Melle Mel
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Sep 11, 2026
Peter RosenbergHOST
... blood running through your veins, or you're not.
Peter RosenbergHOST
You can't just be like, "I grew up near Melle Mel." That's not gonna help your argument.
King LouiePANELIST
No.
Peter RosenbergHOST
If you're gonna get into this argument, which he did.
Van Lathan Jr.HOST
This is what everybody's talking about, you know, so let's just get into it right now.
Van Lathan Jr.HOST
N-word, Afro-Latina, Black, Melle Mel, carrying crates for Melle Mel.
Van Lathan Jr.HOST
Does that make you Black? Let's discuss it.
Jade WhaleyCORRESPONDENT
Fat Joe is facing renewed backlash and sparking an old debate over his use of the N-word after appearing on The Joe Budden Podcast.
Fat JoeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Guys, I don't know if you could fathom that.
Fat JoeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm from the block that invented hip-hop.
Fat JoeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, the girls who used to babysit me, they invented, "Let me hear you say ho." That's Grandmaster Flash.
Fat JoeSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I grew up with Melle Mel right outside the window playing basketball.
Max KellermanHOST
Yeah.
Max KellermanHOST
Mo- but Motown 25 exploded hip hop more than any, like more than Beat Street or Breakin' or, or, you know, or, or Run DMC or, or Melle Mel, uh, like whoever you want, whatever like seminal moment in hip hop you wanna talk about, Motown 25, actually, once he did the moonwalk and people got interested in that kind of dancing, that exploded everything.
Max KellermanHOST
And so, like, there was Michael Jackson.
Max KellermanHOST
There was obviously Mike Tyson, which we could talk about in a second.
E-40GUEST
Hmm.
E-40GUEST
Melle Mel.
MalHOST
That makes so much sense.
E-40GUEST
[laughs] Melle Mel.
MalHOST
That makes so much sense.
E-40GUEST
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Melle Mel, man.
MalHOST
Yeah.
MalHOST
That makes so much sense.
Kenny OlsonPANELIST
Yeah, a great version of Time After Time.
Matthew MikulskiPANELIST
John, did I mention meeting Melvin Glover yesterday at the airport?
John HeidtCORRESPONDENT
You did say something about that,
Matthew MikulskiPANELIST
yes.
speaker_6HOST
Yeah.
Fat JoeGUEST
If I see Melle Mel, oh my God.
Charlamagne Tha GodHOST
Yeah.
Fat JoeGUEST
Yo, yo, you...
WaheedHOST
... you know.
WaheedHOST
And then of course Melle Mel came with the message and other-
FXHOST
Mm-hmm
WaheedHOST
... records came out, Feel It for Problems of the World Today.
Fat JoeHOST
Yeah, but I listen to all, uh, uh ...
Fat JoeHOST
Like, e- even to this day, if I'm driving down Manhattan and I see Melle Mel on the corner, I'm pulling the shit over and I'm-
Busta RhymesGUEST
That's a fact
Fat JoeHOST
... making a movie for him.
B-RealHOST
And, you know, and the guys before them made it possible for Run-DMC.
B-RealHOST
You know what I mean? Because if the Sugarhill Gang and, you know, Melle Mel and, and, and Grandmaster Flash, Furious Five, Kurtis Blow, if they don't get on, Run-DMC don't get on.
B-RealHOST
But what I'm telling you is this.
B-RealHOST
Yes, the spark was before them, but the possibility of getting to the fucking masses and mainstream-
Chrissy AllerdingesGUEST
Absolutely.
Adam DornHOST
And Michael demonstrated in the film how on the AMS sampler, Arif's finger slipped off the button, and they had sampled Melle Mel saying Chaka Khan, and it went, "Chaka, Cha- Chaka Kh-" He, and Arif went, "Oh, wait a minute," and that's how that sort of happened, yeah.
Chrissy AllerdingesGUEST
Oh, he, he, he was, he was great like that.
Chrissy AllerdingesGUEST
He w- he, you know, he w- he would find something like that.
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