![]() But it was the sheer ability of the group which made it seem like their skills could come from nowhere else but a higher (or lower) power. We found signs everywhere of their supposed satanic connections: the frequent ouija board allusions, the constant refrain of “Mo Murder”, like a chant, and the skull-n-bones imagery. It sounds silly now, but at the time, steeped in Bone Thugs lore, it seemed possible. The devil was going to kill them all simultaneously on January 1st, 1999. My friend heard a rumor that the members of Bone had sold their souls to the devil (a la Robert Johnson) so that they could rap as fast as they did. ![]() I remember gathering around the mirror with all my neighborhood friends, reading the cryptic backwards liner notes from East 1999 Eternal. None of them had that mysterious aura that Bone had, either. But none of them touched Bone, especially Bizzy Bone. Obviously, they were all from the Midwest: Twista, early Mystical, Tech N9ne, Crucial Conflict, Do or Die. Maybe its because I’m from the Midwest, but my friends and I would compete to discover the fastest rappers.
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