Melle Mel Says That Kendrick Lamar Wouldn’t Have Reached Out Like Macklemore Did. Hop into the post for all the details! #IFWT!
Melle Mel is praising Macklemore for incorporating hip-hop legends like Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee and himself in the new video for “Downtown” and Mel says that he feels other mainstream MC’s like Jay Z, J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar wouldn’t of done the same thing.
Melle Mel told XXL :
“I know for a fact that J. Cole or Kendrick Lamar or Rick Ross or Jay Z or any of these cats, they would not have done it, ever. They would not have done it. It took him to do it. And all those other so-called ‘real cats,’ they should hang their heads because somebody should have done it by now. They could have reached back to any of us. If you’re making records and you say you’re Hip Hop, you’re supposed to have a connection to what Hip Hop really is. And nobody made that connection until Macklemore made the connection. And I’ve had this conversation quite a few times since everything happened and had that little controversy of, yeah, the White boy, using the OGs, or blah blah blah. And like I said, none of those other guys would have ever done it. And it’s a shame that that’s the reality of what the game is right now.”
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Just a few days ago Big Daddy Kane also shared his thoughts on Macklemore incorporating these Hip Hop pioneers and slammed anybody who tried to trash talk Macklemore for his VMA Performance.
Big Daddy Kane said:
“REAL TALK!!! I don’t see one artist in the game that put Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee or Grandmaster Caz on their new song or let them perform on the VMA’s (Including Me) but people wanna have a problem with @macklemore for paying homage to them? We don’t acknowledge our own & get mad when another color does. Now if one of them passes, then we wanna post s*** about them, say RIP & get t-shirts with their picture. FOH!!!!!!! Learn about your history & preserve it now. If not, SHUT THE F*** UP!!! To me this is about real pioneers getting recognition in today’s society.”
Check out the music video that they are all talking about, where Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee and Big Daddy Kane were tribute below! #IFWT!
Macklemore – Downtown
