![]() Get out tha county, this nigga ain't got all my fuckin' jewelry "Will they prostitute me? Will they prosecute me? The breakup rumors and haters' expectations are heavy on the group's heart as Bizzy kicks off the album's opener "Show Em": But more importantly, it was a reassembly of the crew after a long three years which failed to produce a follow-up to "The Art of War." If three years doesn't sound like a long enough time to warrant a "comeback" album, consider that Bone had become one of hip hop's top-selling entities in the late-90s, and all the solo activity and group inactivity was inexcusable from fans' perspective and inadvisable from a commercial standpoint-Ruthless even released a greatest hits compilation in 1998. For one thing, its February, 2000 release meant that the world had survived the impending apocalypse that the new millennium posed and the group had so feared. The meaning behind the title of "BTNHResurrection" is twofold. To say that Bone Thugs-N-Harmony had a lot on their plates heading into the new millennium would be an understatement, and rumors of the group's splintering were by no means unusual. Krayzie, Layzie, and Flesh even attempted their own ill-fated record labels, ThugLine Records, Mo Thugs Records, and Flesh Bone Incorporated, respectively, and each rapper took turns making the rounds with high-profile guest appearances. ![]() ![]() In the aftermath of 1997's successful "The Art of War," an epic double-album in an era where double-albums were symptoms of rap superstardom, members Flesh-N-Bone, Krayzie Bone, and Bizzy Bone released solo albums while the group took pains to establish the extended Mo Thugs Family in a string of collective compilations and related side projects. ** RapReviews "Back to the Lab" series **Īfter producing three multi-platinum smashes in their first three outings as a group, the rapid-rhyming quintet that put Cleveland on the hip hop map took the next step toward world domination by going on hiatus to embark upon solo careers. ![]() Bone Thugs-N-Harmony :: BTNHResurrection :: Ruthless Records ![]()
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