He was saying his voice is stronger and more important, but 50 years later Malcolm is still studied and idolized. I think the people who are drawn to him, were about that life or who want to be activist. Mal is shortsighted as usual.
50 years later are they going to study Jay's lyrics or do like they do like Bob Marley?
I don't think people listen to music to be inspired or educated. I think they listen to be entertained. That's why you have to have a balance. Public Enemy were a platinum selling group in the middle of the crack era. Did they help? Not that they didn't try. Did Night of The Living Baseheads change peoples lives and make them clean up? I don't know. What are the results?
Plus people can't just list to Jay, they're going to be critical.
But from a capitalist standpoint people have been preaching economic empowerment for decades, but the issue is when it comes to one person and not as a collective
and Jay stopped doing the money phone thing, which was symbolic, he doesn't brag about material items like he used to. So he's shown continuous growth.
I don't think Malcolm, Martin, Medgar, Huey, Stockley and any rapper should be in the same sentence...
but maybe activism in 2021 looks different, what do I know.