Cleveland Officials to Honor Bone Thugs-N-Harmony with Street Naming Ceremony

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

By: Adonis Armstrong

Earlier this week, it was announced that the iconic hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony will be honored in their hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, through an official street naming ceremony, thereby immortalizing their legacy.

According to Cleveland News 5, city leaders have scheduled a forthcoming tribute event on August 11th from noon to 2 p.m. local time. This event aims to honor Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Bizzy Bone, and Wish Bone by renaming the intersection of East 99th Street and St. Clair Avenue as "Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Way." Following a petition created by the group's supporters over a year ago, officials have now reached an agreement, acknowledging that the time has come for this recognition.

One of the Cleveland residents who initiated the petition is Felicia C. Haney, the proprietor of Beach Street Publicity. “There’s nothing here that pays homage to that or to the group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony,” she explained her motivation during her conversation with the outlet behind taking action and implementing her plan. Ward 10 Councilman Anthony Hairston, along with the support of the Spread the Love Foundation, the St. Luke's Foundation, and the Famicos Foundation, is endorsing the street renaming, which will be sponsored by the city.

“Growing up on that street was crazy,” following the announcement, Krayzie Bone reminisced about it during his conversation with Rock the Bells. “We had many, many adventures on that street. We got in so much trouble. Our street was 99th and St. Clair, but we renamed our street because of the two nines — the 99 — we called it ‘Double Glock.’ I remember we shot the streetlights out on the street, so the police would no longer ride down it. At night, they would only come to the corner of the street, shine their lights down there and keep driving past. They wouldn’t come down the street. Every time they would have somebody fix the light, we’d take it right back out with either a BB gun or a little .22 rifle.”

Krazyie Bone continued by saying, “Everything really did birth who we really were in that era. We had started rapping together back in junior high school, then it carried over to high school until we got out of school. When we [got] out of school that’s when all of us were on 99th. We was definitely focused on our music around the time we was on 99th for sure.”

On August 11th, which marks Hip-Hop's official 50th birthday, everything will come full circle. After the street naming ceremony, Bone Thugs is set to deliver a performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the same evening. The next day, August 12th, Bone Thugs will take the stage at Sam Miller Park for the Glenville Festival, followed by joining LL COOL J's The F.O.R.C.E. Tour at the Rocket Mortgage Field House, alongside DJ Jazzy Jeff, Z-Trip, and other notable Hip-Hop artists.

Bone Thugs continues to hold a unique distinction as one of the only groups that collaborated with iconic artists like 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Eazy-E, and Big Pun during their lifetimes.

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