The proteges of NWA legend Eazy-E, Bone’s breakout single “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” set the stage for the quintet to assert themselves as contenders. The Notorious B.I.G and Puff Daddy had asserted themselves as King, and King’s Hand, of New York.Īnd here were five emcees - Bizzy Bone, Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Flesh-N-Bone, and Wish Bone - seeking to follow-up on an EP that inserted them comfortably into the mix. OutKast made it known that “The South Had Something To Say,” following the release of 1994’s Southernplaylisticcadillacmuzic. The Wu-Tang Clan had turned heads through their brilliant pairing of martial-arts mysticism, mathematics, and genuine street narratives. Dre, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, Suge Knight, and the DPG had planted the Death Row flag in West Coast soil, a point of contention to their East Coast counterparts. In 1995, the same year The Source Awards would stage its most notorious installment, many legendary acts were staking their claim across their respective cities.ĭr. Consider the hip-hop landscape at the time of its release. One that carved an intriguing musical cloth, and helped pioneer a darker variant of gangster rap not unlike the Geto Boys down in Houston, Bone’s G’d up aesthetic was peppered with enough horrorcore elements to spark a different sort of unease. Paired with haunting, reversed cries, it’s easy to imagine a ritual transpiring after nightfall in the streets of Cleveland. 1999 Eternal strikes a sinister, yet undeniably inviting tone. The opening message of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s E.
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