Mc Lyte on realization Things Done Changed in Hip Hop

[@ginajones4729]

When music changed, so did love & respect for one another. 😢

[@Blodia1990]

... It's the opposite my brethren. Music is a reflection of life

[@alliwishis_2]

But clearly not of all, only one side of a half a dollar..

[@andreasmith6077]

Facts I always say the 90’s and the early 2000’s was the last era of good music

[@michaelr3333]

Its in reverse, life changed then music changed. Plus its all a agenda.

[@jamesberryiii]

Not just music… movies.. 🎥, but the world went right along with it… just like being a thug was looked down on.. now you don’t have to be a thug, you can be a fake thug and the world 🌎loves you… but goes all in to what ✨👑God’s W⚔️RD says… evil will be good, and good will be evil!! Renew the Spirit of your mind with ✨👑Christ only cuz we live in a 🌎 where they let kids choose who they want to be and a lot of parents don’t care, or are not there, or they push right along with it so they can be their friend…🤦🏾‍♂️…. sad

[@luissammy404]

Lyte is /was always naturally beautiful

[@robertmitchell9529]

Very much so. I believe her beauty is more vibrant NOW than it was 20-25 years ago!

[@roseofmaafa1148]

​@robertmitchell9529 you said 25 years ago like that mean something. I was a MC Lyte fan 37=40 years ago

[@TariekhLindsey]

I'm Mc Lyte and I'm Light as a rock!!!

[@bigkev1773]

Paper thin

[@supremeteam3112]

MC lyte is from FAR ROCKAWAY

[@learnhow2learn87]

Her voice is still so iconic.

[@andrenaetrammell2711]

Feel the same way, her voice is serene!

[@jenniferbates2811]

Same! I love the cadence of her voice

[@yvettemckinzie9082]

She was the announcer for the grammy for a minute i think

[@DerrickBrown-tk9pr]

Agreed!!

[@richhabrams1898]

Its veey skrong, Yes w/ a *k* lol ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊

[@DBMUA]

There was a song called, Self-Destruction and it echoes a lot of what we are seeing, which is the breakdown of respect and self awareness. It’s a sad transition to see.

[@cynthiabrown9134]

I just played this song for my 17 year old granddaughter. I think I'll repost it to my page. They need to hear this message.

[@whuzup3]

Absolutely correct 👍🏽

[@phillyfans5641]

Mc lyte was on that song also

[@whuzup3]

@phillyfans5641 Yup

[@Dalvidd-u6w]

BS this is not new. By the time self-destruction came out, shit was already broken.

[@GaBoy4135]

I miss those days. We respected each other.

[@jonathandiaz754]

Shut up. NYC in those days was averaging 2k murders a year. Nobody had respect for anything

[@gamerzay69]

That is a lie lol

[@bxrokk]

Maybe in the music. But in the streets, the crack era had ushered in an unparalleled level of disrespect and dysfunction that eventually crept into the music and the culture.

[@nessaboo232]

Lies the bridge is over.... It was beef and disrespect too

[@Koyasi78]

​​@@gamerzay69 a damn lie. The selective memory of the 90s is funny to me. That was freak nik and gangster culture. Anything but respectful.

[@timothyblount8807]

She ain't lying I remember those days it was peaceful

[@youraveragewarden9774]

So do I.💯🎯

[@Mankivigs]

Peaceful? The murder rates were much higher than it is now. Especially in New York

[@tychris9464]

Two days ago 🍊💩 called Michelle Obama one, and 20% of b men agreed.

[@lawrencecrawford1517]

Yes it was.

[@mookieblaelocker6504]

😂😂

[@LoveAlways1002]

Nowadays....the women sing right along 💯🙏🏽

[@gloriabaylor882]

Some women are desensitized, and some are ignorant and uninformed. 😮🎉

[@Mindset_Mechanics]

Because a fish rots from the head

[@gloriabaylor882]

@@Mindset_Mechanics what in the world does that mean? 😳

[@Mirror_My_Ambition]

​@gloriabaylor882 . It means it starts with the "leaders" those in charge, the ones pulling the strings, " and everyone follows.

[@treysii]

😔

[@sandrawilson1692]

MC LYTE, THAT’S BECAUSE BACK THEN WE HAD REAL DECENT MEN SUCH AS LL COOL J. KOOL MOE DEE, BIZ MARKIE, BIG DADDY ETC. 💖

[@DeloneyCunningham]

And then Queen Latifah responds with "Who you calling a B!tch? U N I T Y!"

[@vernonhampton5863]

This was basically a call and response with Apache's Gangsta B!tch. And if you listen to both tracks back to back, you get the message they were working out, and it's beautiful, it's art. But these days we have content instead of art.

[@michaelaghedo3793]

​@@vernonhampton5863That doesn't change the fact that the B word was used and MC LYTE is lying.

[@suntrust0418]

I thought she was referring to the fact that it was something derogatory from rappers these days towards women. What Queen Latifah was like Who you calling that too. She wasn’t calling anyone a bitch but yes the bitch word was said but I feel it was a different perspective Lyte was coming from.

