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Infobox musical artist | name = Layzie Bone|image =|caption =| image_size = 180x180| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Steven Howse| alias = L-Burna , The #1 Assassin| Born = birth date and age|1974|9|23
Washington, D.C. , United States | death_date =| origin = Long Beach, CA , United States|U.S. | instrument =| genre = Hip hop music|Hip hop | occupation = Rapper , Singer , Actor | years_active = 1992-present| label = Ruthless Records|Ruthless , 'Sicness', Mo Thugs Records|Mo Thugs , Full Surface Records|Full Surface , Interscope Records|Interscope , 'Hi-Power.', I BTNH Worldwide Psychopathic Records , Real Talk Entertainment|Real Talk Ent. | associated_acts = Bone Thugs-n-Harmony , Mo Thugs , Young Noble , Yukmouth , Mr. Capone-E , Bone Brothers , Twista , Snoop Dogg , Swizz Beatz , Bow Wow (rapper)|Bow Wow , Busta Rhymes | website = http://www.myspace.com/layzie2008 Official Myspace
Layzie Bone (born Steven Howse on September 23, 1974) is rapper and hip-hop artist known primarily for being a member of the group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony . He has also has gone by the names L-Burna and The #1 Assassin .Allmusic|class=artist|id=p474311|pure_url=yes Prato, Greg. Allmusic He is the younger brother of fellow group member Flesh-N-Bone . He is also a member of the rap group Bone Brothers and CEO of the record label Harmony Howse Entertainment .cite book|last=Bogdanov|first=Valdimir|coauthors=Chris Woodstra, Stephan Thomas, John Bush|title=All Music Guide to Hip-hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-hop|publisher=Backbeat Books|year=2003|isbn=0879307595cite book|last=Brackett|first=Nathan|coauthors=Christian Hoard|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: 4th edition|publisher=Simon & Shuster|year=2004|isbn=0743201698

Early life


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Career


The group formed the band B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e (all except for Flesh-N-Bone) and recorded an album entitled Faces of Death (B.O.N.E Enterpri$e album)|Faces Of Death in the studio of their then mentor, Kermit Henderson ( Krayzie Bone 's younger brother) on his indie label Stoney Burke in 1993. After this Layzie and the rest of the Bone Family boarded a Greyhound Bus to Los Angeles where they worked with notable producer and rapper Eazy-E and his Ruthless/Relativity Records label. Diego Blak (born Diego hodge), a marketer and promoter and co-executive producer of Faces of Death (B.O.N.E Enterpri$e album)|Faces Of Death introduced them to Eazy E at a concert he promoted in Cleveland, Ohio where they auditioned for him in his dressing room and then traveled back to Los Angeles, California after the show to seal the deal. At this point Eazy named them Thugs~N~Harmony but they wanted to keep the bone name so they were called Bone Thugs-N-Harmony .cite book|last=Adams|first=Deanna R.|title=Rock 'n' Roll and the Cleveland Connection|publisher=Kent State University Press|year=2002|pages=534–546|isbn=0873386914

Solo career, Mo Thugs & Bone Brothers


Layzie has also promoted the indie label Mo Thugs Records which he and the rest of Bone originated. He released his first solo album Thug By Nature on March 20, 2001 exactly the same day Bizzy Bone released his second solo album The Gift (Bizzy Bone album)|The Gift . He also has collaborative albums with Young Noble from the The Outlawz and A.K. of Do Or Die , solo albums out such as It's Not A Game, The New Revolution, Cleveland, Startin' from Scratch: How A Thug Was Born, and the upcoming solo album to be announced Ruthless. He has had a series of albums with Bizzy Bone ; Still Creepin On Ah Come Up and under the name Bone Brothers entitled: Bone Brothers , Bone Brothers 2 , Bone Brothers 3 . In the fall of 2010, Layzie established a new label, HarmonyHowseEnt.com|Harmony Howse Entertainment . As of 2011, he and Fredro Starr of the Onyx are planning to release a collaborative Extended play|EP entitled FireSquad , which is set to be released late 2011.

Discography


Albums


  • 2001: Thug by Nature

  • 2005: '' It's Not a Game

  • 2006: The New Revolution

  • 2006: Cleveland (album)|Cleveland

  • 2007: How A Thug Was Born

  • 2008: Thugz Nation

  • 2011: The Definition (Layzie Bone album)|The Definition

  • 2011: The Meaning

  • 2011: Thug Luv


  • Collaboration albums


  • 2006: Thug Brothers (With Young Noble )

  • 2008: Finally (Layzie Bone & A.K. album)|Finally (With A.K. Of Do or Die )

  • 2009: Thug Twinz (With Big Sloan )


  • Mixtapes


  • 2011: The Law Of Attraction (Hosted DJ Smallz )


  • Music videos


    YearTitleDirector(s)
    2001"Make My Day" w/ Baby S
    "Listen"
    2005"Hip Hop Baby" w/ Bizzy Bone & Krayzie Bone
    2006"Livin' Like Kings" w/ Konishiki
    "What They Say About Me (remix)" w/ Skant boneRyan Cain O'Donnell
    "Rollercoaster" w/ Bizzy Bone
    2009"Wring Me Out" w/ Big Sloan & Thin CWes Greeson
    2010"If I Can't Do It"Eric Guerrero
    2011"Hear'em Knockin" w/ Krayzie Bone & Flesh-n-Bone Beejan Iranshad
    Bow Wow
    "A New Life" w/ Thin C
    "Ain't Nothin to Me" w/ Maybach Dice
    "We At It Again"Ryan Cain O'Donnell


    References


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    External links


  • http://www.btnhcentral.com/layziebone.php Layzie Bone

  • http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1214409/ IMDB - Layzie Bone

  • Allmusic|class=artist|id=p352090|label=Layzie Bone

  • Twitter|LayzieBTNH|Layzie Bone


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