Melle Mel: Every Rapper Thought "Rapper's Delight" was The Worst Song They Ever Heard (Part 2)
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In this clip, Melle Mel detailed why Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" was considered the worst hip-hop song among rappers at the time but was surprisingly a smash hit with the public. He talked about how his group began recording in the studio after "Rapper's Delight" to get in on the new lane that record carved out for hip-hop artists.
Elsewhere in the clip, Melle Mel talked about being the first rapper to refer to himself as an "MC" and how the idea was sparked by trying to transform hip-hop parties into hip-hop shows.
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Fuck you... put me on the channel 😂
That is a brilliant move.
Hey ask about Willie D knocking him out
@@shyjuan red g for
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
Rapper’s Delight was basically a song that bridged disco into hiphop. Easier for mainstream to understand at the time.
Hip hop and disco were already together rapper's delight just made it to thw charts first
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.
@@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.
@@bluewave3417 -
True, because that song put record companies on notice that rap and the whole scene was marketable.
Absolutely
Looks exactly how I picture an old school rapper would look.
Fax...Parody like.
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
😂😂😂
💀💀💀
Lol
“Half producer half con man.” Lmao... divulge please
That was hilarious lol
😆 The tradition continues until this day
I wonder if that was Terrie lewis, who did albums with Janet Jackson
@@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.
0 face tat, old school swagg, hip hop royalty. legendary.
Who hides His Homeboy's molestation from the world..
@@kenrickeason The fuck you talkin' about?
..but rolled with Bam tho 🤦🏾♂️
@@d.i.g.i.t.a.l.9268 So does that make him guilty for bam's shit?
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
If def jam vendetta was a person.
LMAO 😂😂😂
I'm dying lol
I'm guessing he's Iceberg
He could be Meca from Fight For NY
BRUH!!!! Oh the accuracy. 😂😂💀💀
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
Hip-Hop’s first star was Kurtis Blow
His accolades are TOO LONG to mention here
@@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
✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Mel came before Kurt.
Melle Mel verse on Beat Street breakdown 🔥🔥
@@cinematic7928 Mannnnnn.....I still get the chillz🥶 listening to it
@@cinematic7928 period
Dope!!!!!
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!
RUUUUUUHHHH!
The Message is the greatest rap song of all time.
Don't forget "the killa" by Justin Bieber.
Don't forget Give Me Everything by the one and only mr worldwide Pitbull 🐐🐐🐐🐐
lol
Gucci Mane The Truth
Don't forget Gucci Gang by MC Pump
Dude is like in his 60's and still looking like he's in his 40's SMH..... That's Wazup!
That's that IRON
Hes 59
And dress like he 24
@@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
@@R-Mean1000 I really don't have a problem with him dressing this way. I was just making a statement
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!!
Relax buddy lol
@@seansalata717 You relax. FACTS ARE FACTS!! Troll elsewhere buddy!
@@shooz4unme who’s trolling bud
@@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.
Original Bronx BBoy HipHop Founding Father 👆🏽🤜🏽👊🏽🤛🏽🙌🏽💯
This is what a true MC looks like! No face tattoos, no pink hair and can put sentences together! Salute Melle Mel!
I feel u but just look like a 60 year old with a fitted and durag 😆
Yea yea
@@davidgaskins2589 we all get old unfortunately. He’s like 60 I think.
Big Facts
At least he made it to 60 lol
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.
first time I heard it it was like discovering fire
I was a sophomore in college, we went crazy over that jam!!
Lol 15 min long
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🎙️
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"!!
high blood pressure and diabetes is a bigger problem than technology. it shows her weird black think.
I met Mel back in 09 on East Tremont buy Webster Hall BxNy
Real genuine guy, very approachable.
Give him his flowers
💯
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!
I think a lot of the other rappers was mad at the money it made
Perfect Analogy
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@@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.
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.
🔥Word a game changer
I though Mel was wearing a Versace sweatsuit... now I can see it’s a Glorious Gansta joint! 💯
Me too I ain’t know what this one was called tho
It's fresh as hell
I thought it was fugazi Versace with the zipper on the shoulder lol
@@rafaelguasp1141 as if 1 of the Kings of hip hop would be wearing fake Versace 😒
LOL I thought this was "old school" from don't be a menace? My bad!
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
Agreed.
Chief rocker busy b
Right on bruh..them 3
Spoonie g
I support the Kool Moe Dee 😎 interview
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
Interesting observation.... respect.
When they mention the greatest mcs/rappers of all times this brother here never get mentioned. Melle Mel is in my top 5.
