He used to be known as Cappachino The Great and spit fire on the mic like his infamous verse on "Winter Warz" from Ghostface's "Ironman" album:
...but these days he is better known for driving tourists around New York in a yellow cab busting the occasional verse here and there. Nothing wrong with that, he's got a big family to feed from what I hear, but the dude and I made a deal of him recording a song of two verses for my album, and he didn't deliver. It started as a Myspace correspondence back and forth negotiating the price. Cappa also told me about his new baby and how he's not rich like The Rza and drives a taxi cab. After agreeing on a price he asked me to talk to his manager Honor also going by the exotic AOL name IronShiek7000 who would take care of the business side of things... Mind you, I never willingly transfer the full amount of money upfront! Normally I pay half upfront and the rest once I receive the vocals. But here, Cappa wrote me the following email...
"ok lets do this .... do u have yahoo messenger or aim? if you do my mgr will work everythging out with you his yahoo is HONORMANAGEMENT and his aim is IRONSHIEK7000 now im saying this up front before we get started i need the full payemnt and the music upfront for the simple fact cause the last time i did this with someone from europe they didnt pay me and i went to the studio and did the work for this dude named cop killa (note: contained a link to his blog which doesn't work anymore) so thats why i require the money upfront and i will have the song back to you in 48hrs (2 days) with vocals seperated and everything you need let me know if that is ok and trust me brother i will not cheat you in the name of allah!!!!!!!!!"
...And somehow I decided to trust the guy, probably still high off the success I'd experienced with the other collaborations thus far. I remember transferring the money by Western Union directly to Darryl Hill (Cappa) in Park Hill, Staten Island. After nothing happened for several weeks I complained to both Shiek and Cappadonna directly and when I finally got a chat reply from Shiek on AOL, he told me that he wasn't managing Cappadonna anymore and that he'd been hustled too... No doubt a lie. I'd been bamboozled. Some will say it comes with the territory, I say bad form Cappa be warned other producers out there. The collaborations went well with all the other emcees I worked with...
...but these days he is better known for driving tourists around New York in a yellow cab busting the occasional verse here and there. Nothing wrong with that, he's got a big family to feed from what I hear, but the dude and I made a deal of him recording a song of two verses for my album, and he didn't deliver. It started as a Myspace correspondence back and forth negotiating the price. Cappa also told me about his new baby and how he's not rich like The Rza and drives a taxi cab. After agreeing on a price he asked me to talk to his manager Honor also going by the exotic AOL name IronShiek7000 who would take care of the business side of things... Mind you, I never willingly transfer the full amount of money upfront! Normally I pay half upfront and the rest once I receive the vocals. But here, Cappa wrote me the following email...
"ok lets do this .... do u have yahoo messenger or aim? if you do my mgr will work everythging out with you his yahoo is HONORMANAGEMENT and his aim is IRONSHIEK7000 now im saying this up front before we get started i need the full payemnt and the music upfront for the simple fact cause the last time i did this with someone from europe they didnt pay me and i went to the studio and did the work for this dude named cop killa (note: contained a link to his blog which doesn't work anymore) so thats why i require the money upfront and i will have the song back to you in 48hrs (2 days) with vocals seperated and everything you need let me know if that is ok and trust me brother i will not cheat you in the name of allah!!!!!!!!!"
...And somehow I decided to trust the guy, probably still high off the success I'd experienced with the other collaborations thus far. I remember transferring the money by Western Union directly to Darryl Hill (Cappa) in Park Hill, Staten Island. After nothing happened for several weeks I complained to both Shiek and Cappadonna directly and when I finally got a chat reply from Shiek on AOL, he told me that he wasn't managing Cappadonna anymore and that he'd been hustled too... No doubt a lie. I'd been bamboozled. Some will say it comes with the territory, I say bad form Cappa be warned other producers out there. The collaborations went well with all the other emcees I worked with...
that wasn't his debut verse. he had verses on Cuban Linx before the Ironman album
ReplyDeleteYou're right, my bad. "Ice Cream" & "Ice Water" were his debut verses.
ReplyDeletehe driving a dollacab, what u expect?
ReplyDeleteDamn man. Ice Cold.
ReplyDeletehaha dude his name is Darryl Hill man. Some guy called Darryl Hall just got paid!
ReplyDeletethe details man, the details...
LOL as you probably figure I'm not much for details, but I've got the receipt and it says Darryl Hill.
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