First Time Hearing Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Tupac "Thug Luv"

[@the_hispawaiian8156]

Bone is the only rap group are artist to have songs with these 3 legends: 2pac, B.I.G., and Eazy-E

[@spartanrealah2121]

Don't forget Big Pun & Coolio

[@JohnnyFromVirginia]

@@spartanrealah2121 I mean. Coolio with them on The Points right? What other song they do together? Cause if that’s the case they also did records with Redman, Helta Skeltah, Busta Rhymes, Black Moon and so many others lol

[@CaddyJim]

@@spartanrealah2121 they're not iconic Legends like the 3 listed above. But they are passed you might as well add DMX who they also collabed with

[@richardcolliwoodtetteh2448]

Phil Collins too

[@CaddyJim]

@@richardcolliwoodtetteh2448 He's still alive though. When it omes to *Eazy, Biggie & Pac* nobody else collaborated with all 3 & because their past it's impossible for anybody to collab with them

[@carrierenee5999]

Y'all youngens are listening to pure gold. I am 40 and blessed to say I lived in the time of Tupac and Biggie.

[@landonprice5656]

We loving this parents tighten up music is key. Verzuz is necessary

[@merlepainter7640]

Growing up in the 90's we had the best music full of raw emotions, you could feel every verse . . . Being 40 I still crank what now known as old school rap this new generation should listen more to when rap was cold , real and was the way of life

[@erikgrimmcard2392]

I bought The Art of War in a FYE in my local mall in 1997. I was 18. One of the best albums I remember. So many goods songs on that double disc. I also picked up Biggie, Life After Death 2 discer that day. Yikes... rap/hip hop was 100xs better in 90s and 00s.

[@johnpeter8098]

They play this in a club and old heads are there its over. Whatever goes at that point it goes. LOL

[@time2chill121]

I feel old now 😂

[@TheSaiyanRace]

Even if you never understood Bones lyrics, their flow and beats were so tight, you could have an awesome experience with just that. Everyone who listened to rap in the 90's bumped Bone!

[@skar85]

Facts

[@roems6396]

So, pretty much everyone who ever listened to Bone. I had their first two CDs, growing up in the mid 90s, and it was the definition of just vibing and waiting for the lines you could actually understand to rap along with it.

[@llahhsoj7651]

Three six bodied them in that versus. To be fair, they are way different though.

[@FredWreck819]

I was about 10 when I started listening to them in '95. I got to go see 3 of them live back in 2019. Was the BEST night ever man. They were apart of the Snoop and Friends concert. But they were the highlight for me. Sucks Bizzy wasn't able to make it tho. Wasn't allowed into Canada.

[@gabeamz7939]

@@llahhsoj7651 dont think so.

[@mizzc425]

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony spit in cursive. Periodt. It's Art that's interpreted uniquely through each individual. Talent + skill at its finest = a universal vibe that's felt decades later. Legendary.

[@emmjay5821]

"For the love of $", "Buddah Lovas", "Mo Murda", "1st of tha Month", "Shoot em up", "Eternal" its so many classics from them yall have to check out. BTNH are legends for sure

[@mikelowery343]

Facts

[@ibestrokin]

Down 71

[@DsChelI]

I’m ready for the Bone Thugs rabbit hole!

[@ibestrokin]

@@DsChelI yup. Bone, Pac and MF DOOM. You can get lost in those catalogs.

[@41italia]

they already checked out 1st and $, but Mo Murda and Buddah Lovaz has yet to be atteined

[@rsmitty483]

The gunshots every 7 seconds put this song over the top. The beat, the flow, and the lyrics, all fire 🔥

[@larryiscreating]

Not only the gun shots but the theme from Jason playing under the beat too.

[@john-ln5nu]

Pac loved 7

[@loopspringsteen1479]

them gunshots blew our mind in 97!!!!!!

[@younggullah]

Let me educate yall about the black community in the 90s. Unfortunately the MAJORITY of us were born in the hood, surrounded by gang violence. I was 12 when this song came out and I understood and felt every word cause it was our reality at the time. Not many of us were concerned with graduating or going to college like yall are now. We were just trying to make it to see the next day. I'm 38 now (don't look it at all) and I'm one of the last ones from my hood still alive and not in prison, I'm extremely lucky. It sucks we were at war with each other back then but that was the lifestyle and yes Brandon it was VERY normal to shout out anyone you knew locked down lol. Times have changed drastically and I'm glad for that. But yall keep learning, I enjoy watching the growth.

