![]() We always knew that there is no one like us.” We just focused on doing the best that we could do. We didn’t worry about getting on the radio. “We were never worried about what anybody else was doing. “We believed that we could do whatever we wanted,” Howse said. The act’s early work was compelling and uncompromising. Bone Thugs crafted albums that were sonically adventurous. So much was going on with Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest. “I can only imagine what the music world would be like if they were all still alive. “It was an honor to be part of their work,” Howse said. Howse should know since Bone Thugs is the only group who worked with such late legends as 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., the aforementioned Eazy-E and Big Pun. So much material from back then still stands up. “I’m not just talking about what we experienced. “I’ll never forget that period,” Howse said. Howse can’t help but reminisce about the ’90s when the band impressed with its lightning-fast raps. “In some ways, it was like it was back in the day,” Howse said. 2” fared well critically and commercially. Who would have guessed that it would have worked out, but it did.”īone Thug’s “Art of War: WWlll” in 20’s “Still Creepin’ on Ah Come Up & Bone Brothers, Vol. I just called the guys, and good things happened. “Fortunately, I had something to focus on. “I don’t know what I would have done without those guys,” Howse said. Within two years, Flesh-n-Bone, along with his brother Layzie Bone and cousin Wish Bone, Krayzie Bone and Bizzy Bone, recorded “Uni5: The World’s Enemy,” which dropped in 2010. Shortly after becoming a free man, Howse contacted his mates in Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. I wish I didn’t lose all of that time, but I had no choice but to try to get back on my feet.” It was like “The Last O.G.” but not funny. “But I finally was released, and so much changed in the world.” 22, 2000, Howse was sent to Pleasant Valley State Prison in California’s Fresno County. ![]() “What happened to me was very humbling,” Howse recalled. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison but was released after a decade. However, the act and Howse’s fortunes changed dramatically when he was sentenced to prison in 1998 on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and probation violation. “Things couldn’t have been better for us.” “We had everything going our way,” Howse said while calling from Los Angeles ahead of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s date at Knitting Factory on Thursday with Young Neves and Zero. ![]() Bone Thugs had a loyal fan base and impressed with its melodic hip-hop. Howse, aka Flesh-n-Bone, was riding a massive wave of success during the late 1990s since his hip-hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony happened to be at the top of its game.īone Thugs emerged from the Cleveland scene thanks to a pair of massive hits, “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” and “Tha Crossroads.” The latter, a tribute to the then-recently-deceased NWA rapper Easy-E, who signed Bone Thugs to Ruthless Records, won a Grammy Award in 1997. The show is about an ex-con who is released from jail after 15 years and discovers the world has morphed considerably. Excuse Stanley Howse if he ever thought that “The Last O.G.,” Tracy Morgan’s sitcom vehicle, was a documentary.
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