Everything about Jam Master Jay totally explained
Jason William Mizell (
January 21 1965 –
October 30 2002), also known as
Jam-Master Jay, was a founder and the
DJ of
Run-D.M.C., a
hip hop group based in the
Queens borough of
New York City.
Biography
Mizell was born in
Brooklyn, New York and moved to Queens at the age of 10 with his family. He played
bass and
drums in several
garage bands prior to joining Run-D.M.C.; on all of their albums from
Raising Hell on, he played keyboards, bass, and live drums in addition to his turntable work. Mizell remained in his childhood neighborhood his entire life. He founded the 'Scratch DJ Academy' in
Manhattan for children interested in DJing.
In 1989, Mizell established the label
Jam Master Jay Records, which scored a strong success in 1993 with the band
Onyx. He also connected
Chuck D with
Def Jam co-founder
Rick Rubin. (Def Jam's other founder,
Russell Simmons, is the brother of
DJ Run.) Jason is also related to the
Mizell Brothers, a popular production team for
Gary Bartz,
Johnny "Hammond" Smith, and others.
In the 1990s, Mizell survived a bad car accident and a gunshot wound.
Death
On
October 30 2002, he was shot and killed in a
Merrick Boulevard recording studio in
Queens, New York. The other person in the room, twenty-three-year-old Urieco Rincon, was shot in the ankle and survived.
The
New York Daily News reported that authorities have investigated whether
Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff, a convicted drug dealer and longtime friend of
Murder Inc. heads
Irv Gotti and
Chris Gotti, targeted Mizell because the DJ defied an industry blacklist of rapper
50 Cent that was imposed because of "
Ghetto Qur'an", a song 50 Cent wrote about McGriff's drug history. A 2003 affidavit says: "Law enforcement agents are investigating the possibility that [Jason] Mizell was murdered for defying the blacklist of 50 Cent."
In April 2007, federal prosecutors named Ronald "Tenad" Washington as an accomplice in the murder of Mizell. Washington also is a suspect in the fatal shooting of
Randy Walker in 1995, a close associate of the late rapper
Tupac Shakur. For his part, Washington “pointed his gun at those present in the studio, ordered them to get on the ground and provided cover for his associate to shoot and kill Jason Mizell,” prosecutors said in court papers.
Mizell is survived by his wife Terri and three children. He is buried at the
Ferncliff Cemetery in
Hartsdale, New York. His favorite long brown
leather trench coat was given to his best friends, Rev Run and DMC. Jam Master Jay was 37 when he died.
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