Melle Mel is getting ready to unleash his response to Eminem. All Hip Hop reports Melle Mel has a “full-blown diss track” ready for Slim Shady. You can hear a clip of what’s to come below. View this post on Instagram A post shared by mellemelglover (@mellemelglover) Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information In case you […]
Eminem delivers a new verse on Ez Mil’s new release, “Realest.” Through his bars, Shady seemingly addresses Melle Mel, who once stated Em only got his Top Five rap status because he is white. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information In an interview, Melle Mel criticized Billboard’s Top 50 Rappers of All Time list, not because […]
Clips from Melle Mel’s recent interview on the Art Of Dialogue podcast have been released and have brought a lot of attention to the legendary rapper. First for saying that Eminem wouldn’t be a top-five rapper if he wasn’t white, and now, for saying that Ja Rule was trying too hard to be 50 Cent. […]
Hip Hop pioneer Melle Mel has gone viral after making the statement that Eminem wouldn’t be ranked in Billboard’s Top 5 of their Top 50 Rappers of All Time if he wasn’t white. Mel has doubled down on his stance and now believes that the street culture in Hip Hop’s current landscape has contributed to […]
Melle Mel’s examination of Hip-Hop has continued. This time, his topic is Nicki Minaj, who he thinks should not be ranked ahead of Rakim or LL Cool J in any best-of-all-time ranking. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Still dropping pieces on The Art of Dialogue podcast, Melle Mel called Nicki’s placement on Billboard’s Top 50 […]
Melle Mel has been letting his opinions on rappers be known ever since Billboard released its list of the top 50 rappers. First, he said that Eminem wouldn’t be a top 5 rapper if he were white, and now he’s refuting Lil Wayne’s “best rapper of all time” claim because of his use of auto-tune. […]
Recently, Hip Hop pioneer Melle Mel appeared on The Art Of Dialogue and delved into the conversation about Eminem making the Top 5 spot on Billboard’s Top 50 Emcees of All Time. The “White Lines” rapper said that Mr. Matherts wouldn’t have made a list if he wasn’t white. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Melle […]
Billboard’s top 50 rappers of all time list has shaken the hip-hop world up. Ja Rule came out and asked why he was left off the list, and Lil Wayne has even voiced his displeasure saying that he should have been put number 1. Melle Mel recently criticized the list in a recent interview, not […]
Grandmaster Melle Mel of the iconic Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five spoke with The Art Of Dialogue about two of the most revered emcees of the 20th century, Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace. As one of Hip Hop’s most respected lyrical pioneers, Melle Mel had some very unpopular opinions about who has […]
While artists are coming up with creative ideas for the next Verzuz battle, Swizz Beatz came up with a landmark proposal for some of Hip Hop’s unsung pioneers. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information On Joe Budden’s Zone Radio IG Live convo, the Ruff Ryders producer introduced the idea of a Rakim vs. Big Daddy Kane […]
KRS1 said it best: Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information “Now way back in the days when Hip-Hop began With Coke LaRock, Kool Herc, and then Bam Advertisement Beat boys ran to the latest jam But when it got shot up they went home and said “Damn There’s got to be a better way to hear […]
After a seven-year hiatus in between projects, DJ Kay Slay returned with the star-studded and diverse The Big Brother (2017), the album debuted in the top 10 on Apple’s Hip-Hop chart and featured collaborations with Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz, Rick Ross, Mac Miller, Kevin Gates, Tech9Ne, The Game, Dave East, Fat Joe, Busta Rhymes, Raekwon, […]
Treasured hip-hop music video show Yo! MTV Raps will celebrate a milestone with a strictly nostalgic tribute concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on June 1 as the Yo! MTV Raps: 30th Anniversary Experience, an ode to hip-hop’s most defining era amplified with performances by the Golden Era’s most legendary lyricists and collectives. Visit streaming.thesource.com for […]
The world has come to stand and acknowledge the 50 year mark of the assassination of a man who is defined as being the most influential civil rights leader in American history, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On April 4, 1968, as he stood on the balcony of Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Dr. King was […]
Hip-hop’s presence in what was once called the Gramophone Award now known as the exalted Grammy Award is one founded in an adventure. Presented by the Recording Academy in 1958, the Grammy Award honors musicians whose craft is primarily done in the English language and have achieved mass popular appeal. Such analysis appears to be […]
Photos by Stella Magloire Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information November 4th, Kings Theater hosted the Art of Rap concert showcasing some of Hip-Hops legends. Brooklyn’s own Big Daddy Kane and Strong Island’s god-emcee, Rakim touched the stage and created pure magic. But they weren’t the only show stoppers: Raekwon and Ghostface Killah from The Wu-Tang […]
The Top 10 Selling “Urban” Singles in Australia last year were split between Canada, UK, Australia. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Like the Top 10 Selling “Urban” Albums in Australia for 2015, American artists dominated. The Weeknd, Mark Ronson, Drake and A$AP Rocky made the Top 10 Urban Singles as they did for Top 10 […]
In 2012 independent film director Eric Rivas won Coney Island Film Festival for Lost In Coney Island, a remake of the the 1979 film The Warriors, using actual bikers from New York as actors. The work with the bikers eventually lead him to making the 2013 film Vamp Bikers and 2015’s Vamp Bikers Dos that starred rap […]
The 4th Annual Global Spin Awards took place on Tuesday (November 17th) at the PlayStation Theater in the heart of New York City. The event, which was hosted by Swizz Beatz, brought out a who’s who of Hip-Hop’s elite from yesteryear to present day. The excitement was contagious even at the shows inception as the […]
Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Macklemore returns in grandiose fashion Macklemore is a solid year-and-change removed from those awkward 2014 Grammy Awards, in which he perceivably swiped several wins from Kendrick Lamar, and added insult to injury by Instagramming a text message apology to the Compton rapper. Like, ‘sorry I’m this good, man’. Oof. Advertisement […]
