Did Bone Thugs N Harmony Steal Their Style ??? Freestyle Fellowship -MARY 

Bizzy Bone Brings up a good point here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mCDIb_Txi8I.html

they didnt steal their exact style but bone definetley had their ear to the underground. they took bits and peices from mikah 9 style. just like ice cube did to volume 10. Volume 10 and mikah 9 are the top mcs that everyone has bit from whether you know it or not.

Bone were kids when their first album came out and they definitely rapped fast af on that album.

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Oh shit. I never heard of these guys. They sound good. I've been a huge Bone fan since their very first single "Thuggish Ruggish Bone". Obsessed. This song definitely remind me of Bone.

Freestyle Fellowship never said they stole their styles it was Abstract Rude who told them to leave his style alone. Freestyle Fellowship and Bone never had beef or anything to do with one another.

Bone was sing/rapping and harmonizing on thier first underground album “Faces Of Death” that was recorded in 1992

Let’s see, who has more than 1 style, 🤔, The Freestyle Fellowship. Who leaned entirely on 1 style, bone. Which groups’ members also have their own individual multitude of styles? THE FREESTYLE FELLOWSHIP. You know the rest.

Griot pronounced Gre O. a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa.

They did take that style

Easy was like say it like this ... Griot is an African poet the T is silent

Man said the Faces of death was horrible but this song is straight dog water lmao

What I am old enough to remember. 😅 I thought the beef was because it was because Bone stole their style from that other group and completely changed their sound and was getting death threats in Ohio

I GREW UP WITH THIS. #LALegends PLEASE LISTEN TO *OF MEXICAN DECENT - I AM STILL*

Nah, that isn't factual at all, even though I understand the comparison. Bone Thug's first group album was created when they were still underage teenagers. The album was recorded between 91-92 (Bizzy said the earliest songs were done in 1990), and Bone gained local success from it. The project later had a remastered commercial distribution release to select CD stores across the country in the mid 90s, AFTER Bone already had two mainstream projects out, and it initially confused many fans. You can tell a lot of time had passed, considering how childlike their voices were, not to mention the low quality recordings and outdated production. According to Bone members, the guy who worked with them on that project was shady, delayed their music/underpaid them, and as a result, the group never worked with him again. The group still talk down on him today. Also, Eazy didn't find Bone. Bone found Eazy. After they released the underground album, Bone moved to LA in early 93, lived there for half a year, promoted their music all over LA, gave it to execs, and went door to door to different artists; even brought it to Tone Loc's home. Bone finally connected with Eazy at his office via the receptionist after many failed attempts, Eazy then returned their call, and Krayzie Bone rapped for him over the phone. This is the rap that was done, from a song Bone made in 1991/1992. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Su-GYjPuQLM.html (Krayzie slowed down the flow, in contrast to the actual song, where it's much faster--as the temp of the beat is really fast) Eazy asked Bone where they were from, they said Cleveland. He told Bone that he had a show coming up in Cleveland, they then got on the bus to go back to their hometown, opened the show (due to their local success), Eazy missed their performance, so several members snuck backstage, met Dj Yella, and Bone rapped for Eazy again. They headed back to LA soon after and signed with him/Ruthless Records. Even in the lyrics for Bone older songs, they mention the year (1992, for example). Many Bone songs below were recorded and released before Freestyle Fellowship's "Mary" (released in 93), and those songs definitely had origins of Bone's style that everyone grew to love after hearing Thuggish Ruggish Bone in early 1994. It simply isn't accurate that Bone didn't sound like Bone before Freestyle Fellowship's record. Prior to their success, the group wasn't rapping in a "We Are Bone, We Are Bone" style, as you indicated..however, I know you merely used it as an example to state that their style was completely different--but that wasn't the case at all. Bone's style was Bone's style, but to be expected, as they grew older and with better production resources, it evolved even more. Bizzy was only 14-15 at the time of their earlier group songs. The other members weren't too much older either. The point is, of course the foundation of Bone sounded like Bone, even back then, before their prime. Bizzy spoke on it here (and gave FF props) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mCDIb_Txi8I.html Songs from 91-92. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SRrRPLqCeDE.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jCYIX5Nw69w.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B5P8Uag0YOY.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xek8ap6-2z8.html (the last verse is the same as the audition verse clip) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lu-TlvB3beg.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FM8SXW3bjP8.html Freestyle Fellowship and Bone Thugs both incorporated a Reggae/Dancehall hybrid in their Rap delivery, as did many other artists during that early 90s era of Hip Hop. Freestyle Fellowship was more Jazz/Spoken word with their delivery at times, while Bone style was more R&B Soul/Doo-Wop/hardcore delivery meshed with a fast or slow flow. They were double-timing/tongue twisting/melodic back then. The beats were just a lot more uptempo. The G-Funk/West Coast Era of production took off in early 93 (not that you aren't aware) shortly after The Chronic release, and it changed the landscape of the sound of Hip Hop. Lastly, Bone lists their main influences as NWA, Big Daddy Kane, New Edition, Temptations, Luther Vandross, etc. If anything influenced Bone's sound after they were signed, it was the laid back West Coast beats and melodies from their in-house producers. I'd say it was more complementary of their sound than anything.

