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Grandmaster Melle Mel (15 May 1961 - )

Male Person - United States Melvin Glover aka Melle Mel

 Also known as (1)

Releases (4)

Official

Album

  1. Muscles 23 Jan 2007 (as Grandmaster Mele Mel)

Single

  1. White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It) Oct 1983 (as Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel)
  2. Jesse 1984

EP

  1. King of the Streets 1985

Relationships (10)

Collaborator On

  1. Artists United Against Apartheid

Member Of

  1. The Younger Generation
  2. Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
  3. Legends of Hip Hop
  4. The Furious Five
  5. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
  6. Listen Up
  7. Time Zone
  8. Afrika & The Zulu Kings

Siblings

  1. Kid Creole

Recordings by (80)

  1. White Lines (Don’t Do It) 7:34 (Oct 1983)
  2. White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It) (bonus) 2:16 (Oct 1983)
  3. White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It) (bonus break) 2:34 (Oct 1983)
  4. White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It) (short version) 4:10 (Oct 1983)
  5. White Lines (Don’t Do It) 4:27 (05 Nov 1983)
  6. White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It) 4:33 (05 Nov 1983)
  7. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) 6:59 (1983)
  8. White Lines (Don’t Do It) (bonus) 2:15 (1983)
  9. White Lines (Don’t Do It) (instrumental) 6:51 (1983)
  10. The Truth 4:14 (1984)
  11. Jesse 6:08 (1984)
  12. Jesse (instrumental) 6:02 (1984)
  13. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) 3:28 (1984)
  14. Vice 5:02 (Oct 1985)
  15. White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It) 7:38 (1985)
  16. King of the Streets 7:28 (1985)
  17. King of the Streets (short version) 5:08 (1985)
  18. King of the Streets (instrumental) 7:28 (1985)
  19. Vice ?:?? (1985)
  20. Jesse 5:08 (1990)
  21. White Lines (Don’t Do It) (freestyle remix) 6:45 (1990)
  22. White Lines (Don’t Do It) (freestyle remix edit) 3:15 (1990)
  23. White Lines (Don’t Do It) (bonus lines) 2:31 (1990)
  24. White Lines (Freestyle remix) 3:17 (1990)
  25. White Lines (The “Just Say No” CD edit) 6:14 (1990)
  26. ラップ・バード 4:54 (21 Jan 1991)
  27. White Lines 1:34 (1992) “Dance Classics: The Megamix” DJ mix
  28. The Mayor 4:05 (1992)
  29. White Lines 5:46 (1993) Powerhouse edit
  30. White Lines (Don't Do It) (D & S 7" remix) 3:44 (1993)
  31. White Lines (Don't Do It) (D & S 12" remix) 4:44 (1993)
  32. White Lines 4:30 (1994)
  33. Hustlers Convention 6:13 (1994)
  34. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) 3:10 (31 May 1996)
  35. King of the Streets 5:13 (01 Nov 1996)
  36. White Lines (UK remix) 6:27 (01 Nov 1996)
  37. Vice (From Miami Vice) 5:04 (1996)
  38. World War III 8:21 (1996)
  39. The Party Is A Bomb 3:15 (1996)
  40. White Lines (Don't Do It) 3:19 (1996)
  41. White Lines (Don’t Do It) 3:12 (1996)
  42. White Lines (Don’t Do It) (D & S 12” Re mix) 3:59 (1997)
  43. Freestyle 4:45 (1999)
  44. Mega-Melle Mix 5:01 (1999)
  45. Rapmania 3:52 (1999) live
  46. Trinidad Spot 0:32 (1999)
  47. I’m a Star 3:31 (Oct 2002)
  48. White Lines (Andromeda remix) 2:00 (2004) part of “As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Part 9” DJ-mix
  49. Cold Blooded 1:24 (2004)
  50. White Lines (Don’t Do It) 7:34 (2004)
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On Recordings (16)

Performer

  1. Who You Funkin’ With? 6:23 Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force featuring Melle Mel (01 Dec 1986) guest
  2. White Lines (Don’t Do It) 5:31 Duran Duran (27 Mar 1995)
  3. The Message (Judge Jules mix) 2:07 Stunt Nuts feat. Melle Mel (16 Aug 1999) guest
  4. Watch Me Now 3:38 Afrika Bambaataa feat. Melle Mel (1999)
  5. The Message (feat. Melle Mel) 4:58 Stunt Nuts (07 Mar 2000)
  6. Now It's My Turn (feat. Melle Mel) 3:58 Delray (2001)

Vocals

  1. Sun City (last remix / UK 12” single version) 9:37 Artists United Against Apartheid (25 Oct 1985)
  2. Let Me See Your I.D. 7:19 Gil Scott‐Heron, Grandmaster Melle Mel & Duke Bootee (07 Dec 1985)
  3. Sun City 7:10 Artists United Against Apartheid (07 Dec 1985)
  4. Sun City (version II) 5:42 Artists United Against Apartheid (07 Dec 1985)
  5. White Lines (Don’t Do It) 5:31 Duran Duran (27 Mar 1995) additional
  6. Homesick 8:20 The Last Poets (1995)
  7. Funk 6:06 The Last Poets (1995)
  8. The Message 4:03 Stunt Nuts feat. Melle Mel (Jun 2000)