[@SCRATCH574]

And now Latifah's down with the me and my bitches terminology.

[@cl8355]

​@@michaelaghedo3793what East coast rapper was calling women bitches in 1988?

[@Jgeetharealg]

Music is a frequency, a vibration, change the vibration change the mood

[@vanessa_the_mindset_maven]

Right On, Brothuh! RIGHT ON

[@thealchemist333]

@@Jgeetharealg it's not just the vibration. They are purposely playing music at an unnatural frequency of 440 hz which is damaging to the body. The words also repeated over and over along with focus on the negative images is what has caused this massive manifestation of death and destruction in the black community. I remember one of the rap groups putting everyone on alert that we were headed for self destruction and they were right

[@universaleducationsystems2722]

Word 💯

[@LucilleandLeonard2]

So true. There are more hip hop/rap songs being played and fewer love songs.

[@C_a_m_i_2024]

💯🔥

[@JacquelineHaywood-s5b]

She's absolutely right time has change so Disrespectful 😢

[@THELIONSDEN-jw4ul]

AND BLACK WOMEN ARE AT ITS FOREFRONT 😅😅😅😅😅

[@gamingbrothers1890]

Just ice said it

[@calbrown4639]

You do know that WOMEN by & large are the biggest purchasers & consumers of rap music tho right🤔🤷🏽‍♂️

[@articledon4880]

Hip hop been calling women bitches for 35 years. Why we acting like it just changed?

[@jhawk3303]

​@@articledon4880I believe ( around that time /35yrs ago) that's when Lyte experienced being called a B. Her point is simple tho, on the East, men respected women on average & didn't call women out they names. In fact, it was the opposite. Men from the East had lines like " Excuse me miss, can I talk to you for min or how you doing Queen etc ) So that's her point!

[@kg7836]

Yes! I was out of the country for 1 year, when I returned to California I was shocked and saddened the direction our music was going.😢

[@antoinettewood6429]

It was during a time where you could feel the devastation it was going to cause in our communities. 😞Those who tried to fight against it were ignored and ridiculed .

[@thealchemist333]

@@antoinettewood6429 Exactly!

[@Joylove134]

RIP C. Delores Tucker

[@RobertTrey-ov1lz]

It wasn't cool to be a sell out and go commercial but money changed folks...

[@willie417]

U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun Representing The State of Illinois

[@truthtorpedo4068]

Even to this day they rever Ice Cube, Ice T et al. I have no love for any of these boys. LONG LIVE MC HAMMER! ❤

[@calvindenzmorejr3088]

Agreed. When the music changed society changed.

[@CeDubble]

"Life Imitates Art" 😐🤦🏽

[@BronzeSugarToo]

ABSOLUTE FACTS!!!

[@zhaystyle]

1ST into our ears THEN right in front of our eyes

[@jermainepostlethwaite7895]

Old skool Queen of Hip Hop❤ They can't match that these days

[@jonathanparks107]

Kings and queens have subjects bro

[@tomlewis9776]

Hip hop didn't exist during her rise to fame. It was rap music. Hip Hop was started by the joooish marketing system. That's their invention which started black people as characters. 🤔

[@temekawittrell3185]

Facts 💯

[@marlenejohnson3548]

Food for thought

[@roderickstockdale1678]

@@tomlewis9776hip hop is the entire culture. Breakdancing graffiti and rapping were all parts of it. We’ve always claimed it as hip hop cause it had two parts-hip for knowledge and hop for movement. Read up the history that’s how it’s been going all the way back to ‘73, OK? Go read some books or do some online research on it and learn the culture and the history of it and get out of your suburban Oreo arrogance.

[@truthlieswise]

And look at the impact on what it turned out to be later on down the line

[@georgelassiter7650]

I didn’t realize it at the time, but I realized it when I was 55 years old. I was telling my cousin, who is 56 years old, the same thing a few days ago. Most rap was about enlightening us.

[@wickitklown90]

That was hip hop not rap. Like the song by The Devil Wears Prada called Can't Spell Crap Without C.

[@maximillianbruglione7976]

Congratulations fam...we made it!

[@ExposedRoot]

Same here. I'm 58 originally from queens. Right in the thick of it. I saw these guys with my own eyes in the street with crates of Records rapping on the corner or in the park and they did not use the word b****. The violence in rap started on the west coast.

[@CarrylHicks-vo5ez]

Remember what the guy from bone thugs said how they called them into a meeting and told them there wasn't going to be any more conscious rap. There were several prisons being built and they needed to fill them. Said they would really only be promoting gangsta rap.🤔

[@kip24u]

@CarrylHicks-vo I which some of the people replying would read your post and listen to what McLyte was saying.

[@43wolverine]

Seeing MC Lyte again warms my soul. And she is STILL just as beautiful and intelligent as she was when I was a teenager.

[@angelabarnes7588]

She even more beautiful, now, in my opinion.

[@michaelrobinson1056]

@@angelabarnes7588I completely agree.

[@BROTHERLAKE]

Now our sisters wear it like a badge of honor

[@M-wi5tw]

It’s truly sickening. But this is our fault. It should have been boycotted. We as blacks should have said you won’t get our support for this foolishness. Such a broken people!

