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Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel

White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)

1983 · via Melle-Mel and 1 more

Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel’s 1983 recording of “White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)” is the earliest release on file. Sylvia Robinson is credited as its writer. Grandmaster Melle Mel is on the credit through Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s 1995 version. Also recorded by Duran Duran (released 1995), Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five (released 1984) and Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (released 1995), among 135 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Beastie Boys’ “Can't, Won't, Don't Stop” (1998) carries this song’s writers on its credit.

Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel – White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)
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Same name, different guy: this Melle-Mel took on a song his namesake wrote with Sylvia Robinson. Put on the first recording by Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel and hear what he was living up to.

The Beasties built that track on a 1983 Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel record, and Melle Mel and Sylvia Robinson get a writing credit for it. Stranger still, Duran Duran cut their own "White Lines" later, so this one keeps going.

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Credited writer: Sylvia Robinson.

Grandmaster Melle Mel is on the credit through Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s 1995 version.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1983.

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Beastie Boys’ “Can't, Won't, Don't Stop” (1998) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file · first release year

135 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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A 2000s Bay Area rapper also called Melle-Mel recorded "White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)." Who shares the song's writing credit with Grandmaster Melle Mel?Sylvia Robinson
a knot from Melle-Mel · next: Sylvia Robinson
Beastie Boys' "Can't, Won't, Don't Stop" carries the writing credit of "White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)." Who first recorded "White Lines"?Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
a knot from Beastie Boys · next: Duran Duran
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