Cozz

Cody Rashad Osagie, better known by his stage name Cozz, is an American rapper. He is signed to J. Cole's label Dreamville Records and Interscope Records. His debut studio album Cozz & Effect, was released in October 2014.^[1][2] He has since released other projects, such as his 2016 project Nothin' Personal and in 2018 he released Effected his second Studio Album. He also released his Fortunate EP in 2021.

Cozz
Cozz during Too High to Riot tour, 2016
Background information
Birth name	Cody Osagie
Born	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper songwriter producer
Years active	2013–present
Labels	Dreamville Tha Committee Interscope

Career

2013–2015: Career beginnings and Cozz & Effect

In 2013, Cozz began to take rap seriously, and recorded a demo tape. A few months later, he released the music video for "Dreams". Shortly after, he started to get notice, and having meetings with many different labels. Cozz's manager brought the music video to J. Cole and was later signed to Dreamville Records.^[3][4]

On October 3, 2014, Cozz released his debut album Cozz & Effect The project was initially intended as a free mixtape upon recording. But according to Cozz, when it was finished, it sounded better than they had hoped and they therefore agreed it can be sold. Dreamville Records released it on digital format firstly, followed by physical CD a short while afterwards. In 2015, Cozz was a part of J. Cole's "2014 Forest Hills Drive Tour" along with other acts Bas, Omen, Pusha T, Jhene Aiko, Jeremih, YG, and Big Sean.

2016–2020: Nothin' Personal and Effected

On January 4, 2016, Cozz released his second project, and first mixtape, Nothin' Personal. The mixtape was entirely produced by Meez. Features include fellow west coast rapper Boogie, Bas, and Free Ackrite.^[5] The mixtape was supported with four singles: "Tabs," "Growth," "My Side," and "Who Said."

On February 13, 2018, he released his second album Effected which includes features from J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar.^[6] Singles and music videos for the album includes "Questions", "Demons N Distractions", and "Bout It".^[7][8] On April 4, 2018, Cozz announced The Effected Tour in North American in 16 cities, to further promote the album.^[9] He was also featured on Los Angeles rapper JAG's album with Reason on the track "Black Boy Rise". On November 7, Cozz worked with DJ Megan Ryte on a 5-track mixtape called Aftermath Of My Dreams.^[10]

2021–present: Fortunate EP

On October 22, 2021, Cozz released the first single from the EP of the same name titled "Fortunate", produced by T-Minus, J. Cole, and Ced Breeze.^[11] On November 17, he released the second single "Addicted", along with a music video.^[12] On December 2, Cozz released the EP Fortunate, which features a guest appearance from YG.^[13]

Discography

Studio albums

List of albums, with album details and selected chart positions

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US	US R&B/HH	US Rap
Cozz & Effect	Released: October 3, 2014 Label: Dreamville, Interscope Format: CD, digital download	160	31	17
Effected[14]	Released: February 13, 2018 Label: Dreamville, Interscope Format: digital download	—	—	22
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays

Title	Album details
Fortunate	Released: December 2, 2021 Label: Dreamville, Interscope Format: Digital Download

Mixtapes

Title	Album details
Nothin Personal	Released: January 4, 2016 Label: Dreamville Format: Digital Download
Aftermath Of My Dreams (with DJ Megan Ryte)	Released: November 7, 2018 Format: Digital Download

Compilation albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions

Title	Details	Peak chart positions			Certifications
		US [15]	US R&B/HH [16]	US Rap [17]
Revenge of the Dreamers II (with Dreamville)	Released: December 8, 2015 Label: Dreamville, Interscope Format: CD, digital download	29	4	3
Revenge of the Dreamers III (with Dreamville)	Released: July 5, 2019[18] Label: Dreamville, Interscope Format: CD, digital download	1	1	1	RIAA: Platinum[19]
D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape (with Dreamville)	Released: March 31, 2022[20] Label: Dreamville, Interscope Format: Digital download	11	6	4

Singles

As lead artist

Title	Year	Album
"Dreams"[21]	2014	Cozz & Effect
"Cody Macc"[21]
"I'm Tha Man"[21]	2015
"Knock Tha Hustle"[21] (featuring J. Cole)
"Tabs"[22] (featuring Bas)		Nothin Personal
"Growth"[22] (featuring Correy C)
"My Side"[23]
"Who Said"[24]	2016
"Questions"[7]	2018	Effected
"Demons N Distractions"[25]
"Bout It"[8]
"Fortunate"	2021	Fortunate
"Addicted"
"Cry"

As featured artist

List of singles as a featured artist, showing year released and album name

Title	Year	Album
"LamboTruck" (Dreamville featuring Cozz, Reason & Childish Major)	2019	Revenge of the Dreamers III
"Try" (Mark Battles featuring Cozz & Keara Alyse)	2020	Try (Single)
"Play Games Witchu" (Ohana Bam in collaboration with Cozz)	2022	Play Games Witchu (Single)
"Scary" (DJ Semtex in collaboration with Cozz & Twitch 4EVA)	2022	Scary (Single)
"ON GO" (Price in collaboration with Cozz)	2023	ON GO (Single)
"Soupy" (Prof featuring Cozz)	2023	Soupy (Single)
"Don't Waste My Time" (Rick Bars in collaboration with Cozz)	2023	Don't Waste My Time (Single)
"All on Me" (Ohana Bam in collaboration with Cozz)	2023	All on Me (Single)
"Saturday" (NCognita featuring Cozz)	2023	Saturday (Single)
"Ace of Hearts" (JG in collaboration with Cozz)	2023	Ace of Hearts (Single)
"Dead Men" (408 Darwin featuring Cozz)	2023	Dead Men (Single)

Guest appearances

List of non-single guest appearances, with other performing artists, showing year released and album name

Title	Year	Other artist(s)	Album
"Free My Mind"[26]	2015	Mani Coolin	Hope4TheYouth
"Backseat"[27]		Ari Lennox	Pho
"Dopamine"[28]	2016	Bas	Too High to Riot
"Same Thing"[29]		Meez, Correy C	Non-album single
"Foreign Girl"[30]		Correy C	Salutations
"Give N Go"[31]	2017	Smoke DZA	Non-album single
"The Hook Up"[32]	2018	Smoke DZA, Dom Kennedy	Not For Sale
"Black Boy Rise"[33]		JAG, Reason	2700
"Don't Hit Me Right Now"[34]	2019	Bas, Yung Baby Tate, Guapdad 4000 & Buddy	Revenge of the Dreamers III
"1993"[34]		Buddy, Smino, EARTHGANG, JID, J. Cole
"Spin Move"[35]	2020	Bas	Revenge of the Dreamers III: Director's Cut
"Late Night"[35]		Omen, Buddy, Landstrip Chip
"Disgusted"[35]		Childish Major
"Try"		Mark Battles, Keara Alyse	—
"Eye To Eye"	2021	Lute	Gold Mouf
"Starting 5"	2022	Lute, Omen	D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape
"Hair Salon"		G Perico, Reason
"Big Trouble Freestyle"		—
"Soupy"	2023	Prof	Horse

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