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Rap Legends Still Matter · Building 341

Speaker 1: ⁓ Mellie Male just had a birthday. Mellie Male, I think, is 65. 63 or 65. We got a rappers that's 65. Speaker 2: Yeah. That's still torn. ⁓ yeah. Speaker 1: And so you have to say, Wow. To see Melly Male. For me to see Melly Male in concert, for me to see Melly Male, when they came out on Sugar Hill, it was no pictures. So it was just that Sugar Hill label. And I remember some of their B-side songs, because we used to go battle people from different schools and stuff. And some of his B side stuff, I would just take his rhymes and say it. Like that would be my opener rhymes would be his rhymes. And they would be like, damn. So then when the real rap, so when the people came and we was battling, I would do his rhymes, and then I would just shut him down with mine. You know what I mean? And so you see, as it grew, as it grew, and then when Ice Cube said, Who would you be without me rapping like the treacherous three? I was like, you know what I mean? Like, I wasn't the only one doing that. Yeah. But I was a B-boy. But he Speaker 2: But he said it and he paid the homage. Speaker 1: 'Cause he said who would you be without me? Rapin like the treacherous three.