It just seems so calculated to me

I respect Em as a student of the game and one of the greatest

And I also accept the premise that he doesn’t want to diss a pioneer, that Mel started this s*** and Em has the right to respond

But why now? Of all moments? Mels comments are not recent

Hip hop 50 presents the chance for all generations of hip hop to come together

And in the week that we should be looking back at the greatness of early hip hop…

This battle ended up making the origins of hip hop look like a joke. Made all old heads embarrassed on a day they should’ve been most proud

An honest question to ktt2, is this a coincidence?

Or is there something more going on?

This is the most publicity a rapper from the 80s has gotten in a long time. And it’s in a negative light on the anniversary of the genre.

What do you guys think?

not that deep broski

Nah, OGs be tripping. From MC Shan making a fool of himself against the God Nasir to Jamar sleeping on Vlad couch.

Em should be the LAST person hip-hop OGs should be going at since he pretty much started the wave of showing love and giving respect to them since like 2011, but dummies gon dummy, I guess

I was with you for a second but the end of this post reads like you post on a European Eminem YouTube channel. Em didn’t start that s***, respecting ogs has always been a thing

Nah, Em started wearing shirts with OG names and faces on them, doing documentaries with D.O.C and pretty much any OG to give publicity, always name dropping them in interviews, supporting their merch on social media.

Name any top 40 rapper that was doing that before it became wavy like 2 years ago

publicity stunt for the channel that originally interviewed melle mel saying that couple months back, melle mel's new youtube channel (which was made around that interview was made)

They not ready for this

I always question the idea of “Respecting your elders”

Neither of them ever made a track deeper than The Remorse

crickets

"Fuck them OG niggas, they stuck in the 80s." - 50

Idk Em sends shots at people who say they dislike him erratically, sometimes it’ll be immediate, sometimes people from decades ago catch strays, I think he just decides when to fire based on how his target’s name or the diss fits into the rhyme scheme or just when he’s having a bad day and gets frustrated about it

nas handled mc shan with grace

em tried to embarrass a pioneer

you supposed to let the elders just wild out imo

The Man offered Melle Mel some cocaine & roids to drop that garbage diss track