Melle Mel: Every Rapper Thought "Rapper's Delight" was The Worst Song They Ever Heard (Part 2)

[@vladtv]

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[@millzoday]

Fuck you... put me on the channel 😂

[@shyjuan]

That is a brilliant move.

[@veshaw.]

Hey ask about Willie D knocking him out

[@handsomehandsome5505]

@@shyjuan red g for

[@seanhennsey2605]

Cas full of shit Hank ain't steal your rhymes you gave him your rhyme book told him he could take what he wanted n that's the verse he chose to take keep it 100 you didn't think they was a gonna blow up n they did

[@MikeDest]

Rapper’s Delight was basically a song that bridged disco into hiphop. Easier for mainstream to understand at the time.

[@MrWARBUCKS24]

Hip hop and disco were already together rapper's delight just made it to thw charts first

[@BuckemdownBuckemdown]

Rappers delight did Hip Hop a huge favor by giving it more attention. Lacing it with disco while still keeping the focus on rhyming still kept the main ingredient authentic. It never changed the over all dynamics of MCing like it has in this generation. Rap caught another boost when Run DmC was laced with Rock. It's all good as long as the MCIng is still there but all we have now is Mumble music with easy to clone artist.

[@bluewave3417]

@@BuckemdownBuckemdown Not only did disco help, the fact it was that specific beat made a difference. "Good Times" was a well known party record at the time. Rhyming over it sent "Rapper's Delight" over the top. It was great for the advancement of Hip Hop music and culture.

[@thespadestable]

@@bluewave3417 - True, because that song put record companies on notice that rap and the whole scene was marketable.

[@TheKartelMediaChannel]

Absolutely

[@andrewjames7438]

“Half producer half con man.” Lmao... divulge please

[@beans2605]

That was hilarious lol

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

😆 The tradition continues until this day

[@bronzkhrome4024]

I wonder if that was Terrie lewis, who did albums with Janet Jackson

[@missmabel]

@@bronzkhrome4024 Answering 3 years later XD but to defend Terry Lewis, I don't think so. He and Jimmy Jam were still just songwriters and band members of Flyt Time / The Time at this point.

[@johndavid5883]

0 face tat, old school swagg, hip hop royalty. legendary.

[@kenrickkahn]

Who hides His Homeboy's molestation from the world..

[@olgierdolo5510]

@@kenrickkahn The fuck you talkin' about?

[@d.i.g.i.t.a.l.9268]

..but rolled with Bam tho 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@jonathanvillalobos7994]

@@d.i.g.i.t.a.l.9268 So does that make him guilty for bam's shit?

[@Luisr02]

exactly bro like alright you can get tats but tats on the face just really aint it, im blessed my og was born in 1949 so so he def influences me to keep certain aspects of myself old school and thats one of em, stay blessed

[@Dutch3k5]

If def jam vendetta was a person.

[@rcc019]

LMAO 😂😂😂

[@derrickhatten597]

I'm dying lol

[@DLUXTHACHAMP]

I'm guessing he's Iceberg

[@DLUXTHACHAMP]

He could be Meca from Fight For NY

[@BMorgan13]

BRUH!!!! Oh the accuracy. 😂😂💀💀

[@edrickamal7155]

The first rapper to ever write a whole 8 bars , hip hop's first star , one of the GODFATHER of lyricism the father of Chuck D , ICE Cube, Krs one , Ice T , Scarface and Tupac style , straight reality rap straight powerful paragraphs with no punchlines

[@Realest1ne]

Hip-Hop’s first star was Kurtis Blow

[@dozierleigh2980]

His accolades are TOO LONG to mention here

[@dozierleigh2980]

@@Realest1ne in the mainstream, yes but on the streets Mel was IT..he was before KB and waaay doper..even KB will tell that! You had to be there

[@marijanetarot9843]

✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@marijanetarot9843]

Mel came before Kurt.

[@GHOST91141]

Melle Mel verse on Beat Street breakdown 🔥🔥

[@newera5238]

@@cinematic7928 Mannnnnn.....I still get the chillz🥶 listening to it

[@djbris]

@@cinematic7928 period

[@dnyce4006]

Dope!!!!!

