Eminem & Kendrick Lamar Are Good Rappers But Are Yet to Influence Hiphop Culture- Melle Mel

While Melle Mel has no doubts about the ability of Kendrick Lamar and Eminem, he does wonder about their impact on hip-hop culture.

The OG rapper asserted in a recent interview with The Art of Dialogue that although rappers like Kendrick and Em have demonstrated their skill, they haven’t yet had a major impact on the game.

Melle Mel mentioned this while talking about the Top 50 Rappers of All Time list that Billboard and VIBE which was recently released and caused so much chaos online.

The former TDE rapper, who came in at No. 2 on the list, may have written some excellent tracks, but they “don’t translate into the street portion of Hip Hop,” according to Mel.

“I don’t know what records he made like that,” he said. “I might know one or two of them, but I don’t think you even hear Kendrick in the club like that.”

The iconic rapper jokingly admitted that while he’s a bit of dinosaur in the game, calling himself “90-years-old,” that Kendrick Lamar’s music doesn’t resonate, and it certainly “doesn’t translate into the No.2 rapper of all time.”

Melle Mel, who landed at No.48 on the list, noted that while his legendary group, Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five, helped plant the seeds of what conscious rap is today, he believes younger, conscious rappers like Kendrick Lamar don’t have the same impact.

“Nobody wants to rap like Kendrick Lamar. Nobody wants to rap like Eminem,” he continued. “A lot of people wanted to rap, like ‘Pac and Biggie.”

Source – Tru News Report