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We Don't Work For Free / We Don't Work For Free (Instrumental)
Performing artist
Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five
Record company
Sugar Hill Records (NYC)
Date1984
Mediumpolyvinyl chloride; paper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (HW): 12 5/16 × 12 5/16 in. (31.274 × 31.274 cm)
Overall (Diameter): 11 7/8 in. (30.163 cm)
Overall (Diameter): 11 7/8 in. (30.163 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number2001.337.55.A,.B
Text Entries“We Don't Work For Free / We Don't Work For Free (Instrumental)” is a two-track vinyl released in 1984 by Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five. Released under Sugar Hill Records, this track was produced by Clayton Savage and Sylvia Robinson.
Melle Mel (Melvin Glover, b. 1961) was one of the original MCs in Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler) and the Furious Five, alongside his brother, The Kidd Creole (Nathaniel Glover), Scorpio aka Mr. Ness (Eddie Morris), Rahiem (Guy Todd Williams), and Cowboy aka Keith Keith (Keith Wiggins). The group was one of the first Hip-Hop crews to gain national attention with songs like “The Message” (1982) and “White Lines” (1983) featuring Melle Mel.
Sugar Hill is written in black and white striped colored font. There is a skyline of a city in the middle of the cover.
CopyrightThis work is issued under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License. For more information, go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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