Bizzy Bone on IG Live talking about this right now
Bone had great sales because Crossroads crossed over with the white mainstream. I was in high school in suburban Chicago when it dropped and even the most prissiest, whitebread cacette loved "Crossroads". That song was fukkin everywhere.....once Todd n Stacey pikked up on it, then Bone's sales skyrokketed
Sales don't equal quality or legacy. Wu Tang never had crossover singles like that....that's the only difference, POINT FUKKIN BLANK
I only liked Creepin and E 99 and honestly I rarely play that shyt anymore. Bone cool but I never connected with they shyt like.....not dissing em...Layzie and Bizzy are two of the top MCs of their era...them nikkas can rap they ass off
I preferred NWA, Outkast, Wu, Hot Boys, Tribe Called Quest.....It's just a subjective thing
on the bold.
On a sidenote J5 is still in consideration as one of the goat groups even though Mike's solo catalog is better.
They rhymed like that before they moved to Cali, nobody stole anything from those white accented off rhythm speed rhymers, you can't claim "miss mary" as anything invented by them.
Faces of death came out in 1991.
WRONG.
"Watered down fu schnickens..." You said they were biting people who were unknown in Ohio at that point. Nobody gave a fukk about the Cali underground BUT Cali.
"Bizzy tried to bite Mykah's hair..."
You know Bizzy is mixed, right?
Unfurling one's braids is not biting, it's unbraiding curly hair.
Dayton rims are made in DAYTON OHIO...was the state of California dependent on Ohio for automotive aesthetic? Yes.
Was Ohio dependent on Cali for musical aesthetic? NO.
It was developed independently, like the OHIO FUNK LA nikkas borrowed to make g funk.
SHOUT OUTS TO ZAPP, FROM DAYTON.
You're too white to know about things like this.
Bone aint better than Triple 6.
The other poster is right... they were rapping like the Fu Schnickens/Tongue Twista and to an extent Kane before they came to LA... No one claimed they bit the double time flow from Freestyle Fellowship.. what they bit was the melodic sing songy Jazz scat influenced double time flow from Freestyle Fellowship... which is the whole thing that made them distinctive from other artist at he ime. Now find me the bone song that incorporates that Jazz scat melody in the flow BEFORE Freestyle Fellowship Mary did it...
To say they werent infleunced by the west coast when they came out looking like 90's west coast gang bangers... with the dikkie suits, dookie braids, rags around the head, etc, is some bullshyt. They looked like some South Central Cartel video extras... LOL..
Rap is a sample based instrumental music, so what you're saying makes no sense... All regions barrowed from artist outside of their region. We gonna credit the south for being dependent on LA guys like Rodney O and Joe Cooley since artist like Three 6 Mafia made a whole damn career off of sampling them? Or are we gonna say James Brown created rap because his breaks were used by Herc? That aint how this works....
Also G Funk comes from P Funk which came from George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic, etc. and that Psychadelic sound they used was heavily influenced from a west coast cat named Jimmy Hendrix
And if Cali was buying Daytons... that would mean DAYTON was dependent on Cali for bringing in its bread.
The revisionist history by Bone and No Limit stans on this board is![]()
They’re too young for that
Bone aint better than Triple 6.
The other poster is right... they were rapping like the Fu Schnickens/Tongue Twista and to an extent Kane before they came to LA... No one claimed they bit the double time flow from Freestyle Fellowship.. what they bit was the melodic sing songy Jazz scat influenced double time flow from Freestyle Fellowship... which is the whole thing that made them distinctive from other artist at he ime. Now find me the bone song that incorporates that Jazz scat melody in the flow BEFORE Freestyle Fellowship Mary did it...