Released: July 25, 1995

Songwriter: Kenny McCloud Wish Bone Flesh-N-Bone Bizzy Bone Krayzie Bone Layzie Bone

Producer: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony DJ U-Neek

[Hook]
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Way down, way down

[Verse 1: Layzie Bone]
I'm taking a swig of the burb word
Downin' my fifth and I swerve
Drunk as I bend on the curb
Get up to purchase some herbs
To ease up my nerves
While a nigga got rocks to serve
Heard about thugs and hustlas
But never knew none like us before
We junking them off in dumpsters
Suck these thuggish ruggish nuts
Peep this cut
Make a nigga wanna do some dirt
Puttin' in work gotta hit 'em where it hurts
Puttin' it down Bone first
And I hit 'em wid the Ouija curse them worse to worst
Dog if you wanting to test Bone
The con-se-sequences are fatal
Ready be strapped papped wid me sawed off
Clack back cause I believe in me label
Ruthless, and we steady be puttin' it down
Just for the love of money yeah
For the love of the wasteland Claire
For the love that brought me here
Droppin' piece to the double Glock
Ready when the trouble knocks pop pop ya pistol now
If a nigga wanna run up gun up
Put him on the ground make him lay down stay down
Harmony smooth wid the thug shit
Mo murda to the fool that clone
Five niggas loc'd out wid the roughness
And it's war tryin' crab these Bones
Bring on ya stretchers ya dearly departed
Ya rest in the coffin for daring to cross this
Come and get that ass tossed by the boss bitch
Ain't taking no shorts or no losses

[Hook]
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Way down, way down

[Verse 2: Krayzie Bone]
Nigga come fuck wid me now
Krayzie that nigga that pump pump
Nigga that's my daily thang
Down wid the bang bang swanging them thangs
It really don't matter man
Insane to the brain
My niggas so how could you ever compete with the trigger
Bitch if you decide you want some of this now
Bite one bid and nigga we're coming to cut ya
Everyday be the same old
Still gotta flip on the same ho
Niggas that be tryin' to study the thugs
But nigga back up it's a Bone thing what
Never taking no shorts or no losses
Creeping up outta me clik see
Mo murda mo murda, and Ouija will be with me
Creepin' on a come up doing it for the love ah money
Stalking gat fools walking jack moves
Ready to pap you if we have too
Remember me no surrender
Kill 'em and lay 'em up deep in ah coffin
Me no pretender
Leatherface taking no shorts or no losses

[Hook]
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Way down, way down

[Verse 3: Wish Bone]
Ain't taking no shorts or no losses tossin'
Niggas all up in them coffins
They don't know when they run up I gun 'em
Gotta let 'em know who the boss is, see
Pop pop let 'em drop
Mo Thug them niggas is nothin' but killas
We creepin' we needin' mo money
We sick and we cold and we hungry, (huh)
I'm loving my thugstas
My clik consist of nothin' but hustlas
The nigga you know that'll hurt ya
Serve and murda all bustas now
Hard times gotta grind get mine
Even if it means pap that's ya life
And a nigga gotta die by the sword
The guage, my nine and my knife
Cockin' I pump my slugs all up in ya now what
Shoot a bitch just like a nigga
Ain't no favor trigger you fall
It's Wish Bone, no shorts gotta get mine
Yeah it's my time
Me and my thugs smokin' chokin'
Let a nigga P.O.D, off that wine

[Hook]
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Way down, way down

[Verse 4: Flesh N Bone]
Remember when that dog jumped out of the darkside
Come creep in the barrel bitch if you test my hood
It'll be your loss, even if you bring your clik
Get tossed and it'd do you no good
Can't fuck wid my gang no thang
And the bullets they ring out
Strangle the man, and drug 'em up off the Claire
We strip 'em and beat they brains out
I gotta give p's to all ah my Trues
Steadily paying them dues
We niggas wid nothing to loose
Trippin' and sippin' on brews and actin' a fool
Mo Thug be loving to smoke mo bud, fiend for the green leaves
Nigga quick pull out them trees
I pull out me cheese
Now gimme now what me need
Remember me killa cap peeler
Still a realer nigga
And I'm on to dig ya
So bitch if ya run up I'm bound to rip ya
Me put in me work
Pullin' me bullets it hurt
Better run to chalk it
Diggin' ya deep in the dirt, squirt blood
See the Bone'll take no shorts or losses

[Hook]
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Bone come break 'em down
Taking no shorts no losses man
Way down, way down

[Verse 5: Bizzy Bone]
Bone y'all Bone nigga that's startin' some shit up what?
Little Ripster get you cleared up thugs
All ah my muthafuckas show they nuts, and guts
Runnin' up out the cut pumpin' bucks
Ready ta fuck you up must bust them
And steady be dumping thuggin on the Claire, oh yeah
Let's smoke out on 88th jumping, wid playas
Whena me forty four let go
Feelin' the Glock Glock roll
95th gunning outta the window
We peep out the few coming outta the back do'
Hang, on the darkside ride
Pick up your tec and let fly, why?
I, die, by all ah my, unremorsefullest times on the nine nine
Ride, me killa, gravedigga nigga, coming up out my trench
Rest in peace and runnin' from the holice
Jumping that barbed wire fence
Hittin' the pavement dazed, the guage was blazing
Gotta watch for the po-po raising up up on me
Turn around and face 'em
Pump pump and fade 'em now

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is a hip-hop group from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 1991 under the brief name, “Band Aid Boys.” Then they were B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e, consisting of Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, and Wish Bone. Under this name, they released the 1993 album, Faces of Death. Then Flesh-N-Bone, Layzie’s brother, joined the group, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony was solidified.

Rapper Eazy-E of the group N.W.A signed Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to Ruthless Records in 1994. The group’s debut EP Creepin On Ah Come Up included two hits, “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” (#22) and “Foe Tha Love of $” (#41). In 1995, their full-length album E. 1999 Eternal followed featuring another top 40 hit “1st of Tha Month”. An updated version of “Crossroad” from the album, renamed as “Tha Crossroads”, became a Grammy-winning international smash hit, holding the #1 spot in the US for eight weeks and reaching the top 20 in eight countries overseas including the UK.

Over the next fifteen years, the group scored six more top 40 hits including the platinum-selling “I Tried” (featuring Akon), but it was a tumultuous time. Flesh-N-Bone served eight years in prison for assault. The group kicked Bizzy Bone out after a couple of years of issues, but took him back five years later. Krayzie Bone also quit for a few months. In 2010, Wish Bone told