MC Lyte Sets The Record Straight On Writing Verse From 'Self Destruction'

[@toddwilliams8296]

Damn Lyte aging very well..Her beauty always been consistent..She never fell off!

[@earlwilliamsjr4817]

Fax

[@bionichustla100]

Nose job

[@Ryanthadon]

@@bionichustla100 so? 😭😭😭

[@REASONKEV]

She keeps looking better as she gets older!❤️❤️

[@quinnb7672]

That's the first thought I had when I clicked the video

[@desmondshorts1574]

She is unequivocally, undeniably, my favorite female rapper of all time period..Back in the time of true lyracists, as naughty by nature one said in an interview..." She so nice, she scares dudes"..💯💯💯

[@TonshalaAdams43]

Indubitably!

[@robertmahaffey-h4f]

Poor Georgie was one of my favorites

[@DJ_EWay]

Facts. Greatest verse ever. I memorized this as a shorty.

[@jessesaffold1165]

WOW...shes..more beautiful now That's crazy.

[@tralive2243]

Lady G.O.A.T. Of Rap!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@rocscee6902]

For sure!

[@ImJustaWill]

I think almost every MC has had help from a friend or another rapper on at least one song. So folks need to stop making it seem like this is an issue. Most singers don't write all their songs so it would make sense every rapper doesn't. Lyte is still probably one of the baddest female MCs...scratch that...one of the baddest MCs that has touched a mic. Give the woman her flowers.

[@TroyRamseyyy]

TY!

[@Pookie_Poo843]

No!!

[@eastend.zulu.]

MC Lyte is top tier but nah fam. Having help with a line or 2 is fine but somebody penning your entire rhyme is wack

[@doncatalog]

Untrue

[@NA-gd3sd]

Being honest ain't keeping nobody from their flowers. It giving credit where it's due.

[@rafprice1]

Her verse was raw. I'm so glad I'm an 80's baby.

[@alanai1981]

ME TOO

[@justenjunious5434]

I loved that verse and MC Lyte Voice is so dope. She sound like ur favorite aunt schooling u to the world when she raps. Plus she Fine as eva. Hey Ms Lyte!!!!

[@pihaat]

I dont care who wrote it she delivered it, the cadence/flow, She had the dopest rhymes on Self Destruction!

[@johndouglascross]

She didnt get paid for it bottom line

[@ericperkins971]

Everyone killed it, but in my opinion, Heavy D had the best verse.

[@lobo667-z1e]

Hope there will be a movie 🎬 or biopic about her and how she got started and her career. She is so dope. Just an amazing artist and person. So talented 👏

[@mrjay3047]

Would love to see lil mana play her

[@NUMBER1MCNOT2]

Can We just talking about how beautiful she is. MYYYY Gooodnessss!!!!!!

[@kennethhunter7364]

Most definitely is BEAUTIFUL

[@GaryWilliams-jz1du]

She's the one the best of the best of all times in She's a beautiful black 🖤 queen of rap music 🎶

[@robertcabrera4760]

Love seeing MC Lyte again. One of the greats on the female side, true MC

[@garveyblack3486]

SHE 1 OF OUR GREATS PERIOD!!

[@diamondgodisis5367]

Again? Where u been bro? MC Lyte was out the spot light for a min but she everywhere right now doin podcasts n wut not and been back in the public eye for yrs at this point, although, not doin music....look her up!

[@simplemoney1833]

Moral of the story : LL lasted this long bc he knew the business and how to get paid

[@nejolo9563]

You think he never extended the profits with MC Lite! To be honest I have stopped being shocked by the business side of things. I think she was played.

[@brianburton5946]

There's a video from that era and LL claims he didn't get paid. So somebody is lying. But if LL wrote it and was paid, and MC got the notoriety for saying this classic verse, then it's fair exchange

[@jman1562001]

@@nejolo9563 No disrespect but what was she entitled too. Technically she didn't fully write her verse so of course she wasn't going to get no bread. Hell LL said he ain't get no bread from it. She got notoriety for a classic verse penned with assistance.

