Dennis Anthony Thomas better known as King Kong, is a Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n deejay

Deejay

A deejay is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and toasts to an instrumental riddim .Deejays are not to be confused with disc jockeys from other music genres like hip-hop, where they select and play music. Dancehall/reggae DJs who select riddims to play are called selectors...

/singer best known for his work in the 1980s.

Biography

Born in Kingston

Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...

, Thomas first recorded as a deejay at Tuff Gong

Tuff Gong

Tuff Gong is a record label that was formed by the reggae group The Wailers in 1970 and named after Bob Marley's nickname, which was in turn an echo of that given to founder of the Rastafari movement, Leonard "The Gong" Howell. The first single on the label was "Run For Cover" by The Wailers...

 studios in 1982, initially working under the name Junior Kong, named after his father. His debut single was "Pink Eye". He worked with GT and then his own Love Bunch sound system and then recorded for King Tubby

King Tubby

King Tubby was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s...

's Firehouse label, now singing in a similar style to Tenor Saw

Tenor saw

Tenor Saw was a prominent dancehall singer in the 1980s, and one of the most influential singers of the early digital reggae era...

. The early King Kong recordings for Tubby were over early digital rhythms, and included songs such as "AIDS" and "Babylon", and established him as a popular artist. His first album release was split with another of Tubby's singers, Anthony Red Rose, with Two Big Bull Inna One Pen issued on Firehouse. During 1986 and 1987, Kong recorded for several of Jamaica's top producers, including Prince Jammy, with whom he enjoyed his biggest hits with "Trouble Again" (the title track from his Jammy-produced debut album proper) and "Legal We Legal", Black Scorpio, Harry J, Errol Thompson, Ossie Hibbert

Ossie Hibbert

Oswald "Ossie" Hibbert is a Jamaican organist, keyboard player and record producer.-Biography:Hibbert began to be active in Jamaican music in the mid-1970s, working as a keyboard player as part of The Professionals, The Aggrovators and The Revolutionaries, and playing on dozens of albums by...

, Bunny Lee

Bunny Lee

Edward O'Sullivan Lee, better known as Bunny "Striker" Lee is a prominent, prolific and successful record producer best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...

, and Prince Jazzbo

Prince Jazzbo

Prince Jazzbo is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay and producer.Prince Jazzbo began recording with Coxsone Dodd's Studio One label in the early 1970s...

. While many of his songs were typical in content of the era, several of his songs had political and cultural themes. He released several albums during this period before relocating first to New York, and then to Canada in the late 1980s, where he released material occasionally on his Conscious Music label. The death of Tenor Saw in 1988 prompted King Kong to release "He Was a Friend" as a tribute, and in 1989 he relocated to England and recorded with Mafia & Fluxy

Mafia & Fluxy

Mafia & Fluxy are a United Kingdom reggae rhythm section and production team consisting of brothers Leroy and David Heywood , whose careers began with London reggae band The Instigators in 1977...

 and Gussie P in the early 1990s. He began recording more regularly again in the 2000s.

Albums

• Trouble Again (10 November 1986), Greensleeves
• Two Big Bull Inna One Pen (1986), Firehouse - with Anthony Red Rose
• Legal We Legal (1986), Jammy's - issued in the UK as Trouble Again on Greensleeves Records
  Greensleeves Records
  Greensleeves Records & Publishing is a record label specialising in dancehall and reggae music. The company was founded by Chris Cracknell and Chris Sedgwick and started as a small record store in West Ealing, London, in November 1975 and is based in Britain....
  
  , reissued (2008), Greensleeves with bonus tracks
• Dancehall Session (1986), Striker Lee
• Musical Confrontation (1986), Jammy's - with Nitty Gritty
  Nitty Gritty
  Glen Augustus Holness , otherwise known by his stage name Nitty Gritty, was a popular Reggae singer. Born in the August Town section of Kingston, Jamaica, he was the second of eleven children born to religious parents....
  
  
• Big Heavy Load (1987), Striker Lee
• Identify Me (1987), Black Solidarity
• Musical Terrorist (198?), Our Land Sound Productions
• Rumble Jumble Life (2005), Massive B

