Suge Knight planned an attack on Bone Thugs-n-Harmony at the 1995 Source Awards, according to Krazyie Bone.
The Cleveland rapper made the claim during a recent interview with The Art of Dialogue, where he alleged the notorious Death Row Records co-founder offered goons $10,000 to assault them on stage during the awards show.
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Krayzie Bone explained Knight felt disrespected by the group’s “1st of Tha Month” music video, in which several members wore beanies — a staple of Death Row’s fashion at the time — that were on fire.
“When we was at the Source Awards, they told me they was gonna pay somebody $10,000 to run up there and sling on [us] with a cane,” he said. “There was a lot of beef going on back then, it was intense. I remember that Source Awards being very intense. It was wild.”
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He added: “They told us that [Suge] had called a meeting one time and told everybody to look at our videos. One of us was wearing a Georgetown Bulldogs beanie, but we had a New York Yankees — we had different [hats]. The director told us, ‘Put the beanies on because the special effects gonna make y’all afros look like fire.’
“But I guess this n-gga didn’t know what he was doing and he had the little patch on that hat on fire, and they took it as a form of disrespect.”
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s Death Row beef was inherited from Eazy-E, who signed them to his Ruthless Records label in the early ’90s. Eazy and Dr. Dre had fallen out following N.W.A’s breakup and Suge Knight is rumored to have strong-armed Eazy to secure Dre’s release from Ruthless, paving the way for Death Row’s formation.
Delving deeper into the feud, Krazyie Bone revealed Eazy-E had actually urged Bone Thugs to stay out of his squabble with Death Row, but that didn’t stop tensions from rising.
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“We had several confrontations with them. A lot of things was said, mentions in songs, when we were sitting in traffic sometimes, a lot of verbal confrontations,” he said, referencing Bone Thugs’ lyrical back-and-forth with Tha Dogg Pound in the mid ’90s. “Nothing really physical ever jumped off, but it was known there was a little beef.
“Eazy told us not to get into beef, but it was like, ‘Bruh, we with you. What do you expect us to do just, like, [stay out] of this beef?’ It was like, ‘We riding!’ … It was definitely known inside both camps that there was no love for Bone at the time.”
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Layzie Bone also touched on Bone Thugs’ feud with Death Row in a 2016 interview with VladTV and recalled 2Pac defusing a verbal confrontation between them and Suge Knight at a Dogg Pound show in their hometown of Cleveland.
“Suge tried to punk me out,” he said. “I said, ‘Look here n-gga, you in Cleveland. You won’t get up out this muthafucka.’ But luckily ‘Pac was still living, so when ‘Pac came in he’s like, ‘Oh, these my n-ggas, these my thugs.’ So he kind of got Suge up off of that.”
As both members noted in their respective interviews, the once-bitter beef has since been squashed, with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and Tha Dogg Pound forming the supergroup, ThugPound, earlier this year.
