MeLo-X was born to Jamaican parents in the East Flatbush neighborhood of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
[1] A remix by Melo-X of Yuna's 2012 song "Live Your Life" is heard in Grand Theft Auto V, on the fictional “Worldwide FM” radio station within the game.
MeLo-X said that, for a climactic car-chase scene, he took Kanye West's song "Hell of a Life", changing and chopping it in the trap EDM style, making it into a two-minute piece to fit the concert visuals.
[7] For instance, when a mechanical lift at center stage rises upward, a sound that MeLo-X designed is played to represent the movement.
Personal electronics maker House of Marley sponsored a tour of North America in early 2014, including a performance at the "Do Over Party" in Palm Springs after the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
[14] The group's techno-dancehall mashup "Rosa Caleta" was their first release together in October 2014, the song named after a Jamaican restaurant in Berlin.
[9] This was followed by "Gymnastics On Fire", a summer jam featuring the Afro-R&B collective The.Wav,[18] released on the EPINTL label by Beatport.
MeLo-X cites Big Pun, the Hot Boys, and rapper DMX along with his producer Swizz Beatz as inspirations for his own music career.
[20] After taking a trip to Equatorial Guinea and South Africa, MeLo-X had a showing of his photography in 2014 at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.