Can't front on Melle Mel ,his verse on The Message is top 5 all time .🔥🔥

Side note: Prodigy's song "Quiet Storm" (white lines) uses this bass line but it's slowed down

The fact that this was right before crack dropped is eerily prophetic

I feel like his song “Beat Street Breakdown” is a lyrical masterpiece for it’s time period.

Don't forget Melle Mel on Chaka Khan's "I feel for You" Straight classic...💣💣💣💣💣

Hey Ahmad, you gotta understand this was the second song to deliver a deep message in rap. The first was, "The Message". ------ Before these songs rap was considered goofy kids music. ----- Then Melle Mel showed it could be much more, much deeper. ----- On the level of soul and rock music.

Mellys verse in the end of the Beat Street movie Is certified Supet 🔥 for the 80s!!!

Coke was such a big part of the culture you had MCs back then putting it in their names… Coke La Rock… Kool Rock Ski, etc. Ski and rock also being names for coke.

We need more 80's rap reactions! Dope Song 🔥🔥🔥

The sample is from a 1983 song by Liquid Liquid called "Cavern" . It can be heard early in that song. . Mel was definitley a pioneer in the sense that "White Lines" & "The Message" were possibly the first rap songs that talked about real life serious issues .

His verse on Beat Street is probably his magnum opus. One of the dopest verses in hip hop history 💪🏽💯

You gotta do "Step Off" by Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five!!! It's loaded with bars that were unheard of at the time, very underrated classic

"The more I see, the more I do..." That part gets me everytime. FREEBASE!!!!! Get Higher, Baby!!!

I love this song and I’m one of the ones who never did any illegal drugs in my life

Yooo Ahmad This Is One Of Hip Hop's Greatest Songs It Was One Of Those Songs That Changed The Game And Guess What My G That Bassline You Hear That's What "Mobb Deep" Sampled For "Quiet Storm" 😁🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

MELLY MEL is a triple OOOG, and legend period .. 1 ...

One of my favorite ruckus to break-dance to way back in the day. I remember my crew won free pizza for a year at a contest at a pizza spot to this joint. The memories!

Thank you for this reaction I listened to my parents and uncles playing this when I was growing up but didn't understand the concept I just know it was the jam

Yep yep yep. Times have absolutely changed, but there at the dawn of rap he WAS the one changing them. Straight down to calling out the differences in crack charges vs. coke charges, which are still on the books.

This is a classic Hip-Hop track right here! This is how life was around this era especially in the black neighborhoods etc.. Melle was telling it how it was

Believe it or not, rap used to be positive back in the early years.

We all agree, his response to Em was trash but the problem I have is it never should’ve went down to begin with. You said it, he’s 65 years old, he a analog player in a digital world. Em should’ve took his comments on the chin and everyone would’ve forgotten about it. He dissed Meth but we ain’t see him make diss records now Em’s fanbase is relentlessly showing him disrespect all because people enabled that weak ass diss record he made to push his new artist. Mel deserved more respect that’s all we sayin

It's an anti-drug song that was played in dance clubs. I know it from a punk rock club in 1984, when even the guys with biker jackets with studs, spiked hair, and safety pins through everything would break dance and spin on the concrete floor. The long version is is even better! Melle Mel was an anti-drug, hard-working, be a man type.

Who remembers BET Uncut 😂😂😂 White girlllllllllls, (Suzy, Jen, and Karen) Going through my miiiiiind, (Sarah, Jesse and Julie, too) White girlllllllllls, (Judy, Beth, and Sharon) Help me unwiiiiiiind (The more I see the more I do) Don't tell Minister Farrakhan (That's right) He don't want to know what's going on (Ok) 'cause white girllllllllllls, won't go away..

Hey Ahmad, to complete the trilogy of deep message songs from Melle Mel, you've gotta hear, "Beat Street". ----- You should even check out the movie. ------ Its free on KZfaq and let's you see what lead to hip hop being born. ----- Similar to the desperate times taking place in Detroit a decade ago.

He's not a bad MC, at all. It's just no longer his hay-day!

