{"id":1397,"date":"2010-01-07T00:24:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T00:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2011-04-10T19:56:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T00:56:06","slug":"captainrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldschoolhiphop.com\/artists\/emcees\/captainrock.htm","title":{"rendered":"Captain Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"
His real name is Ronnie Green.<\/p>\n
Captain Rock was an underground fixture in the early 80’s.<\/p>\n
Captain Rock was produced by Aleem (Taharqa & Tunde-ra Aleem) on NIA.<\/p>\n
He appeared at the UK Fresh Fest 86 where he allegedly striped down to his thong on stage.<\/p>\n
Several of his tracks include “Captain Rock to the Future Shock”, “House of Rock”, and “Cosmic Glide”.<\/p>\n
Before being Captian Rock he was Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’s<\/a> live dj from their period in the Harlem World Crew<\/a>.\u00a0 He was known as DJ Ronnie Green.<\/p>\n The only record he wrote the lyrics for was “Cosmic Blast”..<\/p>\n The Cosmic Crew didn’t exist longer than the time it took to make the record “Cosmic Blast”. They were The Aleems, Dr Jeckyll + Mr Hyde, Scratch Al-D and Marley Marl.<\/p>\n He was a referee for NCAA Division 3 basketball in the late 80’s and early 90’s.<\/p>\n He’s also run a youth program in New York City, for underprivileged kids. He still keeps in touch with several artists including Mr Hyde, Aleem Brothers and Marley Marl<\/a>.<\/p>\nCheck Out Captain Rock’s Cosmic Blast<\/h3>\n