[@najimaeljalti2937]

Absolutely

[@reneemcmillan2724]

It's sickening

[@ariellengozi2597]

A damn shame 😢

[@user-je3zc3nj9c]

How unfortunate. Thirsty skirt chasers encourage this type of behavior

[@jaywholoveseveryone1721]

Even sadder is that the females of today accept it.

[@UnkMarvin]

We have lost our humanity..... And our Respect.

[@Christopher-td8wu]

NwA was the catalyst. As a Black kid in a all white neighborhood, very few white guys listened to hop-hop until NWA. It was then it went from marketing to us to marketing to them.

[@Bambino1974]

Too $hort

[@emekaamerican863]

Them Ice T and 2 Live Crew as well

[@williegordon5287]

I knew someone was going to say NWA had ruined hiphop cause of a comment by Special Ed made about them

[@zachfpv4493]

GETO BOYS ICE-T

[@goodymob9638]

​@@williegordon5287naw if you know you know

[@FredrickMeredith-k2c]

I'm 57 years old and have always been very fond of MC Lyte

[@DARKCITYENT23]

To bad you barking up the Wrong Tree😢😢😢😢😢😂😂😂

[@YoTony25]

Thanks for the Bio

[@FredrickMeredith-k2c]

@@DARKCITYENT23 Meaning what exactly? 🤔🤔🤔

[@peterdavis8471]

Reminds me of vivica on set it off 😊😊😊

[@yellow9349]

Your Generation X

[@wannef980]

The Lyte has spoken! Total agree. Love me some MC LYTE!! 💜🔥👑

[@billb277]

Lyte always been beautiful,and her rap flow has always been on point,I'm glad she put out a new album this year

[@Cessna182Pilot]

I agree with her. It's changing very fast

she is talking about the late 80's early 1990's

[@brfuzz5600]

The late 80s early 90s is when Too Short was running game… with one word, BIATCH

[@manuelsmiley7125]

She's full of it, she called Antoinette out of her name way back in the 80s. Remember? "Hot damn ho here we go again"?

[@el84oro]

selective memory, all those people had tracks that mentioned that back then. forget music even movies, the blaxpoitation movies that came out in the late 70s early 80s had all that too. people need to quit acting like morals only started getting lost after their era

[@jayaallday8516]

She's talking about music...And none of those tracks had that until those weirdos from the west Coast showed up​@@el84oro

[@king_m_eazy__008]

Just because we've normalized saying stupid things doesn't mean we have to continue using those words, we have the power to change and to stop

[@DorothySargeant-u3l]

It's a shame that I forgot there was a time when we didn't say certain things in the music.

[@mrcead]

Most people don't. This comment section doesn't. You don't, I don't, McLyte don't, the host don't. It's a small number of people who do by comparison. Talk to most people from that era, and they'll tell you they stopped listening to rap as soon as it went left for them. Today's rap is basically minstrel rock music for the Klan to enjoy as that part of the community burns itself to the ground - notice that's all conservative shows talk about regarding black people

[@IndiaJames-j3y]

If a woman is willing to call herself that, you can’t expect the man to respect you and not call you out of your name. Respect is earned always!

[@growngrownman5950]

AGREED! I feel the same way about those of us who use the N-word. We can't go around calling ourselves that and expect others not to use it. That's why I don't use it. No profane language so I can be the example of what I want to see in the world.

[@gyfgyf2836]

Its hard for people to hear.. and i get it... But once any dummy down south was able to rap. It took away the artistry of being articulate as a necessity

[@filmgirlLisa]

My favorite female hip hop artist. Then and now still.

[@katjocha]

Living legend. Rap royalty. Love her! ❤❤❤

[@robertmitchell9529]

Lyte is and always have been a very classy individual. Mad respect to MC Lyte on a very long a fulfilling career in both music & television.

[@skipg73]

Except her kissing little boys as an adult .

[@concernedcit3376]

I really like that song from MC Lyte "Steady Fu*king" and "Fu*k that motherf*cking bullsh*t"

[@TedMills-y8w]

So much respect for you🔥TedWizardMills BlueMagic 💙

[@jacquelinebrown6596]

I feel that truth. I don't ever recall hearing the disrespect as we do now. Its like they can't do a song without the word. No respect whatsoever!

[@BruceFlame-zz7xb]

You’re like 60

[@sheliabeal7857]

ESPECIALLY IN THESE COMMENT SECTIONS !!! IT'S DISRESPECT ON STEROIDS. 😮 😢

[@museumquality5217]

Her energetic soothing voice and tone is extremely respectful.... It commands my attention.

[@joshhawkins7706]

Sexy too

[@LAhustla4real]

It's her femininity it will always command attention and respect more than any masculine woman will ever be able to

[@francesjeanlouis9285]

So true! Lyte said everything without having to say much! It's sad and this is why I OFFICIALLY STOPPED LISTENING TO SECULAR MUSIC!!!

[@masterj4777]

She gets it and has made the perfect point about it 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@rconley40]

Lyte is beautiful! Then & now!

