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Promotes new
charity in Jam
Master Jay’s
memory
(A P )— Unlike millions ofpeople
around the world. Jam M aster Ja y 's
m other was never a big fan o f his
music.
“It’s ju st not my thing,” Connie
M izell-Perry says in a brief respite
from a m ore som ber subject: the
unresolved killing o f her son.
M ore than 16 m o n th s have
passed since an unidentified gun
man entered a Q ueens recording
studio in New York City and put a
bullet in the head o f the peace-
prom oting hip hop legend, a found
ing m em ber o f R un-D M C whose
real nam e was Jason M izell.
“I'v e adm itted to m yself he’s Conn/e Mizell-Perry, mother o f the late Jason Mizell, the hip hop legend known as Jam Master Jay
gone," M izell-Perry said. “ I d o n 't and another son, Marvin Thompson, sit inside a van called “ The Jay-Whip“ in New York. (AP Photo)
dw ell on how he left."
sound as teens in the basem ent o f guards.
bullet, this time fired from point-blank
She dw elled m ostly on fond M izell-P erry's Q ueens home. She
“H e 'd introduce me as ’My First range, entered the left side o f M izell ’ s
m em ories o f her youngest child’s was busy working as a teaching
L ady,’“ she said.
head. The shooter vanished.
rise to fam e as she prom oted a new assistant and singing in church
M izell-Perry eventually m oved
Speculation followed that Mizell,
charity nam ed in his honor. The choirs. The other kids on the block
back to her native North Carolina. who was drow ning in debt, may
Jam M aster Jay Foundation for had to break the ne ws to her that her
Her son stayed put in Queens.
have been killed on orders from
Youth, w hich she runs with an son was famous.
The end cam e on Oct. 30,2002 at som eone he ow ed money. Some
o th e r son, M arvin T h o m p so n ,
" ‘D o n ’t you know h e ’s Jam the 24/7 recording studio, where in
authorities also have suggested
hopes to raise $2 million for college M aster Jay?’" the m other recalled
recent years, M izell, 37, had helped Mizell was caught in the crossfire
scholarships.
them asking. “I d id n ’t know any produce and prom ote lesser-known
of a ri valry between rap figures who
During the 1980s, M izell made thing about that. He was Jason to
rap artists. T hat night, according to associate with known crim inals.
rap music history by w orking the me.”
one w itness, a man wearing a black
A police spokesm an. D eputy
turntables as Joe “R un” Sim m ons
In R un-D M C ’s heyday, M izell sw eatsuit appeared and - after em
( hief M ichael Collins, said T ues
and D arryl "D M C ” M cD aniels dem onstrated his success to his
bracing M izell - pulled out a .40- day that the Mizell investigation
rapped on hits like "K ing o f Rock," m other by taking her on the road.
caliber pistol and opened fire.
“ is still very active.” Privately, in
“I f s Tricky ” and a Top 40 remake of There were sold-out concerts at
A firs, round missed Mizell, in vestigators have com plained that
A erosm ith’s "W alk T his W ay.”
M adison Square G arden and other stead injuring a perform er who was
th ey ’re stym ied by uncooperative
The threesom e developed their arenas. A nd lim os. A nd body-
working in the studio. A second w itnesses.
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“Amy Resting" by
Jay Giliberty can be
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Center Gallery
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Jay G iliberty'sexhibitofoil paint
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The A frican A m erican author
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