[@doriang.r.e.y.1221]

I re-heard that song 5 years ago after not hearing it in decades. I was like, "Oh my God! That's some of the best verses I've ever heard...EVER!

[@edwynnkelley136]

RUUUUUUHHHH!

[@classof2010president]

Looks exactly how I picture an old school rapper would look.

[@atlcollegepark8692]

Fax...Parody like.

[@jaye5926]

jay z is an old rapper : does he look like this? nope...every1 is their own person...this is just how he is dressed & nothing is wrong with that

[@Gainesmils]

😂😂😂

[@bluedoe8086]

💀💀💀

[@legalgreenmusic7860]

Lol

[@21stcenturyhiphop]

The Message is the greatest rap song of all time.

[@rick6672]

Don't forget "the killa" by Justin Bieber.

[@fernandoreyes680]

Don't forget Give Me Everything by the one and only mr worldwide Pitbull 🐐🐐🐐🐐

[@LITMOVIESCENES]

lol

[@Itsamansworld1]

Gucci Mane The Truth

[@eriknava210]

Don't forget Gucci Gang by MC Pump

[@shooz4unme]

FINALLY A REAL MC!! MELLE MEL!! FURIOUS 5!! BX the home of hip-hop/rap!! FACTS!! This man paved the way for today’s rappers!! FACTS!!

[@seansalata717]

Relax buddy lol

[@shooz4unme]

@@seansalata717 You relax. FACTS ARE FACTS!! Troll elsewhere buddy!

[@seansalata717]

@@shooz4unme who’s trolling bud

[@shooz4unme]

@@seansalata717 What I’ve stated is a whole fact! He’s a certified pioneer of hip-hop/rap, unlike these commercial rappers.whose names are well known. They are not him, but he’s them, if you can understand that.

[@robbarker450]

Original Bronx BBoy HipHop Founding Father 👆🏽🤜🏽👊🏽🤛🏽🙌🏽💯

[@richardwilliams5842]

Dude is like in his 60's and still looking like he's in his 40's SMH..... That's Wazup!

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

That's that IRON

[@shaynewest8757]

Hes 59

[@JonJon-du9ne]

And dress like he 24

[@R-Mean1000]

@@JonJon-du9ne usually i would agree with a statement like that but tbf hes one of the originators of hiphop so its only right hes dressed like that

[@JonJon-du9ne]

@@R-Mean1000 I really don't have a problem with him dressing this way. I was just making a statement

[@alescalante491]

This is what a true MC looks like! No face tattoos, no pink hair and can put sentences together! Salute Melle Mel!

[@davidgaskins2589]

I feel u but just look like a 60 year old with a fitted and durag 😆

[@cluclap]

Yea yea

[@alescalante491]

@@davidgaskins2589 we all get old unfortunately. He’s like 60 I think.

[@jamespulliam3672]

Big Facts

[@user-lx4be9tp1w]

At least he made it to 60 lol

[@stanleytimms8578]

From an OG's perspective, 'Rappers Delight' was a classic and exposed that genre of music to new generation at that time with rap laced over Chic's 'Good Times' mesmerizing beats. That was a match made in heaven for those of us and any one in the Disco Scene. "The Message", a Melle Mel classic, ushered in the gritty street life, social awareness and was also a 'classic'. Both remain in rotation to this day on my playlist. Let's not forget DJ Hollywood, the ultimate MC during those early days who never, in my opinion, got his just do. The Bronx keeps it real!

[@westbmorecertified5011]

I think a lot of the other rappers was mad at the money it made

[@sabihmuhammad1598]

Perfect Analogy

[@isaacjames3176]

Lom pop boon mom bbbbb on min Bonn min man min noon inookkiklkllllollooolokllllkkklkk pink kk

[@C-Lyfe85]

@@westbmorecertified5011 I don't know about that. A lot of rappers were already making their money in the clubs, before the record company's Came Calling. DJ Hollywood was booking major events, for his shows, including the Apollo, funded by some of Nicky Barnes people. Besides that Sugarhill Gang didn't make any of that big money off of Rappers Delight. The record company's did. So everybody would have been better off not signing those contracts, and booking shows on their own. I think that's the argument, Melle Mel was saying. The record company's F'd everything up. And everybody remained broke anyways.

