Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Released: July 29, 1997

Songwriter: Krayzie Bone DJ U-Neek

Producer: DJ U-Neek

Krayzie:

187 is a lesson for them niggas
That want to test
Bring more than cause me shotgun
Will be buckin your chest
Wanna be Mo' thug? thugsta mentality
Runs through the BONE
Pop pop to the dome
Fall short to the crome
Gift wrap that bitch ass on
Much love for the green leaves
But me trues have to ease me down
Puff puff head rush
Popin in me clip and I got plenty rounds
Me no pretenda
No studio thugsta
Wanna get wit'cha
And if me miss ya
Straight #1 and the Rispsta
Swang watch 'em hit cha
So we can swang (we can swang)
Down foe my thang (down foe my thang)
Finna blow to tha brain
Thought you could hang
When I swang them thangs
That's insane!
Stay low (stay low)
Dem popo know me no surrender
Dem niggas on the street they remember Bone as being no pretenda
Standin up on the block
9mm cocked in me hand
And me got my niggas lookin out for me back
And them watch for them rocks
And you know its nuthin but the neighboorhood thang
Its manditory for me neighboorhood slang

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

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