MC Lyte has always been talented on the mic, but the hip hop legend doesn’t think she would make it in the music genre today because she wears pants.
In an exclusive interview with Page Six, the rap pioneer, who was the first female MC to release an album with 1988’s “Lyte as a Rock,” —said today’s female rappers choice to be super-sexual and revealing in their presentation wouldn’t have worked for her.
“I recently told somebody it would be really old-school for me to perform on stage with pants,” she told us, “Nobody wears pants. It’s that type of thing where everybody’s giving Rockettes and Vegas showgirl flavor.”
Lyte explained that in the early stages of Hip Hop Culture, female rappers kept their clothes on to be taken seriously but said she understood why rappers today use a different approach.
“I’m happy that anyone feels great in their body. Perhaps if I had a different type of body, I would be like, ‘Hey, see this?,’” the 51-year-old said, “However my walk has been extremely different from that in the very beginning. I didn’t want people to look at me. I wanted them to hear me because I had something to say, and I wanted them to pay attention to my words.”
