DJ Paul Reveals Why Bone Thugs-N-Harmony & Three 6 Mafia Verzuz Battle Got Shelved

[madness]

"DJ Paul and Krayzie Bone were scheduled to represent their respective groups in an Instagram Live battle in April, but the virtual event never happened. In an interview with HNHH, Paul explained how the independently organized matchup between Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia didn’t materialize after Verzuz intervened.

“I was talking to [Verzuz] and they kept telling me they was gonna do it, man,” he said. “Then, they just ended up changin’ they mind. It’s like, I don’t know why they came in just to stop our thing and then didn’t wanna do it. But whatever, I still got love for Swizz [Beatz] and Timbaland. Love you guys to death.”

The Bone Thugs and Three 6 Mafia battle was scheduled to take place on April 30. But according to Paul, Swizz reached out to Krayzie less than an hour before it was going to begin and made the Ohio-bred rapper reconsider.

“It was finna happen,” Paul recalled. “Like 30 minutes. Literally 30-35 minutes, literally 35 minutes before we went live, Swizz’s people called Krayzie Bone and they was like, ‘We gon’ do it on Verzuz, so don’t do it.’ And I was like, ‘Look dude, we still need to do it, man.’ I was like, ‘I don’t know— when is the Verzuz gon’ happen? Like, we still need to do it.'”

He continued, “I guess Krayzie didn’t wanna do— he’d rather do the Verzuz than ours. He just kinda backed off and stopped picking up his phone. And I was like ‘OK.’ And I just left it alone. And then next thing I know, he tweeted and said he didn’t wanna do it at all because of the temperature of what was going on in the world. Verzuz kept moving on and everything else kept going. I was like, ‘Alright, I kind saw this coming and I tried to tell you, but whatever.”

Perhaps Swizz can make it right in Verzuz Season 2, which starts on November 19. The popular battle series will return with an Atlanta-centric showdown between T.I. and Jeezy.

View the second season announcement below and watch the first battle via Instagram Live or in HD on Apple Music"

DJ Paul Reveals Why Bone Thugs-N-Harmony & Three 6 Mafia Verzuz Battle Got Shelved



they were 30 minutes away from doing it

 

[Silver Surfer]

Swizz wants the credit

 

[CanesMiamiLakers]

I just remembered bone was signed to swizz at one point

 

[lepard]

I thought Swizz and Krayzie had a big falling out during the Strength & Loyalty era.

 

[Ukbrotha]

It'll get done as part of Verzuz which is a bigger platform so it'll be worth the wait.

 

[NormanConnors]

Somehow some money is involved with this

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Swizz/Timbo said its a lot of legal nonsense that happens when doing these. Maybe that was an issue

 

[letti cook]

i kinda feel like they dont respect Bone and Three 6 enough to think it would draw the audience they want

but then.....Swizz produced a Bone album...Tim put Three 6 on Timberlake album

it just feels disrespectful...like when they told Bun he had to go get comments and likes for them to consider a UGK/8ball and MJG battle

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

Swizz/Timbo said its a lot of legal nonsense that happens when doing these. Maybe that was an issue

Nah, this Verzuz was going to be done back before Instagram started tripping on copyright issues.

Swizz just wanted to have the credit and didn't want artists doing them on their own because he was negotiating with Apple & IG.

They really did miss their window to really do it because now it'd be all formal and watered down. Paul was just rocking with his turntables.

 

[OGBIGBOY187]

still got the fatwah on Swizz beats for this shyt. I remember being on the stream then it cut out. Instead we got that wack ass alicia keys shyt and fukkin patti labell and gladys knight

 

[CHERUB]

once again Bizzy is right smh

 

[dakidbanks]

I’m sure there’s more to the story on Swizz/Tim end..

Obviously from their perspective paul and Krayzie would benefit more if it was done on Verzuz... but to properly do Bone Thugs vs Three 6, wouldn’t you want Juicy J, Bizzy, etc to be involved as well?

when’s the last time we’ve seen Paul and Juicy together?

 

[WHolla09]

I’m sure there’s more to the story on Swizz/Tim end..

Obviously from their perspective paul and Krayzie would benefit more if it was done on Verzuz... but to properly do Bone Thugs vs Three 6, wouldn’t you want Juicy J, Bizzy, etc to be involved as well?

when’s the last time we’ve seen Paul and Juicy together?

they are back together touring. I saw them last year.

 

[dakidbanks]

they are back together touring. I saw them last year.

I definitely didn’t know that thanks

 

[cozy carl]

I thought Swizz and Krayzie had a big falling out during the Strength & Loyalty era.

Didn't know this
@Bonefan32 what's the tea ?
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i kinda feel like they dont respect Bone and Three 6 enough to think it would draw the audience they want

but then.....Swizz produced a Bone album...Tim put Three 6 on Timberlake album

it just feels disrespectful...like when they told Bun he had to go get comments and likes for them to consider a UGK/8ball and MJG battle

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