Produced

  1. Beat Street Breakdown 6:47 Melle Mel feat. The Furious Five (1984)
  2. Vice 5:02 Grandmaster Melle Mel (Oct 1985)

Credited as (116)

  1. Melle Mel
  2. Grandmaster Mele Mel
  3. Grandmaster Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
  4. Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five
  5. Melle Mel & Grandmaster Caz
  6. Stunt Nuts feat. Melle Mel
  7. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
  8. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five feat. Melle Mel
  9. Grandmaster Mele Mel & The Furious Five
  10. Grandmaster Mele Mel & Duke Bootee
  11. The Furious Five featuring Cowboy, Melle Mel & Scorpio
  12. Duran Duran feat. Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
  13. Grandmaster Melle Mel
  14. The Sugarhill Gang & Grandmaster Melle Mel
  15. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
  16. Melle Mel, Grand Puba, Steph Lova, Kid Creole & GQ
  17. T.O.P., Kurtis Blow, Dota Rock & Melle Mel
  18. Grandmaster Mele-Mel & Scorpio
  19. Melle Mel feat. The Furious Five
  20. Melly Mel
  21. Melle Mel & Keith LeBlanc
  22. Interference Featuring Melle Mel & Be La Key
  23. Melle Mel, Grand Puba, Steph Lova, Kid Creole & GQ
  24. Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
  25. Afrika Islam feat. Grandmaster Melle Mel
  26. Jazzonia, Alicia Renee & Grandmaster Melle Mel
  27. The Furious Five feat. Cowboy, Melle Mel & Scorpio
  28. Mass Production feat. Grandmaster Melle Mel
  29. Grandmaster Mele Mel feat. Lynk
  30. Melle Mel feat. Duke Bootee
  31. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five feat Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
  32. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
  33. Grandmaster Flash, The Furious Five, Grandmaster Melle Mel
  34. Grandmaster & Melle Mel
  35. Melle Mel & The Furious Five
  36. Grandmaster Caz feat. Mele Mel & Whipper Whip
  37. Afrika Bambaataa feat. Melle Mel
  38. Hausmarke feat. Melle Mel, Scorpio & Smudo
  39. Duran Duran feat. Melle Mel & Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
  40. Plastik Funk feat. Grandmaster Melle Mel
  41. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Eric Nally, Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee & Grandmaster Caz
  42. Grandmaster Melle Mel and The Furious Five
  43. Grandmaster Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Kurtis Blow & Ice‐T
  44. Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five, with Mr. Ness & Cowboy
  45. The Furious Five, Cowboy, Grandmaster Melle Mel & Scorpio
  46. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Melle Mel, Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee & Eric Nally
  47. Grandmaster Melle Mel, The Furious Five feat. Mr. Ness & Cowboy
  48. Grandmaster Flash feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee
  49. Grandmaster Flash & Melle-Mel
  50. DJ Honda feat. Grandmaster Melle Mel
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Works (33)

Wrote

  1. It’s Over Now
  2. We Don’t Work for Free
  3. White Lines
  4. New York, New York
  5. Sticky Fingers
  6. The Message
  7. Step Off
  8. Vice
  9. Freedom
  10. Birthday Party
  11. Flash to the Beat
  12. Message II (Survival)
  13. You Are
  14. The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
  15. World War III
  16. Check Yo Self
  17. Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down
  18. 4pm in Calabasas
  19. Work, Work the Body
  20. Back on the Block
  21. White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)
  22. The Best Day
  23. Jesse
  24. Movement in Still Life
  25. Don’t Stop
  26. Scorpio
  27. Phenomenon
  28. Cabinet Battle #1 additional

Composed

  1. Beat Street
  2. Can't, Won't, Don't Stop
  3. Old School

Lyrics

  1. Beat Street
  2. Showdown

Events (2)

Main Performer At

  1. We ♥︎ NYC: The Homecoming Concert
  2. Summerfest 2018, Day 2: U.S. Cellular Connection Stage with V100.7 time

Links (13)

Other Databases

  1. https://imvdb.com/n/grandmaster-melle-mel
  2. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/grandmaster_melle_mel
  3. https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/grandmaster_flash_and_melle_mel

Discogs

  1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/20593
  2. https://www.discogs.com/artist/19701
  3. https://www.discogs.com/artist/77180
  4. https://www.discogs.com/artist/115934

Allmusic

  1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000739282
  2. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000414333

Wikidata

  1. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64549

Stream For Free

  1. https://www.deezer.com/artist/195656
  2. https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AWhixY9hX7LEPyPMjh4O0

Streaming Page

  1. https://tidal.com/artist/3856555