[@IMO954]

So true

[@djmaxxhtx]

Speaking for the other side, I was in college in the early ‘90’s HBCU proud. Our campus was just like A Different World. A lot of the brothers there were trying to leave hood stuff alone and make a change. Think about the McDonald’s scene in Spike Lee’s School Dayz. We played everything hot coming out in Rap/Hip Hop because we had classmates from all over the country. You had to dub your homeboys tapes when he got back to school from visiting home. I saw the VHS video where PAC caught his first assault case. It was at a ball player’s party in a University gym. PAC was performing on stage with a baseball bat and the sound man kept messing up the mics. PAC got mad and jumped off stage and was rushing the sound booth and started swinging. Someone caught him with a mean right to the dome but he was still swinging.

[@younggullah]

@@djmaxxhtx people don't realize how big of a deal it was for brothers like yourself to go to college back then, especially now days. I wish I would've went down that road but it took forever to leave the street stuff alone cause I was so deep in it. Much love bro

[@djmaxxhtx]

@@younggullah I appreciate it. It was not all roses though. School was full of everything that is in the world schools don’t talk about; death, murder, drugs, prostitution, scammers, fraud, etc. You had to be strong to keep your mind focused. My homeboy killed by police hit the hardest. I saw first hand how they jumped on the news to direct the narrative and assault his character. This was 30 years ago before the internet we know and we still talk about our homeboy like he still here. Peace bro.

[@coldred9639]

@@djmaxxhtx RIP ✝️ To your homie my guy 🔥COLDRED🥶

[@danker7241]

2pac literally raised THE BAR for evryone

[@lutherodanielsjr7876]

Stop the 🧢. Pac was way out of his league on this song

[@tavius88]

@@lutherodanielsjr7876not even

[@DwayneHill-lk9hq]

@@lutherodanielsjr7876what you talking about

[@Segasaturn65]

@@lutherodanielsjr7876 what are you on about??

[@bgray0411]

Cap

[@Patti-SolDancer]

In 1995, they released their 2nd album with the song "Crossroads." It became my young son's fav song because we lost his Dad to a drunk driver that year. This band is still one of his all time favs!

[@theshowstopper979]

Sorry for your loss

[@comingforya690]

Sorry for the loss. My fav is Art of War

[@russellwilliams4317]

My grandma is a bruja. I'll tell her to pray for you and your son! Sorry for your loss!

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

That's a tuslly their 3rd album, first one is called Faces of Death. then Creepin, the E. 1999, then Art of War. then their career took a nose dive, I blame eazy e wife tomeka wright. shady AZZ BROAD yo.....

[@realitycheck8294]

90s to 2000 was peak rap music, lyrically and bars, that era had killers

[@vaexplored]

I’m a 43 year old white boy from the mountains in Virginia, and I became a fan of Bone in 1994 when they released Creepin on ah Come Up. Of course the Internet was still in its early stages back then, I couldn’t just go on Google and look up the lyrics. So I spent countless hours in my bedroom listening to their songs over and over and over and over, playing a few seconds and writing down what I could understand, then playing the next few seconds and writing it down, and doing this for entire songs. To my surprise a lot of what I transcribed by ear almost 28 years ago, was pretty spot on with the lyrics videos that are available today. My entire time watching this video I was singing right along with it. And for the most part I still have it. Haha! Much love and respect gentlemen, I am now a subscriber.

[@Beauty-n-Brain-1]

Creepin On A Come Up is one of my favorite album

[@leroiarouf1142]

You a G

[@beez991]

Im a 41 white girl that knows all of Bone lyrics too😂❤ I got to meet them backstage a few years back. Best show ever💀 they are so nice and down to earth. Bone reminds me of my childhood. My favorite rap group of all time. They are special.

[@toniasampley695]

I used to sit in my room with a notebook and do the exact same thing lol. Bone is still my favorite group all these years later. I still listen to them almost daily.

[@illmaticgemini]

Straight classic here. Us older Bone fans remember the days of spinning their albums non-stop, pausing, rewinding to catch their lyrics. Was actually a fun and informative way to appreciate their art even more. Give their track "East 1999" a spin next.

