by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
‘They took my voice from Def Comedy Jam, sampled it, put it on the Martin show. Never got no permission from me, never asked for my rights– nothing.’
While appearing on a recent episode of the podcast “Bag Fuel,” featuring Esso World and Hynaken, the former “Def Comedy Jam” deejay expressed his disappointment at Lawrence for not only using his voice without permission but also denying it is Capri’s actual voice.
Capri stated that a sample of his voice was used for the intro of the sitcom. At the start of every “Def Comedy Jam” episode, Capri’s voice became synonymous with the show for the way he yelled out Lawrence’s first name. The popularity of the voice seemingly was used as most people who regularly watched the show knew where it stemmed from.
However, Capri claims it wasn’t about making money from the show, but he became incensed when he discovered that Tisha Campbell, who played Lawrence’s love interest on the sitcom, stated on a television show that the voice wasn’t the Bronx deejay’s. Even Lawrence made the same claim in public.
“First of all, that was the dumbest s-t to say. Everybody know it’s me,” Capri said. “Number two, I got videos of this. Number three, all you had to say was, ‘Yo Kid, we used your s-t, is it aight? Here’s a bag.’ Or not.”
Check out the video clip below:
As an up-and-coming comedian, Lawrence was the featured host of Russell Simmons‘ “Def Comedy Jam” series, which premiered in 1992. Kid Capri, already a highly sought-after entertainer, was the featured deejay on the fledgling comedy show, which showcased many comics who became household names in future years, including Bill Bellamy, Bernie Mac, Chris Tucker, Michael Blackson, and Joe Torry, to name a few.
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