Grandmaster Caz,

Grandmaster Caz, formerly known as DJ Casanova Fly commanded the microphone and turntables alongside DJ Disco Wiz before forming a group called Mighty Force with Whipper and Dot-a-Rock both whom would later help comprise the Cold Crush Brothers and then Fantastic 5. Caz developed a strong set of rhymes and routines during the period, a number which found their way into Sugarhill Gang's breakthrough single including the line " I'm the C-A-S-A-N the O-V-A and the rest is F-L-Y" spelling Caz's former tag. As the story goes, Big Bank Hank, despite not being an MC himself, was approached by Silvia Robinson of Sugar Hill Records to record some of the rhymes she heard him reciting at a pizzeria where he was working. Because Hank was serving as a manager and promoter for Caz and Mighty Force, he already knew many of Caz's rhyme as did many Hip Hop devotes at that time and he had privileged access to Caz. Not realizing the record would be an enormous hit, Caz allegedly gave Hunk free reign to pick through his rhyme book, and their smash single the Sugarhill Gang soon outstripped all other MC crews in terms of notoriety. Some twenty years later, Caz would record "MC's Delight," an attempt to set the historical record straight.