Melle Mel Explains Why He Thinks Jay-Z Is Overrated

Melle Mel Explains Why He Thinks Jay-Z Is Overrated! Legendary hip hop artist Melle Mel has been on a roll this week, with comments that have been much controversial while appearing on his sit-down interview with VladTV. After recently declaring that he would have no issue defeating Eminem in a rap battle, the much-opinionated 59-year-old icon also made his views on why The Notorious B.I.G. would not have been much successful during the earlier days of his hip-hop career. And now in the most recent episode of his interview to be released, Melle Mel opens up about his comments that Jay-Z is “overrated”, stating his reasons as to why he thinks so.

“I think a lot of rappers are overrated. Yeah,” Melle Mel said before giving Jay-Z his credit for his exceptional skills as a businessman. However, the legendary emcee admits that he wouldn’t put Jay-Z at the top of his most skilled rappers list. “No, because the main problem I have with dudes like that, with a lot of these dudes, when you made it, you made it. Now you out. Forget the street guy act. You’re not street like that. I’m not even a street guy, I’m a hood n***a. I’m not a street n***a ’cause I know I’m not gon’ be out on the street like that. And then, to take it a step further, these guys live in the big houses, they live in the best neighborhoods, there ain’t no street dudes around, but you’re gonna have this street dude thinking that being on the street is the right thing to do and the right person to be? You gotta give the people that’s left in the hood something to hold onto to make it out of the hood.

A lot of this hip-hop sh*t made the ghetto permanent. You ain’t supposed to stay there like that. That’s why I say a lot of them is overrated because what they’re doing is they’re selling a product and then after the product is sold, now they’re still thinking they got product to sell. And they don’t. You live a nice life. Their kids are never going to see the inside of a jail or the inside of a public school, thank god.”

One of rap’s premier emcees, Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five, on who the top 4 greatest rappers are: “me and whoever else you wanna put behind there” ? pic.twitter.com/vFeoheJq87

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Check out Melle Mel’s interview below;