"In 1979 I was sitting there in Melle Mel's crib when he wtote the word *'MC'* in his note pad." 📝
~ T.K. Kirkland.
..."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
T.K. actually gave him the idea
Legend! Shame this new generation thinks he's lame or don't know about him.
24 i think pac big and cube swing from his nuts give this generation a minute they about to find out real quick
NO they dont.. everyone loves the old skool
Karma is a mother.... if you don’t respect your elders, you won’t be respected should you get older. History repeats.
respect your elders was made up as a joke by God. 70 elders were responsible for having Jesus killed.
Rappers Delight is a classic til this day. I was 5 years old when this song came out in the early 80's
THE ORIGINAL GOAT..THE 1ST GOD MC..DONT GET IT FUCKED UP!
Name 3 hits without google research ...
@@thatguy2.09 THE MESSAGE alone stomps any “classics” you bring up, Rapper’s Delight included
@@terrellgivens 😂
@@thatguy2.09
Name 3 other rap hits period at that time...
You can’t! Stupid...
@@Synchronite 😕😕 what point are you trying to make??
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!
The Greatest Pioneer. The true Father of modern MC'ing. This Man is the Blueprint. (the list goes on.....).
that is crazy how young hip hop is, this man is still sitting here and made up a word mc XD
Yup
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
@@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!!!!!
@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'.
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🤯
KIDS LOOK VERY CLOSELY THIS IS THE MAN WHO BIRTHED ALL YALL FAVORITES !
Favuh! 💜
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.
Nigga you look like oJ Simpson , tell me something ... you did it?
It ain’t time for them no more bro
Rap is a young man's game to keep it going you got to keep it moving✌
@@sonychiba4733 that's true..
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.
My man loook like Big Red from the Five Heartbeats
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.
@50 dig You said a mouthful lol 💯
As corny, commercial, and bubble gum, as "Rapper's Delight" was, without that "breakthrough" song, rap WOULD NOT be where it is today 📀📼🎧🎤
It wasn't that corny
@@donj4396 , it was compared to Bronx "real" MC'ing, DJ'ing and breakbeats.
Hip hop woulda made it regardless
Where is rap today? Our youth literally killing themselves and each other over fame and money
@@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.
Rappers delight is a classic
Absolutely, the best of that genre.
The message! Rappers Delight is more commercial
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
Melle Mel can still go lyrically. Check out Rollin 50 Deep by DJ Kay Slay.
Let's not and say I did. I'm not trying to listen to any rappers that have an A.A.R.P. card🙅🏿
@@brendenhassler4613 bro peep that song..it has everybodyyyyyyyyyy
@@brendenhassler4613 um he went in in that song
@@brendenhassler4613 To each their own.
@@TkKirkland-lm5wv Facts!
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!
you need to do one with KOOL-HERC
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.
..... LOVE THIS DUDE!!! THEY BETTER HAVE A "PLAQUE", FOR HIM IN THE "HALL OF FAME", "WORD UP" OR A "BUST"
i feel em,, Melle Mel is the first GREAT LYRICIST/wordsmith/technician he laid the blueprint
YES!!
I've always liked Rappers Delight 💯🎶🎵🎼🎤
Now Cypher. Troll somewhere else
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
Fake hip hop or not it got the WORLD's attention and the WORLD loved it. And here we are.
The message was the 1st rap song talkimg about the streets THANK THIS MAN!!
Thank Sylvia Robinson's vision & Ed Fletcher
People need to be here to learn history, on this art that we LUV!
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. 😁
😂
He still got that early 2000s G Unit swag going on. 🤔😝
Much better than uzi. He has a diamond in his forehead. That shit is funny
I thought that was super tray deee in the thumbnail 🤣
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...
Was plagiarized, Oswald?
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.
SuperRappin' was the record that let me know that RAP was gonna be here to stay!!
Just waiting for Vlad to ask Mel his thoughts on Eminem and white rappers in hip hop..we know it's coming lol
It’s a legitimate question to ask someone who was there from the start
I don't think he's gonna trash Eminem like Lord Jamar. Most old school hip-hop guys respect Em.
@@kevin084life I know man,just fucking with Vlad lol
@@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
Nah, I doubt it. Him and Caz showed Macklemore love for actually reaching out and putting them on his song Downtown.
Report's Delight is one of the best songs that ever existed.Whoever thought that was the worst don't know music.
