A couple of weeks ago, Krayzie Bone made the bombshell revelation that he and the rest of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony were engaged in a Cold War with the newly minted diamond seller, Nelly, for the better part of two decades without any talks of a resolution.
Although no diss tracks (at least on a surface trajectory) were ever traded, Krayzie recalled a pre-Country Grammar encounter between St. Louis’ biggest rap star and Layzie Bone when Nelly allegedly got his demo dreams crushed after L-Burna dismissed his music to be a product of “Bone cloning.”
The discovery was made on HipHopDX’s original video series, The Breakdown, a weekly in-depth look at various Hip Hop stories from an oft nuanced and rarely discussed perspective. Bone’s longtime touring member, DJ Ice was the one who relayed the story to Krayzie.
After Krayzie Bone posted a meme of the Nelly bit onto his Instagram page, the word immediately traveled back to Nelly himself where he vehemently denied the encounter ever took place.
“This must be a fake page…if yall believe that’s shit I got some land on Mars I want to sell u…!!” he jokingly captioned the photo before giving his personal recollection on when he first met Bone.
“LOL by the time I met bonethugs I was 3million [records sold]…!! #FACT IM STILL A FAN THOUGH..!! But in the words of the great Maury Povich “YOU ARE NOT” telling the truth here..”
Via Twitter/xphylez
In late July of this year, Nelly became just the sixth Hip Hop solo artist to be awarded a diamond certification, thanks to the sales of his 2000 debut album, topping more than ten million records in sales. As a member of the five-man rap group Bone Thugs, Krayzie Bone has sold more than 25 million records over the course of his twenty-plus year career.
Remember when Nelly thought he could outrap KRS-ONE lol
It’s not like KRS ripped him though…
i don’t believe this. for one, nelly’s style is nowhere near bone thugs, although i can’t say i’ve ever gone and listened to his pre-fame music so i don’t know.
listen to country grammar terrible album but he def uses bones style that sing song flow, he use it on Ride with me and on that song he did with kelly rowland.
You dumbass how is that album terrible and its DIAMOND LHH FUCKING HATER SHIT
I felt like this never happened, nelly did say in a interview that he was a fan of Bone, but also nelly used bone’s style really hard, I can recalled riding in the car with my mom and that song with kelly rowland came on and she was like I didnt bone made love songs, she thought it was krayzie and she’s not into hiphop at all.
People like jelly nelly never learned to pay homage to real legends, he survived that beef with Krs one, but he can’t survive a beef with BTNH bizzy and Krayzie would lyrically chop his head off.
Don’t think this beef ever happen we would have known because nelly career would of been over early. Bone thugs N Harmony is on a different planet then nelly.
You couldn’t tell him that though he thinks hes a legend like them dude is just another cereal box rapper that sold some records.
That nigga must be back on that molly again to even bring up Bone thugs name.
It’s the roids talking bro
Bone thugs is considered the greatest rap group ever nelly is considered well nelly lol
I got Bone thug n harmony in my top 3 groups ever and I got nelly in my top 1,000,000 solo rappers ever he barely crack the list though.
What the fuck reason would bone thugs ever have to make up some lie about an irrelevant ass rapper like nelly go run along now back to real husbands of hollywood where you can pretend to still be a rapper havent dropped a relevant hit since hot in here and that was 14 years ago bone thugs have been consistent and have a catalog to show it they are one of the greatest groups of all time
I’m a bone fan and I follow krayzie I’ve never heard him say they beef with Nelly, that doesn’t make much sense at all. I think
that title of that video that was done was extremely misleading, Justin Hunte did it, he does some good vids but he should have never use that as the title, he caused some friction that was extremely unnecessary. This seems like a dumb misunderstanding.
Remember when Nelly said “I eat M&Ms” and Shady showed this man mercy
Their should be a new rule in rap/hiphop, rappers like Nelly shouldnt be allowed to mention Bone thugs or any other real legendary rapper without getting a ok vote from 5 hip hop icons.
Fucking idiot wtf hashasbone did since easy e died notnotshit Nelly very well more paid then any of them you sound really fucking stupid
Why all these nelly haters he dun accomplished more in 16 years than they have in almost 30 years bone hard but nelly is tuff too oh and reached diamond off one album lol what has bone really accomplished. Oh and since when did nelly sound bone that sound dum as hell
Lol funniest thing I’ve heard all year, Bone is way more respected than nelly you must be a nelly fan it’s ok too try to defend your
favorite rapper but at least be logical. Bone has real classics songs, albums, and features.
Why the only we ever hear iscrossroads lol what have they dun since nelly came out
American Music award since nelly came out, Krayzie bone got a grammy since nelly came out, I tried went platinum, Strength n Loyalty went platinum.
And ll f nely albums Avewent multi platinum so what…..
Nobody sold units other than em pimpjuice and the ROCits a fact bone hard but they haven’t accomplished shit close nelly and he definitely don’t sound them
Vanilla Ice and Mc Hammer went diamond too so wtf you talking bout.
Crossroads over everything that nelly has done seriously. Thuggish Ruggish Bone over everything nelly has done, Dayz of out livez over everything nelly has done, I tried over everything nelly has done, Notorious thugs over everything nelly has done, For the love of money over everything nelly has done, thug love over everything nelly has done, krayzie bone hook on Ice cube until we rich over everything nelly has done, I could go on and on but you get they point!
Obviously somebody listen it sold Nbone was out in a era where albums were actually bought
Obviously somebody listen it sold Nbone was out in a era where albums were actually bought
Tony
Nelly came out during the popcorn bubble gum era of rap, Bone is from the golden era of rap enough said.
Nelly cool on tv he a funny guy but when it comes to rap he aint in the same galaxy as Btnh. Didn’t kno they was beefing tho.
I never meet a nigga in my life that listen to nelly.
Come to think of it, me either
Not Krayzie Bone’s twitter handle. It’s Krayzie_bone. Somebody just starting mess
E99 is one of the hardest albums ever art of war bang hard too.
Always thought Creeping on the Come up was a classic I wished it was longer so thats back to back classics.
They got 2 classics in East 1999 Enternal and Creeping on the come up, The Art of war was very close to being a classic its a really good album. If they would have focus a little more on social issues than haters on that album it would have easily been a classic.
Only a handful of rappers with multiple classics, Nas, Tupac, Biggie, Jay Z, Outkast, Bone, Ll cool J,
E. 1999 went diamond too, for the morons saying Bone never had a diamond album. They have sold 50 million worldwide and had way more successful singles than nelly. Btw Nelly sounds like wish bone and was heavily influence by btnh. He even admitted it before. Where you think he got his singing from?? Ignorant people need to shut their mouths
Every one knows that Bone Thugs is 100X better than nelly , its one troll that speaking that dumb stuff don’t pay attention to it lol. Bone thugs got got 2 major classic albums, and about 10 classic singles.
Fuck Nelly
I never seen anybody wear a Nelly t shirt, hat, tattoo nothing. Never heard anybody say they like Nelly or listen to him. Krayzie bone everyday all day.