Melle Mel Calls Out Jay Z, Kendrick Lamar & J. Cole For Not Connecting To Hip Hop History

[Breezy_Kilroy]

Thank God for Kool Herc

Without your shit I probably would've got merked

Shout out to Grandmaster Flash and to Caz

And even Jaz bum ass

Jay

 

[raheemclassick]

Mel on some slick shit, adding Hov to that list. If you put Hov up there, then you gotta put all the rappers from the mid 90's

 

[5 Grand]

Too $hort all over these young niggas albums n he been rappin as long as him....short came out in 85 , melle came out in 82, 83?

This aint about no "pioneers" THis about YOU

Nosign. Short came out in 83 and Melle Mel's first record was in 79.

But Melle Mel was rocking in the parks in the Bronx since 77.