Layzie Bone has written a lot of bars in his lengthy career, but when he was asked to share his “most meaningful” verse he didn’t hesitate in picking it and then diving into it bar for bar.
The Cleveland rapper was stopped by HipHopDX on the 2023 BET Awards red carpet, and when asked to share his most noteworthy bars, effortlessly dove into his lyrics from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony‘s “East 1999.”
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“Thinkin’ ’bout back in the days when the year was ‘89/ Little n-gga on the grind, gotta get mine, doing my crime/ With Toot and Hen, steady stacking my ends/ Putting my serve down on the Clair 9-9,” Layzie Bone began. “Hitting up the Graveyard Shift with Ren/ Little Will, Big Wally and Wish Bone/ Little Wally High Rollerz and he wonder why n-ggas so strong/ Krayzie Bone, Stack, Rod Jay, much love/ Kept a n-gga on his toes in the game/ It’s an everyday thang when you let ya nuts hang.”
After reciting the rest of the verse, Layzie explained that he wrote it in the “traphouse” on “East 99 and St. Clair” about 30 years ago. “How else could I write that?”
Watch Layzie Bone recite his favorite bars below:
“East 1999” served as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s second single off their album E. 1999 Eternal. The track charted weekly on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs from December 9, 1995, to March 23, 1996.
Layzie Bone isn’t the only rapper to spit his favorite verse to HipHopDX on a BET Awards red carpet. At last year’s event, Remy Ma and Papoose were also asked by HipHopDX to share their favorite verses from each other, and the happy couple surprised each other with their picks.
Papoose chose to rap the opening bars from Remy Ma’s 2008 diss track “When I See Her,” which was recorded prior to her serving eight years in prison for assault.
“Sixty seconds to a minute it’s a problem when I see her/ Seven days a week, alternate sides of the street/ I’m a drag that bitch like the muthafuckin’ beat,” he rapped.
Remy Ma admitted she hadn’t seen Papoose ever “act it out like that.” She then picked her husband’s 2005 track “The Underground King,” which shocked the “Heat 7” hitmaker.
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“Yo that’s crazy! I want y’all to know I never ever knew that,” Papoose said. “This is my first time even hearing that information.”
“‘Cause he get mad gassed I gotta play the songs inside when I’m in the car by myself,” Remy said.
