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*first time hearing* Grandmaster Melle Mel- White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)|REACTION!!
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Ok first of all, back in the day, this was grown folk music (over 21). This was huge in the clubs and dance halls, imagine an anti drug song while dancing and doing coke... crazy but fun!
Yup i was 12 when this banger dropped
Now THIS is Hip-Hop! I've always loved this song. The lyrics, the beat, everything! Hopefully, you picked up on the message. It's an anti-drug song that was very much needed, at the time. At one point, the word "Coke" scrolls across the screen and that wasn't a reference to the beverage, lol.
Claaaasic fire right here
A certified dope reaction 👨🏾⚖👨🏾⚖👨🏾⚖! This is the first anti-drug Hip-Hop song. I see 👁👁 that you have reacted to Grandmaster Melle Mel before: The Message, Sun City w/ Artists United Against Apartheid and I Feel For You w/ Chaka Khan. White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) was released as a non-album single by Grandmaster Melle Mel in 1983. The song was later included on the 1983 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's compilation album: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. It was written by Grandmaster Melle Mel. It was produced by Grandmaster Melle Mel, Sylvia Robinson and Joey Robinson Jr. It sampled: Cavern by Liquid Liquid (1983), Little Jack Horner Traditional Folk (1725) and Twist And Shout by The Isley Brothers (1962).
The song reached #9 on the Dance Club chart and #47 on the R&B chart. It peaked at #7 on the UK Singles chart. The music video was directed by a NYU college student named Spike Lee and featured actor Laurence Fishburne. The song is about cocaine, urging listeners not to do it while making the case that crack cocaine drug laws in the US are racist and unjust, with poor Black kids getting much harsher penalties for crack cocaine drug offenses than white businessmen and suburbanites for powder cocaine. It was the first popular rap song about not doing drugs.
DJ Grandmaster Flash had nothing to do with this song, but it was originally released under his name. Grandmaster Flash is a DJ, and in the early days of Hip-Hop, they were considered more important than the MCs who rapped over their beats. The band was known as Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five, and it was DJ Grandmaster Flash who assembled the group as a way to provide vocal entertainment for his DJ sets -note that his name comes first.
While DJ Grandmaster Flash was indisputably the star of their live shows, when the group started recording in 1979, the dynamic changed. DJ Grandmaster Flash Flash made his living revolutionizing the way existing songs could be manipulated, creating beats that flowed seamlessly together. He did this on the 1981 song: "The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel", but when it came to creating original songs, that was the specialty of the Sugar Hill Records house band and the group's lead rapper, Grandmaster Melle Mel.
The composer credits on "White Lines" belong to Melle (Melvin Glover) and Sugar Hill owner/producer Sylvia Robinson. By the time they put this song together, Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five were fractured, and they broke up before it was released.
Also, by this time, Melle Mel appropriated the name "Grandmaster", calling himself "Grandmaster Melle Mel". Grandmaster Flash and Grandmaster Melle Mel went to court over the name, and in the end, this song is officially credited to "Grandmaster and Melle Mel".
Grandmaster Melle Mel wrote the song's lyric, but the backing track, including that killer bass line, is interpolated from a 1982 dance song called: "Cavern", by the group - Liquid Liquid, that came out earlier in 1982 and was big in the clubs. The vocal melody also comes from the song: "Cavern", with the words "what side" becoming "white lines".
The Rock band: Duran Duran, recorded a cover version of the song with DJ Grandmaster Flash and Grandmaster Melle Mel on their 1995 album: Thank You. Duran Duran's cover peaked at #17 in the UK but didn't rate with critics. A music video was filmed for the song as well.
The song is featured in the 2005 video game 🎮: Narc.
The song was featured in some TV shows including 📺: Small Axe ("Red, White And Blue" - 2020), Car Share ("The Nan" - 2017), Cold Case ("Greed" - 2004), Everybody Hates Chris ("Everybody Hates The Lottery"- 2006), Gilmore Girls ("Teach Me Tonight" - 2002) and more.
The song has been featured in some films including 📽: Cocaine Bear (2023), Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (2022), Vacation Friends (2021), Brandon Bott Gets Grounded: The Movie (2021), Think Like A Man Too (2014), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), I Melt With You (2011), Shaun Of The Dead (2004), Empire (2002), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Basquiat (1996) and more.
Lyrics🗒:
Rock
Rock
Bass
Ooh, white, white
Ooh, white, white
Ooh, white, white
(Ooh white lines) vision dreams of passion
(Blowin' through my mind) and all the while I think of you
(High price) a very strange reaction
(For us to unwind) the more I see, the more I do
(Something like a phenomenon) baby
Tellin' your body to come along, but white lines blow away
Ticket to ride, white line highway
Tell all your friends, that they can go my way
Pay your toll, sell your soul
Pound for pound costs more than gold
The longer you stay, the more you pay
My white line go a long way
Either up your nose or through your vein
With nothin' to gain except killin' your brain
Freeze, rock, freeze, rock
Freeze, rock, freeze, rock
Blow
(Ahh) higher, baby
(Ahh) get higher, baby
(Ahh) get higher, baby
And don't ever come down, freebase (rock)
Rang-dang-diggedy-dang-di-dang
Rang-dang-diggedy-dang-di-dang
Rang-dang-diggedy-dang-di-dang
Diggedy-dang-di-dang, diggedy-dang-di-dang
(Pipeline) pure as the driven snow
(Connected to my mind) and now I'm havin' fun, baby
(High price) it's getting kinda low
('Cause it makes you feel so nice) I need some one-on-one, baby
(Don't let it blow your mind away) baby
(And go into your little hideaway 'cause white lines blow away)
A million magic crystals, painted pure and white
A multi-million dollars almost overnight
Twice as sweet as sugar, twice as bitter as salt
And if you get hooked, baby, it's nobody else's fault, so don't do it
Freeze, rock, freeze, rock
Freeze, rock, freeze, rock
Blow
(Ahh) higher, baby
(Ahh) get higher, baby
(Ahh) get higher, baby
And don't ever come down, freebase (rock)
(Don't you get too high) don't you get too high, baby
(Turns you on) you really turn me on and on
('Cause you gotta come down) my temperature is risin'
(When the thrill is gone) no, I don't want you to go
A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time
He got out three years from now just to commit more crime
A businessman is caught with twenty four kilos
He's out on bail and out of jail
And that's the way it goes, rock
Kane, sugar, kane
Athletes rejected, governors corrected
Gangsters, thugs and smugglers are thoroughly respected
The money gets divided
The women get excited
Now I'm broke and it's no joke
It's hard as hell to fight it, don't buy it
Freeze (ha-ha, ha, ha), rock, freeze, rock
Freeze, rock, freeze, rock (rock)
Blow
(Ahh) get higher, baby
(Ahh) get higher, girl
(Ahh) get higher, baby
C'mon, rock
(White Lines) vision dreams of passion
(Blowin' through my mind) and all the while I think of you
(High price) a very strange reaction
(For us to unwind) the more I see, the more I do
(Something like a phenomenon) baby
(Tellin' your body to come along, but white lines blow away)
Little Jack Horner sitting on the corner
With no shoes and clothes
This ain't funny, but he took his money
And sniffed it up his nose
Hey man, you want to cop some blow?
Sure, what you got, dust, flakes or rocks?
I got China White, Mother of Pearl, Ivory Flake, what you need?
Well yeah, well let me check it out man
Just let me get a freeze (don't)
Go ahead man (do it), stuff I got should kill ya
(Yeah man th-that's that's raw, whoa)
Freeze (ha-ha, ha, ha), rock, freeze, rock
Freeze (ha-ha, ha, ha), rock, freeze, rock (uh)
Freeze, rock, freeze, rock
Freeze, rock, freeze, rock
Grandmaster Melle Mel Info 📰:
Melvin "Grandmaster Melle Mel" Glover was born on May 15, 1961 in New York City. He is a rapper who was the lead vocalist and songwriter of the early 1980s Hip-Hop group Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five.
