Kokane
| Kokane | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jerry B. Long Jr. |
| Also known as | Mr. Kane |
| Born |
March 10, 1969 The Bronx, New York, U.S. |
| Origin | Pomona, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Hip hop, West Coast hip hop, G-funk |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper, singer-songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Vocalist |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Labels |
Ruthless/Epic (1989–1996) Bud E Boy Entertainment (2010–present) |
| Associated acts |
Eazy-E Above the Law N.W.A DJ King Assassin Brotha Lynch Hung Cypress Hill Snoop Dogg |
| Website |
budeboyent |
Jerry B. Long Jr. (born March 10, 1969), better known by his stage name Kokane, is an American rapper best known for his distinctive vocal style and numerous guest appearances, such as on Snoop Dogg's Tha Last Meal. He started his career at Eazy-E's Ruthless Records in 1989, co-writing songs for N.W.A and Above the Law, before releasing his first album, Addictive Hip Hop Muzick, in 1991.
Early life
Long Jr. was born on March 10, 1969, in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Motown composer Jerry B. Long. His family soon relocated to Pomona, California, where he would grow up surrounded by his father's work.
Career
He began his career as a vocalist in the mid-1980s before eventually signing to Eazy-E's Ruthless Records label in late 1989. His debut album, Addictive Hip Hop Muzick, was released in 1991, on which he was credited as "Who Am I?" to avoid infringing on laws which forbade the use of his usual moniker.[1] His first solo single, "Nickel Slick Nigga", appeared on the Deep Cover soundtrack. In addition to co-writing "Appetite for Destruction" for N.W.A's Niggaz4life, Long also contributed to other West Coast gangsta rap albums such as Above the Law's Black Mafia Life.
For his second album, 1994's Funk Upon a Rhyme, Long drastically changed his style, incorporating a great deal of singing and an eccentric form of G-funk. He would leave Ruthless Records shortly after Eazy-E's death in 1995. He was supposed to be on Tupac Shakur's One Nation collaboration album, alongside others, before Shakur's murder in 1996 cut plans for the album short. He continued to make guest appearances until releasing his next solo album through Eureka Records in 1999, entitled They Call Me Mr. Kane.
It was on the Los Angeles posse cut "Some L.A. Niggaz", from Dr. Dre's 2001 album, that Long's career found a second wind. While Long had been involved with West Coast hip hop since the dawn of gangsta rap, he had been unable to secure any substantial success for himself. This changed after his work on 2001, through which Long developed a relationship with Snoop Dogg and Tha Eastsidaz. He soon became involved in Tha Eastsidaz' debut album, and went on to play a significant role in the success of Snoop Dogg's Tha Last Meal. Long spent the next few years signed to Dogghouse Records, working on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Kane.
He later signed with Koch Records, forming a new group, The Hood Mob, comprising himself and fellow rappers Cricet and Contraband. They released their self-titled album The Hood Mob on July 3, 2006. Over the course of his career Long has worked with artists such as Above the Law, N.W.A, Eazy-E, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, George Clinton, Tha Eastsidaz, Cypress Hill, Ice Cube, E-40, Kurupt, Nipsey Hussle, and many others.
Discography
Studio albums
| Year | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Addictive Hip Hop Muzick | Debut, released on Ruthless Records under the name Who Am I? |
| 1994 | Funk Upon a Rhyme | First release as Kokane, also released on Ruthless Records |
| 1999 | They Call Me Mr. Kane | |
| 2002 | Gangstarock | with Gentry |
| 2003 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Kane | Unreleased |
| 2003 | Don't Bite the Funk Vol. 1 | Bootleg |
| 2005 | Mr. Kane, Pt. 2 | |
| 2005 | Pain Killer'z | |
| 2006 | Back 2 tha Clap | |
| 2006 | The Hood Mob | with The Hood Mob |
| 2008 | Raine n Lane n Kokane | with Raine n Lane |
| 2010 | Gimme All Mine | First album on Bud E Boy Entertainment |
| 2011 | The Legend Continues | |
| 2012 | The New Frontier | with Traffik |
| 2014 | Shut da F Up & Cut da Checc | |
| 2015 | Lady Kokane Presents: Kokane Love Songs | |
