In the wake of ongoing online discussion regarding the creation of Hip-Hop culture, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 front man Grandmaster Mele Mel has posted a video to his social media accounts which gives his viewpoint. "There's this whole thing going on about whether Puerto Ricans or Black people are the backbone of Hip-Hop," he says. "Hip-Hop is not Black culture, it's Bronx culture. The building blocks of Hip-Hop were formed in the Bronx."

Mel then goes on to point out that all of the first prominent Hip-Hop DJ's including Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Grandwizzard Theodore are all from the Bronx. "And the first MC, you're looking at him. I was born and raised in the Bronx," he explained. "The Bronx culture is Hip-Hop culture. You have two sides going back and forth about who started Hip-Hop, and you didn't even say any of the Bronx guys name's. The people who are talking about who started Hip-Hop weren't even there."

Mel says further that in the beginning Hip-Hop wasn't used as a term of endearment. "After Hip-Hop became a culture, then it became a positive term. People used to tell me to get a job because that Hip-Hop shit ain't gonna last forever. With culture everybody can do it, and I'm not saying that everybody can't be in on it. You are in on it, but it all started with the basic three crews - Flash, Bam, and Herc. To have this whole thing racialized, Hip-Hop isn't divisive like that."

Check out the clip above.