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Caine Featuring Krayzie Bone – “When The Music Stop”

New single from The Life Ent. artist Caine which features Krayzie Bone titled “When the Music Stop” . The video will be released on October 15, 2012

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Press Release: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Rock The Bells 2012 Tour Series

Boost Mobile in association with Guerilla Union presents
ROCK THE BELLS TOUR SERIES 2012

ROCK THE BELLS TOUR SERIES TO HIT VENUES NATIONWIDE

FEATURING THE 20 YEAR ANNIVERSARY REUNION OF BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY

Boost Mobile in association with Guerilla Union have announced that Rock the Bells Festivalā€”the world-class hip-hop festival series that occurred in three major markets this past summerā€”will be hitting venues nationwide in the ROCK THE BELLS TOUR SERIES. Legendary hip-hop group BONE THUGS-N-HARMONYā€”who were billed as the festivalā€™s ā€œSpecial Guestsā€ā€”will continue celebrating their 20 year anniversary reunion as headliners of the Tour Series.

The ROCK THE BELLS TOUR SERIES will kick off on October 26 at The Grove of Anaheim in Anaheim, California and continue through the rest of 2012, making stops in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, Milwaukee, Hawaii and Guam. In addition to an exclusive performance from all five original members, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will also pay tribute to the late Gangsta Rap pioneer, Eazy-E.

Krayzie Bone, one of the groupā€™s members, states: ā€œIt’s a wonderful thing that we were able to team up with Guerilla Union after the Rock the Bells experience was such a success. Now that the official reunion dates have been confirmed, I really look forward to getting back out there and reaching our fans and giving them what they been wanting for a very long time, and that’s a tour with all five members. With the help of Guerrilla Union we can finally make that happen. It’s going to be historical, mark my words.ā€ Guerilla Union founder Chang Weisberg adds: ā€œSeeing all five members on stage at Rock the Bells this summer, for the first time in years, was a moment long-awaited in hip-hop! Those that made it to the festival in San Bernardino, Mountain View, or New Jersey experienced history right before their eyes. We do understand that, unfortunately, not everyone had this opportunity, but with the Rock the Bells Tour Series, weā€™re able to bring the music to the fans that werenā€™t able to come to us. Thanks especially to Bone Thugsā€™ booking agent Jamie Adler and long-time manager and CEO of A2Z Entertainment Steve Lobel, who were major players in realizing this reunion, people all over the nation will get a chance to witness a milestone in not just hip-hop, but music-history.”

Tickets for the ROCK THE BELLS TOUR SERIES are now available. Fans are advised to check their local venue for info on tickets, and are encouraged to sign up for the Guerilla Union newsletter for important announcements and up-to-date information regarding the tour. For more info, please visit www.rockthebells.net or www.bonethugsnharmony.com.

ROCK THE BELLS 2012 TOUR SERIES DATES & VENUES:
10/26 ā€“ The Grove of Anaheim, Anaheim, CA
10/27 ā€“ 4th & B, San Diego, CA
10/28 ā€“ The Dome, Bakersfield, CA
11/16 ā€“ Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Maui, HI
11/17 ā€“ Kakaā€™ako Waterfront Park Amphitheater, Oahu, HI
11/18 ā€“ Kilohana Plantation, Kauai, HI
11/23 ā€“ Yigo Amusement Park, Guam
11/29 ā€“ Studio 503, Portland, OR
11/30 ā€“ Dos De Oro, Yakima, WA
12/01 ā€“ Revolutionā€™s, Boise, ID
12/14 ā€“ Marquee Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
12/15 ā€“ Salt Air Pavilion, Salt Lake City, UT
12/21 ā€“ The Rave, Milwaukee, WI

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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Upcoming Tour; More Cities to be Added!

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are back on tour after their recent Rock the Bells appearance! Be sure to spread the word and be on the look out for added cities!

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Cleveland Plain Dealer: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Brings Rapid-Fire Rap and Smooth Melodies to Cleveland’s Agora Theatre for 20th Anniversary Show

The Cleveland Plain Dealer published an article about Bone Thugs-N-Harmony today, promoting the upcoming 20th Anniversary show at the Agora Theatre in Cleveland, OH.