| 2015 | Kokane's 24th Anniversary Album | |
| 2016 | King of GFunk |
Mixtapes
- On the Back Streets (2010; hosted by DJ Crazy Toones)
- Dr Kokastien (2012; hosted by DJ King Assassin)
Soundtracks
- Deep Cover (1992)
- Menace II Society (1993)
- Training Day (2001)
- Undercover Brother (2002)
- Love and a Bullet (2002)
- Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)
- True Crime: Streets of LA (2003)
Guest appearances
| Year | Song | Artist(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | "Prelude" |
N.W.A | Niggaz4Life |
| "Playin' Your Game" (featuring Kokane) |
Above the Law | Vocally Pimpin' | |
| 1992 | "Neighborhood Sniper" (featuring Kokane & Cold 187um) |
Eazy-E | 5150: Home 4 tha Sick |
| 1993 | "Game Wreck-Oniz-Iz Game" (featuring Kokane & Eazy-E) |
Above the Law | Black Mafia Life |
| "Any Last Werdz" (featuring Kokane & Cold 187um) |
Eazy-E | It's On ( | |
| 1994 | "Return of the Real Shit" (featuring Kokane) |
Above the Law | Uncle Sam's Curse |
| "Kalifornia" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Rain Be for Rain Bo" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Everything Will Be Alright" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Who Ryde" (featuring Kokane & Tone Loc) | |||
| "Gangsta Madness" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| 1995 | "Last Days" (featuring Kokane) |
Spice 1 | 1990-Sick |
| "Drama" (featuring Kokane & Above the Law) |
Frost | Smile Now, Die Later | |
| 1996 | "4 Tha E" (featuring Kokane) |
Yella | One Mo Nigga Ta Go |
| "Opening Doors" (featuring Kokane) |
Mac Mall | Untouchable | |
| "Nickel Slick Nigga" (Performed by Kokane) |
Dr. Dre | First Round Knock Out | |
| "Gorillapimpin'" (featuring Kokane & Enuff) |
Above the Law | Time Will Reveal | |
| "Circumstances" (featuring Kokane, Luniz, Cold 187um, Celly Cel & T-Pup) |
E-40 | Tha Hall of Game | |
| 1997 | "Recognize Game" (featuring Kokane, Ice-T & Too Short) |
Spice 1 | The Black Bossalini |
| "My Soul To Keep" (featuring Kokane) |
Brotha Lynch Hung | Loaded | |
| 1998 | "Love Don't Love" (featuring Kokane) |
Jayo Felony | Whatcha Gonna Do? |
| 1999 | "Big Figgas" (featuring Kokane, AK & 151) |
C-Bo | The Final Chapter |
| "Fast Money" (featuring Kokane, Warren G & Dutches) |
Mac Dre | Rapper Gone Bad | |
| "Some L.A. Niggaz" (featuring Kokane, Defari, Hittman, Xzibit, Knoc-Turn'al, Time Bomb, King T & MC Ren) |
Dr. Dre | 2001 | |
| 2000 | "Ghetto" (featuring Kokane, Kam & Nate Dogg) |
Tha Eastsidaz | Tha Eastsidaz |
| "Pimp or Die" (featuring Kokane & Techniec) |
Mack 10 | The Paper Route | |
| "Concrete Jungle" (featuring Kokane, Goldie Loc, Tray Deee & Snoop Dogg) |
C-Murder | Trapped in Crime | |
| "Pimp Shit" (featuring Kokane) |
Too Short | You Nasty | |
| "Shut Up" (featuring Kokane, Ice-T & Too Short) |
T.W.D.Y. | Lead the Way | |
| "Like a Jungle" (featuring Kokane & Young Mugzi) |
E-40 | Loyalty and Betrayal | |
| "Keep Your Head Up" (featuring Kokane) |
Doggy's Angels | Pleezbaleevit! | |
| "Hoodtraps" (featuring Kokane & Snoop Dogg) | |||
| "Put Your Hands Up" (featuring Kokane, Snoop Dogg, Soopafly, King Lou & Ruff Dogg) | |||
| "Rimz & Tirez" (featuring Kokane, Defari & Goldie Loc) |
Xzibit | Restless | |
| "Hennesey n Buddah" (featuring Kokane) |
Snoop Dogg | Tha Last Meal | |
| "True Lies" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Wrong Idea" (featuring Kokane, Bad Azz & Lil' ½ Dead) | |||
| "Go Away" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Bring It On" (featuring Kokane & Suga Free) | |||
| "Y'all Gone Miss Me" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| 2001 | "Dollaz, Drank & Dank" (featuring Kokane) |
Mr. Short Khop | Da Khop Shop |
| "Es Mi Casa" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "So Ignorant" (featuring Kokane, Kurupt & Nate Dogg) |
Yukmouth | Thug Lord: The New Testament | |
| "Lonely" (featuring Kokane, Mark Curry & Kain) |
P. Diddy & The Bad Boy Family | The Saga Continues... | |
| "When You See Me" (featuring Kokane & RBX) |
Bad Azz | Personal Business | |
| "Dogghouse Ridaz" (featuring Kokane, Suga Free, Goldie Loc & Snoop Dogg) | |||
| "Wrong Idea" (featuring Kokane, Snoop Dogg & Lil' ½ Dead) | |||
| "Friends" (featuring Kokane) |
Tha Eastsidaz | Duces 'n Trayz: The Old Fashioned Way | |
| "I Pledge Allegiance" (featuring Kokane & Soopafly) | |||
| "Now Is the Time" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Connected" (featuring Kokane & Mobb Deep) | |||
| "Sticky Fingers" (featuring Kokane & Rick Rock) | |||
| "Late Night" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Everywhere I Go" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Ass on Your Shoulders" (featuring Kokane) |
Busta Rhymes | Genesis | |
| "L.I.F.E." (featuring Kokane) |
Cypress Hill | Stoned Raiders | |
| "G-funk Is Here 2 Stay" (featuring Kokane & Mista Grimm) |
Warren G | The Return of the Regulator | |
| "Back It Up" (featuring Kokane) |
Ras Kass | Van Gogh (unreleased) | |
| "Root$ Of Evil" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| 2002 | "Cowboy" (featuring Kokane) |
C-Bo | Life as a Rider |
| "Thuggin'" (featuring Kokane & Tray Deee) |
Spice 1 | Spiceberg Slim | |
| "7 Much" (featuring Kokane) |
E-40 | Grit & Grind | |
| "Clap Yo Handz" (IV Life Family & Kokane) |
Tray Deee | The General's List | |
| "Bellin'" (featuring Kokane) |
WC | Ghetto Heisman | |
| "Paper'd Up" (featuring Kokane & Traci Nelson) |
Snoop Dogg | Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss | |
| 2003 | "So What" (featuring Kokane, Masta Ace & Pretty Ugly) |
Prince Paul | Politics of the Business |
| "Get Ready" (featuring Kokane) |
Roscoe | Young Roscoe Philaphornia | |
| "Take Yo Fade" (featuring Kokane, Crooked I and Eastwood) |
Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. | West Koasta Nostra | |
| 2004 | "High Heels" (featuring Kokane) |
Suga Free | The New Testament (The Truth) |
| "Gutta" (featuring Kokane & KMG) |
Cold 187um | Live from the Ghetto | |
| "Make You Wanna" (featuring Kokane, Warren G & Johnny Chronic) |
Goldie Loc | Still Eastsidin' | |
| "Gangsta Groove" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Nite Locs" (featuring Kokane & Snoop Dogg) | |||
| "Can't Help It" (featuring Kokane, Mr. Short Khop & Tray Deee) | |||
| 2005 | "Gangstas Keep Bumpin They Head'" (featuring Kokane & Lebo) |
Goldie Loc | Loc'd Out |
| "I'm So High" (featuring Kokane) |
Tony Yayo | Thoughts of a Predicate Felon | |
| 2006 | "Suga Cane" (featuring Kokane) |
Suga Free | Just Add Water |
| "Spittin' Pollaseeds" (featuring Kokane & WC) |
Ice Cube | Laugh Now, Cry Later | |
| "I Betcha" (featuring Kokane & Prodigy) |
The Alchemist | No Days Off | |
| 2007 | "Haters" (featuring Kokane) |
Young Buck | Buck the World |
| "Last Words" (Bonus Track) (featuring Kokane) |
Prodigy & The Alchemist | Return of the Mac | |
| "U Don't Know Who U Fuckin' Wit" (featuring Kokane) |
Kurupt | Against tha Grain E.P. | |
| "Keep It Hood" (featuring Kokane) |
Goldie Loc | Eastsideridaz | |
| 2008 | "Hard Liquor" (featuring Kokane, uncredited) |
The Game | Compton King |
| "Hate on Me" (featuring Kokane) |
Kurupt & Roscoe | The Frank and Jess Story | |
| "Where Ya Gonna Go" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "No Time To Waste" (featuring Kokane, Rob Quest and T-Mac) | |||
| "Paranoid" (Bloc Boyz featuring Kokane) |
Glasses Malone | Monster's Ink | |
| 2009 | "Life" (featuring Kokane) |
Above the Law | Sex, Money & Music |
| "Gutta" (featuring Kokane) | |||
| "Wet Paint" (featuring Kokane) |
Tash | Control Freek | |
| "Shawty Wanna Thug" (featuring Kokane) |
Lil' Flip | Respect Me | |
| "Tha Liquor Store" (featuring Kokane) |
Dogg Pound | That Was Then, This Is Now | |
| "Secrets" (featuring Kokane) |
Snoop Dogg | Malice n Wonderland | |
| 2010 | "Mr. Untouchable" (featuring Kokane) |
Nipsey Hussle | The Marathon (mixtape) |
| 2011 | "What's Good" (featuring Kokane) |
WC | Revenge of the Barracuda |
| "Take U Home" (featuring Kokane, Too Short & Daz Dillinger) |
Snoop Dogg | Doggumentary | |
| "Letcha Nutz Hang" (featuring Kokane, Tony Yayo, Jayo Felony) |
40 Glocc | C.O.P.S (Criping On Public Streets) | |
| 2012 | "Shut Up Nancy" (featuring Kokane) |
Too Short | No Trespassing |
| "What You Smoking On" (featuring Kokane, Snoop Dogg & Tha Dogg Pound) |
E-40 | The Block Brochure: Welcome to the Soil 3 | |
| "Killas Like Me" (featuring Kokane, Killa Tay & Lil Cyco) |
C-Bo | Orca | |
| 2013 | "Fux wit no bustaz" (featuring Kokane) |
Big Bossolo | Everything Aint Always N Color |
| "Heart Don't Pump No Kool Aid" (featuring Kokane) |
Big Bossolo | The Birth Revival | |
Filmography
- The Wash (2001)
- Old School (2003)
References
External links
- Kokane's biography at Bud E Boy Entertainment
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