Layzie Bone has heard the rumors that Fat Joe has spread about Bone Thugs-N-Harmony not wanting to work with The Notorious B.I.G. because of his beef with 2Pac, and he’s here to set the record straight.
“Steve Lobel called me,” Layzie said during an interview with The Art of Dialogue that dropped on Monday (January 8). “He said he talked to Puffy, and Biggie wanted to do a song with us.”
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He continued: “And we was like, hell, yeah. Right off the gate…Let me clear up that one rumor that said we turned down Biggie Smalls. Man, we had never turned down Biggie Smalls.”
Later in the interview, Layzie Bone addressed Fat Joe by name. “Fat Joe? He had a relationship with all of us, individually,” he said. “That never happened on my watch, you know what I’m saying? No disrespect to Joe. I love Joe. When we first got into the game, Bone Thugs and Terror Squad and Big Pun ran so tight.”
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Check out the interview below.
Joe has in the past told a version of the story of Bone and Biggie that put himself at the center. Back in 2022, Fat Joe honored Biggie on the 25th anniversary of his death by sharing a throwback photo of himself with Bone Thugs, Diddy, Lil Kim, and the Brooklyn rap icon.
In the caption, he revealed he orchestrated the Biggie single “Notorious Thugs” featuring Bone Thugs, which appeared on the 1997 album Life After Death.
“Fun fact I got a call from BIG and he said Joe I need your boys BONE on a song,” he wrote. “I said say no more BONE N BIGGIE BONE N BIGGIE. I love you BIG we will never forget you 25 years later we will never forget THE KING OF NY.”
Shortly after Fat Joe posted the photo, Layzie Bone rolled through with a post of his own and verified the story with, “I appreciate you Joey Crack.”
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Biggie was shot and killed in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997, as he was promoting what would become his posthumous album, Life After Death. The murder remains unsolved.
