhhhhh Man!! I almost forgot the females who really played a vital role in my♡for Hip hop from the very start☆☆ Sweet T, Jazzy Joyce, Sha-Rock &The Real Roxanne!!!!!!
+kricketbx For sure. This old G got me pissed with that period comment.
Dimples D
Shante?
@@kollusion1 Yep-Roxanne Shante' ")
I must admit he does have some valid points, but some things he didnt touch on the right way. The last group of great rappers came out in the 90's. Just about every rapper then was a beast. Whats this about the females rappers being butch-like. I thought he woud give props to Salt N Pepa at least. The problem today is too many people are allowed to be rappers. Anybody can do it. All they rappin about is sex, drugs, and money. Theres no substance, nothing for us to reflect on. so much can b said
True talk!👊🏾✊🏾
They should have played "The Message".🤔
oh shit!!! he's preachin it......amen!!!!!!!
Wow. The great Melle Mel summed up in little more than five minutes what the heck they did not only to hip hop but to the last couple of generations who have been hoodwinked to believe that the life of a pimp, gangsta, gang banger, ho and straight up thug is what we should be aspiring to. The only path that leads to is jail and eternal hell.
I remember when NWA came out with Gangsta Gangsta the whole world went nuts and went out and tried to be like them and forgot about BDK, Public Enemy, KRS and the likes of the X Clan and Poor Righteous Teachers, Lakim Shabazz and Chill Rob G and the Flav Unit trying to teach us what time it was and how to be a better human being.
They done messed up our minds and now we seem to be beyond redemption.
How can any people's think it's right, it's good, it's cool or it's funny to present themselves and their women as pimps, hos, crack heads, murderers, rapists, gangstas and whatever other freak nasty business we got today.
We all done lost our minds and got brainwashed and should be ashamed of what's being pumped out today as hip hop and rap.
Melle Mel was so right to say that in the ghetto the people's was right minded folks trying to make an honest living, with respect for themselves and others. We know it wasn't all sweetness and light but people had respect for their neighbour's and got along just fine.
Today no one even knows their neighbour and the first time they meet it's to bash each other's brains in!
What happened to the hip hop saying of Keep it real? Today all these cats is wack and fake.
I suggest people go back and listen to
World War III
New York, New York
The Message
Survival
and so many other titles penned by Melle Mel and realise what garbage is being peddled today.
It's a crying shame to see what rap has become today.
A crying shame.
Much love to Mel, he stating facts
In terms of the politics he’s spot on
New Yorkers wasn't raised to be Bloods and Crips. If anything Gods and Earths. Each one Teach One, and Building. 2010-11 New York Disgusts me right now.
Remember that movie "Escape from New York"? It's coming to that.
He is telling the truth
Melle Mel....my man!
Agree ... 70's-80's B-boying my generation. As soon as Hip Hop went West Coast it turned to shit ... but more than that it was Run DMC that spelled the end for the whole thing - turned to shit after 1984.
REAL-ASS TALK!!!!!Melle Mel is speaking the truth!!!!!!!
Mele is 1000% correct & on point. It's not the art form "Hip Hop " it's what's been incorporated into "Hip Hop". Remember Jazz, Gospel, The Blues, Funk, Soul, R&B ect..came from us to. Why don't you hear all that foul behavior in those forms of music?
word!!!! gods and earth.you got to realize we were puting out science and the hiphop days people were getting to educated they had to silence the gods by puting out nwa sorry i love u guys out there n la but true shit melle talkin,
dude below me and his entire intro to his comment is something ya NEED to understand.
6:46 Shut up when Grandmaster Melle Mel is talking!!! You don't know anything.
Melle Mel #1 (The Godfather of Rhyme)
Melle Mel is spot on man - Rap died in the 1980s, fuck Tupac, Biggie and the rest. Chuck D and Grandmaster Caz still kick it. I'm white and let me tell you black folk something, Jay Z is more white than me as he aligns himself with white corporate America just like the rest of the hip hop artists now.
Real Talk!! Peace Black!
craig lucas fuck you bitch... The real emcees after rakim kept it strong.
He said up until it got to the west coast shit. Stop making it levels because... who else is keeping it alive?? Learn more... Melly Mel can't deny KRS-one... gtfoh
***** , first off I hope you have more than a high school education by starting off with "fuck you bitch. For god sake I hope that" Evil Priest" is not your rap name either and if it is go to church and pray for a successful career. Furthermore more, to my point I did not say KRS one was a poor rapper I respect KRS One, but after 1992 rap/hip hop died along with its political movement for the social justice and awareness of what was an issue in the USA. It was guys like DJ Kool Herc, Gandmaster Caz, Melle Mel, DJ Clark Kent, etc.. the list goes on that started a whole social and positive movement. The vast majority of new rappers from the early 90s and on, really have no relevance as they all rap about the same thing, sell it to white middle class America and get rich. I do not think that many of them even give back to their own neighbourhoods to assist in raising the standard of living to help their fellow bretheren. I'm not making any levels, my point is that rap / hip hop caters to mainstream white America along with corporate America all in the name of selling merchandise and records. It is sad the the grandfathers of hip hop and rap are being forgotten by many except the older people, and to your last point NOBODY is keeping hip hop alive except for the pioneers of rap such as KRS One, Public Enemy etc.... but what exposure do they get now......not much.
