GRANDMASTER MEL, GRANDMASTER CAZ: Talk Building Hip-Hop Museum in the Bronx

Hip-Hop has been around for almost 40 years and it's no secret that The Bronx, New York is its home.

In effort to showcase some of the contributions of the hip-hop culture and community, two of the games earliest MCs, Grandmaster Melle Mel, who co-wrote the 1982 hit “The Message” with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers, who was an uncredited co-author of the 1979 hit “Rapper’s Delight, are working on resurrecting a hip-hop museum to celebrate rap and also the borough that spawned it.

During a sit down with the N.Y. Daily News, Grandmaster Caz said, "There's a lot of empty land in the Bronx, and any institution dedicated to hip hop has to be in the Bronx. We're trying to make that a reality. This is a big year for the culture, 40 years strong. Look how far we've come."

Even though Melle Mel confessed he's not a big fan of today's rap music because of its juvenile and violent tone, Mel said, "Hip-hop in its truest sense hasn't changed. Hip-hop as a cultural movement still is what it is."

The duo are in the process of looking for proper funding to launch their project.