THOUGH KOKANE HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE WEST COAST RAP SEEN SINCE THE DAWN OF GANGSTA RAP, HE WAS NEVER ABLE TO SECURE ANY SUBSTANTIAL SUCCESS FOR HIMSELF UNTIL 2000 WHEN HE PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THE SUCCESS OF SNOOP DOGG'S ''THE LAST MEAL''. HIS ECCENTRIC VOCAL APPROACH IS HALF FLUID RAPPING AND HALF WIERD P-FUNK-INFLUENCED SINGING. THIS BALANCE MADE KOKANE A PERFECT CHOICE TO LAY DOWN THE VOCAL HOOKS FOR SNOOPS ALBUM, AS HE APPEARED ON 8 OF THE ALBUMS 19 TRACKS......THE SON OF MOTOWN STAFF COMPOSER JERRY LONG(''BALL OF CONFUSION'' ''JUST MY IMAGINATION'' ''STILL WATERS RUN DEEP''). KOKANE'S LIFE HAS ALWAYS INCLUDED MUSIC, THOUGH ITS THE OLD SCHOOL FUNK OF THE 70s THAT MOST INFLUENCED HIS STYLE. HE BEGAN HIS CAREER AS A VOCALIST IN THE MID-'80s AS RAP WAS FIRST APPEARING IN HIS NATIVE LOS ANGELES BEFORE EVENTUALLY SIGNING TO EAZY-E's RUTHLESS RECORDS LABEL IN 1991. IN ADDITION TO CO-WRITING ''APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION'' FOR N.W.A's ''NIGGAZ 4 LIFE'', KOKANE ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO OTHER WEST COAST GANGSTA RAP ALBUMS SUCH AS ABOVE THE LAW's ''BLACK MAFIA LIFE''. HIS FIRST SOLO SINGLE, ''NICKLE SLICK NIGGA,'' APPEARED ON THE DEEP COVER SOUNDTRACK AS WELL AS HIS DEBUT ALBUM FOR RUTHLESS, ''WHO I AM.'' HIS SECOND ALBUM FOR RUTHLESS, ''FUNK UPON A RHYME'' APEARED IN 1994 BUT DIDN'T SELL MANYCOPIES, DOOMING KOKANE TO A FRUSTATING SABBATICAL PERIOD OF TIME...... UNTIL NOW, HE'S BACK AND TAKING EVERYTHING THAT HE'S RIGHTFULLY EARNED. HIS NEW ALBUM ''PAINKILLERZ'' SCHEDULED FOR A August 15th RELEASE, PROMISES TO DELIVER THE CLASSIC ALBUM HE HAS ALWAYS DESERVED TO PUT OUT, WITH FEATURES FROM JAYO FELONY, KAM, SUGAFREE, GEORGE CLINTON, BLEEZE, AND MORE, THIS ALBUM WILL BE A DEFINITE ''MUST HAVE''
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