Hip Hop luminary, Kurupt confirmed in an exclusive interview with HipHopDX yesterday (April 23) that Tha Dogg Pound and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are planning a collaborative project.
“Right now we’re fixing to be working on a Thug Pound album with all of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and all of Dogg Pound,” said the Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania-native. “…Snoop [Dogg], Daz [Dillinger], myself, Soopafly, Krayzie [Bone], Wish [Bone], Bizzy [Bone], [Flesh-N-Bone], Layzie [Bone], the whole ball of wax. These are new works.”
The 1990s Beef Between Tha Dogg Pound & Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
The collaboration comes nearly 20-years following the one-time beef between the two collectives. Tha Dogg Pound and Bone Thugs traded insults in the mid-1990s while immersed in the last wave of the Death Row Records and Ruthless Records feud.
Krayzie Bone took aim on “Mo Murda” off of Bone’s 1995 Grammy-winning album, E. 1999/Eternal, targeting the Death Row-artists with “Follow me / Roll, stroll down East ’99 / Gotta find these Row hoes.” Layzie Bone followed one song later on “Shotz To The Double Glock” with “Niggas don’t take a wrong turn or you’ll enter the hood / Wig splitters will cover your dome / In a cut where the thugs and hustlas roam / Cleveland Browns / Dogg Pound hoes it’s on.”
Later in 1995 on Tha Dogg Pound’s multi-platinum debut album, Dogg Food, Kurupt replies on “Dogg Pound Gangstaz” with “Ain’t no harming me / Ain’t got no love for no Hoes-N-Harmony.”
Kurupt said that not only have the two legendary groups buried past grievances, but that he and Layzie Bone have become “brothers.”
Kurupt’s Brotherhood With Layzie Bone
“I found that a lot of times through disagreements you meet some of your best friends and family,” he told DX. “Me and Lazyie is like brothers. During the Death Row [Records] era, we were ready to tear each other apart. Now that’s one of my best friends. Layzie Bone is one of my best friends.”
Tha Dogg Pound and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony recently performed during KDAY Krush Groove in Los Angeles, California on April 20. “[It was] classic to get Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Tha Dogg Pound on the same stage after all we’ve been through in our lives,” said Kurupt about the 4/20 concert that also featured Mack 10, Warren G, Too Short and Glasses Malone. “They was with [Eazy-E]. We was with Dr. Dre. We were just defending the people that gave us these opportunities.”
When asked by HipHopDX if Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s go-to producer DJ U-Neek would play a role in the upcoming Thug Pound project, Kurupt replied, “I ain’t talk to [DJ] U-Neek at all, but it’s just a work in progress. I’m definitely fucking with him.”
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my teenage self thinks this is great, but about 16 years too late.
nah.. this kills any MMG compilation or the next YMCMB collabo
Could not have said it better myself… just reading this subject line had all the shit I listened to as a teenager flow through my head at once. Here is hoping its a hit.
Man, i feel the same way. I feel like both groups need to go back to their roots and stop tryin to fit in with this current wack ass sound. If they do that, this album could be epic
Could be dope
asap rocky gonna jizz in his pants when he hears about dis
“clevend browns the dog pound” – he’s referring to the browns fans…called the dog pound. FYI
that was a double entendre. definitely a shot at dpg
this is gonna be some classic shit fo realz
Awesome…so does this come out before or after all the other West Coast colloboration albums Ive been waiting on for years like:
N’Matez (Daz, Kurupt, Lady Of Rage & RBX)
Warzone (MC Eiht, Kam & Goldie Loc)
Kurupts album with Pete Rock
MC Eihts album with DJ Premier
1st Generation (MC Eiht, Kurupt, King Tee & Jayo Felony)
Helter Skelter (Dr. Dre & Ice Cube)
and lets not forget to keep lookin out for Detox
And how many times did Watch The Throne get pushed back before its release date…ZERO…This is why our beloved West Coast Rap is slowly fading away ya’ll
Or the bone thugs / outlawz album that never came out either
this could work
Westcoast for lifE!!!!
Thug Pound? I’d rather just hear Bone Thugs back together, Kurupt fell off a long time ago
TERRIBLE IDEA…
This will not happen and if it does it will be a Layzie & kurupt album with some tracks feat Krayzie
Would love to see this album but you’re right it’s gonna turn into a Layzie and Kurupt album with Daz, Krayzie and Flesh sprinkled in.
Probably won’t see the light of day. Dudes should not utter a word until the album is 90% done and they are ready to pick a single. Then they can say something.
first of all this album is gonna be wack nobody cares about bone thugs anyway and dogg pound to busy rapping over wackass downsouth sounding shit with autotune in it. kurupt if you listenin please just focus on the HRSMN album or the joint you supposed to be doing with peterock fuck everything else. oh yeah and let rasskass walk for being a trader and pick up planet asia thank you
your right especially about rasskass
Foo u stupid or wat. Bone thugs still has a pretty big fan base. These niggas are legends in the game impossible to b a wack album
Yes This Will Be Absolutely Wack Hoes N Harmony is the correct Statement slow and filter they shit down and its just a bunch of bullshit no lyrics at all
“Yes This Will Be Absolutely Wack Hoes N Harmony is the correct Statement slow and filter they shit down and its just a bunch of bullshit no lyrics at all”
You’re a dumbass. The only albums that could loosely applt to are their first two records, where there ;yrics were full of Cleveland slang a Jamaican pathos. But from Art Of War and onwards, they’ve had some of the most poignant lyrics in mainstream hip hop to date. Just on a literary level – Art of War, Resurrection, Heaven’z Movie, Thug Mentality, etc are leaps and bounds ahead of many records to date.
Punchlines and metaphors aren’t a sign of lyrical talent, content and level of literacy are.
Bone THUGS HAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST FOLLOWINGS, EVER! kRAYZIE AND bIZZY ARE STILL MAKING TIGHT SHIT!
CLASSIC!
…we dont need trap beats on this tho
we need weed anthems, chilled out tracks, feelin good music, summer music, WESTCOAST ISH!!!!
Amen. Couldn’t have said it better.
OMG these were like my two favorite groups growing up. Might actually have to purchase some music. Hopefully this is atleast as good as Cali iz Active
20 yrs too late…
Scratch that…12-15 yrs too late…
trust me this would have never been on time anyway
Yeah this shit would have been dope like 17-18 years ago right after E 1999 Eternal dropped in 95′.
Will be tight now, new rap is trash!
no we don’t need this, make the DPG and ALkaholiks album what planned about a decade or more.
there are a thug pound album already, Bizzy and Bad Azz made it. 😀
Hope it does really happen just to see what the product is like. Rap artists always do a lot of talkin’, then egos get in the way or minds change, and the project gets scrapped.
Yeah right kurupt, like we should believe you after you faked the N’Matez back in 2011 …
West Coast veterans are some of the least consistent hip-hoppers …
What about BlaQKout 2 with DJ Quik, Kurupt?
good question!
They should call the group Dogg Bone