[@williamrice7961]

East 1999 I had it on Tape(cassette) these Era of music is the HARDEST!!!!!

[@illmaticgemini]

@@williamrice7961 Absolutely agree.

[@jameymcentyre576]

East 1999 first CD I ever bought!! Try the rare gem!! Faces of Death album! By Bone before they signed with Ruthless Records!!!!! Talk about a throwback. The song Hell Sent off the album is kinda pre Mo Murder. But more so story of them kicking Satan's ass and taking over hell. 🔥 Damn near impossible to find a harder track.

[@mrs.spicer]

Maannnnn I used to have a song notebook and record off the radio on cassette tape… rewind and rewind and rewind to write the lyrics down… good times… spent HOURS In my room doing that.

[@illmaticgemini]

@@mrs.spicer Not lying right here. We all zoned out.

[@jasonsampson7565]

Fun Fact: "Thug Luv" was originally a Bizzy Bone solo song. It featured 2Pac and Sylk-E-Fyne.

[@Btnh_East]

Fun fact: the beat was made for Eazy-E

[@spartanrealah2121]

Fun fact it was always a Bone song but Bizzy got to the studio early & started the song early with Pac

[@jasonsampson7565]

@@spartanrealah2121See, I didn't even know that. Lol. I always heard that "Thug Luv" was a Bizzy solo track. But then again, Tomica Wright always had her hand in everything Bone related, so who knows? Lol

[@Btnh_East]

@@spartanrealah2121 but was for Eazy-E but he passed so bizzy and dj uneek pulled it out of the vault and 2pac love the beat so they used it

[@gmac9987]

The group talked about it. It was a bizzy solo with the features. Once they heard it they was like naw we all gotta get on this

[@BlehgarySD]

BTNH is arguably one of the best hip hop groups of all time. The had wild flow and put out bangers. They were the first cassette I bought as a kid (E.1999 Eternal) and it’s still one of my favorite albums of all time.

[@RHL2321]

Straight facts here! I got the album cover tattooed 🔥

[@vicegripp]

When physical CDs was the thing, some of the booklets inside had the lyrics along with all the song info. Also for context on this song, its off the Art of War album which was a double disc & during that era BTNH was writing that album they were beefin with Twista & his camp (Crucial Conflict, Do or Die, Speedknot Mobstaz, & Psychodrama) & also beefin with Three 6 Mafia & their crew (Hypnotize Camp Posse). It was over who invented the speed rapping style & each city was hyping each other up becoming Cleveland vs Chicago vs Memphis.

[@brandoonf6962]

loool yup

[@ancientdolphintofualmondma2863]

Playa G (Memphis rapper) had one of my favorite tracks about Bone "Fuck the Trunk"

[@miketaylor1824]

Some of that 3 6, Project Pat, southern rap is so underrated and unknown. I wish it was more main stream. That's where Luda came from also.

[@comingforya690]

I miss Sam goodies! Lol

[@Vang_Cutz]

Man, we had BTNH in cassette tapes. Lmaoooo. Good music.

[@bosouth5094]

Tupac was the best my friends...He helped me get through life

[@samo8565]

Honestly part of the entertainment and fun listening to bone was trying to figure out what they were saying and trying to rap as fast as them. They aren't just saying fast stuff they have real lyrics and content. It was before all the punchline entertainment and they rapped what they lived

[@walkinglootchest1251]

I was born in 89 and was a kid when this song came out and yes, we understood every word and even if we didn't CD's used to come with a little booklet that had the lyrics to all of the songs in the CD written in them so we could read along while listening.

[@jgip64]

Born in 91 and my older brother bumped this!! We lived in Charlotte, NC and this came on the radio everyday!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ImAeup]

You should do Bone Thugs No Surrender. It’s another hard song

[@hazeleyedsouthpaw9049]

💯💯💯💯🔥

[@DjTheDon614]

This has always been one of my favorite songs..Pacs verse is crazy.

[@uwereasweatonce2898]

Yh don’t think you boys get how underground and anthem this was ,hard track with legends,blessed

[@KevyB.]

I've been a Bone fan since 1994. I can rap back almost all of their songs, most of them without listening to it...yea, I'm just a huge fan🤷🏾‍♂️... Bizzy also my favorite rapper.