The other interesting bit of information posted in the article indicates that Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is eligible to join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — In 2019 — 25 years after their first album — Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will be eligible for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s a concept that pretty much blows away Flesh-N-Bone of the Grammy-winning Cleveland-born rap group. But Flesh — real name Stanley Howse — is ready for the challenge.

“I’m gearing up for that right now,” said Flesh, laughing, in a call from a solo tour stop in Indiana in mid-September. “In 1994, [then-Mayor] Michael White declared Oct. 30 official Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Day. We’re hoping we can do something special for the city of Cleveland [by making the Rock Hall].”

Flesh and his four bandmates — Layzie Bone, Wish Bone, Krayzie Bone and Bizzy Bone; real names Steve Howse, Charles Scruggs, Anthony Henderson and Bryon Anthony McCane II, respectively — take another step toward possible enshrinement Saturday with a 20th-anniversary gig at the Agora. It’s not, as some might think, a one-time gig, either. All five original members will be on the stage.

“It’s a full-blown, Bone-is-back type of deal,” Flesh said. “We just did the ‘Rock the Bells Tour’ and we’re trying to use this momentum to take this to the next level.”

The issue, said Flesh, is that it’s not really a reunion or comeback. Bone has always been together, despite Flesh’s eight-year prison stay in California for threatening a man with an AK-47 assault rifle and despite the announced “departures” of Krayzie and Wish two years ago.

“We’re on one period, we’re off one period,” Flesh said. “From the outside looking in, the group’s in disarray.

“Right now, Wish and Krayzie, they’re by themselves in Australia. When they get back, we’re going to do what we need to do. Right now, I’m in Indiana doing a solo show, but that does not mean that we’re not together,” he said.

It’s easy to see how others could perceive the band as “the former band.” Flesh and Layzie live in Los Angeles. Bizzy spends time between Los Angeles and Columbus. Krayzie has a house in Aurora and another in Miami. Wish pretty much stays in Cleveland.

“They got houses in the ‘burbs,” said James Norton, who grew up with the guys in their St. Clair neighborhood and now works with the two siblings in Bone — Flesh and Layzie — as an executive with Flesh Bone Global group. “Everybody wants to improve their living situation. [In the ghetto] you might know everybody, but there’s still that hard criminal element, so you get your house outside the city so you can relax and put your family [in a safe place].”

There have been rifts and splits. Some have resulted in the vocal quintet at times falling off the mainstream hip-hop radar. But the group signed to Ruthless Records by N.W.A.’s Eazy-E in 1993 continues a history of creating and re-creating itself. Sometimes, those separations are necessary.

Flesh insists he and his bandmates are as relevant today as they were when “Tha Crossroads” won the best rap performance by a duo or group Grammy in 1997. Fittingly, that song, delivered in Bone’s ground-breaking mix of staccato rap over melodic harmonies, was a tribute to their mentor, Eazy E, who died of AIDS in 1995.

“It’s not about changing or evolving,” Flesh said. “We’ve matured as adults. We have children. I’m an artist and I’m a businessman. I ain’t got time to fool around.

“When I’m in the studio, it’s top-notch,” Flesh said. “I create my own lane with no gimmicks, no remakes. It’s clear-cut and creative. That’s how an artist maintains longevity.”

Bone has maintained that longevity better than anyone in hip-hop, save for Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube.

“I just did a show with 70,000 people in attendance,” he said. “I’m relevant. We created a lane, we created a style. We gave hip-hop a face-lift. We changed the whole structure of the game.”

Secret lies in melody

The band’s Wikipedia page notes that about.com has ranked Bone at No. 12 out of the top 25 rap groups in the history of the genre, and MTV has tagged them “the most melodic hip-hop group of all time.”

The origin of that sound? The doo-wop of the 1950s and ’60s.

“Our first musical influences were our parents,” Flesh said. “I was brought up in households where they’d doo-wop. We got our harmonies from our moms, our aunties and our uncles. They’d sit around the table singing, and we’d join in there and sing.”