Singles

• "You Pack up and gone" (1986), Jammy´s
• "Can´t Ride Computer" (1986), Jammy´s - Riddim : Tempo
• "Pink Eye" (1982), 56 Hope Road
• "Sensimania Is Walking" (1985), R:E:M
• "Ninja" (1985), Sunset
• "AIDS" (1986), Firehouse
• "Babylon" (1986), Firehouse
• "Trouble Again" (1986), Greensleeves/Jammy's
• "Mix Up" (1986)
• "Legal We Legal" (1986), Greensleeves
• "Paro Them Paro" (1986), Greensleeves
• "Have Some Approach" (198?), Black Solidarity
• "Niceness" (1986), Black Scorpio
• "Identify Me" (198?), Black Scorpio
• "Rich & Switch" (1986), Java
• "Rip and Run Off" (1986), Big M
• "Nice Christmas" (198?), Firehouse
• "Step On My Corn" (198?), Firehouse
• "No Call Me No Boops" (198?), Firehouse
• "Don't Touch My Boops" (1986), Jammy's
• "Big Boy" (1986), Oneness
• "Rocky Road" (1986), Fresh Roses
• "Good Fi Nuttin" (198?), Firehouse
• "Girls Dem A Come" (198?), Ujama
• "Raggamuffin A Pass" (1986), Ujama
• "Can't Distress Me" (198?), Parish
• "Toots Boops" (1987)
• "Eden a Come" (1987), Black Scorpio
• "Can't Tan It" (1987), Sunset
• "Musical Terrorist" (1987), Sunset
• "Time Is The Master" (1987), Upsetter Music
• "Reggae Mylitis" (198?), Sunset
• "No Touch De Gorilla" (1987)
• "Over Cover Lover" (198?), Live & Love
• "Dollars Strong" (198?), MCM
• "Highest Grade" (198?), Black Scorpio
• "Ragamuffin A Pass" (198?), Now Generation
• "Predominent" (198?), Now Generation
• "Du No Get High" (198?), Ottey's
• "Song of Love" (198?), Pisces
• "Don't Trouble Trouble" (198?), Striker Lee
• "Glamour Boy In Mi Life" (198?), Striker Lee
• "Must Work On Sunday" (198?), Striker Lee
• "Moving On African Border" (198?), Striker Lee
• "Four Year Old" (198?), Apple Tree
• "Job" (198?), Apple Tree
• "Here I Am" (19??), Bugu B
• "Agony And Pain" (198?), Jah Life Time
• "He Was a Friend" (1988), Conscious Music
• "Magic Moment" (1989), Taurus
• "Identify Me" (19??), Digikal
• "Digital We Digital" (19??), Digikal
• "Break Down The Walls" (????), Jammy's
• "Jah Jah Rule" (19??), Thompson Sound
• "Who Say" (19??), Thompson Sound
• "Dem A Fake" (????), Jammy's
• "Imagine" (????), Jammy's
• "Seize All Guns" (????), Jammy's
• "Try Not I" (19??)
• "Once Upon A Time" (198?), King Kong - with Leroy Mafia
  Mafia & Fluxy
  Mafia & Fluxy are a United Kingdom reggae rhythm section and production team consisting of brothers Leroy and David Heywood , whose careers began with London reggae band The Instigators in 1977...
  
  
• "Progress" (198?), Thunderbolt
• "Not A Bwoy Caan Test We" (1991), Gussie P
• "Trouble Again Pt. 2" (199?), Jammy's
• "Unity Medley" (19??), Massive Sounds - with Anthony B
  Anthony B
  Anthony B is the stage name of Keith Blair , a Jamaican musician and member of the Rastafari movement....
  
   and Burro Banton
  Burro Banton
  Burro Banton is a dancehall reggae deejay popular in the mid-1980s and 1990s....
  
  
• "Unfortunate Children" (????), Ffrench
• "Have A Little Sound" (????), Sinbad
• "Bag Juice & Cheese Chips" (199?), Massive B
• "Call Mr. Madden" (1995), Massive B
• "Earth Is The Lord" (????), Massive B
• "Ethiopia" (????), Massive B
• "Free Speech" (????), Massive B
• "Legalize It" (????), Massive B
• "Troubles" (????), Massive B
• "Unity" (????), Massive B
• "Seem Dem There" (????), Reggae Explorer
• "My Darling" (1998), Jammy's
• "Works of Jah" (2001), Roots Foundation
• "Jah Is My Best Friend" (2002), Massive B
• "Big Money Pay" (200?), Badd
• Big Bad Sound" (200?), Sweet Beat
• "Paradise Lost" (2004), Massive B
• "Higher High" (2004), Conscious Music
• "African Border" (2005), Flash
• "Rumble Jumble Life" (2005), Massive B
• "Free De Herb" (2005), Inkalink
• "1922" (2005), Rashanco
• "Who Say" (2005), Thompson Sound
• "I Feel A Joy" (2005), Massive B
• "Evolution" (2006), Jahspora
• "Dem Nah Do Nuttun" (2006), Run Things
• "This Train" (2006), Diop Side
• "Jah is the Ruler" (200?), Koogah Sound
• "Flirt" (2008), Phantom
• "Not A Bwoy Caan Test We" (2008), Sip a Cup
• "Mi Ave A Likkle Sound" (2008), Sip a Cup
• "Missin Africa" (2009), Massive B
• "Chosen One" (2009), Uplift - B-side of Lutan Fyah
  Lutan Fyah
  Lutan Fyah is a Jamaican musician, singer, reggae and member of the Rastafari movement Bobo Shanti.-Background:...
  
  's "Babylon a Fiss"