[@olgierdolo5510]

Damn, I wasn't expecting that! What a good surprise to see the Hip Hop pioneer, originator, on the big platform. Always a big fan of Mel and his legacy. Many youngsters don't even know him, but the man has done hell of a job in the game, he helped to define the genre & inspired many greats. The original MC🎙️

[@TeddyStrongBear]

I though Mel was wearing a Versace sweatsuit... now I can see it’s a Glorious Gansta joint! 💯

[@empoweredcrb23]

Me too I ain’t know what this one was called tho

[@donj4396]

It's fresh as hell

[@rafaelguasp1141]

I thought it was fugazi Versace with the zipper on the shoulder lol

[@mh7067]

@@rafaelguasp1141 as if 1 of the Kings of hip hop would be wearing fake Versace 😒

[@brendenhassler4613]

LOL I thought this was "old school" from don't be a menace? My bad!

[@Charles-tt3dr]

When they mention the greatest mcs/rappers of all times this brother here never get mentioned. Melle Mel is in my top 5.

[@donaquiles495]

I met Mel back in 09 on East Tremont buy Webster Hall BxNy Real genuine guy, very approachable. Give him his flowers 💯

[@styner3]

I remember the first time I heard "Rapper's Delight", the song started on my transistor radio as I was leaving school and half way home it was still playing and I had people following me listening. 1979 - senior in high school....Damn time is flying.

[@hand2handmc]

first time I heard it it was like discovering fire

[@christopherporter3477]

I was a sophomore in college, we went crazy over that jam!!

[@coloneldusty4476]

Lol 15 min long

[@PatriotMinded]

One of the greatest rap verses ever written was by Melle Mel: his second verse on "Beat Street". Listen to that verse! The man was spitting prophecy!!! "Don't be a slave to no computer"!!

[@greaterthansolomon-vv4ho]

high blood pressure and diabetes is a bigger problem than technology. it shows her weird black think.

[@jalennelson6008]

Legend! Shame this new generation thinks he's lame or don't know about him.

[@B.Wayne88]

24 i think pac big and cube swing from his nuts give this generation a minute they about to find out real quick

[@marcusgomez3307]

NO they dont.. everyone loves the old skool

[@eightykakes15]

Karma is a mother.... if you don’t respect your elders, you won’t be respected should you get older. History repeats.

[@greaterthansolomon-vv4ho]

respect your elders was made up as a joke by God. 70 elders were responsible for having Jesus killed.

[@TheWonderfuldre]

The Trinity is Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, and Grandmaster Caz. Listen and learn. Vlad, get Kool Moe Dee on. You had Caz and Mel

[@g-holy]

Agreed.

[@congressofaborigione]

Chief rocker busy b

[@DudesaLibra]

Right on bruh..them 3

[@dassolosyndikat5113]

Spoonie g

[@marstonfobbsentertainment]

I support the Kool Moe Dee 😎 interview

[@dozierleigh2980]

THE ORIGINAL GOAT..THE 1ST GOD MC..DONT GET IT FUCKED UP!

[@thatguy2.09]

Name 3 hits without google research ...

[@terrellgivens]

@@thatguy2.09 THE MESSAGE alone stomps any “classics” you bring up, Rapper’s Delight included

[@thatguy2.09]

@@terrellgivens 😂

[@Synchronite]

@@thatguy2.09 Name 3 other rap hits period at that time... You can’t! Stupid...

[@thatguy2.09]

@@Synchronite 😕😕 what point are you trying to make??

[@bigreed43]

I don't care what none of y'all say "Rappers Delight" is one greatest rap joints ever. From 1979 until now I never get tired of hearing it. It hit the world like a atom bomb. Nothing was more fun than to rap over the instrumental with a couple of your partners. Masta Gee was my verse.

[@justallah2785]

🔥Word a game changer

[@elicross3191]

KIDS LOOK VERY CLOSELY THIS IS THE MAN WHO BIRTHED ALL YALL FAVORITES !

[@marijanetarot9843]

Favuh! 💜

[@Powerule23]

The Greatest Pioneer. The true Father of modern MC'ing. This Man is the Blueprint. (the list goes on.....).

