Their first underground album comes out in 1993, called Faces of Death. First they call themselves the Band Aid Boys (which is not very tough), then B.O.N.E. In Cleveland, in the Glenville neighborhood, at or around the corner of East 99th Street and St. We got longtime friends and family members (Layzie and Flesh are actually Wish’s cousins) in their late teens, early 20s. This is how I would’ve done it if I’d have done it. This is one of my favorite origin stories in rap history because I find this story so chaotic and inept and therefore relatable. I want to see what Keisha sees, as she twirls her phone cord and rolls her eyes and muddles through these daily cold calls from these unknown knuckleheads from Cleveland who bought one-way bus tickets from Cleveland all the way to California, just to call her on the phone from California to try to get her to hook them up with Eazy-E. Her desk, her cubicle or lack thereof, any plants, the dust, her proximity to any vending machines, we got Doritos in there or what, the peanut-butter crackers, her proximity, I suppose, to Eazy-E’s office slash desk slash whatever. I need a full accounting of Keisha’s office situation. Keisha is the woman, the secretary the dudes in Bone Thugs-N-Harmony called, every day, for weeks, trying to get a meeting with Eazy-E, in the hopes that he’d give them a record deal with Ruthless Records. 99īut I do not recall Keisha Anderson appearing in the movie. The Eternal Hymn of ‘Tha Crossroads’ The Eternal Struggle of E. They made a movie about it, if I recall correctly.

Dre et cetera left in ’91-was quite acrimonious. Eazy-E, formerly of gangsta rap icons N.W.A Eazy E started Ruthless with one Jerry Heller, former semi-nefarious manager of N.W.A The slow-motion breakup of N.W.A.-Ice Cube left in ’89, Dr. Ruthless Records, of course, started by the rapper Eric Wright, a.k.a. Keisha was the secretary at Ruthless Records, out in Los Angeles, in the early ’90s. Wish Bone, doing an interview in 2017, so roughly 25 years later, still remembers her name. So, I need a vivid, overwrought description of the office setup for a woman named Keisha Anderson. Bizzy Bone is not busier than Layzie Bone, et cetera as Wish Bone once put it, “We all consider ourselves the Michael Jackson of our group. These stage names do not necessarily correspond to any of the guys’ offstage personalities. We got Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, and, coming later and in a somewhat less official capacity, Layzie’s brother Flesh-N-Bone. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, by 1995, consist of five dudes.

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