Sunspot Jonz
Jonz in 2022
Background information
Also known as	BFAP, Dusty Black, Vision
Born	Corey Johnson September 16 California
Origin	Oakland, California
Genres	Underground hip hop
Occupations	Rapper, producer
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Outhouse LL Crew Revenge Entertainment Legendary Music Battle Axe Records HBD Universal International
Member of	Living Legends
Website	suniverze.com

Corey Johnson (born September 16 in California), known professionally as Sunspot Jonz, is a hip-hop artist from Oakland, California. A founding member of the underground hip-hop collective Living Legends, he has spent decades pushing writing and producing hip hop music.

Corey Johnson entered the state’s foster care system at an early age. He was adopted at age four by a couple from Monroe, Louisiana. However, the home environment became abusive, leading to further instability during his formative years. Johnson often ran away from home, finding temporary shelter in parks, laundromats, and abandoned vehicles, before being returned to foster care. Throughout these hardships, he turned to imagination and creativity as a means of survival, frequently drawing, inventing characters, and making music—practices that would later form the foundation of his artistic career.

After his adoptive father, Cleotha Johnson, left the family, Johnson was primarily raised by his mother, Brenda Johnson, while continuing to navigate the foster care system. He attended Berkeley High School but flunked the ninth grade and was subsequently sent to live with relatives in Louisiana, where he enrolled at Ruben McCall High School. There, he became an honor roll student and was eventually allowed to return to Oakland, California. He completed his secondary education at Skyline High School in the Oakland Hills.

Following high school, Johnson enrolled at Chaminade University in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he studied for two years. During his time at Chaminade, he met DJ Blast at a campus event. This connection led him to travel to Maui, where he recorded his first demo at DJ Blast’s home studio. Shortly afterward, Johnson left college to pursue a full-time career as a writer and musician.

Sunspot Jonz has gone by other names before, such as BFAP, which stands for Brother From Another Planet, and Vision.^[1]

• Child of the Storm (2000)
• Angelz wit Dirty Faces (2000)
• Underground Legend (2000)
• Fallen Angelz (2002)
• Don't Let 'Em Stop You (2003)
• No Guts No Glory (2004)
• Only the Strong Shall Survive (2005)
• Back in Black (2006)
• Never Surrender (2008)
• Fight-Destroy-Rock (2009)
• The Darkside ov Heaven (2009)
• Galaxy of Dreams 1 (G.O.D.) (2010)
• Galaxy of Dreams 2 (G.O.D.) (2012)
• Skywalkers (2013)
• Legend1 (2015)
• Stoney Hawk 1 (2015)
• Cruel Summer (2020)
• Stoney Hawk 2 (2023)
• Bad 2 The Bonez (2025)

• Unleashed (2000)
• Dirty Faces (2001)
• Ghostworld (2003)

• Moka Only – “Madness” from Road Life (2000)

• Moka Only – “Not the Man I Used To Know” from Lime Green (2001)
• Moka Only – “If You Was (Sunshine)” from Flood (2002)
• DJ Murge - “Drown In the Mainstream” from Search and Rescue (2002)
• Awol One & Factor Chandelier – "Darkness" from Owl Hours (2009)
• Factor Chandelier - "Black Fantasia" from 13 Stories (A Prelude) (2010)
• Factor Chandelier - "A Part of Me Now" from Club Soda Series I (2011)
• Myka 9 – "Oh Yeah... Alright" from Mykology (2012)
• Factor Chandelier - "Born Alone, Death Unknown" from Single Series (2016)
• Factor Chandelier - "Tiger Fight (Sunloa)" from Time Invested II (2022)
• Alex Asher Daniel - "Dakini (God’s Eye Mix)" (2022)^[2]
• Moka Only - “Droppin’ Icicles” from Martian XMAS 2022 (2022)

• Living Legends
• Luckyiam

• Resin (1999)
• Street Legendz (2009)
• Sunny Dreamweaver (2010)
• She's Got a Plan (2016)

• Official website
• Sunspot Jonz at AllMusic
• Sunspot Jonz discography at Discogs
• Sunspot Jonz at IMDb
• Legendary Music