Their sound and their stories are very dark. “1st of tha Month”, a song about everyone celebrating the arrival of their welfare checks, was also released as a single and was more faithful to the album version.īone Thugs-N-Harmony’s lyrics are true to their name. The title-ish track, “East 1999” is a personal favorite of mine, and was also released as a single, though you wouldn’t know it because the song is so heavily punctuated with profanity the band re-recorded or muted almost every line of the song to create a “clean version” acceptable to radio and MTV. But there are plenty of other highlights on E. The remixed “Crossroads” single sold two million copies alone and became Bone’s signature song. (Except in the UK where the remix was added on at the end of the album as track 18, and the original remains at track eight). The remix became so overwhelmingly popular that it replaced the original track on the album just a couple months after the album was released. So the band “remixed” the song (actually re-wrote the entire song except for one single line of the verses), in tribute to Eazy-E and released the remix as a single. 1999 Eternal, the band’s mentor, rapper Eazy-E, passed away from complications with HIV. U-Neek’s Mo Thug Remix)”), was originally a much darker track called, simply, “Crossroad” and was about the band’s deceased friend Wallace.īut during production on E. That’s because track eight, “Tha Crossroads” (official title “Tha Crossroads (D.J. You’ll see from the screenshot above of my individual song ratings that the album was reissued less than a year after being released. The super rapid lyrics and rhyme that put Eminem and Watsky both to shame, that no one else ever talks about. Which surprises me because I always think of this album as my little secret.
1999 Eternal is one of the better selling rap albums of all time, having moved over five million units. 1999 Eternal by Bone Thugs-N-Harmonyīone Thugs-N-Harmony’s E.
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