The sounds of Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson can still be heard if you listen closely to Bone’s music. The trademark Bone flow, said childhood friend Norton, wasn’t so much created as evolved.

“It was something they picked up from different rap styles coming out, like D.O.C. and even some old singing like Marvin Gaye,” said Norton. “Curtis Mayfield had a high harmony almost like he was speaking, and I believe it was more Layzie and Krayzie who developed this rapid spitfire sound. It always started with a slow beat, because of all the R&B they listened to.”

Bone’s music is a kind of gangsta variation of that, with references to sex, with a proliferation of profanity and the N-word.

To some, that is offensive, and it’s easy to understand that point of view. But it’s also a reflection of just who Flesh, Bizzy, Krayzie, Wish and Layzie are: black men who grew up in the projects of Cleveland.

“In your audience, you’ve got some people who are sensitive to certain things,” said Norton. “The unfortunate truth is that these are things these same people see in front of their own eyes daily, in real and raw form.

“It’s not to turn people off, but this is how they communicate, this is how the people in their community communicate,” said Norton, who still lives in Cleveland. “It’s not to be detrimental or to set the race back. They’re speaking the language the people in their community can relate to.

“The people who get caught up in the words and think it’s negative, if they really pay attention, the message is real, the message is truth,” Norton said. “They’re speaking honestly and from their hearts.”

“Every time I go to Cleveland, I’m St. Clair-bound,” said Flesh, who now lives in Los Angeles. “I’m the type of cat, I go where I want to go. I’ve got family from St. Clair, Superior, Cedar, the 105, Hough. I was born in these streets, and I always go back to pay homage.

“You want to talk projects? Longwood, Central,” he said. “I always touch these places all the time. My old street, Remington, I go back there.”

Broad appeal somewhat puzzling

And yet, as much as Bone is a product of the projects, the band’s music belongs to a wider ethnic and economic base. It’s true today, and it was true in Bone’s heyday.

“I wish I really understood the nature of that,” Flesh said. “Why do we appeal to such a wide base and demographic?”

It comes, Flesh said after some thought, because of the songs as much as the delivery.

“We have songs with universal content,” he said. “Everybody can relate to these songs, everybody goes to work, hustling in any capacity, can relate to the first of the month, to the love of money. All the races love us.”

Norton agreed but said the wide acceptance by all races did come as a bit of a surprise.

“The devil doesn’t focus on your race or gender,” he said. “Drugs affect every community. Same with death, assault, robbery. That happens to everybody.”

Bone may not initially have been aware of the universality of all that early in the band’s career, but over time, the members have realized that “it’s not unique to us. It’s global,” Norton said.

But Bone isn’t ready to rest on its laurels, not at a time when hip-hop needs the band as much as the genre ever did.

“You can call [rap] watered down to a degree,” Flesh opined. “It’s not as [socially] conscious as it used to be. It’s more about the jerkin’ and jerk dances and all this other stuff. That’s why we’re here, to bring it back.

More songs like “Tha Crossroads,” a deeply introspective tune about crossing over from this world to the next, are what’s needed, he said. There are artists — Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, others — who are doing good work. But Flesh is convinced that rap needs Bone more than Bone needs rap.

“We will forever be relevant,” he said. “I could retire here and be happy, but we’ve still got a lot of hard work to do. A lot of this music is meaningless gibberish put up under a beat. That’s not what our communities need. Our communities need a real expression of art.”

Besides, it’ll sound good at the 2019 Rock Hall induction concert.

