![]() ![]() Its too bad that todays hip hop doesnt produce albums of this caliber and critically acclaimed status. Their lyrics are hardcore on here, but are were also a reality for them at the time. It is their ghetto diary, of of pain and struggle. The songs portray the album concept, of how Bone tells the story of street life in their native Cleveland, Ohio. The beats are more complex and sophisticated, as seen in the beautiful flute work of Eternal, No Shorts/No Losses, Mo Murda, and Tha Crossroads, all produced by the one and only DJ Uneek. They took more time on this album than on Creepin On Ah Come Up. Probably Bone's finest work to date (Art Of War is great too though). Few hip hop albums are as influential and groundbreakin' as this. To say this is a classic album would be a gross understatement. That E.1999 Eternal is so musical only makes its noxious lyrical content all the more subversive. But like Boyz II Men's evil twins, Bone offer up a complex potion of bittersweet crooning and poisonous rapid-fire rhyming that takes us deep into the dark side of life and the twisted side of death. Bone's vocal style is so tuneful and harmonically coordinated that it sounds more like a ghostly chant/sing than like traditional rap. That is, E.1999 Eternal contains some of the most beautiful music you'll ever be repulsed by. And, it seems, even in death the gangsta rap pioneer isn't a bit repentant.įollowing last year's multiplatinum EP, Creepin' on Ah Come Up, Bone have put together a debut long-player that builds on everything the first record promised. It's as if Eazy still talks to the members of Bone-Krayzie, Layzie, Bizzy, Wish, and Flesh N'-through their beloved Ouija board. gangsta grooves Eazy helped create with the group's spooky fascination with the afterlife. It's somehow appropriate that Ruthless Records' first release since the death of its founder, Eazy-E, would come from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, a Cleveland-based crew that mixes the smooth L.A. ![]()
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