Grandmaster Melle Mel is regarded as one of Hip-Hop’s first generation MC icons. The lyrical front-man of Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five helped move the fledgling genre of Rap from the party to a reflection of street reality. In his staggering discography, Melvin Glover was successful in both realms. However, the Bronx, New Yorker led a charge that Rap has forever followed when he delivered “The Message.” At the SoHo Sonos Store in New York City, Grandmaster Melle Mel revealed some rarely discussed facts about the record that first put Flash and the Furious Five in the Top 100.
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