Shout out to Melle Mel, a real rap pioneer 👊👊
La di da di by Doug E Fresh & Oh, My God! Ft.Slick Rick along with that song boogie See Bang was block party songs just loose rapping all over the place with a beat hyping it.
It was a modern day, “club banger.”
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...
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.
Stop being a Hater..... Rapper's Delight was the Bomb 💣. Still love ❤ U Melle Mel.
Rappers Delight foreshadowed much of what was to come in Hip-Hop, Lacking artistry but the masses love it. 😐
Thank god for NYC for creating hip hop
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯❤🖤💚
Always good to see 1 of rhe ppl who CREATED RAPPING AMAZING
He Look like a boondocks character lol
So do the new rappers lol
Thugnificent😎🤣
@@Synchronite the new rappers aren't down enough to look like boondocks characters.
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!!!
They smokers
@@dumbscott1951 😆🤣
That shit was cold melle Mel hate'n
Big Melle Mel.. My main man.
It was a party record. For it's time, it was cool.
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.
@@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
@@bigolbabyhuey the first rap songs to make it to mainstream radio used live bands, but hip-hop started with the DJ.
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.
He is stuck in 2002 lol that fashion is something boy...only NY dudes do this
SHUT YOUR YOUNG ASS UP!! , YOU NEW GENERATION ALWAYS WORRIED ABOUT HOW ANOTHER MANS DRESSES ! 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
KID AFTER LATE 90s .ALL STYLES ARE IN. IF U DON'T KNOW THE HISTORY STFU COUNTRY KID
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,
@@JeromeGigante fr
@@empoweredcrb23 WHERE WHAT U WANT. BUT DON'T NE SO LOUD LLS
No cap I just stopped by cause I thought that was D.L. Hughley in the Thumb nail... Please Continue
Idc master gee and wonder mike did there thing on rappers delight . I bump that shit
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"
I FEEL YOU FAM THAT'S MY SHIT!👂🏿👍🏿
@@bigolbabyhuey nah man big bank hank and wonder mike stole them bars but respect to them from starting hip hop
@@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.
@@bigolbabyhuey I know the hip hop part is bitten but props to master gee
Damn this should be real good, a documentary! Popcorn in hands this dude is mad cool in person i actually clubbed with him in L.A. lol.
The grand masta is in the house
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.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
very nice to hear the stories and learn these things about rap music! :-)
Melle Mel, thank you for telling us the stories! Nice to be in the know, mc!
I see son in the gym all the time official dude
Son, lol 😂
@@THECABSOURHERE why you laughing
@@mosthatedny2243 He not from NY, he don't understand the culture.
@@fitawrarifitness6842 I was mad confused homie a good dude mad humble
We loved it because it was the Chic band beat. We danced to Chic's song(Good times) which was a hit. They added the rap and rhymes so we were familiar with the music. It was a hit. All the known rappers came after that. Gmf&f5, Kurtis Blow and others.
Half Producer and Half Con 👨 Man.....😁😁😁😁😁😁
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.
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".
100% facts. Your comment should be pinned to the top of the comment section
I think what melle mel did to hiphop is almost the equivalent to what soulja boy did to hiphop🤔
Big Bank Hank didn't steal rhymes from Caz. Caz gave him those rhymes
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.
Cassanova fly should get another interview
i done his hip hop tour in nyc
@@juicer404 ohh i wanna do that bro! Maybe after this bullshit ass covid thing
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."
Rap has been around since the post emancipation era.
Why he's dressed like it's 2003
Because he from era where they didn't wear fitted or tight ass clothes
@@MrSuSp7 WRONG TODAY'S STYLE IS THE 80s STYLE. I SEE BOTH OF U DON'T KNOW FASHION. SO CUT IT OUT
@@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,
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
New Yorkers are behind on fashion trends.
What I'm confused by: this man was on the same label as sugarhill, and performed with the sugarhill gang on Jimmy Kimmel
rrrrRAH!
Official 💪🏾
rapper's delight has to be the most monumental rap song ever
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.
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....
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.
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
Im white and 32 if my uncles didnt have mel and the five playing then it wasnt a party. Im just greatful i got it experience old school real hip hop and be put on
"We wanted people to focus."..The actual beginning of MC..You can usually tell when its the truth ... that was awesome to hear,, see,, think, etc...thanks. I'm glad Vlad. Thanks OGMC
Rappers Delight was more important to the Larger Picture and the future of the entire world uniting thru Hip Hop
If I was a rapper in present day rap I would definitely want a feature with dude
"The people loved it, but i thought it was the worst thing ever. "😂 sounds familiar