That would’ve been fun, but it would’ve robbed us of Crunchy Black’s dancing, of Layzie Bone attempting to play diplomat all night, of Gangsta Boo popping off, and of all the random guests we got onstage. The Verzuz battle was originally supposed to go down last year, as an Instagram Live showdown between Krayzie Bone and DJ Paul. For me, though, the real story was the way the entire show unfolded - all the interpersonal dynamics playing out in real time in front of the world. Two famous rap groups threw hands at each other onstage. Juicy J, who once came off as DJ Paul’s knucklehead sidekick, is still an in-demand mainstream rap hedonist at 46, and kids are still discovering Juicy’s older brother Project Pat and his twisty, baffling flow via “Knife Talk.”Ī post shared by Bizzy Bone□□□ the battle, that quick little fight got all the attention. That never happened with Three 6, but Three 6’s sound has proven massively influential throughout the decades I hear echoes of their sound in virtually every big rap album that comes out today. In their day, Bone became bona fide pop stars for a stretch in the mid-’90s, they may have been the most popular rap group on earth. Bizzy Bone’s whole life history is so riddled with trauma that any straight-faced recounting would come off as Dickensian exaggeration. Two Three 6 members, Lord Infamous and Koopsta Knicca, are no longer with us. Members of both groups have been in and out of jail. Every member of both crews has been through serious hardship. The odds were stacked against both of them. For these two groups, chaos is simply part of the legacy, so any true representation of their histories would have to have a little chaos, too.įor these two groups, it’s a minor miracle that they made it to that Verzuz stage in the first place. This was a genuinely unpredictable and chaotic moment, and it served to heighten everything that happened before and after, but it wasn’t dangerous. But nobody got hurt in the Bone/Three 6 fracas, and I don’t think anyone was really in any danger of getting hurt. Even when Gucci Mane and Jeezy finally stood onstage together, snarling back and forth, they never actually got up in each other’s faces. This was the first time a Verzuz battle had broken down into an actual physical confrontation. The music stopped, a few people pushed a few other people, and Three 6’s Gangsta Boo yelled about how Bizzy is a hater who must not be taking his pills. About half an hour into the show, Bizzy Bone, the most erratic member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, got fired up and started spouting off at Three 6: “You ugly motherfuckers ain’t finna be mocking me while I’m on motherfuckin’ stage!” When Juicy J barked back, Bizzy Bone threw a bottle, and a whole mob of people ran out onstage to puff their chests up at each other. On Thursday night, Three 6 Mafia and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, two revered and influential rap groups with long histories, went up against one another in a live Verzuz battle, and things got chaotic quickly. (Bone Thugs, for their part, kept the pop stars in rotation with their Mariah Carey collab “Breakdown.”) Just hours after, Juicy J followed the Verzuz with his new single “Pop That Trunk” alongside Wiz Khalifa, off their upcoming 2022 joint album. And later, Three 6 Mafia also played Juicy J’s verse on Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse,” likely the only appearance Perry will make on the Verzuz stage. Later, Three 6 Mafia brought out actor Terrence Howard to help perform “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” their Oscar-winning (another surprise, if you may have forgotten) song that he raps in the film Hustle & Flow. That fight didn’t end up being the night’s only surprise. Let’s keep the party motherfucking rollin’.” “I want to apologize to everybody the fuck out there, on both sides,” he said. At first, Bizzy didn’t return to the stage with Bone Thugs, but he eventually came back to apologize, trading a handclasp with Juicy J. Bizzy Bone, you a hater,” Three 6’s Gangsta Boo said as things escalated before security eventually pulled the two groups apart. That quickly grew into a few seconds of full-on fighting between Three 6 and Bone Thugs - the first fight, perhaps surprisingly, after months of live and in-person Verzuz battles. “N-, suck my dick,” Three 6’s Juicy J replied, prompting Bizzy to throw a bottle in his direction. “You ugly motherfuckers ain’t finna be mocking me while I’m on motherfuckin’ stage,” he told the rival group. As the ’90s hitmakers traded the usual barbs and jabs of a Verzuz, Bizzy wasn’t having it. Bizzy took the stage with Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony for a Verzuz battle against the Memphis crew that, for a second, turned into an actual battle. Bizzy Bone starting a fight with Juicy J during this Verzuz battle □ #Verzuz /98fXtWflaC- Jason Williams December 3, 2021īizzy Bone had a bit of a bone to pick with Three 6 Mafia during Verzuz on December 2.
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