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Flesh-N-Bone Global Presents Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Rock The Bells Reunion 2012 DVD; To be Released Thanksgiving 2012

Flesh-N-Bone Global Presents “Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Rock The Bells Reunion 2012”
OFFICIAL PREVIEW – performing E.1999

Produced by Stanley Howse and Isaac Carlen for Flesh-N-Bone Global
Filmed and Edited by Isaac ‘RILLAH’ Carlen for FBG/Hit Joint Records

Shot on location at:
NOS Fairgrounds – San Bernadino, CA
Shoreline Amphitheater – Mountain View, CA
PNC Arts Center – Holmdel, NJ

FULL CONCERT COMING TO DVD THANKSGIVING 2012

Flesh-N-Bone’s new album BLAZE OF GLORY now in stores.
Ducttape Gang’s DUCTTAPE EVERYTHING coming 10/16/12

Special Thanks To Guerilla Union, Live Nation, RTB, The State of California, The State of New Jersey, Jeff Joseph

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AllHipHop.com: A Revisit With Bizzy: The Bone Thug Finds His Harmony Part 2

AllHipHop.com has now published Part 2 of the latest interview with Bizzy Bone. In the final installment of the interview, Bizzy explains a little behind the latest project Art of War III, his autobiography, along with the groups future plans. A must read!

For nearly 20 years, rapper Bizzy Bone has been part of a dynasty that the fans wonā€™t seem to let die. As a member of the award-winning, multi-platinum group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Bizzy has seen his fair share of successes and defeats.

Recent years have found Bizzy Bone down at times ā€“ weight gain, group disputes, and a struggle with alcohol threatened to take him completely out of the game. Still, as we learned in Part 1 of ā€œA Revisit With Bizzy,ā€ the phoenix always rises again. With a renewed spirit, a svelte physique, and a dose of cleaner living, Bizzy is back to claim his rightful place among rap greats ā€“ hopefully with Bone Thugs, but either way, heā€™s on the come up with new music and a book in store.

Check out Part 2 of our chat with the unpredictable Bone Thug:

AllHipHop.com: Thereā€™s been press releases and whatnot, in terms of a project coming out relatively soon. It was supposed to be called The Art of War III. Is that coming out? Do you want to clear that up?

Bizzy Bone: Okay, okay. Well, this is what happened. This cat, we signed a deal with this cat, with this label. Iā€™m not gonā€™ say anything as far as the name of the label, because we just sent the termination paperwork in today. So once thatā€™s all the way complete legally, then I can go further with that. I just donā€™t want to talk about nothing that has anything legally going on.

AllHipHop.com: Okay, so I guess thatā€™s kind of on hold; thatā€™s to be determined and not set in stone, obviously.

Bizzy Bone: To make it all clear, I just sent in the termination papers today on behalf of the members of the group, that the deal was signed for.

AllHipHop.com: In terms of the Bone thing and how you guys are going to work that out, with your solo career at the forefront as well, what can fans expect in terms of whatā€™s coming for you and what youā€™ve been doing?

Bizzy Bone: Iā€™ma tell you, what they can really expect is just a lot of fun. Now, itā€™s really just about having fun, putting out great music that people want to hear, and having that energy around people to where it isnā€™t as if I got to always play my music. Itā€™s no dreary, cloudy sh*t around me, not in my music or anything. Everything is bright and happy ā€˜cause n*ggas is happy. When the kids are eating, youā€™re in shape, youā€™re healthy mentally, physically, spiritually, and youā€™re smoking weed? Oh, come on, man, man, come on. You already know what we doinā€™ over here.

AllHipHop.com: Iā€™ve heard something about a book? Is that something that youā€™ve authorized? Do you have a book coming out?

Bizzy Bone: Yes, definitely. Itā€™s actually taking on a life of its own right now. You know, Iā€™m all about marketing and promoting, and my biggest fear is putting out something beautiful and it not being marketed and promoted properly. Iā€™ve been in that position before numerous amounts of times, and I donā€™t like it. So when I do these things, I just worry about the marketing and the promotion. But, I mean, we got the magazines backing us up. People Magazine came on the table; we got a couple of news stations out in Los Angeles, but I just want it to be more, I want it to be further.

I want to get in touch with Chelsea and Wendy Williams ā€“ she owes me an interview. She clowned me on the interview, called me a drug addict and all these other things, now she got everything cleaned up and all that cool stuff, and I want to be a part of that, too. She can be loved, too. We can squash beef, too. Thatā€™d be wonderful for us to do that, but thatā€™s neither here nor there at this point. Sheā€™s not a shock jock anymore; she on some Oprah sh*t, I respect her gangsta.

