Layzie Bone: Biggie Copied Us, Pac’s Thug Nation, Real Eazy E & Wu-Tang Fight

All The Smoke

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Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Layzie Bone pulled up to ALL THE SMOKE for a legendary conversation about one of the most influential rap groups ever. From reuniting Bone Thugs-N-Harmony today to breaking down their impact on hip-hop, this episode is packed with stories that shaped an entire era. Layzie takes us back to Cleveland, talks about being homeless while making a platinum album, and opens up about Bizzy Bone’s kidnapping and the chaos that surrounded the group in their early days. He shares memories of working with icons like Eazy E, Mariah Carey, Biggie, and Tupac, and gives us the inside story on classic tracks like Notorious Thugs and First of the Month.

We also get into a Christmas party run-in the crew had with Wu-Tang Clan, his thoughts on the greatest rap groups ever, and the journey from the streets to winning a Grammy. This is hip-hop history told by one of the architects.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human. Welcome back, all the smoke. Have we decided what season this is? Season six. Jay, we got six seasons, bro. Blessing. Your nails look nice. You got them done? Yeah, I get them shiny buff. No apologies, shiny buff. Okay, you live in Atlanta, so I just had to ask. Yeah, it's as good you ask, but you know me better than that. Yeah, I thought I did, but I do.
0:24.6	Man, welcome to the show. And I tell, I was just telling, bro, like, I'll ask anybody to come on our show, but when I seen him at the softball game like two weeks ago, I kind of got nervous. Like, y'all, I've been such a big fan of these dudes, like, I don't even know if I want to ask him. And then I said, fuck it.
0:39.0	Fuck it.
0:39.5	Let's make it happen.
0:40.5	And he came through, gave his wife my number and she hit me up maybe a week later. And we're here, man. Welcome to the show, the one and only, lazy bone, man. Appreciate you, back. I'm in this piece, man. Legend, legend.
0:55.0	Earlier this year, y'all shared a picture together.
0:58.0	Right here, take a look at that.
1:00.0	What was that getting the group back together and chopping it up?
1:03.0	What was that about?
1:04.0	Oh, man, that's that all five live right there, you know what I mean?
1:08.0	Like, that's when you put that hand up and you can give a smooth slap when there's one of them. You know what I mean? Like, that's when you put that hand up and you can give a smooth slap when there's one of them.
1:13.8	You know what I mean? But when you ball that whole thing up and so powerful, you know what I mean? So that's the all five live, me and my brothers come together to put the stamp on the legacy. You know what I'm saying?
1:26.7	Anything in the works with the whole group?
1:28.3	Oh yeah, we definitely working on the album right now.
1:31.3	Okay.
1:32.3	But just it's so much more than just music, you know what I mean?
1:36.3	Like the music, the autobiography, the book, the movie, you know what I mean, the rock and roll, the fame, the Hollywood
1:48.1	walk of fame.
1:49.1	It's a lot of, it's a lot of things that are covered in.
1:51.1	Give it up, man.
1:52.1	I love it.
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