Classic cut, even Duran Duran covered this song

I was 8 when this dropped..they played the hell out of this song......you have to remember...this is on the heels of the disco era...where everybody was gettin high....then crack came a year later and destroyed us.....this song is more than a classic....it's in it's own class.....KIng..you have to check out MC Lyte..."I cram to understand you"...first rap song addressing her boyfriend on crack....MC Lyte did it first...

A fight for power, a nuclear shower A people shout out in the darkest hour Sights unseen and voices unheard And finally the bomb gets the last word -Melle Mel

LL also sampled this "something like a phenomenon " later in the 90s ..

if you slow down the BPM of this song and listen to the drum pattern, you’ll hear where Havoc got the Mobb Deep “Quiet Storm” sample from. ❤

The dude in the white suit is Larry Fishburne

Ahhhhhhh the 80s cocaine 1983 the year of Scarface

"This song is DOPE!" Hahahahaha yes it is! We used to DANCE to this jam at ----- CHURCH dances back in the day (because anti-drug message was A-OK to the church elders!) I heard a similar riff on the store music overhead at a store last night and this song came to mind in an INSTANT. I sang it to the (young) cashier and she was, like, what? And I told her to look this song up on youtube she would love it. She was, like, "I don't knowwwww." So I turned to the (older) cashier and said, "You know "White Lines", right?" And she just grinned and said, "Yep!" Yeah it is DOPE as heck.

I was fortunate enough to see them back in the day. Jonzun Crew opened for them and then New Edition. Oakland Arena.

Appreciate the reaction King. I was still a little young at this time and never really liked this song, but the beat and many, many lines and references can be attributed to this track. To answer your question, there are varying definitions of The Golden Age. I consider it to start right around the turn of the decade when someone took the lid off and poured gasoline on the genre. I mentioned it before but I went to a Public Enemy concert in early 92 and Tribe, Black Sheep, Naughty, Leaders of the New School, and a dozen or so acts were ALL P.E.'s open opening acts. Others say late 80s...when Eric B and Rakim were doing their thing and Run DMC were fading out.

The dance that go's with this song is still popular in bars across America.

That man flowed his ass off on Beat Street

It is Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Melle Mell is one of the Furious Five.

I agree Mel's rep ain't damaged from the Eminem shit. You've GOT to check out "Gold" by Flash & the Furious Five. That was some pure fire back in the day. Still one of my all-time favs from any age of hip hop.

React to the movie "Beat Street" 1984. The main character is a rapper. Melle Mel does the voice overs for the music, and then has an appearance at the end. Pivotal material.

Funny you just did QUIET STORM. This is where Havoc got the sample from. Just slowed down

This was my ringtone for years, back when ringtones were popular.

& Since we doing Melle Mel this week......U MUST do Chaka Khan "I Feel for U" ( 1st Hip Hop / R&B collaboration...... ) That song also has ( if I aint mistaken.... ) the 1st vocal sample on a commercial Hip Hop record

Quiet Storm sampled this beat.

Funny thing is, this was really pro coke but SugarHill wouldn't put it out until they made it "anti-drug" for airplay.

Did u notice this where they sample quiet storm from?

Rap Fact. Havoc of Mobb Deep sampled the baseline of this song for Quiet Storm.

This song made me watch LL Cool J - Phenomenon

Nah man, him being in his 60s is no excuse. This man's hate made him choose not to evolve. There's other rappers his age who still nice like Grandmaster Caz because they saw what the following generations were doing with the craft and flow they didn't switch up their flow to match the younger artists, they tweaked it to fit with modern beats and concepts. Melle Mel STILL had major joints tho. Not taking from his career but given his spot had he evolved no one would be clowning him.

The Bronx HipHop Legend Grandmaster Melle Mel

Enjoing this, Doin‘ my Weekend lines 😂🎉

57k! Congrats 💯 keep grinding my guy.

Holy Shit, I haven't heard this in like 40 years..

Melle Mel is the greatest rapper of them all. PERIOD. Mel's Hustlers Convention next?

Don't forget Lawrence "Larry" Fishburne is in the video. White suit guy lol

The song wasn’t going to have the “don’t don’t do it” in the title originally but Melle Mel lost a friend to an OD a few weeks before the song was released and he wanted it to be more clear that the song was anti crack/coke

@KingAhmadTV this what mobb deep used to make the song a quiet storm.

