Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Released: July 29, 1997

Songwriter: Krayzie Bone Layzie Bone DJ U-Neek

Producer: DJ U-Neek

[DJ U-Neek]
Guess who's back?
(Scream + loud gunshot)
Right about now it's time for those notorious thugs
Bizzy, Wish, Layzie, Krayzie
Flesh and that nigga DJ U-Neek
Mo' Thug takin' over so you best beware
'Cause we came to shut this motherfucka down

[Layzie Bone and DJ U-Neek]
Yeah, Bone comin' back at you bitches for the '97
Yeah, these mothafuckas didn't think it was on
Old playa-hatin' ass niggas you know my lil' niggas brung they style to the table first
Nigga, why don't you realize, recognize, idolize?
It's over bitch, it's the art of war

[Krayzie Bone]
Retaliation
Retaliation
Retaliation
Retaliation
Retaliation
Retaliation

Abort, when it's the art of war
The art of war, of war
Abort, when it's the art of war
The art of war, of war
Abort, when it's the art of war
The art of war, of war
Abort, when it's the art of war
The art of war, of war

Abort, when it's the art of war
One and two world war
Playa playa we done party over time
See we done partied over time
Abort, when it's the art of war
One and two world war
Playa playa we done party over time
See we done partied over time

(Guess who's back... 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

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