Bone Thugs-N-Harmony hits stores September 19 on Koch Records

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Koch Records will release a new self titled studio album from rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, the sixth album since the group's debut release, Creepin On Ah Come Up.

The album is the first release from the group as a trio and will be followed by a separate, Swizz Beatz produced album currently in production for Interscope Records.

"I can't tell you how excited I am to be working again with Bone, Thugs N Harmony," stated Koch's General Manager Alan Grunblatt. "I saw them perform acappella in Eazy-E's office 3 weeks after they got off the bus from Cleveland. When E. 1999 debuted #1 on the Billboard charts and scanned 340,000 units the first week, it was one of the proudest days of my life."

Grunblatt handled the marketing and promotion of the group's multi-platinum albums Creepin On Ah Come Up and E. 1999 Eternal while working for Relativity Records, a now defunct label that distributed the Ruthless Records post-NWA release.

The first single from the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album is titled "Fire" and is slated to ship to radio outlets nationwide later this month.

Grunblatt was enthusiastic about the group's sound, despite the absence of longtime member Bizzy Bone.

"My relationship with the group has been a long and successful one," Grunblatt continued. "I simply love this new album. It is full of the melodic hood anthems the group is famous for and should return them to the top of the charts."

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony hits stores September 19 on Koch Records.
 
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that's tight. i'm definitly going to be buying this album. i wonder how this will sound without Bizzy Bone? that'd be tight if Flesh is on some tracks.
 
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Whats yall predictions and expectations of this album before it drops? I think its gonna be average throw away tracks they originally had recorded for Bone thugs story.


Bone Thugs Story the one they doing wit Interscope is gonna be off the hook though.
 
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Possessing a unique blend of melodic vocals and tongue-twisting rhymes, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony took the hip-hop world by storm in 1994. Since then, the Cleveland collective has seen their singsongy style run into the ground by swagger jackers. So after a 4-year break, BTNH looks to reclaim their spot with their self-titled sixth album. However, with Flesh-N-Bone still incarcerated and Bizzy Bone completely out of the picture, the remaining three members sound like a shell of their former selves.

Things get off to a promising start on the sinister intro. Over a dark bass line, a rejuvenated Layzie Bone spits, “In 1994, we switched the game up/Spit the hardest with the rappin’ and the flow that always changed up.” That’s what makes this project so disappointing. Bone is a group known for their layered harmonization, but here they repeatedly deliver unimaginative choruses. Despite the detailed narrative of “Thug Stories,” the Platinum Brothers–produced song quickly loses steam as the paint-by-numbers hook comes in. The same fate befalls “Rich Man’s World,” where the lyrical darts are muted by a halfhearted chant (“Money, money, money/Must be funny/In a rich man’s world”).

Even more troubling is the fact that BTNH’s penchant for hood tales is sorely underrepresented on this 12-track disc. Instead, there are obligatory Kraft Singles like the R&B-fueled “Call Me” and the scorned woman’s theme song “She Got Crazy.” The failed attempts at broadening their audience reach the apex on the ironically titled “So Sad,” which pays tribute to “All you slimy, grimy women.”

It isn’t until the tail end of the album that Bone gets back on track. The fighting-temptation message of “Stand Not in Our Way” and the reflective “This Life” are more in line with past BTNH hits. But even the most die-hard fans will find themselves at a crossroads trying to get in tune with this disc.—JOZEN CUMMINGS
 
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Possessing a unique blend of melodic vocals and tongue-twisting rhymes, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony took the hip-hop world by storm in 1994. Since then, the Cleveland collective has seen their singsongy style run into the ground by swagger jackers. So after a 4-year break, BTNH looks to reclaim their spot with their self-titled sixth album. However, with Flesh-N-Bone still incarcerated and Bizzy Bone completely out of the picture, the remaining three members sound like a shell of their former selves.

Things get off to a promising start on the sinister intro. Over a dark bass line, a rejuvenated Layzie Bone spits, “In 1994, we switched the game up/Spit the hardest with the rappin’ and the flow that always changed up.” That’s what makes this project so disappointing. Bone is a group known for their layered harmonization, but here they repeatedly deliver unimaginative choruses. Despite the detailed narrative of “Thug Stories,” the Platinum Brothers–produced song quickly loses steam as the paint-by-numbers hook comes in. The same fate befalls “Rich Man’s World,” where the lyrical darts are muted by a halfhearted chant (“Money, money, money/Must be funny/In a rich man’s world”).

Even more troubling is the fact that BTNH’s penchant for hood tales is sorely underrepresented on this 12-track disc. Instead, there are obligatory Kraft Singles like the R&B-fueled “Call Me” and the scorned woman’s theme song “She Got Crazy.” The failed attempts at broadening their audience reach the apex on the ironically titled “So Sad,” which pays tribute to “All you slimy, grimy women.”

It isn’t until the tail end of the album that Bone gets back on track. The fighting-temptation message of “Stand Not in Our Way” and the reflective “This Life” are more in line with past BTNH hits. But even the most die-hard fans will find themselves at a crossroads trying to get in tune with this disc.—JOZEN CUMMINGS
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I can believe that review......I won't be spending $$$ on this disc.
 
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