Eventually in March 2005 he pleaded guilty to conspiring with other members of the street gang to distribute cocaine and heroin and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. when he was then arrested and charged with drugs conspiracy. It led to a six-year investigation by the F.B.I. ![]() Records, which Casper was originally signed to. ![]() He laundered some of the drug money into some legitimate businesses, including M.O.B. It seems that Marvel Thompson, a Chicago gang leader known as ‘King’ Of the Black Disciples, had overseen a drugs operation which raked in over $300,000 a day. In 2003 it surfaced in clubs across Europe and All Around The World Records picked it up for a UK release.Īlthough Casper wrote the song, the writing credit contradicts this. “I wrote Cha Cha Slide in 1996 as an aerobics workout programme for a gym trainer friend of mine called David Wilson and I recorded and released my own version in 1998,” remembered Casper. The song, which spawned a number of less-successful copycat versions, opens with the line ‘This is something new,’ well it isn’t not. I would always wear white whatever I did stage-wise.” ![]() He explained how he got the name from, “I got the name Casper from when I was young and roller-skated a lot. That song is Cha Cha Slide by DJ Casper who was born William Perry in Chicago, Illinois in 1965 and was also known as Mr C – The Slide Man. This week I focus on a 2004 chart-topper which, the writer never envisaged would become an audience participation act that’s still fully indulged in to this day. It’s incredible how some songs have a dance crazy attached to them which were never originally intended, the prime example being YMCA which, if you watch the original 1978 video, never did the semaphore arm movements which a whole audience will engage in if you have a good DJ to encourage them.
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