Kevin Cossom Talks how he was placed on the song Karma

YKIGS: I know your first placement was Lloyd Bank’s “Karma”. I read you got that opportunity after meeting with 50 Cent at his mansion. How did you get a chance to meet him?

KC: That was from my manager. At the time, he knew one of 50’s security guards because the security guard used to do security for my manager’s company called Front Line which is a promotion company around Orlando. He was working for them at the time and then he became 50’s security guard. Eventually my manager gave the CD to the security guard. The security guard knew about me and kind of big upped me and I think G-Unit brought in the roster. 50 liked one or two of the songs off my demo and I was in New York, I had an opportunity. They wanted to meet me. I was already doing some work in New York and then I got an opportunity to meet 50 at his crib and just talk to him, which was a cool experience in itself because meeting 50 at his crib after he had just moved into that huge crib everyone was talking about. It was crazy. It was really just that connection that security guard and a favor from God.

YKIGS: What was the feeling like when you found out Avant was going to be replacing you on the radio version of the song?

It was one of those things where I was kind of prepared because of the way they were kind of talking. We told them “If you do a video for it, make sure you look out for us because we feel like it’s going to be a single.” They were like “Nah, we don’t think it’s going to be a single. If we do though, we got you.” Long story short, that happened to become one of the most popular joints on that album. It was just inevitable to make it a single. The fact that I didn’t do the deal with G-Unit played a part in me not being in the video and then them calling it a remix when it was the exact same thing. I kind of prepared myself in that I knew they had no attachment to keeping me on the record and Avant had just signed to Interscope. G-Unit is the sub-label of Interscope, so it just made more sense to put an artist that they just signed on one of the hottest songs that they have, just to give him that extra promotion because he was about to put out an album. In a way, it was cool because I was doing the album version and I was just excited that I was doing something with G-Unit. I’m from a small town like Orlando and I had an opportunity to be on a major record that really opened some doors for me. It was still a good look. It was my first taste of the business. I felt my friends and family were more upset about it than me. It was definitely an experience though. I get it though, it’s business.