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\n\tRap veterans Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are best known for \u201cTha Crossroads,\u201d their 1996 tribute to late mentor and label head Eazy-E (Eric Wright), but it\u2019s the gilded sidewalks of Hollywood where they\u2019ll soon be immortalized in the annals of pop culture history. The Cleveland-based rap group will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at a ceremony July 8.<\/p>\n

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After 35 years in the industry, to claim that the star brings the Bone Thugs \u201cfull circle\u201d is more than a convenient turn of phrase. It closes a loop in the group\u2019s apocryphal origin story, when Ohio natives Bizzy Bone (Bryon Anthony McCane II), Flesh-n-Bone (Stanley Howse), Krayzie Bone (Anthony Henderson), Layzie Bone (Howse\u2019s younger brother Steven) and Wish Bone (Charles Scruggs Jr.) scraped together enough money to buy one-way bus tickets to Los Angeles in the hopes of auditioning in person for Eazy-E. When they arrive, they discovered that the former N.W.A. frontman was at that moment on tour \u2014 in Cleveland. Although some details of their pursuit of fame are true, Flesh-n-Bone says that the actual events that led to their distribution deal with E\u2019s Ruthless Records are less mythic than a couple of ships (or buses) passing in the night.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was an eggs-in-the-basket type situation, but we actually did connect with him in California,\u201d Flesh tells Variety. \u201cWe was staying at our friends\u2019 house and we were reaching out to the office there at Ruthless. [Eazy] actually called us back, so we all just shared verses over the phone with him right there in California. He told us that when he was on tour, we was going to link up with him in Cleveland to open up for him at that show.\u201d Ironically, the lesser-known conclusion to this story legitimizes their work-harder-not-smarter entry into the music industry.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe was going to book us plane tickets to get back to L.A. and start working,\u201d remembers Wish. \u201cWe was like, \u2018No, fuck that. We\u2019re going to get back on the Greyhound where we can get our shit together.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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Merging the \u201cThugs-n-Harmony\u201d moniker Eazy gave them with the name of B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e, a group they\u2019d formed in Cleveland to perform at local talent shows, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony debuted their 1994 EP, \u201cCreepin on ah Come Up,\u201d at exactly the moment that the lines between singing and rapping were just beginning to blur. Wish cites the Whispers and fellow Ohio natives the O\u2019Jays as among their earliest influences for the harmonies that would come to define their sound, before they took pages from trailblazing artists like the Sugarhill Gang, Big Daddy Kane and, of course, E\u2019s N.W.A. for their rapid-fire lyrical cadence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe came from the era with Scarface, the Geto Boys, KRS-One,\u201d says Wish, \u201cwhere those storytellers and those real hip-hoppers were really doing something for the culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The group members insist that they were prepared to start rapping any moment they met someone who could offer them a recording contract. \u201cWe walked to Tone Loc\u2019s house to rap for his manager,\u201d Krayzie recalls. But Flesh credits Eazy-E, \u201cthe sixth Bone member,\u201d for helping them find their footing in the music industry at a pivotal time, both for the group and himself. \u201cHe was really dedicated to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and it was at the height of a lot of the troubles that he was experiencing with the breakup of N.W.A. and that stuff he was going through with Death Row Records,\u201d Flesh says.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe used to brag to his people about us being the next big phenomenon, like, \u2018These dudes are the Beatles of hip hop.\u2019 And everything he predicted about us came true,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Not just a hyperbolic comparison, in 1996 \u201cTha Crossroads\u201d became the fastest single to rise to the top of the Billboard national single chart since the Beatles released \u201cCan\u2019t Buy Me Love\u201d in 1964. It\u2019s one thing for a hungry young artist to manifest their success, but the accomplishment even stunned the group at the time. \u201cTo see us breaking records of people like that, in a whole other genre of music, was really crazy for us,\u201d says Wish. \u201cFor us to be mentioned in the same conversation as guys like that was just unreal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the next few years, they collaborated with several of the biggest stars in the music world, including 2Pac (\u201cThug Luv\u201d), Notorious B.I.G. (\u201cNotorious Thugs\u201d) and Mariah Carey (\u201cBreakdown\u201d). Yet looking back, they insist they didn\u2019t measure success by the yardstick of chart placements or industry certifications. \u201cWhen I say we really made it, it\u2019s not the money, nothing like that, but when we first went overseas and saw people that didn\u2019t speak English, but could sing our songs, it was like, wow, we\u2019re somebody for real now, because we\u2019re over here in places we probably would\u2019ve never been without our music, and these people know us and love us,\u201d says Wish.<\/p>\n

Over 24 years, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony released 10 studio albums, two EPs and two mix tapes, winning a Grammy Award for \u201cTha Crossroads\u201d and two other nominations in addition to accolades from the American Music Awards, Billboard and MTV. If their days of giving the Beatles a run for their money are behind them, they still thrill at the impact that their music, and their style, makes today on artists across the industry. \u201cEvery time you turn the radio, anytime you turn a video on, we see what we created,\u201d says Krayzie. \u201cThere is not a new artist that has come out that is not using an element of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony \u2026 anybody harmonizing, rapping fast, people know where that came from.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adds Flesh, \u201cIt is a known fact that inside record companies, A&Rs was tailoring their artists to go in the studio and come out with something like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. \u2018I need you to go in there and make me another \u201c1st of tha Month.\u201d\u2019 It\u2019s a huge phenomenon that I don\u2019t think we get flowers for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the Bone Thugs don\u2019t have prior experiences visiting the Walk of Fame (after all, Ruthless Records was founded not in Hollywood but Compton), receiving their star feels like a step towards remediating that lack of recognition. They aren\u2019t taking it for granted. \u201cThis is a beautiful blessing and honor \u2014 a huge milestone in our career,\u201d Flesh says. \u201cI think we\u2019ve come a long way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a type of honor for people that really made a difference in whatever genre it is, movies, TV, whatever,\u201d observes Wish. \u201cThis is what we got, and thank God that we did make it through music \u2014 because without this, I don\u2019t know what the fuck we\u2019d be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The quintet has made a number of lineup changes over the 35 years they\u2019ve been recording, but a handful of singles issued over the last year featured all five original members, hinting at a proper comeback for Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. \u201cThe best is yet to be seen,\u201d insists Flesh. \u201cEspecially after receiving such a privileged honor as receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, I think we\u2019re going to continue to do great things for the culture and continue to influence people and surprise the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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