Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have teased that they’ll be getting together for their 30th anniversary celebration, to the delight of their fans.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday (May 7), Layzie Bone teased the news to his millions of fans, though he wasn’t exactly clear on whether this reunion would entail a live performance, a new album, or both.
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“We celebrating 30 years now,” he said in the video. “June 23, 1994, is the day that “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” came out. The celebration of 30 years. Now you know you got your Bone and Biggies. You got your 2Pacs and your Mariah Careys. And JDs, and Bow Wow. We done mixed and mingled with a lot of people. So now, on the 30th year anniversary, we’re gonna do it again.”
According to Wikipedia, the group’s debut single was released on April 20, 1994, while their debut album Creepin on ah Come Up hit stores for the first time on June 21, 1994
Earlier this year, Krayzie Bone weighed in on the back-and-forth surrounding the history of his group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony‘s famous collaboration with Biggie, and he admitted that one member of the crew did initially have an issue with doing the song due to his relationship with 2Pac.
Krayzie sat down with The Art of Dialogue for an interview published on January 25. In it, he was asked about Fat Joe’s comments to Angie Martinez last year that the group was originally reticent to do the song “Notorious Thugs” because they were “cool” with 2Pac, but that he convinced them to go ahead.
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Layzie Bone had remembered things differently in an interview earlier that month, but Krayzie mostly backed up Joe’s version of events.
According to Krayzie, most of the group was excited about the prospect of the collaboration, but one member, Bizzy Bone, did object to it at first out of loyalty to ‘Pac.
“I never had any reluctancy of doing a song with Big or ‘Pac,” Krayzie said. “I think Bizzy felt some kind of way about doing the Biggie song because we had done the 2Pac song [“Thug Luv”]. And I think Fat Joe did convince Bizzy, you need to go ahead and get on the song. Fat Joe did do that.”
Krayzie also remembered worrying about the tense climate between the East and West coasts at the time of “Notorious Thugs,” which was released via Biggie’s posthumous album Life After Death just weeks after his murder in March 1997.
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“Of course I thought about it: are we gonna get caught up in this beef?” he recalled. “But it was like, look, we making music right now. We not part of this. We doing music. We love ‘Pac, we love Big. We gonna do music with both of them. And it worked out well for us.”
Layzie Bone, as mentioned, had a different recollection of events. He told The Art of Dialogue: “[W]e was like, hell yeah, right off the gate…Let me clear up that one rumor that said we turned down Biggie Smalls. Man, we had never turned down Biggie Smalls.”