[@kennethwilliams8240]

LL built DEF Jam

[@truthhurtz8517]

MC Lyte is the Queen of Rap....💯💯💯

[@larrymartinbennett2199]

HONESTLY.... ROXANNE SHANTE 🔥💯 IS 😎💯

[@truthhurtz8517]

@@larrymartinbennett2199 not even close....

[@clarklarewjones]

Ms Melody verse is underrated

[@drewali7]

all the way for sure!!!!!!!

[@jasminecaldwell6118]

“…The violence in rap must cease and settle, if we wanna develop and grow to another level , we can’t be Guinea pigs for the devil…” so poignant. The foresight. Hers & D-Nice

[@cynthiatoro2615]

She looks absolutely Gorgeous

[@shakur1124]

Yeah the lyrics was Dope but it was the Delivery that did it! Not just any mc could of pulled that off. Mc lytes voice was very unique n hard for a female rapper back then but also she didn't give off Dyke vibes to be coming so hard back then she wore Baggy clothes pretty much dresses like a dude but yet all us men still thought she was sexy AF! N wanted to smash 😅 nowadays these female rappers think they have to be up there rapping looking like strippers to have a male fan base smh man I miss these days word! Thank u Mc lyte‼️‼️

[@christopherspann9575]

I LOVE MC LYTE 😍😍

[@GregGVLVanLeerJr]

Basically what they were saying is that deep thinking MCs have to dumb it down for the powers that shouldn't be be and the masses (sheople) or your don't get airplay. Props to the legend MC Lyte. One of my favorite rappers of all time.

[@wrecker402]

It should never be looked at as dumbing it down it's called reading the room. think about it all the big hit records from every genre to Michael Jackson folks don't care to hear anything deep like they having a lecture lesson. They drunk/ high and just want to have a good time with catchy beats & lyrics. That's why songs that are club bangers you aren't going to find Conscious Rap anywhere near it.

[@jasongonzalez2856]

Bingo !!!And that is why we have this weird mumble jumbo jack music today...

[@mcmarcuschapman]

Nothing dumb about that verse

[@ronh1757]

Maaan, this woman gorgeous. MC LYTE she can win a rap fight...

[@jimmycrawford8142]

Queen of hip hop.👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑👑

[@1EVILZ06]

Lyte fine as hell…🔥🔥🔥

[@tonybravado8231]

People forgot LL was ghostwriting.

[@joelsims98]

I remember. He even co-wrote a song for Run-D.M.C.

[@vanessa-vu3uf]

Wow, I didn't know,

[@mcmarcuschapman]

@@joelsims98 yup. Can You Rock It Like This from the King of Rock album

[@DeaconBlessed]

He was

[@DJFLIPOUT]

she just finished saying they wrote it in tandem.

[@teefinerbee2450]

I think ALL the lines were fantastic. Even Favs "Boyyeeeee". "Took a brother's life with a knife as his wife cried cuz he died a trifling death... very last words were...I slipped so watch your stop". But THIS ONE LINE RIIIGHT HERE: "I never wver ran from the Klu Klux Klan, and i SHOULDN'T have to run from a black man", was and IS (in 2023) the muc drop.

[@bigtone718]

Man! This interview was lit! Salute goddess 🙌

[@KambizMostofi]

"Funky fresh dressed to impress ready to party, Money in your pocket dining with your buddy, To get inside you paid a whole Ten Dollars, Scotch Tape with a razor blade taped to your collar, Leave the guns and crack and knives alone, MC Lyte's on the microphone, Bum Rushing and pushing snatching and taxing, I can't understand why brothers don't be maxing, There is only one disco they will close one more, You ain't guarding the door so what you got a Gun for?" - MC Lyte, Self Destruction

[@antonioking8156]

Do you rob the rich and give to the poor.

[@josephballard3641]

Mc lyte still tuff lord hammercy

[@charulzhamilton4727]

Facts.

[@kaibricturner8836]

MC Lyte is fine 🔥🔥🔥

[@alisterelite9518]

10 percent diss is my favorite goat female emcee by a landslide it’s not even close Mc lyte is the. Female rakim

[@keithbranch7718]

I always say that but Queen Latifah was KRS 1...So she is my numbers a M.C that will to teacher you love m respect will also be a great M.C...They are unselfish with they services...He or her could just brag about how they grab that microphone....

