Grandmaster Caz | |
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 Grandmaster Caz in 2007 | |
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| Birth name | Curtis Brown[1] |
| Also known as | Casanova Fly |
| Born | April 18, 1960 The Bronx, New York City, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop |
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| Years active | 1978–present[2] |
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| Website | www |
Curtis Brown (born April 18, 1960), better known by the stage names Grandmaster Caz and Casanova Fly, is an American rapper, songwriter, and DJ. He was a member of the hip hop group The Cold Crush Brothers from 1979 to the mid-1980s. He is best known as the (uncredited) main writer of Big Bank Hank's raps on the seminal 1979 hip hop single by The Sugarhill Gang, "Rapper's Delight".
He worked with Debra Harris as a celebrity tour guide for Hush Hip Hop Tours, a hip-hop cultural sightseeing tour company in New York City, and is a board member of The Kennedy Center's Hip-Hop Council, Hip-Hop Ambassador and board member for Windows of HipHop and CEO of GMC Entertainment Inc.[3]
- ^ Geoff Edgers (2016-09-29). "They took Grandmaster Caz's rhymes without giving him credit. Now, he's getting revenge". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
- ^ Steve Huey. "Grandmaster Caz". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
- ^ The Hip Hop Federation Team Roster, retrieved July 30, 2011