Jazzily scatting, fluid and mercurial, Bone Thugs - Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, Krayzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone and Layzie Bone - are capable of braking from breakneck vocal sprints to lissome stalking without so much as a backward glance. But what’s really fascinating is the group’s close-harmony melodic flow. It’s easy to see why Eazy-E took Bone under his wing: the unapologetic (but braggadocio-free) gangsta parables are authentic enough that you can practically smell the sulfurous aftermath of the gun battles they chronicle. It may have taken Cleveland a while to make its mark on the national hip-hop scene (an ironic development, given its R&B heritage stretching back through the Dazz Band to the O’Jays and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins), but this quintet broke the city’s drought with one of the 1990s’ most distinctive takes on hardcore rap.
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