[@crystalgibson5505]

My Fav Female MC👑👑

[@TonshalaAdams43]

She had the best verse hands down!!

[@tyronejones8434]

But she didn’t write it

[@chris-k8s5e]

Nope. Kool Moe Dee

[@jman1562001]

@@tyronejones8434 That's all basically LL rhymes!!!

[@cameronsmith6353]

Much love and respect to her she is so pretty

[@sherryfuller7445]

My favorite female rapper ❤️

[@smokescreen7219]

I've always had a huge crush on Mc lyte Sister still got it going she's definitely a legend

[@eclectic_ascension]

Hip Hop stars will never get together like that ever again!!! 🙏❤️🫶

[@Trip.L.L.L]

Wow how old is she?? She gotta be in her 50’s…she looks amazing

[@still730bf]

She just turned 51, last week. October 11th

[@KM-oy5yh]

@@still730bf 💯💯💯💯💯

[@reallyitsjackiev.meadows7578]

I loved that Foster Mc elroy song with her! 👌🏿💯👍🏿💃🏿 She is still a legend!

[@vancralcharles7209]

Much ❤ from 🇭🇹 HAITI Lady 🐐 female mc's ever❤ Hot 97📻🎶🎼❤

[@RHONDAHOLT-v9j]

The song was AMAZING and still is one of my favorites to this present day ❤

[@daoyster8579]

She was my Gf my whole childhood still my favorite Female Mc of all time

[@dw2art]

Low key I wanna hear the original verse...Lyte is so so dope, eloquent, fine and legendary. Glad to have seen this interview.

[@charulzhamilton4727]

Iconic artist love lyte.

[@eliakimbenishchayil]

She is even more beautiful today

[@stevemclendsy3911]

Yep.

[@KimMessengerOfRap]

Yesss, my birthday twin and one of my inspirations in rap music 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😍🥰 I love Lyte!

[@1Surinamer]

Cha Cha Cha, Ill be damned, Is this Mc Lyte, .oh my, she damn damn damn aged well...some people menn! Just beautiful, Miss Lyte. I want her. Love you Miss Lyte❤ Do my thing with an '89 swing The dopeness I write, I guarantee delight To the hip-hop maniac, the Uptown brainiac In full effect, MC Lyte is back!!!!

[@pmodel1]

MC Lyte lookin stunning!

[@lyttonwilliams7161]

Legend of Queens 👸

[@alisterelite9518]

Ruff neck was 🔥🔥🔥 he should’ve asked her what is eesh n ooo eesh ish n Ish

[@naturallycleva5809]

😂😂😂👍🏾

[@Keithmuhammadofficial]

She looks sooo good!! Shout out to MC Lyte

[@eddiejohnson8582]

So BEAUTIFUL

[@djkweensupreme]

We definitely need an MC LYTE BIOPIC

[@larrymartinbennett2199]

MUCH LOVE RESPECT AND LOVE TO YOU ALWAYS QUEEN MISS M.C. LYTE 🌹🌹🤣🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥😎

[@mercy4386]

I grew up in 80’s in love with mc lyte

[@TalibMoore-er2bc]

I Will forever love MC lyte

[@mangadolo]

That Foster McElroy joint is the ANTHEM!!! ✊🏽🔥😎💥

[@OneMovieTicketPlease]

MC Lyte you're..well.. she's just endlessly fine...

[@royorkesjr.8386]

MC Lyte is the best female rapper of all time!!!

[@karlwilliams8906]

OF ALL TIME.....

[@royorkesjr.8386]

@@karlwilliams8906 yep there's no female today that would come close to her lyrical skills

[@Enigma-Sai]

I just LOVE HER!!!!

[@shantemason3889]

Cha cha cha is the ish....it's the reason I love hip hop...🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@anthonyhall8467]

Classic 😢😢 yesssss

[@calvinhaskett5750]

Baby YOU and TLC ARE some of MY all-time favorites.top10

[@RP.123]

More rappers of today need to collaborate because they ain’t saying nothing these days.

