Jerry B Long

Jerry B. Long aka “The Legendary Kokane/Mr. Kane” has been involved with the music industry since the dawn of “Hip Hop”. For 20 years he has managed to stay consistent in the industry. He is recognized as the most featured artist in the world. He has worked with such artist as: Brotha Lynch Hung, Spice 1, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eazy E NWA, Ice Cube, Mr. Short Khop, P Diddy, Busta Rhymes, 2 Pac, Cypress Hill, DMX, Jada Kiss, 50 Cent, G Unit, Young Buck, George Duke & Stanley Clark { some of ...

Jerry B. Long aka “The Legendary Kokane/Mr. Kane” has been involved with the music industry since the dawn of “Hip Hop”. For 20 years he has managed to stay consistent in the industry. He is recognized as the most featured artist in the world. He has worked with such artist as: Brotha Lynch Hung, Spice 1, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eazy E NWA, Ice Cube, Mr. Short Khop, P Diddy, Busta Rhymes, 2 Pac, Cypress Hill, DMX, Jada Kiss, 50 Cent, G Unit, Young Buck, George Duke & Stanley Clark { some of the great jazz musicians }, George Clinton Parliament, Bootsy Collins Parliament, Bernie Burrel Parliament, Larry Blackman Cameo, Raphael Saadiq Toni Tone Tony & many more. He is the son of Motown staff composer/arranger Jerry B. Long Sr his works include Ball of Confusion, Just My Imagination, Still Waters Run Deep and many more. Jerry B. Long Jr’s life has always included music, mainly the old school funk of the 70’s , mid - 80’s as rap was first appearing in his native Los Angeles, although Jerry was originally born in Bronxville, New York. This led to him eventually signing to Eazy E’s Ruthless Record’s label in 1991’. In addition to co-writing “Appetite for Destruction” for NWA’s Niggaz 4 Life, Kokane also contributed to other West Coast rap albums such as Above the Law’s “Black Mafia Life”. His first solo single was “Nickel Slick Nigga” which appeared on the “Deep Cover Soundtrack” as well as his debut album for Ruthless/ Epic Records, “Who Am I.” His second album for Ruthless, “Funk Upon A Rhyme”, appeared in 1994’, the album made a huge impact oversea’s and now is rare collectors album which sells for $100.00 or more on Ebay, the album is also in reproduction in Japan. He appeared in late 1999 with a solo album on Eureka Records They Call Me Mr. Kane, yet this album never escaped the underground. Ironically, it was on the L.A. posse track found on Dr. Dre’s 2001’ album, Some L.A. Niggaz. Kokane scored big; this encounter with Dre’s camp led to his relationship with Snoop, who signed him to Dogghouse Records, bringing him a renewed sense of promise to Kokane’s long running career. More in depth: In 1991, Kokane's debut recording as a solo artist on Ruthless Records by way of its distribution deal with Epic Records (where Above The Law was particularly joint-signed to) was a tune called "Nickel Slick" which was released as a underground single in which Kokane was credited as Who Am I?, possibly to avoid controversy over his drug-induced stage name. It was later featured on the soundtrack album to the film Deep Cover on Solar/Epic Records under his proper credit. Cold 187from Above The Law & Kokane are 2 of the originators of G-Funk. By 1994 he had become a more prominent member of Above The Law's extended family, featured heavily on their album Uncle Sam's Curse. The same year he released his second album Funk Upon A Rhyme, produced solely by Cold 187 um and enjoyed critical acclaim for the albums diverse and fresh sound, this ablum made a commercial impact, internationally a trend that would continue throughout his career. By 1996 Kokane was a free agent, having left Ruthless the previous year after label head Eazy-E's untimely death. He released the single '4 Ryders Only', and teamed up with DJ Yella to record an Eazy tribute 4 Tha E. In the year 2000', Snoop Dogg connected with Kane remembering Kane's early contribution to Ruthless Records, and appreciating his contribution to West-Coast G-Funk more than most, approached him to become in-house singer for his newly-formed Dogghouse Records. Kokane featured extensively on Snoop's comeback album Tha Last Meal to great effect, appearing on no less than 8 tracks he was a major part of the success of Snoop Dogg’s Tha Last Meal. His eccentric vocal approach is half fluid rapping and half weird P-funk influenced singing. This balance made Kokane a perfect choice to lay down the vocal hooks for Snoop’s album. Kokane's high-pitched, p-funk induced singing style seemed tailor-made for Snoop's funk-heavy beats and drawled delivery. Indeed such was the chemistry between rapper and singer, the combination harked back to Nate Dogg's tremendous success partnering Warren G just 5 years earlier. Kane garnered several further guest spots from his new-found notoriety and seemed briefly set to challenge Nate's reign within hip-hop as so-called "king of the hook" (chorus). Following his sojourn with Snoop Dogg, with whom he is thought to have stopped working in 2003, Kokane signed to Koch Records forming a new group The Hood Mob. It is led by him joined by Cricet and Contraband. They released an album on July 3, 2006. Due to the controversy of his stage name “Kokane” he ran into some road blocks in the music industry, but his passion for music did not allow circumstances to overcome him. He had to work twice as hard in the music industry and finally found a safe-haven through guest appearances on gold & platinum records. Through the transition of the music industry & its pitfalls; the artist known as “Kokane” went into a short isolation period to where it allowed him to have atonement for himself and take care of his beautiful wife & eight wonderful children, to redirect his steps towards “The Lord”. Presently, Kokane has a new album called Gimme All Mine, Bonzi Records, out rite now available at Fye, Best Buy, Itunes & Amazon. Go to link: http://www.hiphoppress.com/2010/03/the-legendary-mrkanekokane-to-release-new-solo-lp-gimmie-all-mine-on-612010.html ,with first single called Twilight Zone and Rollin Up. He also currently has a mixtape with DJ Crazy Toones featuring Ice Cube, WC, Above The Law & Snoop Dogg called On The Backstreets on his own Label Bud E Boy Entertainment with Erik "Mr.E" Ramos in conjunctions with J. Wells's Bonzi Records /RobRacks/Fontana/Universal Group.