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(After a court battle regarding rights to the name, Melle Mel was allowed the use of 'Grandmaster' as well.) Late in 1983, Sugar Hill released Melle Mel's 'White Lines (Don't Don't Do It),' variously described as anti-drugs or pro-drugs, though the death of one of Mel's friends, a drug dealer, a few weeks before release caused him to add the parentheses. Though most of their beefs were directed at Sugar Hill and not inwards, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five split down the middle, with Flash departing for Elektra with Kidd Creole (Mel's brother) and Raheim while Melle Mel stayed put and formed his own version of the group with Cowboy and Scorpio. One year later, the group began recording for Sugar Hill and scored on the R&B charts with the wild party jams 'Freedom' and 'Birthday Party.' In 1982, 'The Message' became an instant rap classic, one of the first glimmers of social consciousness in hip-hop, and Melle Mel was responsible for many of the cutting lyrics. Ness, aka Ed Morris) and Raheim (Guy Williams) joined up as well, the group recorded two singles (one as the Younger Generation and Flash & the Five) before they became Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and recorded the magnificent 'Superappin' for Enjoy, owned by R&B legend Bobby Robinson. Born Melvin Glover, he and his brother Nate (aka Kidd Creole) (not the Caribbean dance-popster of the same name) joined up with Cowboy (Keith Wiggins) in 1978 to form the Three MC's, with production handled by Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler). A little bio on Grandmaster Melle Mel as taken from the 'All Music Guide' and written by John Bush: 'Lyrical leader of the original Furious Five and founder of a splinter version of the group during the mid-'80s, Melle Mel wrote many of the legendary raps featured on Grandmaster Flash tracks.

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