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''Thug Mentality 1999'' is the debut solo studio album by American rapper
Krayzie Bone Anthony Henderson (born June 17, 1973), better known as Krayzie Bone, is an American rapper, singer, producer, and entrepreneur. He is a member of the rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Personal life Henderson comes from a fourth generation fami ...
. It was released April 6, 1999, on Ruthless Records,
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. The double-disc album featured a large selection of guest appearances, including Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Mariah Carey, The Marley Brothers,
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and Snoop Dogg. The album was supported by two singles: "
Thug Mentality "Thug Mentality" is a single by Krayzie Bone. Flesh-N-Bone, Layzie Bone & Wish Bone made an appearance in the video. The song was produced by Michael Seifert. Track listing #"Thug Mentality" (radio edit) #"Thug Mentality" (album version) #"Thu ...
" and "Paper". The album's lead single, titled "
Thug Mentality "Thug Mentality" is a single by Krayzie Bone. Flesh-N-Bone, Layzie Bone & Wish Bone made an appearance in the video. The song was produced by Michael Seifert. Track listing #"Thug Mentality" (radio edit) #"Thug Mentality" (album version) #"Thu ...
" was released on March 20, 1999. The song was produced by Michael Seifert, it peaked at number 47 on the
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, and at number 36 on the
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. ''Thug Mentality 1999'' debuted at number four on the ''Billboard'' 200 with 140,000
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s in its first week. The album was certified
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by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on May 10, 1999. The album has sold 1,000,000 copies in the United States. The albums marks the third solo album by a member of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.


Background

In an interview with ''
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'', Krayzie Bone spoke on the creation of the album:
I’d have to say that was the easiest album to make because I had so much material and so much stuff backed up. We was fresh, still not that far from being on the streets. I still had a lot of material that I had that I wanted to get off my chest. It was a breeze. A lot of those tracks, I had the ideas
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and then I went in and laid them straight out. Some of the stuff was from what we didn’t use from ''
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''. On Art Of War, I would basically start the songs off and everyone else would just come in and do what they do. What dudes didn’t use, I just kept stashed away and when it was time work on my album, I just brought them out.
Krayzie Bone wrote and recorded over 150 songs for the album, of which thirty-eight made the album's final cut as a double album.


Singles

The album's lead single, titled "
Thug Mentality "Thug Mentality" is a single by Krayzie Bone. Flesh-N-Bone, Layzie Bone & Wish Bone made an appearance in the video. The song was produced by Michael Seifert. Track listing #"Thug Mentality" (radio edit) #"Thug Mentality" (album version) #"Thu ...
" was released on March 20, 1999. The song was produced by Michael Seifert. It peaked at number 16 on the
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, and at number 31 on the
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. The album's second single, titled "Paper" was released in October 1999. The song was produced by Krayzie Bone himself. The song's accompanying music video was later released that year.


Critical reception

''Thug Mentality 1999'' was met with generally mixed to positive reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from
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gave ''Thug Mentality 1999'' a 3/5 rating and wrote: "Krayzie doesn't hesitate to accentuate the already smooth surfaces of his music. Some of these cuts are positively smoove, which stands in direct contrast to the gangstafied lyrics, but that's always been a part of the Bone trademark". He also criticized the excessive number of songs that made the final cut on the album and he wrote: "Krayzie tries to keep it interesting by varying the flow, never putting too many similar tracks next to each other, but who the hell can make it through 38 tracks of this without a breather, even if some cuts are skits? It may be a cliche to say that this double-record would have been much more potent if it was trimmed to a single disc, but that doesn't make it less true, especially since there are enough songs to make a very good record, possibly one of the best things Krayzie has been involved with". ''
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'' gave ''Thug Mentality 1999'' a B+ rating and wrote: "Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony’s main man gets millennial with a 38-track double CD, the best solo release so far from one of the Ohio speed rappers". RapReviews gave ''Thug Mentality 1999'' a 5/10 rating and wrote: "Krayzie displays a wide range of flows and deliveries, often on single tracks. The opener "Heated Heavy" is impressive because it features quite possibly the fastest rapping I've ever heard—if there was any question, Krayzie could give
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a run for his money any day."


Commercial performance

''Thug Mentality 1999'' debuted at number four on the ''Billboard'' 200 with 140,000
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s in its first week. The album was certified
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by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in May 10, 1999. The album has sold 1,000,000 copies in the United States.


Track listing


Disc one


Disc two

Notes * signifies an co- producer Sample credits * "Paper" contains elements of "Closer Than Friends" & "You Are My Everything", written by David Townsend and Bernard Jackson, and performed by
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. * "Dummy Man (Skit)" contains replayed elements from "
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, and performed by
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* "Thug Alwayz" contains elements from "Share My Love", written by J. Bradford and G. Jones, and performed by Rare Earth. * "Smokin' Budda" contains elements from "
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and John Oates. * "We Starvin'" contains replayed elements from "Theme From The Young & Restless", written by P. Botkin Jr. and B. DeVorson. * "Murda Mo" contains elements of Moments In love" written and performed by
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References

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