13 Facts About Grandmaster Caz

Grandmaster Caz was a member of the hip hop group The Cold Crush Brothers from 1979 to the mid-1980s.

Grandmaster Caz is best known as the main writer of Big Bank Hank's raps on the seminal 1979 hip hop single by The Sugarhill Gang, "Rapper's Delight".

Grandmaster Caz 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.

Grandmaster Caz admits that he himself stole new equipment during the New York City blackout of 1977.

In 2015, Grandmaster Caz was featured on the single "Downtown" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.

Grandmaster Caz is generally acknowledged to have been the main writer of the lyrics of Big Bank Hank on the 1979 The Sugarhill Gang single "Rapper's Delight", which sold around 5 million copies and introduced hip hop music to the mainstream.

In 2000, Grandmaster Caz released the song "MC Delight", a parody of "Rapper's Delight" which told his side of the story.

Grandmaster Caz was a prominent feature in Ice-T's 2012 documentary "Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap".

Grandmaster Caz was interviewed for the 2004 documentary Just to Get a Rep.

Grandmaster Caz was inducted into the Technics DJ Hall of Fame in 1999.

In June 2008, Grandmaster Caz was inducted into the Bronx Walk of Fame.

Grandmaster Caz was portrayed by Jaleel White in the Drunk History episode "American Music".

In episode 3 of part 2 of The Get Down, while listening to "Rapper's Delight" on the radio, The Get Down Brothers' member, Boo, tells his date that Grandmaster Caz is the real writer of the line and says that Caz is the "nicest MC around".