Layzie Bone
Background information
Birth nameSteven Howse
Also known as
  • The #1 Assassin
  • L-Burna
  • Lil' Layzie
Born (1974-09-23) September 23, 1974
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Genres
Years active1991–present
Labels

Steven Howse (born September 23, 1974), known professionally as Layzie Bone, is a rapper known primarily for being a member of the group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. He has also gone by the names L-Burna and The #1 Assassin.[2] He is the younger brother of fellow group member Flesh-N-Bone and cousin of group member Wish Bone. Layzie is also a member of the rap group Bone Brothers and CEO of the record label Harmony Howse Entertainment.[1]

Music 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 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 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, 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 called Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.[3]

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. He also has collaborative albums with Young Noble from 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 Thugz Nation. 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.

New Label and CEO

In the fall of 2010, Layzie established a new label, Harmony Howse Entertainment. In 2011, he and Fredro Starr of the Onyx group were planning on releasing a collaborative EP entitled FireSquad. Layzie would go on to release two separate albums The Definition and The Meaning on February 22, 2011 under his new label Harmony Howse Entertainment. In 2015 Layzie released the single Cleveland 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 called Perfect Timing, which was originally scheduled to be released in 2016, but is now TBD. Layzie is the uncle of the independent rapper, Dizzy Wright.

Feud and new collaborations

During a brief feud with the Migos Layzie would release the album Annihilation on April 19, 2019 featuring the song If was a 5th featuring Bizzy Bone, and the dis song Let me go Migo(Remix) . On August 16, 2019 Layzie would release another album Lost & Found. On July 6, 2020, Layzie Bone released an album titled Wanted Dead or Alive featuring Krayzie Bone, Flesh-N-Bone, Dame Dolla, Willy Ray, Cyrano ESQ, Maybach Dice, Paul Zero, Stew Deez, Ken Dawg, and Ebony Burks. On November 26, 2021, Layzie Bone released a new collaboration album with HC The Chemist titled Eyez on the Prize. On July 4, 2023 Layzie released the mixtape Too Eazy while announcing a new album called Hypnotic Rhythms with a new video and single called Let’s Eat released on November 23, 2023 and the full album being released on December 22, 2023.

Discography

Studio albums

Collaboration albums

References

  1. 1 2 "© 2017 – Harmony Howse Ent". harmonyhowseent.com.
  2. ↑ Prato, Greg. Allmusic
  3. ↑ Adams, Deanna R. (2002). Rock 'n' Roll and the Cleveland Connection. Kent State University Press. pp. 534–546. ISBN 0-87338-691-4.
  4. ↑ "Seen on TV: 6/18/15". fox8.com. June 18, 2015.
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