The book supposed to be that goddamn serious, about a little kid kidnapped and all that other stuff, make it in the music industry, Eazy-E dying, and all that good stuff with the Bone Thug crew in there, the war stories, things we did as kids. I mean, the book is f*ckinā€™ insane, itā€™s beautiful. Itā€™s a great book, ā€˜cause it talks about the sh*t that the people and the fans donā€™t really know about, like the ā€˜hood stories, like robbinā€™ muf*ckas, and when CC (Wish Bone) got shot in the leg by Krayzie Bone. Itā€™s a fun *ss book. Did you think it was going to be anything else?

AllHipHop.com: It seems like youā€™re laying the foundation to write that final chapter the way itā€™s supposed to be written and not remembered as the back alley thing, or always drunk, like you said. Now looking at it as a Bone, how do you see that final chapter as a group playing out?

Bizzy Bone: Well, if I had to tell the fans anything personally, I would say that as a crew, we are all individuals. And what Iā€™ve learned with Bone, you donā€™t tell them what to do, you show your friends what youā€™re doing, and hopefully, we can all fall in the same line.

We all know what Bone needs to do to be successful ā€“ work, be physically and mentally in shape, and be ready. Because when we get out here, they need to see us the way they first seen us, the way we looked when we were young. And thatā€™s just really about that, and itā€™s just about showing not just this new generation, but the generation thatā€™s to come. This is the road to Aerosmith-dom, Megadeath-dom. You understand? Those groups of when theyā€™re 40, 50, 60, they can still get out there and kick a showā€™s *ss and kick a stadiumā€™s *ss. Itā€™s the 20th year anniversary, and we look like weā€™re 12 years old. Because we started it when we were 14 and 15. So we still have the opportunity; itā€™s just if everybody wants to go for it simultaneously, like at the same time. But if not, ainā€™t gonā€™ happen, captain.

AllHipHop.com: Does it surprise you that through everything, and through all the hardships, the opportunity is still there? And not just there; itā€™s up to you guys, itā€™s not like youā€™re getting pushed out the door.

Bizzy Bone: Iā€™ma tell you why. I think itā€™s because even at 65 percent, Bone is still a good ticket. We got enough drama around us and enough things you could look up on the history and enough things swirling around all five members, but weā€™re still a good ticket in any city. Nobody has belittled themselves to $50 in the back alley, and just destroyed themselves. So thatā€™s one good thing that I think each individual member has done as a survivor in life, so from that point on, we already are all musically talented, flat out. And I just look at it in that terminology.

AllHipHop.com: How would you hope that people looked at you if you had to look ahead two, three, four years from now? What do you hope people are saying about Bizzy Bone?

Bizzy Bone: ā€˜Look at that boy go for it. Look at that n*gga run. Go get it, n*gga. Run for it, n*gga. Oh, yes, get that sh*t! Thatā€™s how I would probably look at it in three or four years.

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AllHipHop.com: A Revisit With Bizzy: The Bone Thug Finds His Harmony Part 1

AllHipHop.com published part 1 of an interview with Bizzy Bone today on their website. Head over there to read it. In the interview, Bizzy talks about his weght loss, and the recent Rock The Bells tour with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.

He was instrumental in building one of the most accomplished, innovative, and celebrated groups in Hip-Hop history, yet when the name Bryon ā€œBizzy Boneā€ McCane comes up, there seems to always be more questions than answers.

For years, Bizzyā€™s sanity, sobriety and commitment to his craft have come into question. For much of the new millennium, it seemed the Hip-Hop community had written off the Ohio rapper, and were quick to put him in the pile of athletes and entertainers that couldnā€™t shake the pitfalls associated with fame.

When one looks at the recent history of Bizzy Bone, it isnā€™t unfair to think the Grammy Award winnerā€™s best days are clearly behind him. His weight ballooned to nearly 200 pounds, the turmoil surrounding his group reached and all-time high, and his profile within Hip-Hop was diminishing.

