It's fine for you to drop by just to say you love the album, but let's try and step it up a bit!!! This is your chance to practice being a critic. Avoid vague statements of praise or criticism. This is an open thread for you to share your thoughts on the album. The album was nominated for the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, ultimately losing to Naughty by Nature's Poverty's Paradise at the 1996 Grammy Awards. It topped the US Billboard 200 for two consecutive weeks.
1999 Eternal became the group's best-selling album, with over five million copies sold in the United States and ten million worldwide. Both the album and single "Tha Crossroads" are dedicated to him.
The album was released four months after the death of rapper Eazy-E, the group's mentor and the executive producer of the album. 1999 Eternal is the second studio album by American hip hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, released July 25, 1995, on Ruthless Records. Last week's EAotW: ( )Īlbum: ( ) - ( ) (Ruthless / Relativity, 1995) Beginning with our ( ) list, we'll be moving chronologically to ( ) times. Starting on every Wednesday we will discuss an album from our Essential Albums list. Including E 1999 Eternal, their second, and greatest, album.Į 1999 Eternal was released four-months after Eazy-E died of AIDS.Welcome to the Essential Album of the Week discussion thread! A lot.Įazy E eventually took them under his wing to mentor them and line them up with real production, like his boy DJ U-neek, who did everything on the group's first three albums.
A melodic take on gangsta rap (similar to Nate Dogg but more hardcore) that catches you off guard the first time you hear and even though your brain says you shouldn't like it you do. Their sound caught fire locally and when they finally broke out nationally theirs was a sound nobody had ever fuckin heard before. They started attracting crowds and eventually began battling other local rappers. All while maintaining the harmonious Motown like sound. Taking notes from Busta Rhymes and fellow midwest wordsmith Twista, they adopted the fast rap style where they crammed as many words into bars as possible. They also began freestyling and adding in rap verses to the songs. During the slow days on the streets they passed the time by singing and crooning old Four Tops and Temptations songs.
If you don't know the history behind Bone Thugz n Harmony and this album allow me to fill you in a little bit.ĥ guys from a shit part of Cleveland worked selling drugs for the same group.
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