Melle Mel is praising Macklemore for incorporating hip-hop legends like Big Daddy Kane, Kool Moe Dee, and himself in the new "Downtown" video , and Mel believes Kendrick, Jay Z, and J.Cole wouldn't have done the same thing. The "Pump Me Up" emcee told XXL, "I know for a fact that J. Cole or Kendrick Lamar or Rick Ross or Jay Z or any of these cats, they would not have done it, ever. They would not have done it. It took him to do it. And all those other so-called 'real cats,' they should hang their heads because somebody should have done it by now. They could have reached back to any of us. If you're making records and you say you're Hip Hop, you're supposed to have a connection to what Hip Hop really is. And nobody made that connection until Macklemore made the connection. And I've had this conversation quite a few times since everything happened and had that little controversy of, yeah, the White boy, using the OGs, or blah...