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Melle Mel, whose group Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five is credited with releasing hip-hop’s first politically conscious song “The Message” in 1982, provides a scathing verse that pleads ...

Melle Mel was the rapper on the 1982 hit "The Message." He spoke to Fresh Air in 1998 about the early days of rap, ... (SOUNDBITE OF GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE SONG, ...

Melle Mel was the rapper on the 1982 hit "The Message." He spoke to Fresh Air in 1998 about the early days of rap, music with a social message and how the genre and his life had changed.

It all began when Melle Mel, lead vocalist for the iconic rap group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, gave a fiery quote during a March interview with The Art of Dialogue.

The Bronx-raised DJ, rapper, and producer founded Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, one of rap’s most important groups, and he’s renowned for his Quick Mix technique, where he’d put ...

Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five, ‘White Lines’ (1983) Co-written by Melle Mel and Sylvia Robinson (founder of Sugar Hill Records), the ominous warning of the dangers of cocaine is ...

There’s been a bit of beef between Eminem and Melle Mel of Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five this year. In March, Mel claimed a lot of the praise Eminem receives is because he’s white.

Melle Mel teamed up with Scorpio, Grandmaster Flash and Rahiem went on their own, as did Kidd Creole until his 2017 arrest. Even as they were inducted into the famed Rock Hall, it seemed they’d ...

Earlier this year, the Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five legend said Em is only considered a top-five rapper ever because he's white. Brad Callas August 4, 2023 ...

BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — A meeting of the minds, in search of solutions. Rap Pioneer, Melle Mel of the group Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five who back in the 1970s, helped create what is known… ...