Grandmaster Melle Mel began performing in the late 1970s. He may have been the first rapper to call himself MC (Master of Ceremonies). Other Furious Five group members included his brother Kidd Creole (Nathaniel Glover), Scorpio (Eddie Morris), Rahiem (Guy Williams) and Keef Cowboy (Keith Wiggins). While a member of the group, Keef Cowboy created the term Hip-Hop while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army, by scat singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers.
Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five began recording for Enjoy Records and released the single: "Superrappin'", in 1979. They later moved on to Sugar Hill Records and were popular on the R&B charts with party songs like: "Freedom" and "The Birthday Party". The received a Gold disc for the single: "Freedom", which sold over 500,000 copies in the US. They also began touring in the US and overseas.
In 1982, Melle Mel began to turn to more socially-aware subject matter, in particular the Ronald Reagan administration's economic (Reaganomics) and drug policies, and their effect on the black community.
The group's song: "The Message", became an instant classic and one of the first examples of conscious Hip-Hop by exploring personal and social themes. Grandmaster Melle Mel recorded a rap over session musician Duke Bootee's instrumental track: "The Jungle". Some of Grandmaster Melle Mel's lyrics on the song: "The Message", were taken directly from the group's 1979 single: "Superrappin'". Other than Grandmaster Melle Mel, no members of Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five actually appear on the record. Duke Bootee also contributed vocals. Rahiem was to later lip sync Duke Bootee's parts in the music video.
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"The Message" would later be the first Hip-Hop record ever to be added to the United States National Archive of Historic Recordings and the first Hip-Hop record inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Grandmaster Melle Mel would also go on to write songs about struggling life in with the songs: New York City ("New York, New York"), and making it through life in general "Survival (The Message 2)". DJ Grandmaster Flash split from the group after contract disputes between Grandmaster Melle Mel and their promoter Sylvia Robinson in regard to royalties for their song: "The Message". When DJ Grandmaster Flash filed a lawsuit against Sugar Hill Records, the members of The Furious Five parted ways.
Melle Mel became known as Grandmaster Melle Mel and the leader of The Furious Five. The group went on to produce the anti-drug song: "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)". An unofficial music video starred up-and-coming actor Laurence Fishburne and was directed by then-unknown film student Spike Lee. The record was falsely credited to "Grandmaster + Melle Mel" by Sugar Hill Records, in order to fool the public into thinking that DJ Grandmaster Flash had participated on the song.
Grandmaster Melle Mel gained greater fame and success after appearing in the 1984 Hip-Hop movie: Beat Street, with a song based on the movie's title: "Beat Street Breakdown, which he performed in the film. He also performed a memorable rap on Chaka Khan's smash hit song: "I Feel for You", which introduced Hip-Hop to a wider and more mainstream R&B audience. Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five had further hits with the singles: "Step Off", "Pump Me Up", "King Of the Streets", "Jesse", and "Vice", the latter being released on the soundtrack to the TV show Miami Vice. The single: "Jesse", was a highly political song which urged people to vote for then 1984 presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.
In 1985, Grandmaster Melle Mel performed with Artists United Against Apartheid on the anti-apartheid song: "Sun City", which was aimed at discouraging other artists from performing in South Africa until its government ended its policy of apartheid. In 1986, Grandmaster Melle Mel performed with The King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew on the Martin Luther King Jr tribute song: "King Holiday", which celebrated having Dr Martin Luther King Jr's birthday declared a National Holiday in 1983.
In 1988, after an almost four-year layoff, Grandmaster Melle Mel and DJ Grandmaster Flash reunited and released the album: On The Strength, with the rest of The Furious Five, but with up-and-coming new school artists such as Eric B & Rakim, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Public Enemy, NWA, Boogie Down Productions, and Big Daddy Kane dominating the Hip-Hop market, the album failed to live up to their expectations.
Grandmaster Melle Mel ended the decade by winning a Grammy Award for his work on Quincy Jones' 1989 album: Back On The Block.
In 1992, Grandmaster Melle Mel squared off against Willie D of the Geto Boys in the boxing ring during the Celebrity Rapper's Boxing Match in New York City. Willie D, who was a Golden Gloves boxer as a youth, won the bout by a knockout.