[@johnysnoww3831]

that is crazy how young hip hop is, this man is still sitting here and made up a word mc XD

[@modoe6619]

Yup

[@jlcrimm1]

Master of Ceremonies has been around since something like the 5th century... so to say he made up a word is stretching things a bit... he abbreviated a word

[@rolltide2937]

@@jlcrimm1 Wrong!!!!!!!! Master of Ceremony is the term for who is in control of the Ceremony or event he lets the people know who’s up next. MC’s or Microphone Commander is the rapper who takes control of the crowd !!!!!!! The DJ spins the record while the MC moves the crowd!!!!!

[@jlcrimm1]

@Luke He didn't make up a word, he took a term that was already in use, "MC" or Master of Ceremonies, or the guy with the microphone who everyone is paying attention to... and used it to refer to the guy at the parties with the microphone who everyone was supposed to pay attention to. Its not pedantic to explain the difference between just making up a whole new word and taking a word that was already in use and applying it in a way that was very similar to how it was already being used. Its like some kid saying they invented the word 'lit'.

[@DangerousDevilOfficial]

This man was part of a track called “Vice” on the soundtrack for the TV show Miami Vice. About 1985 I believe. IDGAF what anyone says. That track is still hard A/F today! I still jam it on occasion. This man a true pioneer!

[@rob3018]

"In 1979 I was sitting there in Melle Mel's crib when he wtote the word *'MC'* in his note pad." 📝 ~ T.K. Kirkland.

[@soulrebel6309]

..."But what I didn't realize at the time was..the MC stood for McChicken...yea he wanted me to go to McDonald's and pick him up a sammich"- TK

[@cody0287]

T.K. actually gave him the idea

[@David_Creyke]

It’s a shame that people aren’t putting old school guys on more. Like why is Macklemore the guy that sees the value in these dudes but nobody else I guess.

[@potemcgoat8635]

Nigga you look like oJ Simpson , tell me something ... you did it?

[@4kLij]

It ain’t time for them no more bro

[@sonychiba4733]

Rap is a young man's game to keep it going you got to keep it moving✌

[@kenrickkahn]

@@sonychiba4733 that's true..

[@twilson2605]

We brush of anything old as old head ish while totally disrespecting the pioneers. It's beyond simply "their time is up". Other genres don't do this to their legends.

[@vanessadotson8067]

I loved and still love Rapper's Delight, there was nothing like it when it first came out and who knew that that music would take over still being the number 1 selling music of all time🤯

[@pharoah1200]

As corny, commercial, and bubble gum, as "Rapper's Delight" was, without that "breakthrough" song, rap WOULD NOT be where it is today 📀📼🎧🎤

[@donj4396]

It wasn't that corny

[@pharoah1200]

@@donj4396 , it was compared to Bronx "real" MC'ing, DJ'ing and breakbeats.

[@sbjaimz224]

Hip hop woulda made it regardless

[@mh7067]

Where is rap today? Our youth literally killing themselves and each other over fame and money

[@pharoah1200]

@@mh7067 , today rap has reached a multi-billion dollar status. Rap music has produced more Black millionaires than any other industry, in the history of the world. Now, what one does with that status, is up to that individual. Sometimes, you have to take the good with the bad, and the "good" of rap, has definitely outweighed the bad.

[@realityme]

All the rappers, at the time, that hated Rapper delights debut, were pretty much erased from the scene. Instead of riding the commercial success wave, they chose bitterness and Jealousy. Sad shit. They couldnt see the genius of the super hit and got left behind. smh

[@bigreed43]

Interesting observation.... respect.

[@marcusshelby4787]

Rappers Delight is a classic til this day. I was 5 years old when this song came out in the early 80's

[@2011Savere]

But Rapper's Delight was the first ever hip hop record. So how could people think it was the worst ever rap record? It was the only one that ever came out at the time.

[@aletteabroaders7852]

People loved it because it got radio play and regular people other places than New York thought that was the first rap song so it was rapping the people loved but the message was way way better

[@Realest1ne]

The more things change, the more things stay the same. Because that’s usually how it still goes to this day. Hip-Hop usually disregards the mainstream pop rap records and mainstream stream pop usually disregards what Hip-Hop considers real rap. Crazy how generations are so different yet so similar.

