The war theme is prevalent throughout "Thug Mentality 1999"'s staggering 38 tracks, seven of which are skits. Bone was definitely in a military mindstate circa 1999, and both "The Art of War" and 2000's "BTNHResurrection" featured songs narrating epic battles and apocalyptic violence in light of the new millennium's impending doom. Krayzie is a head-spinning rapper and an unusually talented singer, but more than anything else he's a thug, and the listener will have a hard time losing sight of this fact over the two discs. The result is a sprawling and exhausting listen approaching 140 minutes with some quality music and some insignificant filler that has little business on an album, let alone a Krayzie Bone album. At the time of "Thug Mentality 1999"'s release, Krayzie was hard at work establishing his ThugLine Records imprint, and many of the songs serve as introductions to his artists. Krayzie Bone had already explored the double-LP format with his group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony on 1997's successful "The Art of War," and two years later he returned with his first solo effort "Thug Mentality 1999." As you might expect, guests are quite frequent and range from bona fide superstars (Treach, 8Ball & MJG, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Fat Joe, Big Pun, Cuban Link, Mariah Carey, E-40, Gangsta Boo, The Marley Brothers, and the rest of BTNH) to his underwhelming protégés (Bam, Relay, Niko, Knieght Rieduz, K-Mont, Asu, GraveYard Shift, Up In Clouds, Thug Queen, Mo!Hart, and Felecia).
Thus we got "MP da Last Don," "Wu-Tang Forever," "Lost," "The Element of Surprise," "Kuruption!," "Thugged Out: The Albulation," and "My Homies"-good albums for the most part with inexcusable filler, bloated running times, unnecessary guest appearances, and worthless skits. After the runaway success of "All Eyez on Me" and "Life After Death," the mindset seemed to be that given rappers' high demand, they could put out epic two-disc packages of unfiltered studio sessions, charge somewhere in the twenty-dollar range for them, and go platinum moving half as many units as normally needed.
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** RapReviews "Back to the Lab" series **ĭouble-albums were the bane of gangsta rap in the late-90s. Knieght Rieduz (Here We Come) (featuring Knieght Rieduz)Ġ6.Krayzie Bone :: Thug Mentality 1999 :: Ruthless/Mo Thugs/Relativity/Epic Guests: Bam, Relay, Treach, Niko, 8Ball & MJG, Layzie Bone, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Fat Joe, Big Pun, Cuban Link, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Knieght Riduz, K-Mont, Asu, Bam, The Graveyard Shift, Mariah Carey, E-40, Gangsta Boo, Up In Clouds, Thug Queen, Souljah Boy, Mo! Hart, Thug Queen, Felecia, Bob Marley, The Marley Brothers.ĭescription: Дебютный альбом участника группы Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.Ġ9. Label: Mo Thugs Records, Ruthless Records, Relativity Records. Tony "C", Steve Pageot, Dewey "Duke" Sanders, KayGee, Falonte Moore, Rater, DJ Nasty. Producer: Stephen Marley, Krayzie Bone, Romeo Antonio, Michael Seifert, Damizza, T-Mix, Leiahola Jones, Nightfiend, Tombstone, Anthony President, Brainz, Alex Marlow, Erik "E" Nordquist, DJ U-Neek, Gusto "40" Moss