[@JohnnyFromVirginia]

Shit don’t get much harder than rapping over a beat made of gunshots with 2Pac on the feature lol As for that question about understanding the lyrics, when I was in Highschool and I’d find these lyrics on message boards and print them out. I had a giant folder filled with Bone Thugs lyrics. Just studied them dudes man. I’m a massive fan. If you want another one where they go hard in the paint regarding speed, peep out the opening record to this same album. “Handle the Vibe” - They all do their thing on that one. Still gotta do No Surrender y’all!

[@ryanpaaz]

Same, lots of cassettes and rewinding tracks. Spent all day learning the flow. “This track is tight you best be clapping your hands…”

[@JayJones863]

Bone Thugs are definitely Legends

[@spartanrealah2121]

What's about Bone is they been rapping fast for almost 40 years & they still got the best fast rap cadences

[@darrellpasion8925]

31 years together as a rap group, they weren't rapping for almost 40 years. That meant they rapping fast as 8 year Olds. Lmao

[@kinglyfe86]

@@darrellpasion8925 30,40 years does it matter at that point? His statement still remains true after all this time they have the best fast rap cadence's.

[@darrellpasion8925]

@@kinglyfe86 well it sounds ridiculous to me a group of 8 year Olds rapping compared to a group of 18 year olds. Just saying .but yes I agree the best rap group ever imo and only group to do it with 3 deceased Rap legends and my favorite rap group till this day since 94 ✌️

[@spartanrealah2121]

@@kinglyfe86 AGREED what's funny is Krayzie, Flesh & Layzie met in 7th grade most people are 12 in 7th grade Krayzie Flesh are 49 that mean they've been together since at least 37 years add in the fact that Layzie & Flesh are brothers & Wish is they cousin Bizzy came on the scene at 12 he's now 46 & 40 years is about right

[@spartanrealah2121]

@@darrellpasion8925 you do realize they been friends & family longer then they've been a group right

[@DukesMusic84]

This is real hip-hop, banger. Thanks for showing the kids to appreciate true LYRICISM

[@logicaldude3611]

No way this is the first time you guys have listened to this absolute masterpiece.

[@dmsbears1782]

they probably wasnt even born

[@Ganjikhan]

@@dmsbears1782 They got the biggie poster in the back... they have def heard this before.

[@tiffanyblack6911]

Doesn't look like they get that.

[@kimson305]

​@Ganjikhan since when is biggie, tupac or bone?🤔

[@tiffanyblack6911]

That beat so hard and Perfect and they harmonize so well... WE DIDN'T GIVE A PHUCK WHAT THEY WERE SAYING! We understood ENOUGH! These are Legends back when we were OUTSIDE moving and having real fun... Not making videos and beig glued to phones... RESPECT 💯

[@DEADPOOL_LK-4T7]

What we used to do back in the day is print the lyrics from websites when they became available. Someone would like listen to the song and break all the lyrics down word for word and type it out to save on a website so that other people could print it to study and learn the songs.

[@Hi.Im.Chucky]

Good ol days.

[@johnathonwright923]

Tupac and bone went crazy on this track !!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Keltron85]

Damn these tracks bringing me back!!! Thug luv baby ❤

[@TaraIvie]

Seen them in concert 6x and been a fan since the 90s. Still be ridin around bumpin to BTNH on my 12" subs and I am 40. HAHA.

[@jelayemoore2669]

We were rewinding the tapes back then and writing the shit down. Most of the time we were still dead wrong 😂

[@hiphoptvwhy]

Bone Is Iconic

[@trappestarrgaming3422]

Shid we had nothing better to do but to play it on repeat til we learn the lyrics. Shit like that kept some of us off the streets

[@RIF241]

People lived with music a lot more back then. Meaning when you got that bone CD or tape you rocked tf outta of it on some everyday shit. We probably didnt know what they were saying off of first listen but it sounded so good that you got used to the flow and eventually started picking up the words. If you really wanted to know you would play a little of it the write down what you think you heard then play a little more and write down a little more. But the music game wasnt so saturated back then. Only a few CDs came out a month and if you were young and didnt have a lot of money to spend on music whatever CD you did have you played that shit every day morning, noon and night.

[@Cloudroth]

One of my favorite pac verses of all time and its in a bone song!

