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CoknI O'Dire was born Otis Olivier Lyjasu Williams in England to Jamaican parents, and raised in NY in the '70's on some Carlito's way ish. They then moved from the Boogie down to the Desert where he first experienced what we all know as the hip hop renaissance where a ni@@a got to know how to break, bomb, battle, burn, He part of mad crews. Him first crew was El Producto consisting of cats from Harlem and Brooklyn who moved to Jamaica Queens and wanted to make it like they hood. So they turned cats on to coke and PCP. Son got into all the drugs except Heroine. The idea of willing getting injections was retarted to Dog. If he knew you could sniff and smoke it he probably would a tried so thank God for that. They dealed and stealed and almost got killed!! So the Lord led the I to left that.

Enough about the devlishment O got into; because within that was the block party era where O was the bBox for the Albino Twins. His name then was Otee-O and one of the mc's was James Todd Smith who chose to call himself LL Cool J. He didn't understand it then, but I think you know now. One of his ELPD brothers, D-Rock, taught him how to rhyme and they formed a group that encouraged O to battle anybody. He battled Rozell at Roller Castle in Elmont, N.Y. back in the eighties,It was hosted by Biz Markie but De-Rock and Otee-O lost because Rah was a better performer and had the support of the Hollis Crew. Still they bagged 2 skins after the show so it wasn't a complete loss. Later on O embraced his Jamaican heritage and selected for a sound outta of Southside Queens called Gordon's. Their goal was to stir up the energy of the dance until a bad boy lick shot! Meaning literally open fire in the dance.

Blacka Don of the sound called O English because they knew he was from the UK. O never love that name so the next best thing was Cokney, the dialect of Londoners, which was a joke at the time, but the originality of the tag O felt and kept.

Chapter 4, there was this scene in the eighties that was very artsy in hip hop. It consisted of graffiti writers and mc's that had uptown girls from Manhattan or was trying to scoop them. They would got to the Greenwich Village and bag dips who looked like Vinia Mojica, or Badu, or Jill Scott or Monie Love, or Amerie, or...you get what I'm sayin' Lauryn Hill, Tweet type chicken that had knowledge of self and reminded us of where we came from as a cultural collective (man those were las dias).

With a never ending thirst for new music, O met this cat Tomas Palermo at a record store name Rhino. He was the reggae buyer. He also had a radio show, DJ'd, played in a band, wrote for a popular magazine, and was a skater in his on right. He was good people and O was mentored him because he wanted to do mad things but didn't prioritize well and as a result didn't do nothing. He put Duke on to his clique Umoja which means unity.There was my dog Daz and this other cat Jun. Jun wan nutz he played mostly techno. He put Money on to jungle and basically anything any of them played was shared with each other and it just elevated the musical understanding all to the advent of Umoja Sound. CoknI kept that affiliation even as he hooked up with Kiilu of Freestyle Fellowship and represented KPL. Divine called O out of the blue after he got married to his queen Monique to tell him that House of Pain wanted to put them on. That may not make sense to y'all but Everlast and Divine go back to the Rhyme Sydnicate days and they have remained friends. with that move O got to see a lot of the planet. Austrailia, Italy, Europe; it was banoodles! (If you still reading this God bless you for your patience and I hope it was no waste of time.) CoknI got this job with Daz at Delicious Vinyl promoting Born Jamericans, a hip-hop dancehall group that he related to because they were Jamaican Americans who knew music. They were cool with him and when they went Japan they brought yours truly as the DJ. You know all the experience he's had you think the yout would be on some Funk Master Flex, but truly Dun's more interested in the music then O's self. One of his greatest joys is listening to a soundclash and imagining what the crowd is doing and what it would be like if he had those dubPlates. then he looks over at his wife and 3 beautiful pickney and say no way Jose this is where Faddah wanna stay.