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What do you think of this of this song I still cant make up my mind about it. Its okay but it kind of seems like a rap version of a backstreet boys song. :susel[1]: sorry ive just been dying to use that one.lol

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If it weren't for Akon on the track, nobody would mess with these old azz Freestyle Fellowhsip rip-offs.

:muahaha: :muahaha: :muahaha: :muahaha: Someone else who knows the deal.. :kekeke:

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I love this song. I think it's the best Hip-Hop single of 2007 EASILY. The production is good, the lyrics are great, and Akon's appearance dosen't come across as huge commerical attempt just becuz he's so "hot" to Top 40 fans. Bone has 100 times more heart and brains than any other rapper on the charts at the moment. I read about this song months b4 it came out and when it finally did hit, it waz everything they said it'd be.

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no no no they are not a rip off of anybody. Bone has been holdin it down since before a lot of these cats came into the game. i don't really like I Tried that much but its better than all the singles out there now. This effort by them is a good one, but they will never capture the same atomosphere they had back in 94-97. Bone is classic. they have always kept it real. they are growing up a little bit now.

nobody can ever front on Thuggish Ruggish or East 1999. they have been holdin Cleveland down on the map for years and i take offense when someone says they are a rip off of anyone else.

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no no no they are not a rip off of anybody.

back in the early 90s eazy E took bone thugs to the good life cafe..where they watched all the freestyle fellowships cats rap ..they were inventing styles at the time.. they then then proceeded to completely bite their style..100% the whole singsong flow is straight from the fellowship..a bit of hip hop history for you..

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how do you define style. are you saying they copied their way of flowing and writing lyrics. from what i have heard of freestyle fellowship (which is very little) they wrote more about having fun and old school hiphop not growing up in the ghetto.

i have never heard that story by the way. if it is true i wonder why no1 else knows about it. regardless, bone thugs is more popular than freestyle fellowship so i guess they did something right. regardless everyone of the members of BNTH is proven and still goin in the game. nobody in todays rap game can compare with the flow and lyrics of Krayzie Bone on the mic.

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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony bit their whole steez from Freestyle Fellowship

Sure, why not?

Style-biting is generally pretty open to interpretation, but who else but the Fellowship was busting that hyperfast, sing-songy steez back then? Nobody, that's who. At least nobody of any consequence. So how did a bunch of stoners with bad perms from Cleveland come to bite everybody's favorite L.A. backpackers? We're guessing the Good Life Cafe, home to many a Fellowship rhyme workout, is the missing link. Lots of heavyweights outside of your typical gangstafied artsy-fartsy Project Blowed soaked up the Good Life. Ice Cube, for example, was a regular spectator. So why wouldn't Cube's ol' buddy Eazy-E take his latest wick-wack proteges to the same spot to soak up some knowledge? Granted, even the corniest Blowedian wouldn't come with something as corny as that harmonized "bonebonebonebone, bone, booooooone" ****, but the similarities are too close for comfort. And Abstract Tribe Unique's "L.A. Styles Back," a not-too-thinly veiled dig at some g-ed up doo-wopping biters, backs up the idea. Besides, Self Jupiter could singlehandedly whip all the Bone Scrubs' asses, so whatever he says goes in this argument.

http://www.wutang-corp.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14087

The roots of Project Blowed can be traced back to the late '80s and a health-food store on Crenshaw Boulevard called the Good Life. The store held a weekly open-mike night during what's commonly viewed as the genesis of modern freestyling. Up until then, freestyling had been defined as rapping prewritten verses over new beats. And while there was always room for improvisation, that wasn't really the focus. But the MCs who formed the nucleus of the Good Life's weekly event -- Freestyle Fellowship's Aceyalone, P.E.A.C.E., Mikah 9 and Self Jupiter -- began spitting completely impromptu verses that were both rhythmically intricate and lyrically dazzling.

"Before us, nobody was truly freestyling," Aceyalone points out. "Nobody knew how to rap off the top of their head. We invented the freestyle as you know it. We set the style and we set the pace. No doubt, no question."

Word began to spread about this aesthetic revolution, and the Good Life night caught the attention of L.A.'s hip-hop elite. One of the many legends surrounding it contends that N.W.A's Eazy-E brought members of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to the Good Life to take notes on (and later bite) Freestyle Fellowship's singsong flows. And it wasn't just a West Coast thing. By the end of 1992, the Good Life was attracting luminaries like the Beastie Boys, Biz Markie and Fat Joe. But as the night continued to grow and flourish, some of the scene's most prominent members felt it was time to move on.

http://www.houstonpress.com/2005-05-26/music/blowhards/

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I'm not familiar with Freestyle Fellowship. With that being said, i've always thought Bone waz pretty creative. And when i say that, i'm speaking about more than just their vocal style. I need 2 school myself on FF tho.'

When Bone 1st came out with the trippy vocal style, i just tied it 2 Das EFX's style. Their styles are different, but Das EFX really broke out the box with a crazy style. I don't know which group i like more.

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I don't wanna write off their whole careers because of how the controversally got their start, because they've lasted long enough to prove that they're not a gimmick. Their music is alright I guess, definitely worse Hiphop out there. I just think it should be known how exactly they got their start and what influenced them. Eazy-E founded this group, right, and Myka 9 of the Freestyle Fellowship did some ghost-writing for Eazy-E (while in NWA), so put 2 and 2 together.

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yeah my initial response was exactly what AJ's is. their flows are definitely creative. you might say that their flows derived or were influenced by them but i think you would be hard pressed to say that Bizzy and Krayzie's flow from 2000 was a direct copy of FF. they definitely found their style and have earned respect in the rap game. the dude who wrote that article sounded way more bitter and a hater than anything. but i can only say this having little knowledge of FF. i will have to find some samples

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Regardless of them copying someone else's style or not, I still like the song a lot.

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the song is just a bit corny. Akon is nothing special to me. its a good effort and i respect the fact that Bone is growing up and sharing a different view of the situation. but there were better songs on the album

back to Bone biting FF. did they also copy the part of singing in harmony? or just spitting fast flows? cuz the harmony is a huge part of what makes them work and if they didnt copy that then i dont think you really have a case cuz there are other fast rappers. i guess Twista coulda bit FF then huh? lol no j/k but seriously i've been listening to nothing but Bone for 2 straight weeks in my car lately and they are my favorite group right now thats why i kinda take heart to the accusation.

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