Grandmaster Caz

Look, the rappers

like Grandmaster Kaz, who Sugar Hill borrowed their rhymes.

Yeah, they did.

And he left Kaz's name in the rhyme.

They set it up for us.

Off the backboard, and we took it.

That's why anytime I'm in New York, I see Grandmaster Kaz, I see DJ Red Alert, I see all these, yo, bow down, kid, bow down.

This is, you know? Respect, you ought to bow down.

So now I'm heading downtown.

And that's when Grandmaster Kaz, Cool Moe D, and Mel Mel come in.

Right.

Okay? And this is part of it.

He's on his moped.

This is kind of, it's like, that's what's happening.

Okay, that's what's happening with Grandmaster Kaz, Cool Moe D, and Mel Mel over there.

They're on their mopeds.

Exactly, exactly.

And you know, when you hear Melle Mel, and you hear the Treacherous Three, and you hear Moe Dee, and you hear Grandmaster Caz, and you hear Sha Rock, and you hear Flash scratching, and Theodore, and Kool Herc, and Afrika Bamba- When you hear all of these people, the Soul Sonic, when you hear them, or Mighty KG and the Fearless Four, and then you hear Whip y Whip, and...

I mean, just-

We're running out of time.

I know, um, Nas, he, he been in the news doing some, some positive things.

Um, he, he, he's, um, bought, uh, Grandmaster Caz a house, right?

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Grandmaster Caz a house.

Um-

Yeah

That's old school DJ terminology.

How can you become a grandmaster in the culture? Do we got grandmaster MCs at this point? Yeah, Grandmaster Kaz.

He got it in his name.

But yes, I mean, it's like the Malcolm Gladwell shit.

Pull that up, that, that they're doing.

I saw that Nas did something really cool with Grandmaster Caz of just, like, making sure the legends are okay.

Um, he was talking to Mundane about that.

And, uh, what, um, what we always talked about that they do in Canada where you can get a grant to be an artist.

My mom was driving around looting with her friend Terry, which I tell the story in "Little Dominiques Nosebleed," kind of a little bit touch on it.

Um, I grew up with Grandmaster Caz coming to my house in Koreatown, and, um, going to Ice-T's crib, and growing up listening to Ice-T and Queen Latifah and Sir Mix-a-Lot, and my mom writing stuff and, you know, being into rap herself, and putting me onto rap as a kid, as a four, five year old, you know what I'm saying? Um, which is a different experience when you're, like, you have a parent introducing you to it, you know what I'm saying? Yeah.

And then my dad, um, who was kinda like a, he's a, you know, street dude.

Um, and his demeanor, and he didn't have a dad, you know, and so his demeanor mixed with him, like I, when I, as an adult, I see how, like, I'm really both of them, you know? And I think it's, I think it's really that too, a mix of that and having such a unique experience, um, growing up in Koreatown, because a lot of people, they think of Koreatown as just being Korean.

Koreatown, the place I- LA has definitely, in general, added to what type of person I am.

But I think it's my personal experiences as well, because I could've grew up there and not had those experiences.

I could've not, you know, had Grandmaster Caz-

Yeah