[@Danilo111]

“They rap fast as hell” … this is one of the few songs where I actually could understand what they were saying

[@Unxpekted]

Chills everytime Bizzy rap. Possibly the hardest track ever!

[@sithil]

Back in the day we'd sit there with a notepad and wear out the tape (yes we had it on cassette) rewinding and listening to every little 3-4 second section over and over and over to pick up most of the lyrics and from then on could follow along without the paper cause we had heard it so many times it was just in our heads.

[@SG-Cichlids]

Yes we knew what they were saying and bumped this all the time.

[@mandownhc]

First heard bone in 94 when I was 7 years old and it blew me away. I use to sit with the cd/tapes on my stereo and play and pause constantly to write down the lyrics. Haha good times! Still love bone to this day!

[@tcook2236]

WE DEFINITELY PLAYED BONE OVER OVER OVER OVER AND OVER SO WE COULD LEARN IT... BUT IF YOU GREW UP ON BONE LIKE WE DID YOU UNDERSTOOD BONE SOUND AND COULD UNDERSTAND THEIR RAPS...

[@Melanie-xw9xg]

I grew up listening to Bone and I seen them in concert and know the lyrics. The beats is everything.

[@concretebeast8075]

Literally I learned most every song from bone this is one of the best yes I know exactly what they rapped bone fan forever

[@bgbambino]

Gotta react to “Deadly Combination” Big L feat. 2pac & Biggie. Big L was dope and passed well before his time. 2pac’s verse is dope!

[@toniasampley695]

This brings back good memories of me and my gf’s bumping this as loud as we could and singing along. Everyone loved Bone and Pac so when this song came out we went crazy and yea we understood what they were saying. Nothing but good times.

[@mattlawrence1932]

Bone the only artists in history to do songs with Eazy E , 2pac & B.I.G.💯

[@christoperrobinson1610]

Yes I was born in ‘86 and when they dropped this knew every lyric, verse and rhyme scheme mixed with bars they were spitting

[@freddysaucedo8650]

This was a beat originally made for Eazy -E he sat on it for a minute then ended up letting Bone and Pac use it and they didn't disappoint. It doesn't get much harder than this Pac + Bone with gunshots and Jason Voorhees sound effects in the background 🔥🔥

[@TEMV9213]

Thats exactly what we did.....kept runnin it back on repeat until we got all the words down pat and yes we knew what it meant most of us were in the same age group as the one rapping the songs. We grew up in the gangsta era.

[@heavy75chevy97]

I'm proud of u young men for doing ur thing especially for ur merch and the way ur advertising ur own merch

[@entrepreneurking8162]

That song is so damn raw 2023!!!

[@PapawsDadillacOEMplus]

This was one of Bizzys best verses ever.

[@edgarsandoval289]

And Lazy Bone too!

[@godorok1]

To answer your question at the end....HELL NO lol I had to rewind that shit over n over. That's how we learned the lyrics to a lot of songs. Yrs later the internet came about, so we printed the lyrics lol. Some albums came with the lyrics.

[@smartjunayd]

Y'all need to react to Big L - Put It On next, one of the biggest legends in hip-hop history

[@Top10-n2s6o]

Onggg I been waiting for them to react to this

[@SPACELAD87]

Grew up listening to this with the brothers here in far north Queensland Australia 🤙🏼🔥

[@aileenmclaren456]

First heard this when I was 13,now just turned 40, was absolutely blown away at the time, still blast this tune out now 💜 RIP 2Pac

[@kirageorge]

I am mid-40s, and in school, I didn't care what they were saying... for me, I was fangirling over Bizzy Bone.. man that man was fine!! To know what only he said, I just kept rewinding the cassette. I hate to sound cliche, but rap and hip-hop were on another level back then.

[@RojoCube]

This is one of my favorites if you haven't already. Check out California Love Check out I Got 5 on It by Luniz.

[@younggullah]

I second this. I got 5 on it is one of my favorites ever

[@QtheTerrible]

The version with the conversation in the beginning 😂

[@elpozolero7837]

Y'all gotta listen to that "Mo Murda" Definitely one of my top 5 Bone tracks

[@henikimura4413]

I was kid in the 90s, at first listen I never understood what they were saying. I liked their flow and harmony. I never heard rap like that before. I preferred songs like 'days of our lives' and 'crossroads'. But we would access the lyrics off the net at school. Although I was young, it was pretty clear what they were talking about.