[@AfricanEmpress01]

MC Lyte is 1,000,000% correct. There was a sudden change in the music scene, and most of my people were like "No to that"! Tupac was a gentleman from the West Coast for the most part. We just changed musical genres. 90s era of music was the best, though! She spoke facts

[@hunteryoung7868]

She is wrong I can name a few.

[@edithwilliams5470]

I wasn't as bad back then but it has happen .

[@naijawife1891]

Tupac was from New York not the west coast

[@AfricanEmpress01]

@@naijawife1891 My bad. Well, just another good example!

[@naijawife1891]

@AfricanEmpress01 no worries....I just love Tupac that's all....particularly his socially conscious stuff before the beef...

[@Elroy-hobbs39]

I love MC Lyte. RUFF NECK Greatest female rap ever!!! Much love and respect 🎉❤

[@mr.lowermerion1977]

Not better than Lauryn Hill

[@Elroy-hobbs39]

@mr.lowermerion1977 What are you saying??? I can't even take you seriously with that, yo. You funny 🤣

[@easyon12]

@@Elroy-hobbs39 You're right about Lauryn Hill, but Lyte greatest female rapper?? Nah bruh, Sweet Tee. Listen to "It's my beat" or "On the Smooth Tip" or "It's Like That y'all" or "What's up Starr" although she changed her name for that one.

[@k_dot_parker6320]

So Lyte doesn't want to be respected by not being called a b****, but she makes a song praising thugs/drug dealers...👌🏾

[@mpetty45]

@@k_dot_parker6320this guy gets it

[@waltercrawford6226]

Amen Lyte!!! You are so amazing ❤️❤️🙏🏾

[@Cfgryu4658]

No more respect for anyone or anything yes i felt that way 💯

[@Desiree-t7b]

Hip hop is dead ,gayness took over

[@joe.limbus]

Yall be so over dramatic....apparently rappers need to have 1 million views before you're willing to listen to them, because there are thousands of rappers still making music of substance

[@uniquelloyd8755]

But let's start at home first....No respect coming from men to a woman

[@Nuggyc]

We as black people thought it was so cool to hear new black hip hop artists began to cuss all over the music. Artist like NWA Easy E, Ice Cube, and so on. Now look at us. We look just as stupid as we want to be. Actually, they kill one another thru music, bragging about having sex with another artist girl. Threatening to kill and so on. The artist will say i just wrote it. I didn't think someone would actually go and do it. I get paid to write. Like a story writer for a movie, and the same for the movie industry, showing a murder scene. A person in real life is actually doing it. Brainwashing. On 1 hand , it's the beautiful plan of the devil. People in the industry are saying this is how i make a living . I have a right. I am an artist. Hmmm

[@Desiree-t7b]

@@Nuggyc yet whites make Satanic music due meth and fentanyl, promote homosexuality and talk about suicide in there music,yet men like you talk about black people music that feed there family,stop hating be black

[@greengorilla]

On “The P is Free” KRS calls a woman the B word, a garden tool, and a crackhead at the same time. LL constantly referred to women as skeezers. And Chuck D from Public Enemy has a song titled “Sophisticated B@tch” on their first album. All of these references were before 1990! Surely, her memory is selective.

[@dhfocus7]

Thank you for this. I knew my memory wasn't that bad.

[@EdwardBrandywine]

It wasn't excessive though. You can remember the lines because they were so infrequent. And the only times, actually. Rakim only cussed maybe two times his whole career

[@kalvinellis5910]

Will Smith had "You saw my blinker bitch"

[@lodantz7939]

Yeah, and Booga Bandit Bitch.... ppl also forget that 90s was when everything changed and got bold. You didn't cuss on TV and Radio back then.

[@averyt6521]

Skeezers not b word

[@memtn901]

This is what you call a grown woman with intelligence and natural beauty mc lyte 🔥🔥💯

[@My2Sense-c7y]

She sold her soul ! Wtf yall talking about ? I heard plenty east coast rappers say bitch . It was a select group that didn't but a lot them did

[@OneWhoKnowz]

Music is a powerful vibration, and when it’s not aligning us with our higher good, it’s usually tearing us apart in ways we can’t even fully see. The damage it causes doesn’t just stop with us-it ripples out, affecting generations to come.Thanks for allowing me to share❤

[@yennek007]

Now the women call each other that!! No check that they call themselves that now in the rap game!😢

[@newprovidence2007]

Theyve been programed to do that. They are desensitized to the word

[@anthonyvogleson3307]

Cause I'm old so I thought that was the issue...

[@JDay-j8z]

They been doing it

[@EyeOfTheWatcher]

I am glad that there are still women that have some self respect.

[@whyworkwhenicanrap6830]

Talking with friends and making music about it having videos calling women that pouring drinks on them etc is horrible

[@nayd.7979]

Lyte...one of the original pioneers giving a life lesson 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@dman221]

😂😂😂. What lesson did she give but to sing about chasing thugs? 😂😂😂

[@carlaallen2409]

MS. LYTE SPOKE THE TRUTH. I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I HEARD THAT MYSELF. THANKS FOR SPEAKING TRUTH💯💯💯💯💯

[@cheritayoung4416]

She always speaks so elegantly.