[@Realest1ne]

@50 dig You said a mouthful lol 💯

[@lippywilliams3472]

Stop being a Hater..... Rapper's Delight was the Bomb 💣. Still love ❤ U Melle Mel.

[@jayfay786]

Rappers delight is a classic

[@stanleytimms8578]

Absolutely, the best of that genre.

[@dmccray144]

The message! Rappers Delight is more commercial

[@KD_SWAGGER]

Melle Mel can still go lyrically. Check out Rollin 50 Deep by DJ Kay Slay.

[@brendenhassler4613]

Let's not and say I did. I'm not trying to listen to any rappers that have an A.A.R.P. card🙅🏿

[@TkKirkland-lm5wv]

@@brendenhassler4613 bro peep that song..it has everybodyyyyyyyyyy

[@dmccray144]

@@brendenhassler4613 um he went in in that song

[@KD_SWAGGER]

@@brendenhassler4613 To each their own.

[@KD_SWAGGER]

@@TkKirkland-lm5wv Facts!

[@carinitolafountain5978]

Rappers Delight did have one of the greatest lines in rap history that many have bitten over the years by Grandmaster Caz "Everybody go: Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn You see, if your girl starts acting up, then you take her friend"

[@machiavelllli]

If you really love something you should study it’s history. It feels good to hear dudes like this break down what Hip Hop is.

[@Anim8tedreality]

My man loook like Big Red from the Five Heartbeats

[@Rich-tb6uh]

One of the forefathers of original hip hop, I’m still posed that hip hop was plagiarized into what most people think it is today...

[@brownin329]

Was plagiarized, Oswald?

[@blackdollars718]

The message was the 1st rap song talkimg about the streets THANK THIS MAN!!

[@justallah2785]

Thank Sylvia Robinson's vision & Ed Fletcher

[@zroadie]

No need to hate on "Rappers Delight", the record sold. As an artist, you should appreciate other artists. No need to hate unless one hates on you first.

[@myfootinurass]

U conflate the producers/record labels goal to make money with the artist or rappers goal which in the case with og rappers was to be the best at what they do. Mfers stole other peoples rhymes for that song, they broke code. Artists surround themselves with artists on their level and better, with something like rapping they can compete creativity with each other. Keeping each other in check thru communial standards like dont take credit for other peoples rhymes is essential.

[@newera5238]

People need to be here to learn history, on this art that we LUV!

[@caliclassicstv2024]

i feel em,, Melle Mel is the first GREAT LYRICIST/wordsmith/technician he laid the blueprint

[@Charles-tt3dr]

YES!!

[@zzinkk]

Vlad: Yeah and Big Bank Hank literally said Caz's verse. Mel: Yeah and like I said it was the dumbest shit I ever heard. 😁

[@t193u]

😂

[@thankthelord4536]

I was 18 when Rapper's Delight came out. And I was so happy that underground rapp was finally in the public for the world to hear. I consider myself as coming from the first generation of hip hop. Harlem World!

[@deepseatedenterprise]

..... LOVE THIS DUDE!!! THEY BETTER HAVE A "PLAQUE", FOR HIM IN THE "HALL OF FAME", "WORD UP" OR A "BUST"

[@hardnewstakenharder]

Rapper's Delight goes hard TO THIS DAY.

[@marcusgomez3307]

you need to do one with KOOL-HERC

[@johnfunches8153]

Correction: Big Hank did not steal Caz's rhymes. Hank asked Caz for some rhymes and according to Casanova, he gave him a couple of his pages or notebooks. There is a perpetual misinformation campaign that Hank was a biter or stole lyrics, but the truth is Caz gave him those lyrics, but to be fair Hank never paid him for ghostwriting Rapper's Delight.

[@dmccray144]

He never paid him for it so therefore Cas is right

[@johnfunches8153]

@@dmccray144 Caz never said he stole his rhymes. Caz said he never paid him. Two different things.

