Customer Reviews

Bone Brothers 2

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I apologize to anyone who, like me, has been eagerly anticipating a new collaboration album between Layzie Bone and ousted Bone Thug Bizzy Bone. The first The Bone Brothers album from 2005 was a pretty entertaining and enjoyable album with a few very nice tracks on it. "Bone Brothers 2" is a complete [...]. Not a single new verse was recorded for this album. Instead, Real Talk Records has taken verses from Bizzy Bone's last two albums, The Midwest Cowboy and the underground release "Evolution of Elevation" and Layzie Bone's collaboration album with Young Noble Thug Brothers and put them over new beats in order to market it as a new product. Layzie Bone claimed he did not know of this product's existence until only a few weeks ago. This is a hip hop [...] of Death Row proportions, with a label attempting to capitalize off Bone's new major label album Strength and Loyalty by releasing this on the same day. Bone fans might note, as I did, that most of the song titles here are a little familiar. That's because they're just remixed versions of the same songs. The verses are all cut-and-pasted from the mentioned three albums, placed over a new beat, and passed off as new material. Bone Thug fans such as myself will be angrily disappointed if they purchase this album.

Now, I have to be honest in this part of the review. The product is not really so bad. As I said in my reviews of The Midwest Cowboy and Thug Brothers, those albums are quite good and so the lyrical content isn't bad, even if it is just cheaply cut-and-pasted together and don't necessarily match. Someone who is unfamiliar with either of those albums will most likely enjoy this music. The beats are good, I cannot lie, so basically, this is a half-decent hip hop album, even if it is unauthorized and a [...]. If it were marketed as a remix album and not as a disc of new material, and if it were authorized by the rappers, then this would be really okay. I disagree with it in principle.

The other problem is, though, that from a strictly musical standpoint, none of the remixes are close to being as good as the originals. For instance, "Thugs Need Luv" is a new version of "Thugs Need Love Too" from The Midwest Cowboy, jacking Bizzy's verse and chorus from that song, replacing Playalitical's verse with a verse from Thug Brothers and giving it a new beat. And while this is a good beat, it's not even close to as nice as Playalitical's original one. The chemistry and subject matter are skewed, and where I consider the original song a classic, this one's just okay. Same goes for the rest of the album. There are some very nice beats, but none of the "remixes" are as good as the originals, so I can't really see any reason to own the album. Also, I feel this basically deserves two stars because the three bonus tracks, "2 tha Block," "Explain it to Me," and "Lookin' the Same," all taken directly from "Evolution of Elevation," are excellent.

If you're a die-hard Bone fan, there's still no reason to buy this, because it's not really supporting them since this is an unauthorized release. The music is really half-decent (I mean, after all, it is Bone Thugs), but it's cheap and dishonest. For a casual fan considering this album, I'd instead suggest you buy the far superior (and honest) The Midwest Cowboy, the original The Bone Brothers, and/or Thug Brothers. Also, I highly recommend the new Bone Thugs-N-Harmony album Strength and Loyalty. If anyone's looking for a cheap used copy of this album, I'll either be selling or discarding mine very soon!

I can't believe I am about to write a bad review about a Bone CD, BUT... I was really anticipating the release of this album, and paid $18 to get it the day it came out, only to be incredibly disappointed. I really have to wonder if Layzie and Bizzy even know that they released a new Bone Brothers CD? The entire disc is composed of recycled lyrics from Midwest Cowboy and Thug Brothers... I don't think there are any new verses at all. I will say I liked most of the beats though, but that's about it. Normally I can put in a Bone CD and just let it play through, I tried to listen to this disc twice and gave up... The first Bone Brothers album was WAY better. I can't believe they let this crap get released..... this is going to be added to my CD rack just to help complete my collection but will otherwise just be collecting dust.

This CD is not recorded in the studio together. Rather Bizzy Bone and Layzie Bone acapellas are taken off of other CD's and put over new beats. This per say is a remixed album of Thug Brothers Vs Midwest Cowboy. As other reviewers say the beats are no where near the quality of the originals. Not to mention the verses have no theme on tracks as it can be noted that there is no chemistry flow and have awkward feelings. For a bone duo check out thug brothers instead of this disc. Thug Brothers is a hip hop collaboration of Bones' Layzie and the Outlawz' Young Noble.

just like the other two who have reviewed this cd i am disgusted by what real talk ent. did i love the label but do even layzie and bizzy know that they put an album out of thug brothers and midwest cowboy mix'd up its just sad i did like the beats tho and thats about it i want my money back for that one well because i have to give it a rating to go through i put it at a one but it doesnt deserve it

as everybody already knows all the versus here were cut and pasted over different beats but i say this cd is not as bad as every1 says it is besides the versus being used already the next bad thing is the cuts that were made... for example since these versus were used on different albums layzie or bizzy would say the name of the album on the verse but they would just blank it out and dint even bother to mix it exept on 1 track...overall this album is okay but be warned

This album is a disgrace, embarassment and a slap in the face to all Bone Thug fans. I have been waiting for new material from Bone Thugs and Bizzy Bone only to be only half satisfied. Strength and Loyalty gets 5 Stars. Bone Brothers 2 gets 1 star only because the lyrics are still better than 90% of most rappers out there(excluding Layzie's versus, they were sub par). All of the lyrics were cut and pasted from previous albums(very badly)into new beats . This album is garbage and I would not advise anyone to buy it. Do not buy this album; unless you want my 1 time used copy for the price of shipping! I have already written a much nastier letter to Real Talk Entertainment and you should also!

When Layzie and Bizzy got together for their first album, it was nice, this one is different. As most reviewers have said, almost all the verses are from other songs the 2 recorded on other albums just mixed together and put over new beats. And like most Real Talk ent. albums, it's short, at only 10 songs and 4 skits - plus the fact they put it out the same day as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's very solid "Strength & Loyalty" album. Of the 10 sogns, 5 are good and 5 are ok, no guest on the album and each person is on every songs. Production is decent, Big Hollis does 5 songs, Vince V does 4 and Preach does 1. If you have Layzie & Young Nobles "Thug Brotehrs" or any of Bizzy's albums on Real Talk Ent. you've already heard most of the verses and I'd skip it.

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BIZZY BONE -- Bryon Anthony McCane -- b. 9/12/76 --- b. Columbus, OH moved to Cleveland, OH
LAYZIE BONE -- Steven Howse -- b. 9/23/ sround 1975 Cleveland, OH