Ouija,” which depicts the brothers Bone consulting the wisdom of the mysterious title character-presumably the personification of the notorious Ouija board. The album begins with a track called “Mr. ![]() But there was something about it that was new to hip-hop: a distinct spiritual undertone. When our local hip-hop DJs, 8ball and the Chicken Man, cued up a favorite, we’d capture it for posterity.īoth records were produced by hip-hop mogul Eric “Eazy-E” Wright of N.W.A., the controversial L.A.-based, hip-hop group that had some years earlier drawn the ire of the Federal Government with the not-so-subtly titled song “Fuck The Police.” Creepin’ On Ah Come Up was a short but intense exploration of the gritty realities of growing up on the streets of Cleveland. We waited patiently every Monday night with a blank cassette in our tape decks and our fingers resting eagerly on the record button. ![]() The group had made a name for themselves just a year earlier, when their debut EP, Creepin’ On Ah Come Up, garnered some mainstream success, spawning hit singles like “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” and “Foe tha Love of $.” These were already staples of the homemade mixtapes my friends and I made. That August, I got a copy for my 10th birthday. In the summer of 1995, the Cleveland-based hip-hop quartet Bone Thugs-N-Harmony put out their first full-length album, E.
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