While the Eazy-E helmed Ruthless Records’ Bone Thugs albums were soaked in the Southern Californian sun, embedding them with a G Funk influence, Three 6 Mafia’s early albums were dark and apocalyptic, with even their relatively bright and upbeat songs sounding as if they’d provide the perfect soundtrack to a nighttime murder scene. A little further south, in Memphis, Tennessee, Bone Thugs n Harmony’s rivals, Three 6 Mafia, was busy cooking up their own brand of Hip Hop, infusing elements of horror into the music they made. My young ears didn’t quite fully understand everything that I was exposed to in their music, but I knew it was different from a good amount of the other Hip Hop that my friends and I were listening to at the time. Several of their projects even contained odes to ouija boards. Of course, none of this would have come as a shock for early fans of the Cleveland group’s music, whose first album, titled “Faces of Death,” had a song where each member had dealings with Satan himself, before ultimately turning against him. Produced by DJ Uneek, the sinister-sounding synths and gloomy bells, that sound as if they were lifted from the classic horror film, “The Omen” provided the perfect backdrop for the threatening chant, “Cleveland is the city where we come from, so run, run,” making what could have easily been a very corny sounding musical bridge into a dire warning towards outsiders of Ohio’s most well-known city. The video was filled with haunting scenes, and had a creepy, dark vibe, with images that perfectly set the mood and tone for the menacing beat. 1999 Eternal.” I remember watching it with my older brother, Peter. 1999,” off of their chart-topping album, “E. One of the earliest Hip Hop music videos that I can remember watching was the video for Bone Thugs n Harmony’s eerie single “E.
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