associated_acts death_date years_active alias label image_size article_title name background birth_date genre image origin birth_name occupation
screwed up click 15 june 2002 1991 -- 2002 big mello , mello , curtis davis rap-a-lot records / kmj records 170 big mello
 big mello solo_singer 7 august 1968 hip hop big mello.jpg houston , texas curtis donnell davis rapper
big mello

curtis donnell davis -lrb- august 7 , 1968 -- june 15 , 2002 -rrb- , better known by his stage name big mello , was an american rapper from houston , texas .
he debuted as big mello in 1992 with the album `` bone hard zaggin ' '' on the rap-a-lot records label .
shea serrano of the `` houston press '' said that big mello was famous for `` repping hiram clarke in the 90 's -lsb- ... -rsb- '' on june 15 , 2002 mello along with a passenger died after mello lost control of his vehicle and hit a pillar in the 4500 block of south loop west -lrb- south interstate highway 610 -rrb- .