However, those who know the history of Bryon McCane, surely knew the Ohio native wouldnā€™t go down without a fight. After overcoming a childhood filled with abuse, a kidnapping, and poverty one would have to see to believe, getting his music career back on track was a walk in the park.

After putting down the bottle and dropping nearly 40 pounds, Bizzy has a new lease on life and a brand new outlook. In this AllHipHop.com exclusive, the Bone Thugs N Harmony member makes it crystal clear that the Bizzy Bone you think you knew is long gone, and that the rap game may not be ready for what a more focused Bryon McCane has in store for everyone in 2012 and beyond.

AllHipHop.com: Bizzy, anybody who saw footage of ā€œRock The Bellsā€ noticed thereā€™s a big physical change with you. You managed to get in much better shape. Tell us how that came about, and how much weight you lost.

Bizzy Bone: Well, you know itā€™s been a process and itā€™s like, 30-plus pounds thus far. Itā€™s just beautiful, you know what Iā€™m sayinā€™, getting back into shape. Itā€™s everything you can think of ā€“ mentally, physically, spiritually ā€“ itā€™s the same story as it always is when a brother trying to do better for himself, you know?

AllHipHop.com: A big part of a change like that for anybody, thereā€™s a large mental aspect to it. How much have you changed mentally in that span?

Bizzy Bone: Well, mentally, the drinking has stopped. I go the club, I get a club soda, you know what Iā€™m sayinā€™, have a Swisher in the back with a couple of security guards, come back in and I be already on mine, grab me a Red Bull or something.

So thinking like that and thinking 17 shots of Cognac and whatever is flowing around that evening, itā€™s just a different mindstate, like a different world, especially in Hip-Hop. You conduct yourself a lot more reserved, open, but more reserved, and hella less intoxicated and sh*t like that. That sh*t been played out, being all drunk in public. Do that sh*t at your crib, man.

AllHipHop.com: The funny thing when I scour the message boards and hear people talking about you, you havenā€™t put out music since the transformation, but everybody is treating it as Bizzy Bone is back. You look like your old self, it seems like you got more energy. How close to true is that?

Bizzy Bone: Yes, the energy is back. The drink is in the gutter. Because when you get to a certain age itā€™s like, look, if I got a five or I got a 10-year plan I canā€™t really have them long nights with the bottle. Or if I only have a two-year plan, or a six-month plan. So Iā€™m working on the five to 10-year plan, so when we done and we finally say you know what, I love music forever, right now itā€™s time for me to let the kids do what they do. You know, 50 [Cent], Jigga age type sh*t. When you get to be around Jay-Z age and you make your mint, you make your life, you enjoy your life, and you take the good with the bad, thatā€™s what Iā€™m working up towards. So I got my 15-year plan. Just had a birthday, so still the 15-year plan is in effect, and Iā€™m just happy, man, just staying young, vitaminā€™d up and healthy as I can, bro.

AllHipHop.com: Now one thing to help a fan understand, and this doesnā€™t just apply to Hip-Hop, you lived that rock-n-roll lifestyle, and when you were doing it you were making your best music back in the day. But then I guess it hits a certain point where it becomes negative. How do you get to a different place, be happy, not live that lifestyle, and still be able to put out that music that people want to hear?

Bizzy Bone: Being a musicianā€¦itā€™s not difficult to put out great music, itā€™s whatever youā€™re into at the time you enjoy. You smoke weed, you rap about weed. You drink alcohol, you sing about alcohol. You sing about the things that you do.

Iā€™m the kind of musician that has come to terms with simply, no matter what, a solid voice and a beautiful voice, and when you can definitely sing and carry a tune, you can stay in this business. So to me Iā€™m more into that music, and keeping that Hot 16 lovely. I just did a song with The Game, and Iā€™m killinā€™ it. Being healthy, you get to enjoy it more as opposed to being drunk. So itā€™s like an experience that I know has happened for me, but I never experienced it, because I was too goddamned obliterated out of my muthaf*ckinā€™ mind. So itā€™s a beautiful, beautiful thing.

