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. 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.
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