Layzie Bone | |
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 Layzie Bone in 2007 | |
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| Birth name | Steven Howse |
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| Born | (1974-09-23)September 23, 1974 (age 50) Cleveland,Ohio, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1991–present |
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Steven Howse (born September 23, 1974), known professionally asLayzie Bone, is a rapper known primarily for being a member of the groupBone Thugs-n-Harmony. He has also gone by the namesL-Burna,Lil Lay, andThe #1 Assassin.[2] He is the younger brother of fellow group memberFlesh-N-Bone and cousin of group memberWish Bone. Layzie is also a member of the rap groupBone Brothers andCEO of therecord label Harmony Howse Entertainment.[1]
The group formed the bandB.O.N.E. Enterpri$e (all except for Flesh-N-Bone) and recorded an album entitledFaces of Death in the studio of their then-mentor, Kermit Henderson, on his indie label Stoney Burke in 1993. After this Layzie and the rest of the Bone Family boarded aGreyhound Bus toLos Angeles where they worked with notable producer and rapperEazy-E and his Ruthless/Relativity Records label. Diego Blak (born Diego Hodge), a marketer and promoter and co-executive producer ofFaces 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 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 calledBone Thugs-N-Harmony.[3]
Layzie has also promoted the indie labelMo Thugs Records which he and the rest of Bone originated. He released his first solo albumThug By Nature on March 20, 2001, exactly the same day Bizzy Bone released his second solo album,The Gift. He also has collaborative albums withYoung Noble fromThe Outlawz and A.K. ofDo 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 Thugz Nation. He has had a series of albums withBizzy Bone;Still Creepin On Ah Come Up and under the nameBone Brothers entitled:Bone Brothers,Bone Brothers 2,Bone Brothers 3.
In the fall of 2010, Layzie established a new label, Harmony Howse Entertainment. In 2011, he andFredro Starr of theOnyx group were planning on releasing a collaborativeEP entitledFireSquad. Layzie would go on to release two separate albumsThe Definition andThe Meaning on February 22, 2011 under his new label Harmony Howse Entertainment. In 2015 Layzie released the singleCleveland is The City Featuring Aaron "D-Boyy" Dissell. The song was used by Fox News during the 2015 NBA Finals as the Cleveland Cavaliers theme song.[4] Layzie was also working on an album calledPerfect Timing, which was originally scheduled to be released in 2016, but is now TBD. Layzie is the uncle of the independent rapper,Dizzy Wright.
During a brief feud withMigos, Layzie Bone would release the albumAnnihilation on April 19, 2019, featuring the songIf was a 5th featuringBizzy Bone, and the diss songLet me go Migo (Remix).
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