In 1995, Duran Duran did a cover version of the song: "White Lines", featuring performances from Grandmaster Flash and Grandmaster Melle Mel and released it as the second single from their cover album: Thank You.
In 1996, Grandmaster Melle Mel contributed vocals to the US edition of Cher's hit song: "One By One". Their version is only available on the maxi CD format.
In 1997, Grandmaster Melle Mel signed to Straight Game Records and released the album: Right Now, which features Scorpio from the Furious Five and Rondo. This album took more of a harder rap style. It barely sold in the US and the UK.
In 2001, under the name Die Hard, he released the song: "On Lock", with Rondo on the soundtrack of the movie: Blazin'. Die Hard released an album of the same name in 2002 on 7PRecords.
On November 14, 2006, Grandmaster Melle Mel collaborated with author Cricket Casey and released the children's book: The Portal In The Park, which comes with a bonus CD of his rapped narration. It also features two songs: "World Family Tree" and "The Fountain Of Truth", by a then unknown Lady Gaga performing with Grandmaster Melle Mel. The book was re-released in 2010.
Also in 2006, Grandmaster Melle Melle Mel attended professional wrestling school. In 2007 (at age 45), he stated in an interview with allhiphop.com that: "I'm going to try to take some of John Cena's money and get with WWE and do my thing".
On January 30, 2007, Grandmaster Melle Mel released his first ever solo album: Muscles. The first single and music video was: "M3 - The New Message".
On March 12, 2007, Grandmaster Melle Mel and The Furious Five joined by DJ Grandmaster Flash became the first Hip-Hop group ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In his acceptance speech, Grandmaster Melle Mel implored the recording industry members in attendance to do more to restore Hip-Hop to the culture of music and art that it once was, rather than the culture of violence that it has become. He added: "I've never been shot, I've never been arrested, and I've been doing Hip-Hop all my life. I can't change things all by myself. We need everybody's help, so let's do it and get this thing done".
On October 10, 2008, Grandmaster Melle Mel appeared on Bronx-based culinary adventure show: Bronx Flavor, alongside host Baron Ambrosia. In the episode: "Night at the Bodega", he appears as a spiritual mentor to sway the Baron Ambrosia from his over-indulgent ways and get him on the right path to success.
In April 2011, it was revealed that Grandmaster Melle Mel would take part in a new Hip-Hop/pro wrestling collaboration, The Urban Wrestling Federation. Its first bout "First Blood" was recorded in June 2011.
Grandmaster Melle Mel appeared in Ice-T's 2012 Hip-Hop documentary - Something From Nothing: The Art Of Rap.
In August 2015, Grandmaster Melle Mel appeared with Kool Moe Dee and Grandmaster Caz in Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's song and music video: "Downtown".
In May 2016, Grandmaster Melle Mel and Scorpio, performing as Grandmaster's Furious Five ft Melle Mel & Scorpio, released their single: "Some Kind of Sorry".
Grandmaster Melle Mel still performs live on stage in 2024. DJ Grandmaster Flash still performs live on stage and as a Special Events DJ for hire in 2024.
Miscellaneous Note 📂:
On August 2, 2017, Nathaniel Glover aka Kidd Creole was arrested and charged with the murder of a New York city homeless man. In 2022, he was found guilty of manslaughter in relation to the case, and was sentenced to sixteen years in prison.
Group Members Who Passed 🙏🏾:
Robert "Keef Cowboy" Wiggins (September 20, 1960 - September 8, 1989)
He was addicted to cocaine in the last two years of his life and passed away from a drug overdose in 1989 at the age of 28. His body was cremated and the ashes given to his family.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Group Members 👨🏿🎤👨🏼🎤👨🏿🎤👨🏿🎤👨🏽🎤👨🏾🎤:
Guy Williams aka Raheem
Nathaniel Glover aka Kid Creole
Robert Wiggins aka Keef Cowboy
Eddie Morris aka Scorpio aka Mr Ness
Melvin Glover aka Gandmaster Melle Mel
Joseph Saddler aka DJ Grandmaster Flash
Honors & Awards (Partial)🏅:
Grandmaster Flash received the Global Spin Awards Lifetime Achievement Award
In 2002, "The Message" was one of the 50 inaugural recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry.
