51 years in the past right now, rapper, actor, director, and producer Sticky Fingaz was born
On at the present time in Hip Hop historical past, Kirk Jones bka Sticky Fingaz was born in Brooklyn, New York. Often called the frontman for the trailblazing rap group Onyx and varied appearances on display and tv, Sticky Fingaz has labored his means into being a distinguished a part of hip hop tradition.
With Onyx, Jones grew to become an enormous success. The group’s debut album Bacdafucup had large industrial success and went multi-platinum. For the reason that multiplatinum debut, the group has launched 4 different albums. Jones additionally launched two albums as a solo artist titled Black Trash: The Autobiography of Kirk Jones and “Decade ‘…however wait it will get worse’” that includes artists reminiscent of Eminem, Raekwon, Redman, Canibus, and Omar Epps. He was additionally featured on Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP and Snoop Dogg’s No Restrict High Dogg.
As an actor, Jones has been very profitable over time. He has had roles in lots of motion pictures which have performed an enormous half in hip-hop tradition and others which have develop into family names. For Sticky’s born day, we right here at TheSource.com have compiled an inventory the highest 5 roles that he has been casted in:
Eddie Arithmetic: In 2004 Jones performed jail kingpin Eddie Arithmetic within the movie Doing Laborious Time starring Boris Kodjoe
Scientific: In 1995 Jones was solid as Scientific within the Spike Lee JointClockers a couple of street-level drug vendor who turns into entangled in a homicide investigation.
Tyrone: In 2000, Jones was casted as Deebo’s sidekick Tyrone in cult traditional Subsequent Friday.
Blade: In 2006, Jones was solid because the lead, Blade, within the Spike Tv rendition of the notorious Marvel antihero. The present ran 13 episodes.
Wink: In 2007, Jones was casted as Wink within the very talked-about online game ‘Def Jam: Icon’. His character had an enormous position within the plot line of the online game’s story mode.
On this present day in Hip-Hop historical past, we rejoice the delivery of one of many tradition’s brightest stars, the late, nice Russell Jones, affectionately...