Krayzie Bone has said that the reason rap groups are no longer a thing in modern music is due to “egos” and “selfishness” getting in the way.
The Bone Thugs–n–Harmony legend stopped by Power 106 Los Angeles, where he said rap groups have slowly become extinct because of artists’ personal issues getting in the way of collaboration.
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“Man, I’m gonna keep it 100. To me, it’s selfishness,” Krayzie said when asked for his thoughts on the lack of rap groups in 2023. “You can’t have a group like you had back in the day because nobody wants to be that dude in the group.
“Everybody wants to be that dude in the group, everybody wanna be that front dude. And if you do get a group, they only gonna last for the first project. The egos is gonna kick in…they gonna split. It always happens, bro. Always.”
Krayzie Bone was likely speaking from personal experience. In 2011, he and Wish Bone officially left Bone Thugs-n-Harmony after internal conflicts emerged within the group. They departed to work on their solo material, with the pair announcing the launch of their independent label, The Life Entertainment. Krayzie has since reunited with the group, and they’ve toured together numerous times.
Bone Thugs made headlines in 2021 after going against another legendary rap group in a Verzuz battle: Three 6 Mafia. During the heated competition, Bizzy Bone accused Three 6 Mafia of mocking them on stage before attempting to start a fight.
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“I didn’t even hear what Bizzy said,” Krayzie said in a post-Verzuz interview with HipHopDX at the time. “I didn’t hear none of the conversation they were even saying … I thought Bizzy was just about to grab the mic and talk some shit like everybody else was doing.
“So I’m back there and I see all the security guards rushing the stage, while I’m walking toward the back of the stage. Our security is running from backstage to the stage. I turn around, and everybody is on the stage. I’m like, ‘What the fuck is going on?’ And I’m standing there, pissed.”
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He continued: “At this point, I’m thinking Bizzy done come in here and started some shit. I didn’t know what happened. I’m like, ‘How is they mocking you? What did I miss?’ The part I caught from Bizzy when I started paying attention to what he said was, ‘You ugly muthafucka.’ Like, ‘Oh shit, this is going left.’
“And then that’s when all the shit jumped off. So I’m standing at the back of the stage, watching this shit the whole time, livid. We look like assholes on national fucking TV right now.”
Shortly after the debacle, Bone Thugs ended up embarking on a national tour without Bizzy Bone, which the rapper criticized on his 2022 song “Bizzy Get’s Busy.”
However, Krayzie Bone simply told HipHopDX with a laugh: “He knows the tour schedule. He’s always welcome.”
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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony rose to notoriety in the early ’90s after brokering a deal with Eazy-E and Ruthless Records. Their 1995 sophomore album, E. 1999 Eternal, arrived just four months after Eazy’s death and sold over 300,000 copies in its opening week.
It remained at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for two consecutive weeks and has since been certified 4x platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
