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So I'm just making whatever sounded good to me and going from cassette to cassette and nobody believed in it. So, at this point, I don't know what I'm doing. And one of the things we first did as Freak City Crew - because one of our business names that we had registered was Freak City Disco. I took one week's check and I bought that, and then I bought a drum machine, I started fooling around, and I started making music. And I had gotten a job and noticed a little synthesizer in a store window - and from DJing I had always wanted to make my own songs. So at that time, because of the running, we started doing more indoor things. And Bob's DJ name - he was DJing back then, but he wasn't DJing with us - was Chilly B. And also at the same time, a kid down the block named Bob, who I used to be in a rock band called Thunder Funk with, started going out with my cousin Monique. Then we started going out and she went by the name of Lady E. She wasn't my wife yet, but she was a chick that one of my cousins came around with and she started hanging out and being part of the crew. So that's what killed the park jams in New York - people started running.Īlso in 1979, I met my wife Yvette.
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"Oh, they started running.' So that was the end of that, because, you know, you had thousands of dollars worth of equipment that you worked hard for, and in a minute it could all be smashed and destroyed by people running at a free jam. So they would get firecrackers, or fire up in the air with pistols or something, and we'd have thousands of people running. But what started to happen is that people started to realize they could stampede the crowds. The crowds in the parks were the biggest they'd ever been by then. Everybody knew the Superman rap I was already doing that back then. We didn't do a lot of paid gigs, because we were young then - so we didn't get notoriety from newspapers and stuff like that but if you came out to Brooklyn, everybody knew us. Slightly known fact: I was the one that originated that mix of "Good Times" and "Here Comes That Sound" in 1979 that everybody started biting, and they ended up using for "Rapper's Delight." That was my mix - just to let you know how popular we had gotten by then. We did a lot of block parties and park jams and got pretty well known. We got a lot of equipment and all that, and Jam On Productions got pretty big in Brooklyn, especially in Bed-Stuy and Park Slope.
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Soon after, Monique comes back from college, and we went through the heyday. And other people were coming and going, we had other DJs that came and went. So that was '77, and now the crew is me, my cousin Pete - who went by MC Harmony at the time -and best friend Dave. So what happened was in '77, when everybody started rapping on the mic and everybody was Frankie D and This B I just shortened it to Cozmo D. I was just like, "what are you using my name for?" But I didn't care, so I just came up with Cozmo Dizco. Freeze, but Dave took the name, so that's why I ended up going by Cozmo Dizco. Because I figured "Mondo Disco, Cozmo Dizco," that would sound great. I had named myself after the record "Mondo Disco" and a comic book character I had made when I was younger called Captain Cozmo. So we were still doing a lot of disco, but we were doing that as well.Īnd the name I had taken back in '76 was Cozmo Dizco. It slowed the music down, and we started playing partied where everybody wanted to do the freak, so you're playing that kind of music, and we also started picking up rapping on the mic. and it basically came because of the dance The Freak. But the stuff started coming down from the Bronx. Before that, what we were playing was mostly disco and funk. In fact, it was in '77 that hip-hop - of course, nobody was callin' it hip-hop yet - started hitting Brooklyn, like with people rapping on the mic. So that's basically where it started.Īnd what kind of stuff were you spinning back then? But to make Dave feel like part of the crew, because me and Pete were first cousins, we took on the name Jam On Productions. We ditched Tuga, and Tuga ended up becoming an MC. You know, that's what you do when you're a teenager, you go, aw, leave him and come with somebody your own age. So we got Dave - we stole him from Tugga, 'cause Tuga was younger. So Dave and Tuga had their thing called Jam Brothers Incorporated.