Check Out: The Originators

You know Bone Thugs N Harmony right? I definitely talk about them enough that if you've been on this blog you'd know I love 'em.

Bone Thugs hail from the Joakim Noah hated city, Cleveland, Ohio. These five thugs have been ripping into the game for nearly two decades, spitting hard, fast, and as their name claims, doing it harmoniously. After a few hiatuses and the imprisonment of Flesh Bone the group still manages to enjoy a decent amount of airtime on the radio, and certainly much playtime in my CD players and iTunes.

All of this being said, I would like to recommend to you one of my favorite albums, E. 1999 Eternal, released in 1995 under Eazy-E's Ruthless Label. The album consists of seventeen tracks, all produced by DJ Uneek while Eazy-E handled the executive direction of the album. The album was released just months after Eazy's untimely death to AIDS. This remains the group's best selling album, perhaps not surprising under the direction and influence of Eazy-E himself, combined with the unique, melodic style of lyricism and consistent, mellow beats that sound like a fusion of south meets west.

E. 1999 Eternal was well received by critics, which is quite a respectable for a horror core style album in the mid nineties. Lyrically, the album sticks to the midwest/horror core fundamentals... if you don't know what that is, I'd say it's something along the lines of Mo Murda which even has a screw hook (one of the more earlier songs with a screw hook from the midwest). There are also tons of lifestyle tracks about weed, payin' bills, getting welfare checks and being broke in the slums - what else is new in 1990's hip-hop?

There really isn't much more to say about Bone Thugs. If haven't heard them on the radio, on DJ Khaled's We The Best album, or on Chamillionaire's Ridin' Dirty then I don't know what to tell you except check out E. 1999 Eternal. I can listen to it through and through and not get bored. It's good ridin' music, it's good chillin' music, it's... just good music.

Check out:

Crossroads (Remix)

First of the Month

East 1999

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