Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is an American hip hop band from Cleveland, Ohio formed in 1991. It originally consisted of rappers Layzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Bizzy Bone, We've detected that JavaScript is disabled in your browser. 15.8k Likes, 2,740 Comments - Layzie Bone (@thereallayziebone) on Instagram: “Bone Thugs N Harmony is the best group ever!!!! This game ain’t the same without us. Dec 19, 2018 - The Migos member has been locked in a war of words over the last few days with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony co-founder Layzie Bone over who's.
” Even Wish ’s mother concurred, telling Sacha Jenkins in a 1996 Vibe interview that they “weren ’t out there stickin ’ nobody up, but they was doin ’ what they had to do. ” Even in this early incarnation, the five already functioned as a tight-knit group, referring to themselves collectively as the Band-Aid Boys. They lived together, sharing all of their resources, as early as their mid-teens. The group ’s move from drug sales to music was motivated, according to Layzie, by his and Flesh ’s encounter with the primary hazard of the drug trade —violence. “I was shot in the head, ” he told Peter Castro in an article for People. After that, he concluded: “I realized I had to do something with my life, and that ’s when I pursued rap.
It ’s a miracle that I ’m alive. ” The group already had some experience rapping together, as Wish told Jenkins: “We ’d be sellin ’ drugs under the streetlights and doin ’ our little raps. ” But now they decided to turn the hobby into a vocation, which meant finding a producer. Like so many aspiring rappers around the country, they put in calls to executives at record companies, hoping to find someone who would listen. They focused most of their energy, however, on Eric “Eazy-E ” Wright, veteran of the legendary rap group N.W.A. And founder of Ruthless Records. ’s landmark 1989 release Straight Outta Compton had left its mark on the young men, impressing them with the “truth ” of its songs.
“We knew he was the man, ” Wish told Cuda. “The music of N.W.A.
Was the first time we heard anybody rapping about how we were living. He was telling our stories, and we trusted him. ” Determined to reach Eazy-E, the quintet scrounged together the money for one-way bus tickets to. They left on November 23, 1993 for a three-day Greyhound trek and spent four months on the city streets, putting in frequent calls to Ruthless Records. When finally they had Eazy-E himself on the phone, the group pulled together an impromptu “audition, ” each Bone rapping his piece and passing the phone to the next. Nothing came of the call except the news that Eazy-E was, in fact, on his way to Cleveland for a show.