Later, Bizzy will contradict himself and come up with a few reasons to stick around. “I can give you one thousand reasons why not to ," he says, sounding mystified.
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He says the city is full of “haters," and that he doesn't get the respect he deserves.
He extends his hand, his palm open to show the invisible blade. At each mention of an incident he reaches over his shoulder and pantomimes the removal of a knife. He says the city has stabbed him in the back. An unstable home life as a youth, numerous traffic stops, perceived slights from local promoters and the recent deaths of several people close to him have turned him against Columbus. After all, he has a new solo album coming out in September and Bone Thugs is back on his radar.ĭespite the fact Columbus is home, Bizzy has harsh feelings toward the city. In the interim, with Bone Thugs on a recording hiatus and three years having passed since his last solo project, Bizzy is spending less time making headlines for drinking and assault charges, as he did in the late 1990s, and more time trying to ensure the only press he gets is good. "Where I was born, so shall I die,” he says, almost resigned. Leaning over a grave, he promises to be buried in his hometown. Bizzy was a teenager at the time.Īll his stories loop back to Columbus, where he grew up, for the most part, and now lives. rap mogul Eazy-E over a phone and landing a record deal. There's the famous part of the story-the Big Break-which began with members of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony selling drugs in the streets of Cleveland, dropping rhymes for influential L.A. It includes time in a studio with rap immortals such as Notorious B.I.G. Unlike those of other babies born at OSU that day, his story includes a Grammy Award and album sales of more than 15 million as a solo artist and as part of the hip-hop phenomenon Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. The story of the man who goes by "Bizzy Bone" begins in Columbus, where he was born at Ohio State University Medical Center as Bryon McCane. “You know how it goes," he says, laughing, "everybody's got a wonderful fucked-up story." It's just tobacco." He squints into the sun. The man who has sung about the pleasures of marijuana says, "Don't worry. He's visiting the friends he has buried here while talking about his life as the “greatest rapper in the world.” He sips from a juice bottle and pulls out a light for a small cigar.
A tattoo creeps out of his collar up his neck. He walks among the gravestones at Evergreen Cemetery, 27 years old, wearing neatly pressed khakis and a wily smile. Editor’s note: With Bone Thugs-n-Harmony on a nostalgia-laced tour this summer, Columbus Monthly is republishing this 2004 profile of Columbus native Bizzy Bone.
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