- Creepin on Ah Come Up · 1994
- E. 1999 Eternal · 1995
- Greatest Hits · 1997
- Creepin on Ah Come Up · 1994
- E. 1999 Eternal · 1995
- The Art of War: World War 2 · 1997
- E. 1999 Eternal · 1995
- Strength & Loyalty (Bonus Track Version) · 2007
- E. 1999 Eternal · 1995
- E. 1999 Eternal · 1995
- BTNHRESURRECTION · 2000
- The Art of War: World War 1 · 1997
- The Art of War: World War 1 · 1997
Essential Albums
- Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s blazing vocal cadences whizz throughout their debut like bullets from a machine gun. The Cleveland group combines those rattled-out syllables with the potent melodicism that would become their trademark. Having come up under the tutelage of L.A. pioneer Eazy-E, they pull from the darkest corners of G-funk, lacing their sound with mournful piano and sour whistles. The solemn “Tha Crossroads” is a doleful ode to Eazy, while “East 1999” offers a grimy paragon of hard-boiled gangsterism you can’t turn away from.
- 2019
Artist Playlists
- Celebrate the first of tha month with Bizzy, Krayzie, Wish, Flesh, and Layzie.
Live Albums
Compilations
- 2007
Appears On
About Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
When they formed in 1991, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony were onto something new—their melody-first approach to hip-hop sounded particularly fresh and pointed to how rap would progress in the coming decades. They started in Cleveland, where no top-selling hip-hop act had come from before, and their music was different from the outset: The quintet of Bizzy Bone, Flesh-N-Bone, Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, and Wish Bone specialized in intricate high-speed rhymes about street life that carried unusual melodic contours and multi-part harmonies. West Coast G-funk, generous with hooks and indebted to ‘70s soul and funk, was a clear influence, so it made sense that Bone Thugs’ major break came courtesy of N.W.A.’s Eazy-E, who signed them to his Ruthless label. He featured on early single “Foe Tha Love of $,” their second Top 40 hit, but it took a posthumous tribute to Eazy, “Tha Crossroads,” to make Bone Thugs superstars (and Grammy winners). After 1997’s sprawling double-disc The Art of War, which included the slow-rolling smash “Look into My Eyes,” intra-band conflict derailed their career for a time. Bone Thugs’ members went in 10 directions at once, with a dizzying array of solo albums and smaller group projects, before fully reuniting the following decade. The hits have come more slowly since, but they’d already left their mark—in modern hip-hop, the line between rapping and singing has all but vanished, and Bone Thugs’ rap/R&B hybrid clearly helped spur that evolution.
- ORIGIN
- Cleveland, OH, United States
- FORMED
- 1991
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap