Great interview with DJ Freddie “Kaos” Cox, former DJ for Too Poetic. Kaos was also kind enough to share the shelved Tommy Boy record Droppin’ Signal from 1989.
via Jesse Serwer who always does a good job of covering Long Island rap history.
JS: I never got the idea of a group with two DJs and one rapper…
K: That was the trick with us. I did both. If you ever saw one of our shows, it was like how the Disco Twins used to do routines and get on each others shoulders and all kind of tricks. That’s what me and Woody did. We’d rip it up at shows, doing routines. I had a thing where I was deejaying and rhyming at the same time, like somebody that plays the piano and sings. A lot of people out here knew me for that. A lot of DJs can’t catch these breaks fast enough. I would do the deejaying and rhyming at the same time, and then get out there with Poetic and do routines. We were called the Devastating Duo, just me and Poetic rhyming and Woody was the DJ. But I was like, “Woody, you aint deejaying right so I’m gonna be the DJ.” And then, “Poetic, you ain’t emceeing right so I’m gonna be the MC, too.” That’s why we were Too Poetic. There was two DJs, and Poetic.