[@davidsmith-uw2ci]

I was 11 when I 1st heard BTNH back in 95 and been hooked ever since and no on my 1st listen I didn't know but I started to pick it up little by little and starting at 12 and now that I'm 38 I still know all the words. Y'all have it easy nowadays you can get lyrics but we had to listen to it over and over and over lol

[@Ninjaturtle6503]

Weed song and Change the world are awesome Bone Thugs songs.

[@ssjcajas]

Just came across this reaction. Thug Luv is one of my favorite Bone Thugs songs ever. Art of War was such a good album.

[@andy1181-l3m]

About keeping up with the lyrics. As a lifetime fan, no. When I first heard these classics I didnt know what they were saying but it still sounded amazing and I loved it. Then as time went by and I got used to them, THEN i started to understand what they were saying which blew me away how dope it was and it made me like them even more!!

[@nikkilq]

🙋🏾‍♀️ I was that kid in the 90's listening to this, rapping along knowing most of the lyrics and not caring what they meant. Back then most cassette tapes and CD's came with the lyrics. Growing up in the 90's just hit different!

[@terrylynch555]

You fellas need to react to Bone, Thugz in Harmony '20 Year Anniversary freestyle '

[@mokanutz]

This is the one

[@eddiemiacoria8477]

And like I said I’m old school, so u al need some of the foundation of rap.. PLUS only group to COLAB w EASY E, 2PAC, BIGGIE.. only group. Respect 🏆🏆💪🙏🔥 keep doin your thang u guys.. WHERE’s the COAST CONTRA REACTION .. jump on that NEVER FREESTYLE..

[@kasaletaak4471]

Bone Thugs were on constant repeat for me throughout my teens, so you get used to their flow and understand their songs just. Speed rap was more common back then, this younger generation is used to rap/singing/mumble rap so it may sound strange to them.

[@illmatiK4]

In the 90s we were ABSOLUTELY bumpin’ this and knew what they were saying. On the 1st listen or the 100th listen, you were spitting the tracks right with them! This level of rap is unknown to the generation of today but this is what HIP HOP was. The 90’s was the pinnacle of RAP / RnB. BTNH is arguably the greatest rap group of all time….PERIOD!

[@myronmosley2167]

I understood 95% of what they were saying the first time through at the time this song came out because I had been listening to them already and caught on to their style of speech before this song came out. But on their first record I was like wtf, I didn’t know what they were saying 95% of the time but the way they did it was clearly ground breaking and it sounded so smooth you had to keep listening

[@kaet7472]

As a person born in 04 this is the rap i grew up and will forever be blasting. Even ik how iconic and game changing this music was back then

[@DesignzRUs]

Lyrics came in the cd cover booklet when you bought the album. But really no Bone fan know every lyric 😂 just vibe with it

[@jamestautuku]

I grew up in the 90s and everyone I grew up with we all knew the lyrics to almost every BTNH song and used to have competitions on who could rap them the most clear

[@drrllgrss30]

We would play their tracks over and over again until we caught every bar and knew every word

[@kismetsoul4593]

One of my favorites. I bought Art of War when it first came out and this was one of the best songs on there.

[@djozerwright1206]

I was 14 or 15 when this came out. I had no clue what they were really saying, but I knew that was a negative influence on our community. I just stuck to working out and studying to compete for scholarship, and chose to not be a follower like my peers, dispite the song being good sonically compared to other rap songs in our generation.

[@Peacekeepa317]

You ain't lying. I was 17 and I wish I understood that back then. That gangsta rap shit impacted us worse than crack in the long run

[@NethenR3471]

Y'all need to listen to Bone thugs n harmony No Surrender! One of their hardest songs.

[@yuukirito1996]

Fun fact : Thug Luv was considered to be included in the One Nation album

[@walterjohnson1740]

And who told you that because Bizzy Bone said it was supposed to be his solo song featuring Pac

[@yuukirito1996]

@@walterjohnson1740 the fact Thug Luv (feat. BTNH / Bizzy Bone) was listed in about 3 or 4 tracklists hand written by Tupac himself Edit : also I said considered not confirmed since the One Nation album was never finalized

[@parkinsaw]

@@walterjohnson1740 Was originally Bizzy and Pac (also feat Silk e Fine) called Thug Luv OG (you can still find it) the others were brought in afterwards. I actually prefer the other version.

