In latest rapper news.... I know I've heard and seen his name all over the place... Damn, he wasn't in the "Purple Stuff" song was he? Or the "Bar Baby" song? What did he do that we've heard on the radio? Houston rap artist Big Mello, was set to release fourth album Copyright 2002 Houston Chronicle Big Mello, a rapper with three albums to his credit and who performed across the United States and in Japan, was killed Saturday night in a traffic accident. The performer's car left the road about 8 p.m. and hit a pillar in the 4500 block of South Loop West. Big Mello, whose real name was Curtis Davis and who lived in Missouri City, was dead at the scene. A passenger, Jerry Louis Jett Jr., 27, died on the way to a hospital. Big Mello's most recent album, Southside Story, was released in 1996. A fourth album, titled Done Deal, will be released soon, according to Davis' wife, Tammi Bingham Davis of Missouri City. Born in Houston, Davis graduated from Madison High School. In the early 1980s, he attended Texas Southern University, studying music and broadcasting. He also worked as a volunteer disc jockey on the campus radio station, KTSU-FM. Detria Ward, operations manager and program director at the station, said he appeared on the station's Kidz Jamm program. The program, which is still being broadcast after about 20 years on the air, aired for about four hours once a week. As Big Mello, a name his wife said he invented for himself, he later performed with such rappers as Scarface, Mad Hatter and Tupac Shakur. His final performance was about two weeks ago in Amarillo, she said. Ward described Davis as "a fun fellow. He was good with everybody, not temperamental. From the beginning, I considered him a good rapper and a good writer. Recently he was in a quiet period, but I had heard that he was working on something and would be back out again." In addition to his wife, Davis leaves two sons, Andrew and Tad Davis of Missouri City; his parents, Wilbert and Mary Elizabeth Davis of Houston; and a sister, Tammy Davis of Houston. Jett, a friend of Davis', was employed with Southwestern Bell and with Oak Farm Dairies. He leaves his wife, Elmer of Houston; daughters Xijah Jackson and Michelle Preston; and stepchildren Telshia Southall, Jerry Porter and Jasma Porter, all of Houston.
No, You must be thinking of Big Moe, but I think they are in the same crew/record label. regardless, its a shame, R.I.P.