In 2005, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five were honorees at the VH1 Hip-Hop Honors.
In 2006, Grandmaster Flash received the BET I Am Hip-Hop Award.
In 2007, Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five).
In 2009, Grandmaster Flash received the Urban Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2012, "The Message" was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.
In 2019, Grandmaster Flash received Polar Music Prize in Sweden.
In 2021, Rolling Stone ranked "The Message" #59 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
In 2021, received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five).
In 2022, Grandmaster Flash received an Honorary Doctorates Degree from Buffalo State University.
In 2023, ranked (#12) as one of the greatest rap groups of all time by Billboard (Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five).
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. displays in their historical archives the vinyl records and the turntable used by DJ Grandmaster Flash.
Grandmaster Melle Mel Filmography 📽:
Beat Street (1984)
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)
Who's The Man (1993)
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Grandmaster Melle Mel Albums 📀:
The Message w/ Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five (1982)
On The Strength w/ Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five (1988)
Piano w/ Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five
Right Now w/ Scorpio (1997)
On Lock as Die Hard (2001)
Portal In The Park w/ Cricket Casey (2006)
Muscles (2007)
Grandmaster Flash Albums 📀:
They Said It Couldn't Be Done (1985)
The Source (1986)
Ba-Dop-Boom-Bang (1987)
Salsoul Jam 2000 (1997)
Flash Is Back (1998)
The Official Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash (2002)
Essential Mix: Classic Edition (2002)
The Bridge Concept Of A Culture (2009)
Some more good songs by Grandmaster Melle Mel 🎶: Jesse, Freedom, It's Nasty (Genius Of Love), Showdown ft The Sugarhill Gang, New York New York, The Birthday Party, New York New York, Message II (Survival), Flash To The Beat, Superrappin', Beat Street Breakdown, Step Off, The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel, King Of The Streets, Gold, Scorpio, Continuous White Lines, Pump Me Up, We Don't Work For Free, Mama, Don't Shoot, World War III, She's Fresh, Vice, Sun Don't Shine In The Hood, Mr Big Stuff, Dreamin', Where Ya At?, Some Kind Of Sorry, Cold In Effect, Superappin' 2, Yo Baby, On The Strength, On The Down Low, When You Lose A Child, Right Now, Mama, New York-LA, The King, You Are, Magic Carpet Ride, Smackin' Rappers, China White, Sex You, Fly Girl, Vice, This Is Where You Got It From, Black Man, Kick The Knowledge, Piano, Revenge, See Ya!!, Check Yo Self, If, Leave Here, Gangster Movies, The Boy Is Dope, Old School, Ghetto Life, It's A Shame, Movement In Still Life, Drug Wars, County Line, Dance Wit Me, Fire, Rapture, White Lines '89 Part II, M-3, Free Style, Hustlers Convention, Internationally Known, Back On The Block w/ Quincy Jones, Street Walker w/ Mass Production, We Rap More Mellow w/ Younger Generation and R U Tuff Enuff (Remix) w/ Rebbie Jackson.
Fun Fact 🕵🏾♂: In 1990, Grandmaster Melle Mel won a Grammy Award for "Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group" for his collaboration on the 1989 Quincy Jones single: "Back On The Block". Andraé Crouch, Siedah Garrett, Caiphus Semenya, Ice T, Kool Moe Dee and Big Daddy Kane also appeared on the song.
Great song, anti drugs, great reaction ❤
Legend
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Another cool reaction. Now I see I have to through your whole catalog. History of the song: they sampled "cavern" by liquid liquid.
They have a line that says "something like a phenomenon" which L.L. cool j came up w the song "something like a phenomenon"
Also music group Duran Duran redid this song too
Some reactions to consider 🤔: Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight (Warmer Music Videos YT channel), Beastie Boys - So What'Cha Want (BeastieBoys YT channel) or The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday (The Monkees Archives YT channel).
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Duran Duran does a good cover of this
A fabulous cover
Try The Average White Band Cut the Cake it is so groovy
I did that one