[@jknumber5138]

I've always liked Rappers Delight 💯🎶🎵🎼🎤

[@jknumber5138]

Now Cypher. Troll somewhere else

[@keyscored3710]

What I'm confused by: this man was on the same label as sugarhill, and performed with the sugarhill gang on Jimmy Kimmel

[@jvnbrk]

Just waiting for Vlad to ask Mel his thoughts on Eminem and white rappers in hip hop..we know it's coming lol

[@lamBETTERthanY0U]

It’s a legitimate question to ask someone who was there from the start

[@kevin084life]

I don't think he's gonna trash Eminem like Lord Jamar. Most old school hip-hop guys respect Em.

[@jvnbrk]

@@kevin084life I know man,just fucking with Vlad lol

[@jvnbrk]

@@lamBETTERthanY0U it was sarcasm,fucking with Vlad..that's all. But you gotta admit..Vlad's either a huge Em fan or a huge clout chaser as much as he mentions his name lol

[@marby.]

Nah, I doubt it. Him and Caz showed Macklemore love for actually reaching out and putting them on his song Downtown.

[@dealingthereal6922]

Melle Mel Is an Icon in Hip Hop and is truly a National Treasure. I wish someone would convince to pen his autobiography. He has a story to tell and the world needs to hear it.

[@pharoah1200]

Shout out to Melle Mel, a real rap pioneer 👊👊

[@javisoprano1010]

Rappers delight put rap on the nation wide map period .

[@qjeng6052]

Doesn’t change anything, shit was/is elementary

[@thekid26000]

SuperRappin' was the record that let me know that RAP was gonna be here to stay!!

[@unc1589]

He’s right! Most rappers and true hip hop heads laughed when they heard rappers delight. Nubies didn’t know that it was fake hip hop. Rap records were a new thing but rap parties and tapes were the thing

[@bigreed43]

Fake hip hop or not it got the WORLD's attention and the WORLD loved it. And here we are.

[@El.Numero]

He still got that early 2000s G Unit swag going on. 🤔😝

[@ellisf4300]

Much better than uzi. He has a diamond in his forehead. That shit is funny

[@blackdollars718]

Always good to see 1 of rhe ppl who CREATED RAPPING AMAZING

[@Baldphace]

For the last time Big Bank Hank never stole Caz rhymes. Caz gave Hank his rhyme book and said pick what you want. That's what he did.

[@stevenmcgee6076]

Report's Delight is one of the best songs that ever existed.Whoever thought that was the worst don't know music.

[@RockerT1000]

I thought that was super tray deee in the thumbnail 🤣

[@StraightGameTV]

Big Melle Mel.. My main man.

[@elijahgrant7965]

Thank god for NYC for creating hip hop

[@saniingram6889]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯❤🖤💚

[@focuseddrew8737]

People loved it because it was the first rap that anyone ever heard before. Once we heard Flash and his crew we liked them... but Melle Mel is a true founding father.

[@guysimmons4305]

Maybe it was the first rap that people in the rest of the world ever heard but in New York rap was already big before anyone was even thinking about making a rap record. Im not even from the Bronx Im from Long Island but we had the tapes of lots of park jams and live shows from the Bronx. I swear we damn near worshiped those tapes.

[@focuseddrew8737]

@@guysimmons4305 OK gotcha. I was actually living in Queens at that time in the 70s, but I never heard rap. We would mix and DJ and I saw some breakdancing. We had block parties but I was too young to go. Later we moved to Freeport.

[@guysimmons4305]

@@focuseddrew8737 honestly i was only exposed to Hip Hop early because my big brother had tapes from The Bronx and he used to let me borrow them all the time. Im actually from Amityville Long Island.

[@MattWhalen87]

It was a modern day, “club banger.”

[@kenrickkahn]

Outside of the East Coast Rapper's Delight is a party/dance hit... Especially down south it is considered as a club jam or a song you play at Family Reunions...

[@trupac8425]

The Message is the 1st Real Hip Hop Song... Sugar Hill was Hip Pop

[@MrBrown121]

No cap I just stopped by cause I thought that was D.L. Hughley in the Thumb nail... Please Continue

[@MisterLowrider]

I'm glad to learn some authentic things about hip hop that were mentioned in this video from one of the ones that laid the foundation!!!

