YNW Melly is also known as Jamell Maurice Demons. His rap name is inspired by his real name. He uses the mell from his real name. But, it also comes from when he stole something and he saw jell and he started to rhyme things with jelly and then he got to melly and chose that because if the mell in his name. Then he got the "YNW" because it stands for "young new wave". Melly had gon to jail but had released it while in jail. He did this by taking a phone and posting it.