Artist have been talking about drugs on recording since the beginning

I first herd this song on a PlayStation game. Thrasher skate and destroy. I was probably in the 5th grade 😂

Listen to the extended version

I just realized on one of the breaks they say free base 😂😂😂😂

I think havoc sampled the bass line for his mobb deep track with Lil Kim

You didn’t disrespect melle mel. You showed the man respect and said he’s a legend but you was right about the track. It was trash. They think because he’s a legend we supposed to let that slide. Nah bruh that diss was horrible.

Your reaction is hilarious 😂😂😂

Beat Street Breakdown World War 3 Step Off Pump me up The Mayor M3 - The New Message Sun dont shine in the hood New York, New York His verse on Quincy Jones Back on the Block

Was just rapping about what they saw - freebase was kicking in - a game changer.

Got the Original Vinyl press 😊

This song was actually made as a pro cocaine song.. but he record company made them change it up to an anti-coke song... but originally they wrote it in favor of coke

Look they slap the dont do it message on it but it was meant to be a party song and promote the use of it

I'm an older head, but I never heard this song until some time in the late 2000s. It was after I heard that "White Girls" song that was always on BET Uncut, so I was kinda bugging when I heard "white! liiiines" sung the same as "white! giiiirls" lol. Then I heard "something like a phenomenon" and realized LL Cool J got the hook for his song "Phenomenon" from this track, too. But this is really what Mel has been complaining about: this song is about demonizing drugs. A lot of rap records had a positive vibe like this until NWA let Jerry Heller turn them to glorifying all the violence and drugs. Then "everyone" followed suit. Quotations bc it wasn't really everyone, and even the ones who did would throw in tracks about it leading to problems and downfalls. It's unfortunate Mel ignored all the tracks that were warnings and critical of violence, poverty, drugs, etc. He basically turned into one of the people that complain about rap even though they don't listen to it.

So many artists sampled aspects of this song. Wild! 😵‍💫

Hey, I know this song this song is from cocaine Bear

This song was fire and it’s been sampled throughout hip hop so many times

"Freebase!" Richard Pryor did that...It didn't end well 🔥😬

This is technically an anti-drug song, but it was a lot of people doing coke to this lol

Check out Mighty Casey "White Girls" where he used this sample

Lol what am I watching the 80s were a different time man.

Did you do this after “Quiet Storm” on purpose? You peeped the sample?

This was from the 1980s, the country was overrun with cocaine!!

Melle Mel- Mama

He didn't flip it.. the industry did .

Back then it was like that.

Merle Mel- mama

You have to understand, back then, if you wasn't in the game you didn't know what it was!

Now u gotta do the mighty Casey version. White girls! Lol I promise you’ll be entertained

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 IT HPPN BRO 😂😂😂 AYE YOOOO

Please react to the song... Smackin' Rappers by Melle Mel... would be awesome... thank you

Funny thing was, the whole band was wired on blow when they made this.

Do. "WHAT PEOPLE DO FOR MONEY" - by DIVINE SOUNDS 1984! 🔥🔥ITS TRUTH TO THIS DAY!!

Since you wanna go old school..... May I suggest the song New York New York by Grandmaster Flash.

Peruvian Cok immortal technique 🔥🔥🔥

Ahmad! Do these joints: LL Cool J "I Need A Beat" Fearless Four "Rockin It" Run DMC "Together Forever" All those joints are fire and all from 1983-1985 era. Dont do no Kurtis Blow, please lol.

You tried so hard not to laugh in the beginning 😂😂

In honor of the Montgomery AL Brawl…u should react to Montgomery AL rap group Dirty Boyz’ song Hit Da Floe

man everyone was casually sniffing coke back then

nice pick

You gotta react to Goodie Mob album. Greatest album from the South of all time from the 90s trust me

'This is 1983, I didn't think they allowed to talk about coke' dude, The Beatles, Sly Stone, Hendrix etc were singing about drugs way back in the 60s hahahahah

Nice shirt