Melle Mel says he was the first person in hip hop to call himself an MC, are you sure you didn't mean when Melle Mel became DJ Grandmaster Flash's MC? coz Grandmaster Flash says he was the first person to make DJaying to make the turntable into an instrument. Even though Kool Herc started it, i think Flash made it more advanced

so what if a dope emcee becomes famous and goes pop for a few years, can he ever be considered hip hop again?

for example if this song was made in 96 and Jay-Z wasn't famous would you consider this hip hop or rap? or if this exact song was made by an underground rapper would you consider it hip hop or rap or pop?

yeah me too, i can't say it isn't just because he's famous

1. Artists can range from pop to hip hop on a spectrum and there is no clear line where one begins and the other ends, so even Soulja Boy, if he tried, could make a hip hop track and he could even still go back to pop after that just like a Jazz artist can make a funk song and go back to Jazz.

2. Pop isn't necessarily bad. For example, I consider "Rapper's Delight" to be more of a pop song than a hip hop song and it is more pop than "My Philosophy" by KRS-One, but even though I like KRS's lyrics better, I preferred the track "Rapper's Delight" overall. That doesn't change that it is more of a pop song.

3. I already stated, some underground artists are just as much if not more pop oriented than these mainstream artists. Mainstream does not equate to pop/commercial and pop/commercial does not equate to mainstream.

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