AllHipHop.com: Anytime you get to a point like that, everyone always wants to say something. Those rumors that MediaTakeOut.com had about you being on drugs ā€“ how much did that bother you?

Bizzy Bone: I mean, you know what, Iā€™m gonna be very, very honest with you. I canā€™t comment on that, and I canā€™t talk about that particular situation at this point. But just on my behalf and in my defense, Iā€™d like to tell my fans, as far as the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony core fanbase that believe in the music, them grateful dead motherf*ckers that been there for 10, 20 years, some of them been there for two, three years, some of them been there for five years, I want to let them know everything that Iā€™m doing is not just for me, itā€™s so I can keep putting out great music, they can keep enjoying music, and their children can see a young, vibrant, healthy Bizzy Bone that they used to see. And thatā€™s what Iā€™m doing it for as well, if that makes sense to any of my muthaf*ckas out there.

AllHipHop.com: Bone came together recently for ā€œRock the Bellsā€; to be recognized and be on a stage like that in New Jersey and in California, how did that whole experience feel?

Bizzy Bone: It really started with a show and a festival when I was really right about there, but I didnā€™t put the bottle down. It started with a festival with DJ Quik, and I was watching Tyler, The Creator. And he was jamming to the Dipset show, and I had did a show with Quik and did a guest appearance, 30,000 people there. And right there when I seen the energy of that young brother, and I seen his excitement towards the love of Hip-Hop, man, it made me say thatā€™s what I love it for! And from that point on, I started on a serious musical mission. I canā€™t complain. All of us there, everybody standing strong, all five Bone members, getting back into the vibe of things. So itā€™s just beautiful, totally, totally beautiful, back into the swing of things. Man! Itā€™s just a really good feeling right now.

I want to give the kids and the younger generation a shot to see the Bizzy Bone that their parents seen, or whoever seen. So that to me is very important in a career. This is a career, this is music, and I do love it. And before we leave, we want to do something really, really nice for the people, something great to remember. I donā€™t want nobody to remember me, like, f*cked up and sh*t, you know what Iā€™m sayinā€™, in some f*ckinā€™ back alley and sh*t like that.

AllHipHop.com: You mention ā€œRock The Bellsā€ and the excitement that you had being a part of that. The past few months, things have seemed to be pretty good with Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, but thereā€™s still that uncertainty. Do you think that being able to come together, the five of you, and being able to see people youā€™ve influenced, and being able to perform in front of a crowd like that, you think that gave you guys a shot in the arm?

Bizzy Bone: Well, I think the problem as we all sat back, ā€˜cause after the shows, we all sat down, all four members. Flesh stayed home because he needed to get some rest, but the rest of the members sat down and said okay, what the f*ck should we do after this? And everybody was just kind of trying to ponder on what the f*ck we was gonā€™ do. So the plan is basically, everybody get they passports on one super photo-imposed copy, so we can start sending it out, and then we all just gonā€™ get back on the road, get some road work done overseas, get the meshinā€™ and gellinā€™ back with each other, and put together a record that the people can love.

My personal opinion is, when weā€™re gellinā€™ together, itā€™s not just five members being alive, or five members being there, or their voices being there, I think when our hearts are into it like it was on that stage at ā€œRock The Bells,ā€ and it stays that way to where itā€™s not just a two-day, or three-day, or four-day, or two-week thing, thatā€™s when they gonā€™ get some of that original buddah lova bomb sh*t. You dig?

Check back for Part 2 of AllHipHop.comā€™s exclusive interview with Bizzy Bone.

http://allhiphop.com/2012/09/20/a-revisit-with-bizzy-the-bone-thug-finds-his-harmony-part-1/

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Kush Cloud – Freddie Gibbs Featuring Krayzie Bone

Krayzie Bone tweeted this morning #KushCloud, with the cover of Freddie Gibbs’ upcoming mixtape

Krayzie Bone tweeted this morning #KushCloud, with the cover of Freddie Gibbs’ upcoming mixtape

You can listen to Kush Cloud featuring Krayzie Bone here at the following link: http://soundcloud.com/gangstagibbs/kush-cloud-w-krayzie-bone

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