The major companies will ALWAYS be relevant. You’ve been able to make a lot of music independently do you think we’re past the point of groups needing major record labels? If you’re not approaching it like that, don’t waste my time. When somebody sits down with me and says, ‘Flesh, I got a beat for you,’ it has to be the hardest s- I ever heard. But even though I like these new guys, when a producer submits a beat, I want to press the button and hear the greatest sound I ever heard. The beats are so dope today I really love them. As long as we’re breathin’ we’re going to be rockin’ and rollin’ because we’ve got something to say.ĭo you keep track of current sounds in hip-hop to bring them into your own new music? But what about tomorrow? We ain’t goin’ nowhere. We’ve seen people come and go, there they are, the hottest s- on the globe. And Bone Thugs have been at this 25 years plus. You have people who create huge stadium smashes, but they’re gone next year. Bizzy is lovable, Flesh is lovable, Krayzie is lovable, and we bring a certain element that’s inspiring, even if there’s a twist of negativity because we come from rough backgrounds. I think at the end of the day, the Bone Thugs can touch your heart. The s- is dope.īone Thugs have been around for more than 25 years what do you think keeps people coming back? They bring so much personality to the set. It brings us to a whole different musical light when we’re slammin’ with a live band with a sick drummer and the guitars and all that stuff. I feel like Hendrix, you know what I’m saying? I feel like Prince or the Jackson 5 back when they were slamming with a band. What do you like about having a live band behind you? A lot of hip-hop groups don’t do that. We’re still trying to build the show to this day, adding laser lights, video screens … we try to make it as theatrical as possible.
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There are so many songs we can choose from.Īnd we’ve got a live band, as well, a full eight-piece band, so we can play around with a lot of different stuff onstage. With a catalog like ours, we have four or five different ones that we fluctuate and switch off on, and of course the major hits, “Crossroads,” “1st of tha Month,” “Thuggish, Ruggish Bone,” we do those. So what is a Bone Thugs-N-Harmony live show like? Bone Thugs will perform Friday night at The Firmament in Greenville, and we spoke with Flesh-n-Bone recently about the band’s longevity, their live show, and the modern music business. Twenty-five years down the line, Bone Thugs have continued to be one of the most durable franchises in hip-hop, selling out shows and spinning off side projects (like last year’s Bizzy and Krayzie Bone duo album, “New Waves”) while working both independently and with major labels. On the strength of massive hits like “The Crossroads,” “1st of tha Month,” “Thuggish, Ruggish Bone,” and more, the group sold a staggering 50 million albums worldwide, and continued racking up gold and platinum plaques well into the 2000s, long after many of their contemporaries had faded away.
They combined lightning-fast rap flow with flawless vocal harmonies, joining the best of old-school R&B singing, endlessly catchy pop hooks, and streetwise hip-hop swagger into one irresistible package. When they first emerged from Cleveland in the early 1990s, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (a quintet featuring Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone, and Flesh-n-Bone) carried with them a dazzling synthesis of sounds.
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