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Kirk Jones (born November 3, 1973), better known by his stage name Sticky Fingaz, is an American hardcore rapper, record producer, actor, film director, film editor, and writer, best known as a member of multi-platinum hardcore rap group The Legendary Onyx.
Jones was born in Kings County Hospital Center on November 3, 1973. He grew up in the Flatbush, Brooklyn neighborhood. When he was a child, he wanted to be a D.J.
According to an interview with DJ Vlad, Jones was a part of "Lo-Lifes," a local Brooklyn street gang that mainly engaged in petty retail theft of Polo clothing rather than drug dealing or violent turf wars. Hence his nickname being "Sticky Fingaz," about the idiom for stealing "sticky fingers."
When his mother moved the family to Bloomfield, New Jersey, she enrolled him in Manhattan's High School of Art and Design. She hoped Kirk, who had a gift for drawing, would focus his talents. In 1990, at the age of 16, Kirk moved out of his mother's house to South Jamaica, Queens, to live with his cousin Fredro Starr, who worked as a barber in Queens.
Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones was discovered by Jam Master Jay of Run-D.M.C., who signed Onyx on his label J.M.J. Records provided that Sticky will be in the group. His signature lazy eye, raspy voice, and boundless energy brought attention to the group, and he became the front-man. Onyx went on to release three top-selling albums before Sticky Fingaz began his solo career.
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The Legendary Onyx
Onyx
Fredro Starr, Big D.S., and Suave (also known as Sonny Seeza) met Jam Master Jay in a traffic jam at The Jones Beach GreekFest Festival on July 13, 1991. Jay gives them about two months to get a demo, but Suave and Big D.S. didn't make it to the studio because they got stranded in Connecticut. So Jeff Harris, the manager of Onyx, asked Fredro to come to the studio with his cousin, Kirk Jones, who at the time was making a solo career under the name Trop and working in the barbershop making a thousand dollars a week cutting high school. Fredro and Sticky Fingaz made two records, "Stik 'N' Muve" and "Exercise.
In 1993, Onyx released their debut album entitled Bacdafucup. It proved to be a commercial success and eventually went multi-platinum, primarily due to the well known single "Slam." Then Onyx released on J.M.J. Records another two albums: All We Got Iz Us and Shut 'Em Down. J.M.J. Records and Onyx received notification of their official removal from Def Jam on "Black Thursday."
January 21, 1999 – because the label PolyGram, who in 1994 purchased 50% of Sony's Def Jam, was sold to Seagram on December 10, 1998
Onyx was only four years earlier, "saving Def Jam," as Sticky Fingaz put it, but now they were hoping the label would save them. Their third—and what would become their final—album on Def Jam, "Shut 'Em Down," barely went gold.
Solo career
Jones released his debut solo album in 2001, which was titled Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones. A concept album that followed the (fictionalized) life of Kirk Jones in a storyline fashion as he is released from prison and then ultimately his death. The album was a critical success, noted as very creative with meaningful content. However, it didn't gain much commercial recognition despite featuring well-known artists such as Eminem, Raekwon, Redman, and Canibus.
In 2003, he released his second album, Decade "...but wait it gets worse", which was less well-received by critics and gained even less mainstream acknowledgment; featuring on this album were performances from Fredro Starr & Omar Epps.
In 2019, Fingaz released his third album; It's About T.I.M.E. The album was released as a "digital album movie" and is accompanied by a musical film, which tells about an American rapper Sticky Fingaz's life, starting from his birth to the entry into Onyx. The album is available only on Sticky's website.
Fingaz released a movie About T.I.M.E. through his production company Major Independents, on February 14, 2019. Sticky Fingaz wrote the script for this film and presented himself as a director, cinematographer, and producer of the film, and he also played a role in it. This film's feature is the format in which it was released – "Digital Album Movie," created by the rapper.
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Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones has starred in more than 90 films and television shows. In 1993, he made his acting debut in Forest Whitaker's award-winning HBO drama Strapped. His feature film credits include Spike Lee's Clockers, In Too Deep, Lockdown, Doing Hard Time, and Breaking Point, but he is best known for his role as "Tyrone" Next Friday. He made his television debut in New York Undercover and Nash Bridges. But is best known for Blade's role in the T.V. series Blade.
Jones was a regular on the short-lived UPN series Platinum as Grady Rhames. He also played the part of Pvt. Maurice "Smoke" Williams in the F.X. television series Over There depicts life as an American soldier in Iraq. He played Tyrone Next Friday. Jones also played a recurring role as Kern Little, a gang leader and hip-hop musician/producer on The Shield FX series. He has also appeared in the direct-to-video and Sci-Fi Channel releases House of the Dead 2.
In 2006, Jones got cast as the half-human/half-vampire Blade in Blade: The Series, based on the Wesley Snipes movies, on Spike TV. The series canceled on September 29, 2006, through a press release from Spike. He has completed his work on a film titled Karma, Confessions, and Holi, where he plays the character Rich Smooth. Jones was a significant character in the remake of the movie Flight of the Phoenix.
In the video game Def Jam: Fight for N.Y., he supplied his voice and is one of the main antagonists throughout the story. He also has an appearance in the sequel, Def Jam: Icon, under the name Wink. Fingaz wrote, co-produced, co-directed, and starred in the movie A Day in the Life.
Sticky Fingaz wrote, produced, directed, and starred in two feature films done entirely in the genre of "hip-hopera" through his production company Major Independents: A Day in the Life and Caught On Tape. Lionsgate Home Entertainment released both films.
In 2019, Sticky Fingaz released a movie; It's About T.I.M.E., which features the format in which it was released – "Digital Album Movie," created by the rapper.
On August 12, 2020, Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones was unanimously voted to be President of the newly formed Hunger Aid Foundation. www.Hunger-Aid.Org