+evil priest lol
+craig lucas technically KRS started in 1986 with BDP, so lets say he is an 80s artist...
Preach Mel
I have to disagree with melle mel's idea that hip hop went down hill after Rakim and Kane, While 90's lyricism was built on the back of Rakim, It's not even arguable that lyricism started to evolve during the 90's.
Rap is NEW YORK like Gogo is DC.
The very last line in this video describes what hip hop started out to be.
Deserves an infinite support!
I wonder what he thinks of Tekashi 69
Trash
Once it’s co-opted by THE STATE and big business, it loses its meaning. That’s why all these corporations are looking for “culture creators” and we confused and constantly trying to find ourselves.
Keep creating, y’all. It’s just what we do.
Preach Melvin
One modern female rapper I'd say raps like a female would be Uffie, though she did riff a lot on MC Lyte.
nice! Melle speakin da Truth! he used da word n**ga about 50 times! literally! but other than that good message, p.s clean dat up Melle u sound like one of dese youngbulls. cmon man you a Legend.
That Brotha is right on point & people can't stand the truth. Are todays Rappers apart of the problem or the solution? Do they uplift our Nubian Brothas & Sistas? How? When? Where?
100% right.
@MauriceMosbyJr7 exactly! just like elvis, just like the beatles, eminem isn't the best rapper, he's WHITE PEOPLE's best.
Gavlyn...best female emcee period!
1000% truth
rap hasnt stopped after rakim... i agree with mel about the gang shit and how every1 trys to copy but mobb deep and nas were hard gangstaz when they were young so they aint emulating anyfing there just telling there story and my opinion is that artists like mos def and talib kweli are bringing back hip hops original culture
I am agreed but for me you was the last strong MC, Rakim is great, but you Melle Mel, you are the greatest!!!
Melle Mel the original but he's not touching Rakim. Every great rap lyricist if they know history know who it is that took rap to the next level. Not just lyrically but he changed the flow.Even though a lot of rappers won't admit it or maybe don't even know it. You have the R to thank for elevating the way you rap now and he did this over 30 years ago.
Facts!
Amen to that
@hustletv that's so true im from ny and i think they should stop all that gang shit
The Lady of Rage Did talk about her period.
I wonder how Mel fill about OUTKAST, the greatest Duo in Rap PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EPMD
Tell it MEL...
The god speaks the truth! Although i have to disagree as the early to mid 90's saw so much talent and diversity were almost everyone had they own style
not really once you hear snoop dogg you hear every west coast rapper outside of too short and tupac
realest shit ever said
They selling out all the way live. A lot of them lying
Krs-One kept making good music, Mos Def & Talib Kweli come hard, Lauryn Hill, Wu Tang, Pharoae Monch, etc etc
So Nas, Wu-Tang, DMX, The LOX, Big Pun, Busta Rhymes, Big L, and GangStarr among other NYC dudes weren't real rap? I respect Mellie Mel, but he lost me there.
Monie Love
Truth 100%
so true
Is that Eric Fucking B interviewing him??
We need some females, hip-hop heads and black americans to comment on this video please! This is so wrong! He has a few valid points, especially about Obama and hip-hop as a platform but his scew on women and black american culture is wack!
3:04-5:54
But i want to say this we need to blame the industry as well realtalk
100% !
I fill Mel
The old heads have a part in this too they didn’t tell the next rappers up to keep the music amongst themselves as opposed to them signing with WHITE LABELS WHOSE MAIN POINT IS TO CHARACTERIZE BLACK PEOPLE AS SAVAGES, IMMORAL, IGNORANT, AND UNDESIRABLE. Not once did he say that we as black people should’ve kept the culture to themselves and have people like him decide who can rap and who cannot you hear him they should do that, my question is this where you when you say rap devolving? Did you tell the younger cats about the industry and how these label execs rob you, pimp your culture, and only reward you for portraying a negative image. All in all it’s to easy to blame black folk for all their shortcomings but there is a lot of forces in play.
P.S. Also remember this the relationship between money and art has never been beneficial to the artist and the culture it represents in terms of the image.
go listen to some underground emcees like dessa darling and jean grae.
Big L was the last to be gone from that generation. I'd say Big pun but Big L was far more superior than him.
Most of the things he complains about he was doing. He came out wearing costumes and the rappers after him built off what he started. The only exception is that they made more money and now he is little bitter.
If you are not no hard "nigga" than why on your record "Mama" you portray yourself as being hard in a shot out and going to prison and everything else on that video?
Dude trying to politically battle Melle--Looks like a clown right now. "SHUT THE HELL AND LISTEN. SAFE YOURSELF THE EMBARRASSMENT. " "/
No bro are you listening to Mel hip hop did bring Bs an Cs around the world come on an its ridiculous
Wave rider's i hate them too
Thank god for Nipsey Hussle the Great. The Marathon Continues
Uh Oh
Even Bam said hip-hop didn't end gangs. Mel and KRS keep perpetuating the same fake news.
Please define what "Lady Like." This guy is acting delusional!
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melle mel is wrong. hip hop is about self expression. ice t is gonna rap bout what he knows.
So if he is a pedophile or a rapist that's what he should rap about? Rappers need to understand that there are people in this world who will listen to their music and take it literally.
Mel stays lying. Back when PE was out he even dissed them on a record. Rappers are not intellects.
Mel's a hater
You say that because he was talking about the pro black stuff. But you're white so it makes sense.