Moreover, the fact is that the relative anonymity afforded by this trees-for-the-forest approach grants a certain freedom in their rhymes and encapsulates a philosophy intrinsic to their rapping that they refer to repeatedly throughout the album: вЂњFor the love of money // fuck the fameвЂќ. For one thing this isnвЂ™t necessarily a negative quality, as there are no overwhelming personalities in the collective diverting the spotlight from their strongest element: harmonious group storytelling. The group slickly arrange melodic vocal harmonies and lightning quick lyrical exchanges in sharp yet smooth triplet-time verses, all layered on top of pensively malevolent G-funk grooves.ДЇrom first impressions it might seem fair to argue that other than Wish Bone, who is set apart by simple virtue of having a deeper voice than his Bone colleagues, the rappers comprising the Thugs-N-Harmony have relatively homogeneous styles. To the uninformed, the name Bone Thugs-N-Harmony can be somewhat confounding (most importantly, the вЂњNвЂќ actually stands for вЂњinвЂќ, not вЂњandвЂќ or вЂњniggaвЂќ), while it is obvious that the Bone part signifies their penchant for gruesome, morbid imagery and refers too to the rappers various bone themed stage names, the harmony part is a surprisingly genuine and integral ingredient to their overall sound. Flippantly taking flavours of the East coast, West coast, and Southern rap scenes, these druggish thugstas concocted a smoothly sinister slice of soulful, melodically inclined rap that at the time ultimately failed to garner the attention it potentially deserved. Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony laid claim to no coasts that werenвЂ™t the banks of Lake Erie rendering them generally irrelevant at the time, yet at height of the summer in 1995 they released an album all about their life in the desolate wastelands of the American Midwest and even went so far as to include the name of what is presumably their favourite street in their home town of Cleveland in the release E.

Back in the nineties, at the height of the media contrived American East coast / West coast supposed mass rap feud, the place where a rapper came from probably seemed more important than it does today. The hits have come more slowly since, but theyвЂ™d already left their mark-in modern hip-hop, the line between rapping and singing has all but vanished, and Bone ThugsвЂ™ rap/R&B hybrid clearly helped spur that evolution.Rappers love saying the name of the place where they are from. Bone ThugsвЂ™ members went in 10 directions at once, with a dizzying array of solo albums and smaller group projects, before fully reuniting the following decade.

After 1997вЂ™s sprawling double-disc The Art of War, which included the slow-rolling smash вЂњLook into My Eyes,вЂќ intra-band conflict derailed their career for a time. He featured on early single вЂњFoe Tha Love of $,вЂќ their second Top 40 hit, but it took a posthumous tribute to Eazy, вЂњTha Crossroads,вЂќ to make Bone Thugs superstars (and Grammy winners). West Coast G-funk, generous with hooks and indebted to вЂ70s soul and funk, was a clear influence, so it made sense that Bone ThugsвЂ™ major break came courtesy of N.W.A.вЂ™s Eazy-E, who signed them to his Ruthless label. They started in Cleveland, where no top-selling hip-hop act had come from before, and their music was different from the outset: The quintet of Bizzy Bone, Flesh-N-Bone, Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, and Wish Bone specialized in intricate high-speed rhymes about street life that carried unusual melodic contours and multi-part harmonies. When they formed in 1991, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony were onto something new-their melody-first approach to hip-hop sounded particularly fresh and pointed to how rap would progress in the coming decades.

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