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E. 1999 Eternal
Studio album by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Released July 25, 1995
Recorded August 1994 – May 1995
Genre Midwest hip hop, G-funk, gangsta rap, horrorcore
Length 57:18 (clean version)
68:06 (explicit version)
71:52 (re-release)
Label Ruthless, Relativity
Producer DJ U-Neek, Eazy-E (exec.)
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony chronology
Creepin on ah Come Up
(1994)		 E. 1999 Eternal
(1995)		 The Art of War
(1997)
Singles from E. 1999 Eternal
  1. "1st of tha Month"
    Released: June 15, 1995
  2. "East 1999"
    Released: November 21, 1995
  3. "Tha Crossroads"
    Released: April 1, 1996
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4.5/5 stars [1]
Robert Christgau (C) [2]
Entertainment Weekly (B-) [3]
Los Angeles Times 3.5/4 stars [4]
NME (7/10) [5]
Q 5/5 stars [5]
Rolling Stone 3/5 stars [6]
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars [7]
Stylus Magazine (favorable) [8]
Vibe (favorable) [9]

E. 1999 Eternal is the second studio album by American hip hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, released July 25, 1995, on Ruthless Records. The album was released four months after rapper Eazy-E's death, who was the executive producer of the album. Following up on the surprise success of their breakthrough single "Thuggish Ruggish Bone", it became a popular album and received positive reviews from music critics, earning praise for the group's melodic rapping style.

E. 1999 Eternal became the group's best-selling album, with six million copies sold in the United States and ten million worldwide. It topped the US Billboard 200 for two consecutive weeks. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, ultimately losing to Naughty by Nature's Poverty's Paradise (1995) at the 1996 Grammy Awards.[10]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

No. Title Producer(s) Length
1. "Da Introduction"   DJ U-Neek 4:28
2. "East 1999"   DJ U-Neek, Tony C 4:24
3. "Eternal"   DJ U-Neek, Tony C 4:06
4. "Crept and We Came"   DJ U-Neek, Tony C 5:06
5. "Down '71 (The Getaway)"   DJ U-Neek 4:52
6. "Mr. Bill Collector"   DJ U-Neek, Tony C 5:04
7. "Budsmokers Only"   DJ U-Neek 3:34
8. "Tha Crossroads"   Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ U-Neek 3:44
9. "Me Killa"   DJ U-Neek, Kenny McCloud 0:58
10. "Land of tha Heartless"   Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ U-Neek 3:08
11. "No Shorts, No Losses"   Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ U-Neek 4:54
12. "1st of tha Month"   DJ U-Neek 2:22
13. "Buddah Lovaz"   DJ U-Neek, Tony C 4:43
14. "Die Die Die"   DJ U-Neek 2:51
15. "Mr. Ouija 2"   Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ U-Neek 1:19
16. "Mo Murda"   DJ U-Neek, Tony C 5:47
17. "Shotz to tha Double Glock (featuring Poetic Hustla'z and Graveyard Shift)"   DJ U-Neek, Kenny McCloud 4:44

[edit] Personnel

  • Eric 'Eazy-E' Wright - Executive Producer, Album Concept
  • D.J. U-Neek - Producer, Recording
  • Anne Catalino - Engineer
  • Aaron Connor - Engineer and Recording
  • Don Cunningham - Design and Art Direction
  • Tony Cowan - Recording
  • Madeleine Smith - Sample Clearance

[edit] Chart history

[edit] Album

Chart positions from Billboard magazine (North America)

Year Chart positions
Billboard 200 Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums
1995 1 1

[edit] Singles

Year Song Chart positions
Billboard Hot 100 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks Hot Rap Singles Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
1995 1st of tha Month 14 12 4 13
East 1999 62 39 8 —
1996 Tha Crossroads 1 1 1 21

[edit] End of decade charts

Chart (1990–1999) Position
U.S. Billboard 200[11] 54

[edit] Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
Dreaming of You by Selena		 Billboard 200 number-one album
August 12–19, 1995		 Succeeded by
Cracked Rear View by Hootie & the Blowfish

[edit] Accolades

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
About.com United States Best Rap Albums of 1995[12] 2008 6

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r218518/review
  2. ^ http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2566&name=Bone+Thugs-N-Harmony
  3. ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,298190,00.html
  4. ^ http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-22/entertainment/ca-26504_1_album-reviews
  5. ^ a b http://www.webcitation.org/5s37GDhyQ
  6. ^ http://www.webcitation.org/5s39Rsnqt
  7. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA92&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false
  8. ^ http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/bone-thugs-n-harmony-e1999-eternal.htm
  9. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=aywEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA188#v=onepage&q&f=false
  10. ^ Grammy Best Rap Albums Winners. About.com. Retrieved on 2010-08-17.
  11. ^ Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade - The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. http://books.google.co.kr/books?id=9w0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&lr&rview=1&pg=RA1-PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved October 15, 2010. 
  12. ^ Adaso, Henry. Best Rap Albums of 1995. About.com. Retrieved 2010-05-10.

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