[@dumbscott1951]

They smokers

[@MisterLowrider]

@@dumbscott1951 😆🤣

[@MisterCee01]

Idc master gee and wonder mike did there thing on rappers delight . I bump that shit

[@bigolbabyhuey]

Facts. And Big Bank Hank didn't steal Caz rhymes. Hang asked Caz can he use his rhymes for a record and Caz said "absolutely"

[@vanessadotson8067]

I FEEL YOU FAM THAT'S MY SHIT!👂🏿👍🏿

[@TheJim1039]

@@bigolbabyhuey nah man big bank hank and wonder mike stole them bars but respect to them from starting hip hop

[@bigolbabyhuey]

@@TheJim1039 Wonder Mike and Master Gee are both from New Jersey and didn't know Caz in those days. Wonder Mike was in a group called Sound On Sound and Master Gee was in a group called Phase 2. And the rhymes they used were rhymes they wrote before they ever joined The Sugarhill Gang.

[@TheJim1039]

@@bigolbabyhuey I know the hip hop part is bitten but props to master gee

[@abe1sapien]

Rappers Delight seems to only get hate from old school dudes from the east coast. Ice Cube, The D.O,C, Snoop Dogg, Big Boi all have said how important the song was to them growing up.

[@jalennelson6008]

It was a party record. For it's time, it was cool.

[@mistahmst]

Hip-hop in general started as party music, so I doubt that was the reason why serious hip-hop fans weren’t fucking with it at the time. It was because it was a more commercialized, squeaky clean version of what they were already doing and with bitten rhymes on top of it. The fact that they used a live band instead of a DJ didn’t help either.

[@bigolbabyhuey]

@@mistahmst All of those early rap songs used live bands. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five used the same musicians on their records that played on The Sugarhill Gang's songs

[@mistahmst]

@@bigolbabyhuey the first rap songs to make it to mainstream radio used live bands, but hip-hop started with the DJ.

[@arguido07path]

I really really really love this man for what he is what he was what he will do.He is plucking everybody’s card.Grandmaster MELLE MEL.

[@dannytennial5311]

Big Bank Hank didn't steal Caz rhymes. He was Caz's manager and asked Caz's permission to his rhymes. Caz gave him his rhyme book. Caz admitted this in his earlier interviews. Now Caz changed his story and somehow Big Bank Hank stole what he freely gave him to use. I was 15 in 1979 and remember how HUGH Rappers Delight was. Trashing the commercial breakthrough of RAP music is just wrong. It's obvious that a lot of old school Rappers are jealous of the Sugarhill Gang's historical success. Caz and Melle Mel are true legends. They should be better than "haters".

[@bigolbabyhuey]

100% facts. Your comment should be pinned to the top of the comment section

[@alexibarra3472]

It’s crazy to think how rap got started back in the day as recreational not knowing what they were doing or what they were creating at the time to what it is today a world wide phenomenon....

[@masonldn8647]

He is stuck in 2002 lol that fashion is something boy...only NY dudes do this

[@JeromeGigante]

SHUT YOUR YOUNG ASS UP!! , YOU NEW GENERATION ALWAYS WORRIED ABOUT HOW ANOTHER MANS DRESSES ! 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

[@jamalvines2133]

KID AFTER LATE 90s .ALL STYLES ARE IN. IF U DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY STFU COUNTRY KID

[@empoweredcrb23]

Yoooo ain’t no disrespect b, these og’s that from that era 70’ 80’ cats still wear they era clothes, on side note I get what you mean, I’m 31 still wearing some big ass jerseys still during the winter time over my hoodie,

[@Chrisaaad]

@@JeromeGigante fr

[@jamalvines2133]

@@empoweredcrb23 WHERE WHAT U WANT. BUT DON'T NE SO LOUD LLS

[@MrHarris73]

I love when Vlad sits down with these OGs and lets them tell their story. I feel like I have a PhD in Hip Hop history from watching these cats talk about how shit was back in the day. Melle Mel is the OG's OG.

[@tshepomotshepana7635]

The grand masta is in the house

[@JaneDoe-ql7sc]

very nice to hear the stories and learn these things about rap music! :-)

[@JaneDoe-ql7sc]

Melle Mel, thank you for telling us the stories! Nice to be in the know, mc!

[@awesomeasever8370]

Rap is music, Hip-Hop is a subculture. Rap started in the South, Hip-Hop started in New York. Rap is sometimes called Hip-Hop because it's the music of Hip-Hop.

[@willgee7777]

😂😂😂Mel is naturally hilarious

[@mosthatedny2243]

I see son in the gym all the time official dude

[@THECABSOURHERE]

Son, lol 😂

[@mosthatedny2243]

@@THECABSOURHERE why you laughing

[@fitawrarifitness6842]

@@mosthatedny2243 He not from NY, he don't understand the culture.

[@mosthatedny2243]

@@fitawrarifitness6842 I was mad confused homie a good dude mad humble

[@Heirllionaire]

Rappers Delight was more important to the Larger Picture and the future of the entire world uniting thru Hip Hop

[@bigolbabyhuey]

Big Bank Hank didn't steal rhymes from Caz. Caz gave him those rhymes

[@Theonyxconservative]

Rappers Delight foreshadowed much of what was to come in Hip-Hop, Lacking artistry but the masses love it. 😐

[@mr.november7456]

He Look like a boondocks character lol

[@Synchronite]

So do the new rappers lol

[@raymondfields3562]

Thugnificent😎🤣

[@Til_thesmokeclrz]

@@Synchronite the new rappers aren't down enough to look like boondocks characters.

[@scinnyc]

Funny, because I never even heard "Rapper's Delight" until Def Squad remade it in the late 90s. But my mom said that the original version was my dad's favorite song. I can see why Mel wouldn't like that song from his perspective...but at the same time it opened the doors for hip hop to penetrate the masses. As a student of hip hop I've grown to appreciate all the people who helped push hip hip into the mainstream. Even Vanilla Ice, Will Smith and MC Hammer

[@kiasersouzayxoxo]

That shit was cold melle Mel hate'n

[@carltonvincent914]

I remember working in the studio with mellie Mel and he was lying on the carpet I was an engineer and producer he got a call from Quincy Jones. To rap on the album called the dude. That was really cool.

[@PrinceofFreshia]

Cassanova fly should get another interview

[@juicer404]

i done his hip hop tour in nyc

[@PrinceofFreshia]

@@juicer404 ohh i wanna do that bro! Maybe after this bullshit ass covid thing

[@kevinmckay4799]

rapper's delight has to be the most monumental rap song ever

[@bluecollarscholarmelrosepa5673]

Half Producer and Half Con 👨 Man.....😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@travisross9044]

Rap/Hip-hop is only 47 years young,and never will die....Fuck a dress code/Corporate America we dress what we like there no age limit . We lead they shall follow our trends. Everything we touch and wear turns to GOLD " Rap/hip-hop we run this world."

[@shotyme2825]

Rap has been around since the post emancipation era.

[@brandonthomas5563]

Why he's dressed like it's 2003

[@MrSuSp7]

Because he from era where they didn't wear fitted or tight ass clothes

[@jamalvines2133]

@@MrSuSp7 WRONG TODAY'S STYLE IS THE 80s STYLE. I SEE BOTH OF U DON'T KNOW FASHION. SO CUT IT OUT

[@empoweredcrb23]

@@jamalvines2133 nawwwww helllll nooo, I ain’t seen dudes wearing purses or sagging, they only dudes who had feminine look was rocks stars, including prince, mj but they was getting chicks tho, these dudes today get laughed at wearing extra tight clothes and laugh at period,

[@empoweredcrb23]

If you’re a young then ima say this, he’s a og sooner or later your not gonna be wearing that teenager pre adult swagg into your late 30’s or 40’s and If your still on that when you get older then you’re a big ass kid. I’m definitely gonna be wearing some Charlie browns when I get older

[@walteralexander689]

New Yorkers are behind on fashion trends.

[@MrSuperman609]

Rappers delight was and always a classic and foundation to me idc who said this is the worst like they don’t know there history

[@daviddiaz529]

rrrrRAH!

[@Synchronite]

Official 💪🏾