[@DarkReapersGrim1]

I recommended this song after I saw them play the Bone Thugs ft. Biggie one.

[@artdorokhov]

Please do BTNH ft. Phil Collins - Home. So harmonizing and deep

[@ytshotty2thebody653]

90's this was the shit !! I would listen to it after school every day , all of the art of war

[@puncho8799]

The beat and the flows were good enough for most of us and we would understand the words here and there but the general meaning of the song we all understood but if you really wanted to know exactly what they were saying you would try to find the lyrics y’all should react to 2Pac’s Me And My Girlfriend Jay Z and Beyoncé remade it

[@janaboone1769]

You asked did we know the lyrics....yes we did. We had to replay and replay or turn on cc when the video came on. Also some tapes and cd had the words in the covers to songs...I loved the 90s.

[@chilldudegamesproductions3072]

Please do Scarface never seen a man die

[@eniquitus]

I'm 36 now and I remember at the age of 14 growing up in the hood in Miami, and me and my friend listening to this song on full blast in the house. We heard and could appreciate some of the lyrics at the time, more specifically Tupac's because his cadence is slower than Bone's. More clearly, I could remember me and my friends listening to the gun shot element on the beat and us losing our minds with excitement, because we never heard a beat done like that before.

[@StewartWilliams-i9h]

Thug luv premise is the bone thugs asked thug life 2pac to Cleveland the night before to help clean up some people who are no longer breathing it is a scenario

[@whatcanithinkofnext9478]

Pac always had a way of making u wanna go on a mission...rip pac and big. Thank u to the young generation for appreciation our music by in the 90z and yes most of the 90z rap especially out here in California it was always gang related. Bone always went hard so for pac to get on it was a classic

[@seandobson6221]

This is a definite BANGER! I was in college when this one hit the scene. On the same album this one was from there was a track they did with Biggie.

[@carolki1315]

😂😂 I bought all bones thugs CDs back in the 90s and even saw them in concert but I gotta admit I could not understand 90% of the raps 😂😂 but nobody sounded like them. That’s what made them stand out and be so unique.

[@jennymorales1507]

Wow im old af!! And still jam out to this..yalll just know found this. This is our treasure..enjoy ❤fire lyrics by bizzy and pac

[@dragongod1652]

Lustin on us and bustin on us meant loving them in one breath and hating on them in the next breath. As far as understanding them them more you listen to them the more you can follow them lyrically. For tha luv of money and no surrender are the next you should listen to.

[@geewoods]

We listened to these over and over. This was the summer of 97. A double disc album. The art of War

[@jodiedehart3314]

Aww man!!! I've been WAITIN' for y'all to do this!! #legendsong

[@joshuadaley6531]

These cats lived this life. No fake shit.

[@brandonlowman1934]

I got genuinely so excited when I saw the title of this video. I know this gonna be a good one

[@leslieshattuck5459]

By the time of that song coming out, I was a big fan and was able to follow the flow and understand what they were saying. Took listening to E.1999 tape/cd several times to get there though.

[@chronesrt2925]

I am a White boy from Canada and I purchased every bone thugs Alblum. In the 90's the times were much different and ALL the kids in highschool were following suit. People took the east-west war world wide WITH the Music. The talent of the artist of our time was amazing from both sides. God I miss bustin Bone thugs on my Panasonic Shockwave.

[@WhiteWolf.the.Artist]

I'm so glad you guys reacted to this!! ❤️💯🔥 And Yes, most of us understood what they were saying. Back then most of our rap music was very lyrical. Now if you asked us old heads if we understand what they are saying in today's mumble rap.. most if us would say no. It was just different back then. Things were much more gritty, dark and edgy in the 90s... compared to the poppy flamboyant vibes of today's media. Even the store Hot Topic looked like a scene out of JigSaw... today it looks like bubblegum anime pop. I think it's good that things are lighter in current day then they were back then. It's good to appreciate the times. It's very cool that you guys seem to understand it well despite not growing up in the 90s. You guys are much appreciated by Gen Y and Gen X. Thank you ❤️💯

[@cdc2484]

Y'all gotta hear bizzy bone's Da Roof Is On Fire. Dope song dope album!