[@kckgirl78]

Today’s young wannabes ought to listen to MC Lyte as she shares truths on the BUSINESS of being an artist. Unlike MC Lyte, Kool Moe Dee, LL Cool J, Kurtis Blow, Slick Rick, the Sugar Hill Gang and many other rappers from the ‘80s whose music is still relevant AND memorable (40) years later, the music of today’s rappers won’t be remembered in (4) MONTHS let alone years from now. Thanks for sharing this interview with us. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #musicofmy20’s

[@gibsonfranchise]

LL wrote that period lol 😂

[@jameswebster7095]

I 💘 Mc Lyte.

[@eddiewallace3362]

This sister is sooo CHOICE!!! Brooklyn baby!!

[@AlmondGlazedSunrise]

3:00 - I'm sure everyone here said "cram to understand." 😂

[@larryhayward85]

Factz he was definitely on point 😂

[@armywife2248]

Kool Moe Dee's verse was laser accurate!!!

[@henryzamora2958]

MC LyCE IS BEST eVER love u 😘😍😘😍 baby LENDGEND 🔥💯💯🔥🔥

[@p.o.p55]

.... she's the greatest ✨🔥🔥💯

[@ohioks-dubblineleedoggman3241]

Lyte look guuuuuuud bruh

[@lastsocial77]

She looks better aged than young. Good Lord in heaven 💘🥰

[@kingman1330]

her parent should be proud of her as I am!!!

[@Jay-tp8ol]

Love Lyte!!

[@messiahblackgod]

This is why I love the girl...Peace to Kreepy Clown for working miracles on a four track✊🏿👑👑

[@toddhayes3506]

Mc Lyte definition of Hip Hop TRUTH 💯

[@evanhochimbalanga2100]

She is still beautiful

[@dxmedia868]

I wish we got her verse, because we needed her sense too.

[@FloridaGeorgia]

There is a "making of" video from 1988 on this platform. It's incorrectly dated but titled "The Stop The Violence Video: Overcoming Self Destruction (1990) HD" MC Lyte and Nelson George both explain why MC Lyte abandoned what she originally wrote in exchange for what she and LL wrote together.

[@Drew_dagreat_ali]

She pretty asf

[@Melvin-kq5we]

God bless u lyte 🙏

[@mccraejoey82]

Ll definitely said he wrote it and he said he did it for free

[@kajuankelly7545]

Love you Lyte!!!!😍

[@DonDessaDesoto20s]

She's gorgeous.

[@JFCroce]

Typical for the music industry allegedly , only some artists got paid, yet LL COOL J says in an old video he got nothin? He means nothin for the verse? He allegedly got his 2%? The SELFDESTRUCTION VIDEO is RELEVANT for anybody, anywhere in the world! Shout out from EUROPE!

[@Okraknife]

She still looks great!

[@bradytn]

Lyte is the reason i started drinking cappuccino.

[@mustafahajj]

Love your honesty. Same here. I've been ashamed for too long to admit it. I, too, drink the hot frothy concoction because of Lyte as well.

[@JaniceCarter-ws7lu]

God bless her daily❤

[@darrelljones3965]

Still fine af

[@KingLoneWolf44]

i COULD OF SWEAR I READ BACK IN THE DAYS THAT LL COOL J WROTE HER VERSE. I THINK IT WAS IN ONE OF THOSE RAP MAGAZINES BACK THEN.

[@spke532]

LL clearly stated that he wrote that self-destruction. Maybe that's why he got the points.

[@julianamen4796]

That 2% that LL got means he wrote her verse or majority of her verse.

[@Jayeye11]

EXACTLY!!!!

[@djkweensupreme]

Mannn oh Mann My Queen witta Crown !!!!!!!

[@EchoRhythmMusic]

She is stunningly beautiful

[@zoria9entertainmentofficia216]

The LYTE 🎶🎶🎶

[@DudesaLibra]

She is so sofine and my Libra birthday twin.

[@johnpappalardo4088]

I miss the Audio 2

[@DaSGME9]

Damn she fine

[@krinklyfig]

that's funny cause Cha Cha Cha is definitely not like most MC Lyte but it is an all timer. the beat is iconic. glad she came to embrace it.

[@digit76]

Best female rapper alive facts Dig it