Anthony Henderson (Krayzie Bone), Byron McCane (Bizzy Bone), Charles Scruggs (Wish Bone), and Steve Howse (Layzie Bone) form the Cleveland hip-hop group B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e, later became Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.
They debut with this tape of ten songs and about forty total minutes of listening: the production is average/bad and cheap, while the rapping isn't much better than the music. The beats are done by Remycks, Gizzute, Bobby Jones and Archie Blaine, while the four guys from Ohio provide the lyrics and rapping. "Flow Motion" is the only decent tune of the tape: cheerful rhythm with a heavy and frenetic slow drum machine, lively, urgent and ultra-fast delivery of the performers. The remaining songs flounder in mediocrity, the beats are simplistic, attempting to imitate the funky sound of the West Coast, the lyricism seems a derivative of the early Cypress Hill, braggadocio, girls and weed, very generic lyrics. Overall, it's a badly executed album, everything is done crudely and cheaply, starting with the cover which is impressive (in a negative way) and scary. Nonetheless, this effort allows the group to get noticed by Eazy-E, who sees something most people here don't see (props to him), and signs them with his Ruthless Records, making them a commercial force in hip-hop since next record.
Rating: 4/10.
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