bone thugs n harmony east 1999 album cover

We don’t want it to just die in one person’s hands, or just sit on some rich dude’s shelf.” “Things’ve changed since 1995,” Flesh said, laying out the group’s plans, “and there’s no reason to do things the old way just because, you feel? It’ll be an experiment, but we also want to make sure all of our fans get to hear our final cut. Unlike RZA’s plan, however, BTNH will hand off the master copy of their final album with the intention of its buyer obtaining distribution rights as well. 1999 Legends and sell it to the highest bidder, with an opening bid of $1,000,000. This year, employing a similar business model to the one hip-hop guru RZA cooked up for Wu-Tang, BTNH will press only one copy of E. 1999 Eternal, the original five members are consciously pulling the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony plug with what will be their final album, E. Now, twenty years after the group dropped E. “In the beginning, we hit with a style that was all our own.” “Rappers laying down tight verses, then mixing in a chorus with a melodic hook had already become standard when it came to arranging a great track, but we came on the scene and cut the seams out, showing everyone we could do both ourselves, and changed the sound of rap,” said Stanley Howse, better known as Flesh-N-Bone, during a recent interview with The Marquee. Each member had a distinct delivery style, collectively covering a huge tonal range, yet the entire Bone family seemed to possess the distinctive BTNH rap-melody blend to near-equal degree. From the jump, the group’s musical signature came from blending rapid-fire rhymes with a soulful delivery style, often as melodic as it is rhythmic. But the group also added in darker goth-like tones as well as gospel-styled modes. With a sound shaped by an industrial urban landscape in the heart of the American Midwest - itself an intersection of classic hip-hop sounds from the East and G-funk creeping in from the West -Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s game-changing album mixed styles from both coasts. 1999 Eternal confirmed the arrival of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony as a hip-hop group entering the game on a mission to change it. and produced the anthemic “1st of tha Month” and the groove-heavy lament “Tha Crossroads.” E. The title paid tribute to the street corner frequented by the rappers, as well as their mentor, the late Easy-E. Clair Ave., five young hip-hop musicians followed up their hit single “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” with their internationally successful LP E. In 1995, in the inner-city Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood crossed by E. Fillmore Auditorium | January 17 By Matt Treon

Bone thugs n harmony east 1999 album cover