Macklemore's "White Guilt" Wins Again

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 blah blah. And like I said, none of those other guys would have ever done it. And it's a shame that that's the reality of what the game is right now."

Just last week Big Daddy Kane shared his thoughts on Macklemore putting the spotlight on the legends, and he slammed people for trash talking the West Coast emcee.

"REAL TALK!!! I don't see one artist in the game that put Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee or Grandmaster Caz on their new song or let them perform on the VMA's (Including Me) but people wanna have a problem with @macklemore for paying homage to them? We don't acknowledge our own & get mad when another color does. Now if one of them passes, then we wanna post s*** about them, say RIP & get t-shirts with their picture. FOH!!!!!!! Learn about your history & preserve it now. If not, SHUT THE F*** UP!!! To me this is about real pioneers getting recognition in today's society."

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Lil Wayne Wants Out Of Cash Money

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Big Hutch Disses Shyne

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