Legacy Recordings

Skinned to the bone, the Cleveland quintet of Layzie, Krayzie, Flesh, Wish and Bizzy Bone bought five one-way bus tickets to L.A., hungry for a recording deal. After a phone audition for West Coast godfather, the late Easy-E, they returned home, defeated but determined. Backstage at an NWA show, they crossed paths with E again, and seeing their freshness and promise, he signed them to Ruthless Records. Mixing musicality and harmony with an Isley Brothers melody line, “Tha Crossroad” blew up large. Surveying a ghetto world where souls are given to hope or sold into bondage, “Crossroad” chooses hope in a universe that chills to the bone.

(A. Henderson/S. Howse/C. Scruggs/B. McCane/R. Isley/O. Isley/R. Isley/E. Isley/M. Isley/C. Jasper); Produced by D.J. U-Neek; Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone and Flesh-N-Bone, lead and background vocals; Rec. 1996. From E. 1999 Eternal, Ruthless 69443; P 1996 Ruthless Records

The Crossroads by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony