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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony — Thug World Order
 

By Ryan Ritchie
On-line Forty-Niner
 
This record is decent. It gets massive bonus points for the originality in its presentation. These guys do not stick to that boring formula that many mainstream rap artists do. They have a guy in their group who can actually sing and if nothing else, their delivery is unique.
 
Where this record goes south is content. If Bone Thugs are smart enough to go for their own sound, they should have been smart enough to realize they aren’t saying anything new on this record.
 
The world does not need another hip-hop record about weed and how tough the emcees are. The “scary voice intro telling us who’s back and we’d better be ready” has been done a zillion times before and the cliché “guess who’s back” is repeated one too many times here.
 
As far as rap records go, this one isn’t too bad. Besides, they got a little soundbite of the late Eazy-E talking about what his music is about that sounds very similar to something on N.W.A’s greatest hits. We want Eazy!

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