Big Mello

{{Short description|American rapper (1968–2002)}}

{{More citations needed|date=January 2011}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Big Mello

| image = Big Mello.jpg

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| birth_name = Curtis Donnell Davis

| alias = Big Mello, Big Mellow, Mello, Curtis Davis

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1968|8|7}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|6|15|1968|8|7}}

| origin = Houston, Texas, U.S.

| instrument =

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Hip hop
• Southern hip hop
• Gangsta rap}}

| occupation = Rapper

| years_active = 1991–2002

| label = Rap-a-Lot Records / KMJ Records / N-Terrogation / Woss Ness Entertainment

| past_member_of = Screwed Up Click

| website =

}}

Curtis Donnell Davis (August 7, 1968 – June 15, 2002),{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p37416/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Big Mello Biography|last=Jeffries|first=David|year=2008|publisher=allmusic|accessdate=2010-01-17}} better known by his stage name Big Mello, was an American rapper from Houston, Texas.

Mello graduated from Madison High School, and in the early 1980s, he attended Texas Southern University, studying music and broadcasting.{{cite web|title=19 years after his passing, we remember Big Mello for his contribution to hip-hop|url=https://www.chron.com/culture/music/article/remember-Big-Mello-hip-hop-19-years-after-passing-16248964.php|website=chron.com|date=15 June 2021 |accessdate=January 6, 2023}} Mello would go on to sign to J. Prince's Rap-A-Lot Records label and debuted in 1992 with the album "Bone Hard Zaggin" and then in 1994 with "Wegonefunkwichamind."

Shea Serrano of the Houston Press said that Big Mello was famous for "repping Hiram Clarke in the 90s[...]"Serrano, Shea. "[http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2010/04/yall_musta_forgot_big_mellos_b.php Y'all Musta Forgot: Big Mello's Bone Hard Zaggin{{'}}] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409065125/http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2010/04/yall_musta_forgot_big_mellos_b.php |date=2010-04-09 }}." Houston Press. Thursday April 1, 2010. Retrieved on October 26, 2011.

On June 15, 2002, Davis along with a passenger died after Davis lost control of his vehicle and hit a pillar in the 4500 block of South Loop West (South Interstate Highway 610).[http://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/Houston-rapper-Big-Mello-killed-in-car-accident-2089312.php Houston rapper Big Mello killed in car accident]