Melle Mel Says Jay-Z Is Overrated With A Detailed Explanation

In a series of interviews with VladTV, Melle Mel of the now-disbanded Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five fired shots at Jay-Z. After he fired some serious shots and hot takes on Eminem and the Notorious B.I.G., he had some more left in his tank, which he unloaded on Jay-Z.

The 59-year-old rap icon has a lot of strong opinions which he’s unloading one by one, and it just so happened that it was Jay’s number now.

I think a lot of rappers are overrated. Yeah,” said Melle Mel before celebrating Jay-Z’s skills as a businessman. However, the legendary emcee says he wouldn’t put Hov 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.”

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The legend stated that the masses have brought about a culture that goes directly against the hood and if the hood has to win, then things cannot go on like they have been going on for a while.