[@ametricamcgauley6534]

Thank you, Lyte. We appreciate you so much. ❤ we are beautiful queens. The younger rappers just don't respect us as wonderful women. Some of the younger ladies think this is a term of endearment. We are royalty, but some women aren't informed of how phenomenal 👏 they are.😊😊

[@VenusValenzuela-b5v]

BEAUTIFULLY SAID❤!🫶🏽

[@Christina-xp9ys]

I grew up in the 80's teenage years listening to MC LYTE! ❤️❤️

[@vicegerent77]

Always said this to myself...first time I'm hearing this out loud...good job!✅️

[@terryjoyner5400]

Public Enemy had a song called Sophicicated Bitch

[@michaelwilcox5168]

Their use of the word wasn’t gratuitous. Context matters.

[@calvinsparrow9829]

​@@michaelwilcox5168it matters as much as the 'N' word which should be banned from our mindset period

[@chicofontane3705]

I just was saying same thing they stay tryna blame West coast. It's a song called " give me a gangsta bitch " way back in the day before the Lox did it and others her Queer as need to stop and want to be called a Queen carpet munching ass

[@jordanfauntleroy2013]

Man they been calling them B's since the late 80s. She must have been living under a rock. She named a few guys that aren't like that, but the others were she need to stop. This ain't a new generation thing, they been doing this and she was bopping her head to the tunes like every other female.

[@jeromepowell1873]

​@@chicofontane3705It was very uncommon back in the day.

[@Tramster3more]

West Coast and South Are Responsible for a lot of things in hip hop 💯‼️

[@dewaynecarlton432]

I’ve always believed that about the South and West Coast. It’s been said that rappers in the south and west never had nothing to say…..with the exception of OutKast, Pharcyde, UGK and very few others. But, I liked Ice T music.

[@KamalasNotLikeUs]

Pink executives are exclusively responsible for distribution deals.

[@bigcali173]

Lies, first of all 6 in the morning by ice t was a play off Spoony G. Just as east is the birthplace, so is the negative. Westcoast simply amplified the underground hiphop topics that were primarily shared by the east coast originally. Hiphop is the street period, and the heart of the culture is in a dark place now. Remember these artists you all blame for introducing the negative are the same ones who everyone used to praise for uncensorship. The whole hiphop community rallied behind them for standing up to say what they want to say. Now you see the recklessness of that pivotal period when we pushed back on the government and the adults who were warning us about the effects of listening to the taboo and untouchable music.

[@dewaynecarlton432]

I’m fully aware of Spoony G. But, let’s be real he is nowhere on the Mount Rushmore’s list of great hip hop artists. And, I have no idea why people are interested in listening to “studio gangsters”. It was irritating to listen to these clowns then, and it’s even worse now. Most of these non talented rappers (especially female rappers) can’t fill an arena if their life depended upon it. But, as I said earlier…..the South and West Coast never had anything real to say.

[@Salaam71]

​@@dewaynecarlton432One of the first times I heard the word B+tch in a song, a HIT song was from NJ rapper Apache. "I Need a Gangsta B*tch". 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@JimmyJarrett-h2i]

It's a new stage people don't care they just don't care

[@lloydavery2and2make5]

"people" Keep it real

[@keithhenderson5852]

Love her! Much Respect! ☝🏽❤️

[@leroytate1832]

There is no respect no more

[@lloydavery2and2make5]

Keep it a buck, the black community.

[@TheUniverseHasMyBack]

"Too $hort" Is the King of that word💯

[@corystrader7858]

From the west coast, she said east coast rappers.. listen

[@VictorCain-ut2gq]

💯💪🏾👍🏾 and we bump the hell out of Too $hort 🔊🔊🔊

[@jgjeff8481]

Bismillah Being from Oakland it apply to who it apply to. That's the problem. You have good Women that are ladies and self respecting, mixed with females with no morals, class, self respect, and are terrorists to men

[@johnblack4915]

​@VictorCain-ut2gq 😎

[@EyeOfTheWatcher]

It because he got some bottle up hate for women, but if someone would call his mom , grandmother, etc. that word, he would have a problem with it.

[@mauriceldisgreecanadahaspr9560]

KRS ONE GREAT RAPPERS KRS-ONE PUBLIC ENEMY CL SMOOTH EPMD LL COOL J GREAT RAPPERS 😮😮😮😮😮

[@Yada-i3d]

Rakim

[@user-yv6of3li4x]

Kool G Rap

[@onewardog1169]

Big Daddy Kane

[@crw3673]

Golden Era of Hip Hop. Late 80s.

