Rap pioneers Melle Mel and Grandmaster Caz (r.) are working to develop a museum of hip hop culture in the Bronx
These old-school legends are still advocating for the grand art they helped shape.
Grandmasters Melle-Mel and Grandmaster Caz are working to develop a hip hop hall, an institution to celebrate the rapping culture and the borough that spawned it.
The large-livin’ legends — Curtis (Caz) Brown, 53, a member of the Cold Crush Brothers who was an uncredited co-author of the seminal 1979 hit, “Rapper’s Delight,” and Melvin (Mel) Glover, 52, who co-wrote the 1982 hit “The Message” with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five — took the Daily News’ Jennifer H. Cunningham on a trip down memory lane.
Daily News : What was the hip hop scene like in the Bronx in the late 1970s and early 1980s?
Melle Mel : In the early days of hip hop, we were just going out and partying, enjoying being young. It was only DJs and B-Boys. The dancers were called B-Boys. That’s how everything else got started.
It was a pretty interesting time. The parties were exciting. Hip hop started from one neighborhood’s talent against another. They’d have a battle to see who was the best that night.
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