Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Released: October 29, 2002

Songwriter: DJ U-Neek Flesh-N-Bone

Producer: Flesh-N-Bone DJ U-Neek

(Machine: This recorded call is from an inmate
At a California State Correctional Facility)

[DJ-Uneek] So what you doing to stay on point homie

[Flesh-n-Bone]
You know when I ain't reading I'm writing my lyrics
You know doing, you know work on these lil keyboards
If I ain't doin that I'm studying, studying up on this
On my religion Al-Islam
You know tryin to be the best Muslim I can be

[DJ-Uneek] I know you done had to knock you a motherfucker out now huh

[Flesh-n-Bone]
Yeah I had to knock me a nigga out one time
That was the last you know, once you
Once you get that spice out the way all the rest of them
Just move aside and won't test you after that
But yeah I had to knock a big nigga out once

[DJ-Uneek] So what you needing right now homie

[Flesh-n-Bone]
What I'm needing right now?

[DJ-Uneek] What you needing the most you know what I'm sayin
Like what the most shit on yo mind right now

[Flesh-n-Bone]
Aww man to hold my wife you know what I'm sayin
To kick it with my babies but you know I need to
But you know I can't do none of that right now
So you know you know basically you know you know
Wile you up in here there ain't too much you gon' be needing
You know what I'm sayin to keep the books fat

[DJ-Uneek] I know you been in that motherfucker writing and you came up with some shit huh

[Flesh-n-Bone]
Definitely, writing all kind of, know what I'm sayin
I got to stay fresh up on the you know this is
What I do this is what I was born to do, so y'all know
Man y'all come on man yall know I gotta stay fresh up
You know the Flesh gone be Flesh you know I gotta come
I gotta stay wicked like the stack suppose to

[DJ-Uneek] Tell me the main shit you want these motherfuckers to know out here

[Flesh-n-Bone]
For one for one when I get back there on the mic with my doggs
There see what I'm sayin you see what I'm sayin
We gonna be a force always the regular way

[DJ-Uneek] You came up with some hot shit huh

[Flesh-n-Bone]
I'm gettin tighter and tighter every day you know what I'm sayin
I I'm still you know you know I'm gettin buff see what I'm sayin
My chest is like kind of sticking out there you know what I'm sayin
So what it comes to rhymin on the mic I'm lil bit quicker and swifter
So you know you know man you know we just gon' be
A force to reckon wit when I get out of there

[DJ-Uneek] So what you got planned when you get out homie

[Flesh-n-Bone]
So straght to work I'm goin to work I'm workin none stop
I ain't no joke no bull in my game I'm goin to work
I ain't gone stop workin sun up to sun down
I'm workin I'm goin to work thats all I'm doin

[DJ-Uneek] Ay man hold on for a minute
Let me see if I can get the rest of the fellas on line

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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