[@rosieclark3661]

Conscious rapper’s now this crazy violent Drill crap is worse than gangsta rap 🤔💯⚠️

[@crichardson6386]

Wow! I feel her confusion. We can't stop change whether good or bad, it has to play it self out. She's a living legend, respect for your contribution🎉

[@adsummer70]

Rap music and hip hop is totally? DIFFERENT 🎉🎉

[@Nuggyc]

We as black people thought it was so cool to hear new black hip hop artists began to cuss all over the music. Artist like NWA Easy E, Ice Cube, and so on. Now look at us. We look just as stupid as we want to be. Actually, they kill one another thru music, bragging about having sex with another artist girl. Threatening to kill and so on. The artist will say i just wrote it. I didn't think someone would actually go and do it. I get paid to write. Like a story writer for a movie, and the same for the movie industry, showing a murder scene. A person in real life is actually doing it. Brainwashing. On 1 hand , it's the beautiful plan of the devil. People in the industry are saying this is how i make a living . I have a right. I am an artist. Hmmm

[@RahYisrael99]

Exactly. Hip hop is a culture of positivity, self love, knowledge, growth, art and poetry. Rap is just words. Or now just mumbles. Words are no longer required.

[@FillyouupSplash]

Rap is one of the elements of hip hop.....you can always tell who's not from the NYC area😢

[@joseibarrondo67]

God bless all my old school hip hop artists. And God bless MC lyte I was in Menard penitentiary in Chesterton Illinois and she came and put a show on for us. Thank you ma'am we needed that. You killed it😂😂😂

[@dyrontouchstone9809]

2PAC explains everything in his song "Wonda Why They Call You B****" ....IJS 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@Cedyouseeibe]

😂😂😂 exactly

[@mearllee3511]

Yeah…but C. Deloris Tucker got the last laugh because look at hip hop now.

[@texasscratchking4568]

😂😂

[@dmcfail987]

​@@mearllee3511still thriving so your point is?

[@mearllee3511]

@@dmcfail987 What’s your point in “still thriving”?

[@LawrenceMccoy-c8f]

favorite female rapper of all time🐐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐light as a rock❤

[@KevinNotSamuels]

CAP! Will Smith had a whole song where the hook was "You saw my blinker Blitch"!

[@nokuntry]

Cool G Rap was calling women the same and he's an 80s new York rapper. Also Apache said he wanted a gangster B'.

[@Brutus89]

@@nokuntry💯💯💯

[@bigquick571]

Well will smith secretly likes to be an anti man haha also he bout to go down wit pee diddy

[@tahellison6326]

By the time gangster bitch came out she was washed and that will smith track went double nothing .a few people did but the crews she was around and inspired by definitely weren't

[@howvin32]

Y’all reaching lol. Will Smith was how many years when he used the word? He never used the word when he was the Fresh Prince. Y’all just don’t like the elders like Lyte wagging their fingers at y’all. Back in 90 I felt the same and now I wish I would’ve condemned some of this ish before it became what it is.

[@lenoraparker1657]

Speak my sister nowadays they just call us what ever they want and it's awful when the guy started calling us out of our names the lost respect for us you are 💯💯💯 much love may God continue to bless you ❤️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@ctelle5267]

Also remember that "women" nowadays do not act in the same manner as our former Queens.

[@salouis8402]

They can call females that but why respond to it especially when you know who and what you are.

[@jblack4644]

Call out the female rapper for doing the very same thing please.

[@Hardman2Follow]

"You saw my blinker, Bish." -Will Smith

[@cesareborgia7689]

You know what he meant in that song …people be reaching I swear

[@Hardman2Follow]

@cesareborgia7689 reaching? Just calling out the only time Will called a female bish on wax to disprove the statement being made. How is it a reach?

[@Miss-Ann-Thrope]

I don't know the song, but in that case he may not be talking about a woman. Road rage will get anyone called a bish. He may have been describing an incident that happened in life and put it in a song.

[@marcshaw9456]

That song came out after the fact. That is actually why he don't cuss no more because even at that time when that song drop we all was feeling like she did earlier. Will smith saying that felt wrong ASF. That is actually the album that stamped his rap days was done . Then yt ppl saved him n the he did all sound track stuff cuz it was "safe" for him.

[@RicardoRichmond-ch8tl]

Apachie R.I.P. ( gangster bitch)

[@nadinekinard8467]

She's so right ❤ What we do now is keep teaching our children to value themselves. I have a son and a daughter and I teach them that word is not a disrespectable word and letting them know if you hang around a person who calls women that, pretty soon that same person will start being disrespectful and, maybe even abusive to a woman. Please teach your children how to value themselves and know their worth. Because these days there are so many parents who are not teaching their children that.

[@derrickdavis4800]

Will Smith has a song called "You saw my blinker bitch"

[@skepchica]

@@derrickdavis4800 Will Smith and Jazzy Jeff were literally a joke. That song was making fun of gangsta rap.

[@StoneGone]

“I need a gangsta bitch!” “Apache” -New Jersey

[@zakiyrahman8828]

He's not really apart of the conversation in hip hop.

[@texasscratchking4568]

​@@zakiyrahman8828 yeah that song made it out though

[@iitsAWholeWorld]

@@zakiyrahman8828theres way more

[@Mr.4791.]

Epmd,just ice,slick Rick...just to name a few

[@NW7386]

Thats after the fact of what shes tslking about. By the time that song csme out the disrespect had alrrady become a fixture in rsp music.

