1994
Midwest
↑ See it on the mapCleveland
Ohio
Harmonised speed-rap · melodic melancholy
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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony arrived in 1994 doing something genuinely new — five-part harmony at double time — and sold twenty million records doing it. Every melodic rapper since 2010 is in their debt, whether they know it or not.
Bloodline · 2 stops from The Bronx
- 1973The Bronx
- 1984South Central (LA)
- 1994Cleveland
TransferThe Bronx
Bone Thugs took a bus to Los Angeles and auditioned for Eazy-E in a parking lot. Ruthless signed them, and the harmony they brought was Midwest church, not California funk.
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Roster
1994
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Sung, harmonised, double-time rap. Nobody had done it; everybody does now.