On Tuesday night (December 13), The Puff Puff Pass Tour Part 2 descended on the unassuming location of Loveland, Colorado, where Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Snoop Dogg, Warren G and Tha Dogg Pound (Kurupt and Daz Dillinger) rocked the Budweiser Event Center stage. The veteran Hip Hop artists performed some of their most memorable hits, including Warren G’s “Regulate,” and Bone Thug’s “Tha Crossroads” and “Thuggish Ruggish Bone.”
Behind the scenes, longtime Bone Thugs manager Steve Lobel and agent Jamie Adler were expertly orchestrating set times, organizing interviews and making sure everything was running smoothly. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance Adler couldn’t believe he was given.
“Big A and Percy [Snoop affiliates] reached out and asked if I wanted to be the booking agent for the second Puff Puff Pass Tour,” Adler says. “I nearly dropped the phone. Fast-forward three months later and we are touring the country selling out arenas in blizzards [laughs].”
Backstage, four of the five members of Bone Thugs were munching on carrots and pineapple in the appropriately titled “green room,” including Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone and Wish Bone, who were gracious enough to speak on the tour. The only one absent was Bizzy Bone.
“We got word through our management that Snoop Dogg was looking to get a tour together called The Puff Puff Pass Tour Part 2,” Layzie said. “Having mutual friends, we heard about it through the grapevine and it all came together. Steve and Jamie made it happen. It was just inevitable, really.”
“It’s going amazing,” Flesh-n-Bone added. “It’s a beautiful blessing to be out here rockin’ and rollin’ with Snoop and everything. The whole Dogg Pound and the crew are just incredible.”
Snoop wasn’t as easily accessible and had a small army of giant bodyguards standing outside his dressing room door (one was even called “Big Wall”). Easily over six-foot, eight-inches tall, they wouldn’t even crack a smile.
“They some mean mother f-ers,” Flesh joked. “They some serious sons of guns. They got something to do. They have to do their job very well.”
As heavy weed smoke continued to waft through the air (it is the Puff Puff Pass Tour), Krayzie was posted up in the corner and expressed gratitude for the opportunity to tour with artists he had grown up listening to in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
“It’s a wonderful thing for us to be out here with Snoop, Warren G and Dogg Pound,” Krayzie said. “It’s a great look. So far, all the shows have been crazy. The fans have been responsive to every act that came out. It’s going down. What’s crazy is we grew up off all this music.”
“We came up with Snoop and all them dudes,” Wish Bone added. “It feel real good to be a part of this legendary thing because we all came up under the same umbrella: Eazy-E. Without him, none of us would have nothing right now. It feels real good to part of this movement.”
One of the highlights of the show was Bone Thugs’ flawless performance of “Tha Crossroads,” a remix of “Crossroad” from the group’s 1995 classic, E. 1999 Eternal. After their mentor Eazy-E died shortly after its release, they remixed the song and released a video that featured Eazy-E looking down on them from heaven, something they remember every time they perform the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9IXAJg4Vm0
“We definitely think of Eazy when we perform it,” Wish Bone said. “We did the remix to the original for people that died and we always think of Eazy-E and all those people immediately.”
The Puff Puff Pass Tour 2 continues through December 30, where it wraps up in Las Vegas, Nevada at The Joint.
RiP Eazy. I will always respect bone thugs for being this loyal.
Greatest rap group ever
E.1999 Eternal was my shit. Still is. Cleveland is the city where we come from so run..
Finally, you say something I can agree on. E 1999 Eternal is in my top 10 favorite albums.
Outkast is the greatest rap group but Bone have to be runner up. E 1999 Eternal is possibly in the top 5 rap group album of all time.
I got them at #1 I’m not going to argue anyone that has Outkast, have them at number 2. The reason I put Bone over
Outkast is because of the last past 6 years Outkast as a group came to a complete stop, No new music, rarely ever any shows together, Bone has been together more as a 5 man group in the last past 5 years then they were in their prime.
Old cats getting new money, take notes young rappers, these guys on tour making money damn there near 22-23 years after their first album drop.
The Hip Hop Beatles or Rolling Stone
More like Beach Boys, with the harmonizing and all.
Gotta love BTNH for being a determined group they have been through a lot, good to see them still rolling and doing their thing
would have been nice for E to be alive to see them lil ruggush niggas he sign that were never suppose to make it turn into a legendary
group.
Nice to see all these vets come together and make history. Bone, Snoop, Warren, DPG still grinding, making that money. More power to them!
I grew up listening to this. Im now 42 and have 4 kids ranging between 17 and 24 years of age. They all listen to them now. I took them to go see the tour in Los Angeles and the show was awesome. Too Short was also there and Mac 10 showed up (surprise performer). It was a surreal moment to have been singing the songs I grew up listening to and having my kids be there bobbing there heads and singing right along with me.
damn u an old ass nigga whatchu doin on this site fool?
Legendary!
A lot of people always talk about E99 and rightfully so, but In my personal opinion I always thought Art of War was a little underrated, people were expected them to try to duplicate E99 but they went in a different direction, really dope album.
I thought the same about Creeping on the Come up I don’t think it gets the praise it deserves because it’s a Ep, also they have a album called Thug stories it was a underground album and a really good project.
BTNH 4 Life
All 5 live on this tour also!!!
I was at this show!!! The whole concert made the 2 1/2 hour drive well worth it
Which show did you go to, I’m hoping to make the Phoenix show. I been to 6 bone shows, all have been really good
never seen all 5, Im not the type of fan that’s like man Im pissed cause I didnt get to see all 5, I was always happy to see
any of them. But I think all 5 will be at Phx show if im not mistaking
Best Tour of they Year easily. Bone Thugs, Snoop, Warren G, Dpg, DJ Quik, They need to do Part 3 next year with the same exact line up
Best Rap group of all time!