Melle Mel isn’t backing down from his recent comments on the Billboard Top 50 Rappers of All Time list. After insisting that Eminem was placed on the list because he’s white, denying that Kendrick Lamar influences contemporary rappers and Lil Wayne isn’t hip-hop because he uses auto-tune, Mel spoke about his comments on podcast Hip Hop Corner.

“Melle Mel has nothing against nobody in hip-hop,” he began while lifting weights in the gym. “I’ve been in hip-hop for 40 years. Very competitive, really have nothing against nobody. I’m not jealous of nobody, I’m not intimidated by anybody or anything, and I’m not bitter. I just come across as I come across ’cause I’m a man and I say what I say, and when I say what I say, basically, I mean what I say.”

He continued, “Everything that I said, that I commented on, it was to comment on what he wrote and who he put on this said list. And I think Billboard is not known for hip-hop, of course, they’re known for records. So obviously, Billboard is more leaning toward guys that made records, compared to guys like myself that put in all the time in hip-hop.

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