Fyi: Inner city Griots ( Gree ots) , not like riots with a G.

Actually they didnt rap like that on the first album. And faces of death was not horrible for a first album by teenagers. But yes More Harmony came Later but yes after hearing mary.. it sounds very suspected. But if Lazy n Kray took from Fellowship... then Bizzy took from (Snow) Flesh took from ( Paperboy) and Wish ( SPICE 1 KINDA)

Bonethugsfam4life.... it's the original bang bang and I gets down for my damn thang "B.B. GAMBINI"

I wouldn't say the first is horrible its the coolest album to me outta bones discography I like that project blowed abstract style shit but that raw gangsta regional shits dope as hell on some raw production shit

The originators of speeds and this style in general ARE Hip Hop Clan, especially Ellay Khule! BEFORE BONE THUGS N HARMONY, BEFORE TWISTA! People don't even know hip hop history and roots.

Faces of death is not garbage by far!!!

5 O’clock follies, Six Tray, & Mary 🤔😀 all seriousness FF we’re more Jazz oriented & Bone RnB both great groups i remember when Bizzy spoke about them a while back. Saying they done their thing & Bone done there’s.

Nah you not wrong... Smfh I’ve been saying this time after time a good amount of their cult following wont believe this. They will repeat like a broken record but they this and that blah blah like no one looked up Bone story. Freestyle Fellowship spoke on this and it’s true bone got influenced by that Mary song and put they own flavor to it. Krayzie sounds just like Myka 9 it ain’t no shocker to me that was a dead give away. And freestyle fellowship are hella innovative with different style of rap they very multidimensional rap wise. When Creepin on ah come up came out they didn’t sound like their first tape faces of death. They can rap and sing ain’t no one knocking that but ppl don’t understand these guys ain’t original like they say they is.

I feel you -i deeply appreciate freestyle fellowship - but the truth is Gangsta Pat out of Memphis -thats who originated that flow

If yall wanna get technical, the rapper Snow did it before Freestyle Fellowship…his album came out months before Freestyle Fellowship and his style resembles Bone even mlre cuz he does the jamaican/reggae slang…listen to the song Informer

Don't forget about DAS EfX, the Fu -Schnickens, Chief ROCKA SONG, SO , S0 many around that time and B4.......FL! Ppy dee fLoP FL0w, who knows,? Lol

What u mean faces of death was horrible and the raps were slow. u just making things up. hear this, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Flow motion (Faces of death)

Bone fans are really in here in denial.. smh.. 🤦🏾‍♂️

sounds like bone thugs FASHO

Let's be real if they really bit there style why they didn't get on a platform and exposed them .. WITH BET and MTV loving that drama . Plus I'm looking for a link on RU-vid were FF been interview on a PLATFORM like VLADtv or ART OF DIALOGUE or some low budget platform saying BONE THUGS STOLED MY SONG... Wasted of time. End of the day WUTANG BETTER THEN THEM BOTH

You dont steal you get inspired.. Youre really meaning bone thugs sucked before they met eazy. Their early songs were frickin ill bro.

You said it yourself, "it sounds like Bone" Bone is original... they were still in the streets in Cleveland after recording their first album with Eazy. There's a rare video of them kicking it under a street light with homies (poetic hustlers) and them kicking their flow straight acapella. It can't be faked man... still hasn't even been perfected to this day by anyone but them... FF is dope no lie, and although them and Bone sound similar it ain't the same. Even the beats and their lyrical content is different besides the weed content. But at the time who didn't talk about smoking weed...

Name one song FF did that sounds anything like days of our lives, shoot em up? Absolutely NOTHING like the BONE sound

This is straight blasphemy! Bone Thugs n Harmony are the originators of their sound. You literally wasted your time and energy with this.