The Crossroads Bone Thugs
• • Length 3: 44,,,, Tony C (original version) singles chronology ' (1995) ' Tha Crossroads' (1996) ' (1996) ' Tha Crossroads' is a song written and performed by group, taken from their album and released in 1996. The song is dedicated to the group's mentor, the late icon, and other family members. The song was the highest-debuting rap single when it debuted at number two on the.
It is their biggest selling single, reaching number one on the Hot 100, and in 1997, the song won a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Background [ ] 'Crossroad' originally debuted in 1995 on the album. It was dedicated to Bone's dead friend Wallace (Wally) Laird III, but after the death of they decided to remake it as 'Tha Crossroads'. The original song appears on the edited version of the album, though the European release has the original as track number 8 and the remix as track 18. The song is performed by four of the group's members, (,, and ). After receiving high praise for their song the group decided to make it their third single for their already released album,.
You've still got love from (bone, bone, bone) My nigga, just rest your (soul, soul, soul) (and we'll see you at the Crossroad) [x4] I'll never get over what some nigga told me: 'Did you know your nigga Wally got pap pap and put in a coffin?' Why my nigga took a fall? Saw my nigga try to swing them dums, (in the war) so we lost him. This song was dedicated to Eazy-E (real name: Eric Wright), a rapper and music mogul who was a member of the group NWA. He died of AIDS in 1995; Bone Thugs-N-Harmony were signed to his label, Ruthless Records.
The Crossroads Bone Thugs N Harmony
The song was a smash hit worldwide and reached the top of the. It has been certified 2x platinum in the.
In 2008, 'Tha Crossroads' was ranked number 33 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. Music video [ ] The music video was filmed on February 27–28, 1996. It opens with the female vocal group Tre' (Kimberly Cromartie, Rebecca Forsha and Maniko Williams) singing the traditional spiritual ' in a church funeral setting, followed by the members of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony singing the main song in several settings, such as a church and a mountain top. The main focus of the video is an imposing man with sunglasses and a trench coat, akin to a.
The Crossroads Bone Thugs N Harmony
Bone are among the few who can see the man, and watch him as he gathers souls of various individuals who are marked for death, such as a young man who leaves his distraught mother behind (presumably have died after entering life as a gang member), Bone's friend Mike G, Wish Bone's uncle Charles,, and a newborn baby (possibly to have died from a childbirth complication). The Reaper then leads the souls, with the baby in his arms, up a mountain where he reveals himself to be an angel, then takes the dead to. 'Tha Crossroads' was nominated for the at the in 1996, although it lost to Coolio's '.' Track listings [ ] Australian CD single [ ] • 'Tha Crossroads' (D.J.
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