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It had the highest-charting debut for a rap song on the Billboard Hot 100 at the time when it debuted at No. The song was released as the third and final single from the album in April 1996, nine months after the world had thoroughly consumed E. 1999 Eternal is more than one song, but the transformative impact of “The Crossroads” can not be understated. All our talent shows, he’d be in the front row, every one,” Wish Bone said in a 2007 interview.Į. He used to listen to our little mixtapes we’d bring home, just encourage us. But he was also the one that was really behind us in our music career, because that’s what he wanted to do, too. “He was the uncle who’d come around and take us to the movies everybody got five dollars. co-founder wither away from AIDS and Wish Bone eulogized his Uncle Charles, a man many may not have known played an integral part in the group existing. Bizzy Bone somberly reflects on watching the N.W.A. No one song exemplified that better than the biggest song of the group’s career: “The Crossroads.”įor a little under four minutes, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony eulogizes their lost loved ones, including Eazy-E, the Ruthless Records founding rapper who discovered the group and passed away three months before E. It was an album that revealed parts of the human experience millions didn’t know they could relate to through the universality of harmony. 1999 Eternal was more of a revelation than innovation. You can make the soberest person sound lovestruck with cannabis by wrapping an ode to THC in harmonies that sound as silky as the biggest love ballads at the time like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony did on “Buddah Lovaz.” E. Even those who weren’t “smokin’, jokin’, rollin’ blunts” or cashing welfare checks could relate to “1st of Tha Month,” a smooth track predicated on a universal feeling of how new payday funded possibilities. The songs always felt grander than the specificity of the lyrics. The rhymes were quicker than most, the violence was more melodic than the best R&B, and they were repping a Midwestern city not known for hip-hop. Clair Avenue, where the group grew up and humanity lives in the dark conditions. 1999 Eternal, an engrossingly dark thrill ride through life living on the poverty-stricken Eastside neighborhood of Cleveland on East 99th Street and St. Just as soon as the chorus gets hypnotic enough where you’re instinctively humming “bloody murder mo,” the voices deepen to a demonic bellow and the elegant existentialism gives way to the vivid murder depictions on “Mo Murda.” Sublimely, the enjoyment only intensifies.
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Ouija 2” finds an Ouija board that everyone had been asked existential questions about mortality in the form of a chorus of singing enchanting enough to make constant gun cocking in the background sound almost integral to the harmony. The Cleveland rap quintet – Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, Flesh-N-Bone - were sirens more than rappers, leading listeners joyously through the most nefarious conditions of life using spellbinding harmonies to tap into what’s intrinsic in us all. I gave it a 2-star for the rough edges, eccentric grooves, and crazy noise, but it could probably pass for a 3 too.Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – E. People must be giving this 5-star ratings based on sentimental value or an "I have it therefore it's the best" mentality. Not only is their style uncommon in the industry as a whole, but the odds of 5 friends growing up together and rapping in such a similar manner are approaching astronomical numbers, and it just wasn't supposed to happen. Bone Thugs themselves are a complete anomaly. U-Neek absolutely decimated other producers with this album, with essentially zero sampling required. Haven't heard the original US but supposedly it is pretty bad.Ĭlearly the album is a favorite for me. The Brazilian release and the RSD2019 are roughly on the same level for sound quality, but the Brazilian version has many songs cut (only 10 on the record in total if I remember correctly). I have an original Brazilian release, the RSD2019 2LP, this 2LP, and another unofficial 2LP in the mail. When the actual music is playing, it was fairly good quality. It will blast through the quieter parts of songs. I didn't hear anything too upsetting resulting from that, but there is an immense amount of noise in between tracks.
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The eccentric grooves cause the needle to sway like crazy. Same as others, the pressing quality is terrible.