And those dedicated Box viewers, from all over the country, requested Bone Thugs-a lot.īut who the eff were these guys, anyway? Trapped in an East Coast bubble, my friends and I viewed the group as a total curiosity-a weird joke, even, with their braids and blowouts and that strange sing-songy style that nobody had ever heard before (sorry, Freestyle Fellowship fans). My initial recollection of Bone is from the summer of 1994, when “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” first landed on the Box, the long-gone video channel that allowed people to call a 1-900 number to request songs. It was at a-*groan*-crossroads in their career when Bone Thugs-n-Harmony released their most famous song.īut let’s rewind a bit. This is part of Complex's The 1996 Project: Looking Back at the Year Hip-Hop Embraced Success.