[@llcooljean]

Common was right.

[@ericcanady3109]

He sure was that rap song he made I used to love her spoke volumes Yes it did❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@josephsenegal7387]

My favorite female rapper,I love her ❤❤❤❤❤

[@riotgear6182]

Thank the record labels. They refuse to push positive music. They want us to fill up the jails. Pay new artists more for disrespecting our women and target the men for drill.

[@lindakelley2676]

Good point! It's actually by design and not an artistic concept. Real men need to resist that trap set for them by the industrial prison complex .

[@antoniostarke440]

WHAT!!!!...slick rick ladi dadi..."the bitch was strong,"

[@ruddyrebel3411]

MISSING THE POINT

[@yorubagold5921]

@@ruddyrebel3411 but there are bitches tho lets not get that twisted.

[@VANTAGEBLAKK]

That’s a real anomaly Whats you’re trying to sight and guess what’s it’s weak

[@AntonioWilliams-uz2rs]

That's different cause you call it like it is you have women, sluts, hoes & ladies then you have bitches & Slick Rick didn't say it just referring to a lady so get it right the dudes on the west Coast just naturally called women bitches like it's everyday thing

[@macc_4]

BYTCHHHHHH...in Too Short voice...

[@peachesjohnson9387]

I felt that way too😢

[@Tereo-g9d]

Luv ya can't get enough of ya

[@normmac953]

Slick Rick and Doug E Fresh - La Di Da Di “the bitch been around before my mother’s born”. That was right in MC Lyte’s time. East Coast rappers.

[@duvaldunndee]

With the wrinkled pussy...

[@newdimensions6327]

Yeah i dont know what Lyte is talking about. They been calling women that in hip hop. East coast hip hop at that

[@JonathanLittle001]

Slick rick is technically most definately from England

[@nicolegodspower17]

"that she heard", paid attention to, or "thought of" in that moment. We get the point!

[@bwalker4375]

@@nicolegodspower17she didn’t hear la di dadi?

[@Mrs.Lee-teachme]

If we did NOT pay for music like that, people would stop making it. MONEY TALKS.

[@bc2250]

You pay for music?

[@Mrs.Lee-teachme]

@@bc2250 You don't? The last concert I attended cost almost $200.

[@dennismisovski9932]

People just don’t take music serious anymore, it’s just party music havin a good time no meaning ect ect

[@bokcmeatyvstheworld8273]

​@@Mrs.Lee-teachme no it's free

[@Mrs.Lee-teachme]

@@bokcmeatyvstheworld8273 What concerts do you go to that are free?

[@The1shaboogie]

What about Apache “Gangsta Bitch”? He was from the East Coast (New Jersey)!

[@YungNic]

And she the one who made the song "gotta get a ruffneck!!!" Like she ain't know that ruffnecks use the word "bitch" 😂👎

[@ronniewalker3144]

So true Miss real TALK and you're 💯 percent right.

[@emmiaj9419]

Thank you Queen for keeping it real ❤

[@GregTurdHauler]

Thank her for what? She's the one who popularized the idea that young girls needed to "watch out he gotta be a roughneck", and young black girls nationwide turned to embrace relationships with criminals. She's really rich talking all that ish now that she's old when she is part directly responsible for the deterioration of the black male/female dynamic and the destruction of the black family since the early 90s. I know I lived thru that summer, and remember the change well. Urkle's was out here winning before roughneck came out lol, but after if you weren't selling dope the girls didn't want you. Thanks MC Lyte for your contribution to the culture FOH

[@525HP]

Gotta call a spade a spade

[@chinalove4988]

All facts 💯

[@michael8-12angelo4]

No facts

[@calsarchandler6851]

False

[@user-yv6of3li4x]

Didn't Kool G Rap say it in a couple songs?

[@calsarchandler6851]

@@user-yv6of3li4x The song Talk Like Sex comes to mind, and almost every song after his first album.

[@zinatillery4446]

This so true its really sad as a woman we are not treated with respect 😢❤

[@bmorelikehimtilghman4108]

Not even the women called each other that. They treat it like a term of endearment! So, loss!!

[@INKANDPIXELMEDIA]

@@durapokerthey were speaking in the past tense. Do you read before commenting?

[@gregsmith1342]

​@@durapoker😅😅😅😅 womp womp! you 🤡 😅😅😅😅

[@footmotion]

​@INKANDPIXELMEDIA She does read, that's why she said called. I'm a assuming what happened here is that because she didn't add the word "now" before they, you lost context. Do a little less Criticizing and a little more critical thinking.

[@skmazeratii8498]

Right...

[@Ricky-u2b]

The greatest female rapper at all time. Listen to this remarkable woman❤❤❤❤❤

[@JDay-j8z]

This isn't remarkable it's feminist bullshit did she ask to turn off when they were calling men names news flash some women are witches

[@exspensivespeech588]

West coast said eff them 304s

[@yaiqabhabalyasharahla4948]

💯💪🏽😆🤣

[@MrCarlw66]

THANK YOU SIS 4 EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE ❤❤❤ 🎉🎉🎉

[@dwightcable9341]

Changed the game

[@illreel5169]

It's wild to hear MC Lyte say something that penpoints our Code Of Ethics... NYC always tried to use our music to educate, no disrespect to the culture shock of LA...👊🏽💣💥

[@dirtyshasta]

And our no music was a real look into a place where killings were daily racism from the cops and the struggle of this jungle called home our message nd delivery is why rap made it this far bcs we made the music for ppl going through the same battles east coast will never give the west its flowers...

[@terrenceliburd8655]

​@@dirtyshastaNope we won't, and don't hold your breath for 🎉 from us.

[@mkebrwn]

Yep, Graduated in HS 1990, NY Hip Hop was very pro black. Powers at be didnt want this, So they introduced NWA and the rest is history. Really miss old NY hip hop, I always believe that the best time in hip hop was the 80's.

[@illreel5169]

@@mkebrwn It's wild because I moved from NYC & CT to NC around a yr into when Snoop Dogg dropped & I felt similar at the time. Although I was going thru my Mom my Brother & myself being domestically abused etc... No disrespect to those great artist, it's just NYC heads had a lot of respect for the women in our lives during the time... #Factz...👊🏽💣💥

[@INKANDPIXELMEDIA]

NWA. and that is where i remember it starting.

[@christopherbrownlee4587]

Exactly. Ice Cube making a song a Bitch iz a Bitch…not mention Too Short before he became mainstream…NWA made it mainstream first

[@discomadness]

La di da di Dougie fresh with MC Ricky D. Aka slick rick 1985 NWA didnt.come out until 86- 87

[@INKANDPIXELMEDIA]

@@discomadness Yo, I totally forgot about that freaking line “I’m too young for you bitch”. 😂😂😂

[@cocopuff6810]

​@@christopherbrownlee4587Yeah too short was first. I think thats where naw got there inspiration

[@Smileasyoumasturbate]

No 2 live crew

[@sherettasharif1358]

Yes I agree with her 💯 about then and now..."you are what you say and act like"😞😭

[@cortrellcarpenter8413]

She was quick to correct the male rappers yet she has said nothing about the female rappers.

[@Dusty_Flair]

She's not crazy, those young hoes go drag her ass.

[@CellHam]

She's talking about in her time female rappers weren't calling each other b****** in her time so you didn't understand what she was saying

[@anthonymoody3826]

​@@CellHam He understood, he just trying to make excuses for being stupid

[@qtrhossman804]

​@@anthonymoody3826exactly he's one of them youngsters that doesn't have respect for anyone. He's taking it personally for that reason...smh

[@yourluxxuryautoconcierge1303]

​@@CellHamRemember the group B. W. P. ?

[@camm7088]

This is why new york leading the culture is important because of the black consciousness that we have in the city Public Enemy,krs,poor righteous teachers,, brand Nubian and X-clan.We had a great balance up here

[@Benbn-v7m]

New York cat's getting weird tho🤔

[@003faze]

Black Panthers originated on the west coast

[@JohnDaDon12]

That’s a fact but in 2024, the spirit in NYC now isn’t the same as the 80s & 90s. They’re like everywhere else 🤷🏿

[@steveg.1927]

The major labels started pushing a different agenda...

[@MoesMammie-ubitch]

Explain NY drill 🤔 😂

[@colorfree4742]

She is absolutely articulate Big up to Lyte

[@kennethwright8108]

Thank you Lute! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾

[@majic7071]

New York swear they so clean. KRS 1 ate up Roxanne Shante'

[@LaronJ]

Lol

[@hakimrasheed5058]

Yeah that was a battle but he nevet called her a bitch

[@howvin32]

Krs-one called her a slut without actually saying it tho. He said Roxanne was good for steady pumping and we knew what that meant.

[@Cizzlebizzle]

Didn’t he call her a hoe?

[@mostmost1]

One situation and that was a direct diss song. Still didn't call her a bitch. Yet Roxanne Shante would call him one.

[@NateGannon]

Lyte used the word bitch a few times. Lol Loge lyte though she was one.. .mķ

[@aaronbenayoun7859]

@@NateGannon she’s not talking about the word being used here and there but what the west did and how they used this and criminal behavior was on another level. People in the scene could just feel it!

[@eugeneallen30]

I remember those times myself hopefully we can get back there no more disrespect of one another.

[@gogochee1095]

Referring to women as Bitches was a West Coast "pimpin" thing...that didnt exist on the East Coast. That came in with NWA and Snoop Dog in the '90's.

[@reallyreal5683]

Don't 4get bout too short😅😅😅

[@nokuntry]

That's a lie bro. Cool G Rap was speaking reckless and that was in the 80s. And a rapper named Apache Said he wanted a gangster bit¢h. There were many new York rappers who spoke that shit but weren't getting any air play.

[@woodsytheowl]

Schooly D was saying it in 1987.

[@Smileasyoumasturbate]

2 live crew

[@Bigheadedwon]

G Rap was definitely using the word, and he was one of the Easts most prominent emcees. He was on a song that came out around 91 called break a bitch neck. I know officially it dropped in 94 but I heard a demo version years before that.