Search - Artist/Band: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

• Band Name: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
• Formed: 1993
• Originated From: Cleveland, OH
• Decades Active: 1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Rap
• Styles: Gangsta Rap, Hardcore Rap, Pop-Rap, Urban, G-Funk, Midwest Rap
• Moods: Angst-Ridden, Gloomy, Thuggish, Druggy, Laid-Back/Mellow, Menacing, Ominous, Street-Smart, Aggressive, Angry, Bitter, Brash, Harsh, Hostile, Somber, Confrontational

Title	Release
Uni5: The Worlds Enemy	12/22/2009
Greatest Hits Vinyl, Vol. 1	11/24/2009
Greatest Hits Vinyl, Vol. 2	11/24/2009
Finally WA	09/02/2008
Still Creepin on Ah Come Up WA	03/18/2008
T.H.U.G.S. WA	10/30/2007
Strength & Loyalty WA	05/08/2007
Bone Thugs N Harmony	07/25/2006
Greatest Hits WA	11/16/2004
Instrumentals	08/19/2003
Thug World Order WA	10/29/2002
The Collection, Vol. 2 WA	11/14/2000
BTNHResurrection WA	02/29/2000
The Collection, Vol. 1 WA	11/17/1998
The Art of War WA	08/05/1997
Look Into My Eyes	07/14/1997
The Crossroads [US]	04/23/1996
East 1999	11/21/1995
E 1999 Eternal WA	07/25/1995
Creepin on ah Come Up WA	06/1994

Graced with a quick, sometimes sung delivery, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony burst out of the Midwest in the mid-'90s with a pair of massive hits ("Thuggish Ruggish Bone" and "Tha Crossroads") along with a great album (E 1999 Eternal) and then quickly unraveled. Eazy-E signed the group -- initially comprised of Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-N-Bone, Layzie Bone, and Bizzy Bone -- to Ruthless Records and released a debut EP, Creepin on ah Come Up (1994). The EP boasted "Thuggish Ruggish Bone," a conventional g-funk song with an unconventional array of Bone Thug rappers that became an overnight summer anthem, especially throughout the Midwest. Amid the fervor, the Cleveland rap group entered the studio immediately and emerged with a remarkable album, E 1999 Eternal (1995). The album topped the charts and spawned a pair of popular singles, "1st of the Month" and "Tha Crossroads," the latter a Grammy Award recipient. It was all downhill from here for Bone, unfortunately. As was in vogue at the time, the group members pursued respective solo careers and also a Mo Thugs Family spinoff group; none of these ventures was fruitful. At this point, the onetime cohesive group, who specialized in interwoven, harmonious singing as well as rapping, became conflicted and failed to collaborate well, particularly after their ambitious double-disc Art of War (1997) sold poorly. A second round of solo albums sold even more poorly, and Bone became somewhat of a has-been. Occasional reunions such as BTNHResurrection (2000) and Thug World Order (2002) produced occasional moments of glory, but these were brief and few and far between. In 2005 the band reunited again minus Bizzy Bone. In September of that year the Internet-only release Bone 4 Life appeared. Then in 2006, it was announced that Bone had signed to Swizz Beatz's Full Surface Records, which was distributed by Interscope. Their first album for the label, Strength & Loyalty, appeared in the spring of 2007 with guest spots from the Game, Mariah Carey, Akon, Bow Wow, and Twista. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide