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Layzie Bone

Person · male · United States · Cleveland · born 1974 · recording since 2001

American rapper

G-funk Midwest hip-hop chopper funk gangsta rap hardcore hip-hop hip-hop horrorcore

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Also known as L-Burna · L-Burna (aka Layzie Bone) · Lazie Bone · Lazy-Bone · Steven Howse · 懶骨頭

Debut: 2001
Recording span: 25 years
Release groups: 23
Timeline events: 20
Wiki language versions: 16

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Timeline

20 events▣ Album 18◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1

1970s
1. 23 September 1974 · Birth
  Born 1974-09-23
  source: wikidata
2000s
1. 20 March 2001 · Debut release
  Debut release: Thug by Nature
  First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
  source: musicbrainz
2. 20 March 2001 · Album
  Album: Thug by Nature
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 31 May 2005 · Album
  Album: It’s Not a Game
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 7 February 2006 · Album
  Album: Thug Brothers
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 22 August 2006 · Album
  Album: The New Revolution
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 17 October 2006 · Album
  Album: Cleveland
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 24 July 2007 · Album
  Album: How a Thug Was Born
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 4 March 2008 · Album
  Album: Thugz Nation
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
9. 11 August 2009 · Album
  Album: Thug Twinz
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2010s
1. 25 January 2011 · Album
  Album: Thug Luv
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 22 February 2011 · Album
  Album: The Meaning
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 15 November 2011 · Album
  Album: The Law of Attraction
  Album (DJ-mix)
  source: musicbrainz
4. 29 November 2011 · Album
  Album: Exacta Standardz
  Album (Mixtape/Street)
  source: musicbrainz
5. 2 November 2017 · Album
  Album: The #1 Assassin
  Album (Mixtape/Street)
  source: musicbrainz
6. 23 May 2018 · Album
  Album: Smoked-OutKast
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 2019 · Album
  Album: Annihilation
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2020s
1. 3 July 2020 · Album
  Album: Wanted Dead or Alive
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 22 December 2023 · Album
  Album: Hypnotic Rhythms
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 3 July 2026 · Album
  Album: D.a.S.H.
  Album
  source: musicbrainz

Biography

English biography593 words · 7 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366453441

Biography

Steven Howse (born September 23, 1974), known professionally as Layzie Bone, is an American rapper known primarily for being a member of the group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. He has also gone by the names L-Burna, Lil Lay, and The #1 Assassin. 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.

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.

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 NatureThug by Nature20 March 2001 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 19 tracks1Carole of the Bones0:542Battlefield4:053Connectin’ the Plots4:234Fear No Man3:405Time Will Tell4:176Where You Goin? (skit)1:107How Long Will It Last4:548Deadly Musical4:199Fire in tha Hole (skit)0:4010There They Go4:0011My Niggaz3:1212Still the Greatest5:3013Make My Day3:5414Lock-N-Load4:3415Up Against tha Wall3:4616Thug by Nature4:4317Smoke On3:5718Listen4:0619As the Rain4:50 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 RevolutionThe New Revolution22 August 2006 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 15 tracks1Intro1:222Vote for Me3:493Mo Murder3:504For My Weed Heads3:345Midwest-Westcoast Connection4:066From the 993:147For the Thugs That's Gone3:298Wanted to Be a Soldier4:089Say Lady4:1010Skit0:3611I Get Higher4:3212Street4:2013Touchdown4:0314These Hi Power Soldiers3:4915Outro Mega Mixx1:16, ClevelandCleveland17 October 2006 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 20 tracks1Cleveland0:232The Recipe3:463They Don’t Know4:024Rain4:365All for You3:196Po Po3:147Armed and Dangerous3:348Ride Out4:089Real Niggas3:5410Murder3:4611Punch in the Mouth4:0512Outro0:2513Kick Rockz1:1514We Gone Ride3:0515Thug Life2:4816Tonight2:4917The World2:3618They Hate3:0019I’m Good6:0220Get in, Get Out4:11, 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 MeaningThe Meaning22 February 2011 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 16 tracks1The Game Ain't Ready4:302We at it Again3:453Real as it Gets6:224I'm That Fly3:135Every Night4:186Do Ya Thang3:417The Syndrome4:438Difficult Question4:379Better Days4:1210Now a Days3:3211Everybody3:5312Fight II2:3013She Bad2:4614Ride the Wave3:3915Magazine3:2816Top of the List4:16 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. 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 with Migos

During a brief feud with Migos, Layzie Bone would release the album AnnihilationAnnihilation2019 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 14 tracks1Intro1:062Buried Alive3:133Annihilation3:564Let Me Go Migo (remix)3:145What’s Beef2:546If Was a 5th4:297Skit0:258Mad World3:269I Get Atcha3:2210Bring the Pain3:1511Money & Power3:5712Doing Thangs3:3613Outro1:0214Bonus Snippets3:11 on April 19, 2019, featuring the song If was a 5th featuring Bizzy Bone, and the diss song Let me go Migo (Remix).

Studio albums

Thug by Nature (2001)
It's Not a Game (2005)
The New Revolution (2006)
Cleveland (2006)
Startin' from Scratch: How a Thug Was Born (2007)
Thugz Nation (2008)
The Definition (2011)
The Meaning (2011)
Annihilation (2019)
Lost & Found (2019)
Wanted Dead or Alive (2020)
Hypnotic Rhythms (2023)
D.A.S.H. (2026)

Collaboration albums

Bone Brothers with Bone Brothers (2005)
Thug Brothers with Young Noble (2006)
Bone Brothers 2 with Bone Brothers (2007)
Bone Brothers III with Bone Brothers (2008)
Still Creepin on Ah Come Up with Bone Brothers (2008)
Finally with A.K. (2008)
Thug Twinz with Big Sloan (2009)
Eyez On The Prize with HC The Chemist (2021)

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.

Normalised profile metrics with percentile rank
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	16	74.5th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	23	88.2th
Studio albums	18	95.8th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	20	93.9th
Recording span (years)	25	55.9th
Genres	9	95.7th

Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.

Discography (23 release groups · 18 studio albums)

Albums · 18

Thug by Nature
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:10:54
1Carole of the Bones0:54
2Battlefield4:05
3Connectin’ the Plots4:23
4Fear No Man3:40
5Time Will Tell4:17
6Where You Goin? (skit)1:10
7How Long Will It Last4:54
8Deadly Musical4:19
9Fire in tha Hole (skit)0:40
10There They Go4:00
11My Niggaz3:12
12Still the Greatest5:30
13Make My Day3:54
14Lock-N-Load4:34
15Up Against tha Wall3:46
16Thug by Nature4:43
17Smoke On3:57
18Listen4:06
19As the Rain4:50
It’s Not a Game
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 1:19:22
1It’s Not a Game (intro)2:56
2There They Go4:02
3Midwest Invasion5:20
4Do Your Thang3:50
5Thug Nation4:24
6I Don’t Remember4:02
7Stayin’ Alive3:57
8Nothin’3:42
9Connectin’ the Plots4:28
10Choppin’ Game With L. Burna (skit)0:50
11Way Too Many4:07
12Thugged Out5:00
132 Step4:04
14She Came to Party3:53
15Do You Want Me3:55
16It’s On4:43
17Smokin on Information5:15
18Run Game4:17
19The Movement5:13
20Outro1:24
Thug Brothers
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 48:38
1Stand Up1:14
2Put Me in a Cell4:21
3Stay on the Grind4:45
4What the Problem Is4:53
5Money First0:10
6Young Soldier4:36
7We Can Get It On4:32
8That’s the Shit4:34
9Man Up4:48
10Them Your Gone3:55
11Got Cha’4:17
12Be a Gangsta0:08
13The Legacy Continues4:01
14Thug Brothers2:24
The New Revolution
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 50:18
1Intro1:22
2Vote for Me3:49
3Mo Murder3:50
4For My Weed Heads3:34
5Midwest-Westcoast Connection4:06
6From the 993:14
7For the Thugs That's Gone3:29
8Wanted to Be a Soldier4:08
9Say Lady4:10
10Skit0:36
11I Get Higher4:32
12Street4:20
13Touchdown4:03
14These Hi Power Soldiers3:49
15Outro Mega Mixx1:16
Cleveland
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 1:04:58
1Cleveland0:23
2The Recipe3:46
3They Don’t Know4:02
4Rain4:36
5All for You3:19
6Po Po3:14
7Armed and Dangerous3:34
8Ride Out4:08
9Real Niggas3:54
10Murder3:46
11Punch in the Mouth4:05
12Outro0:25
13Kick Rockz1:15
14We Gone Ride3:05
15Thug Life2:48
16Tonight2:49
17The World2:36
18They Hate3:00
19I’m Good6:02
20Get in, Get Out4:11
How a Thug Was Born
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:06:40
1Mo Thug Anthem4:05
2Cruisin4:24
3Fly the Coup3:13
4Stop the Music3:27
5Take a Trip3:57
6Grab a Drink3:25
7Baby Come Back3:53
8Burn 20072:56
9Stand Up4:01
10Tonite3:50
11Yesterday3:49
12Get Some3:16
13Caught Up5:24
14Whatya Lookn For3:49
15Grimy4:04
16Family4:11
172wice4:56
Thugz Nation
2008 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:00:12
1Intro (Thugz Nation)1:13
2You Know My Name3:02
3Chillen Like a Muthafucka3:33
4Toast 2 That3:36
5We Ain’t Hard 2 Find4:30
6Bone Thugs Boys3:21
7This Is a Warning3:15
8Runnin Up on Da Punk Police3:03
9Odds Against Me4:10
10Fresh to Def3:43
11Cold Muthafuckers3:49
12Mind Off This Money4:09
13Slide With a Playa3:43
14She’s So Fresh4:11
15Callin All Bitches4:02
16Bonus Thug Track4:12
17Outro (Thugz Nation)2:40
Thug Twinz
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:00:40
1Soundtrack of My Life4:52
2Better Get With It3:56
3Everyday Is the First of the Month3:04
4Give Me My Money4:50
5I Do What I Wanna Do3:42
6League of Our Own4:16
7Ready for War3:15
8We Connected4:15
9Mo-Thuggin' and Bone-Thuggin'3:53
10Wring Me Out4:56
11Breathe Already4:40
12That Ain't Me4:14
13You're Not a King3:20
14We Loaded4:39
15Outro2:48
Thug Luv
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 35:07
1Them Bone Thug Niggas2:51
2Bang3:10
3Ruthless2:46
4Bone2:49
5Your My Lady2:48
6Doin Life2:45
7Suiside3:05
8To Letchu Know2:54
9Im L-Burna3:13
10Wake Up8:46
The Meaning
2011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 1:03:25
1The Game Ain't Ready4:30
2We at it Again3:45
3Real as it Gets6:22
4I'm That Fly3:13
5Every Night4:18
6Do Ya Thang3:41
7The Syndrome4:43
8Difficult Question4:37
9Better Days4:12
10Now a Days3:32
11Everybody3:53
12Fight II2:30
13She Bad2:46
14Ride the Wave3:39
15Magazine3:28
16Top of the List4:16
The Law of Attraction
2011 · DJ-mix
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Tracklist · 21 tracks · 1:15:36
1Realest on the Rise3:26
2Where You Been Layzie1:37
3On My Own3:27
4Cold City3:13
5Chiefin in My Wahoo5:32
61 Day at a Time3:25
7Grind Hard4:45
8Pac Man Ya Body3:52
9Go Bad2:57
10At the Top2:58
11Go3:51
12Exception to the Rule3:53
13Everything Big3:27
14Success2:50
15Somebodies Watching Me4:07
16Money to Be Made3:36
17Tweetin4:05
18Put the Gun to Ya2:55
1960 Second Assassins3:35
20Take Whats Mines4:11
21Law of Attraction3:54
Exacta Standardz
2011 · Mixtape/Street
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 1:06:46
1Intro2:20
2Do What I Wanna Do3:17
3Move the Dam Thang2:46
440 Bars2:57
5Bang Wit Me3:23
6Go Big4:30
7No Comin Down2:47
8They Know (remix)3:16
9Hip Hop 1012:26
10California Dreamin3:40
11Cowards4:21
12Real as It Gets (remix)5:14
13I’m on One4:37
14Let the Beat Bang3:27
15Look at Now (remix)3:08
16Show Goes On (remix)3:49
17Watch Em All Fall2:59
18Marvins Room (remix)1:34
19Outta Sight3:23
20Outro2:52
The #1 Assassin
2017 · Mixtape/Street
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:05:18
1#1 Assassin (intro)0:56
2Cautious2:35
3Coupe2:14
4Bitch Move3:39
5Bbhmm2:21
6Till I Die7:28
7I Know (Howse Boyz)2:38
8My Nigga3:34
9California2:48
10Dreamin’3:44
11What You See3:28
12Skill Time1:17
13Re Up3:29
14Call It Eazy-E3:37
15Dark Horse (remix)1:28
16Flick of da Wrist3:11
17Coming Home4:05
18Livin’ the Dream2:12
19BTNH 20th Year Anniversary Cypher10:34
Smoked-OutKast
2018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 1:11:37
1Two Dopeboyz3:29
2How We Comin'3:18
3Gorgeous3:38
4Off the Computer3:37
5Add It Up3:12
6Check 4 Me4:58
7Don't Worry3:19
8That Pressure3:21
9Mr.Miyagi4:00
10Disrespectful Sex3:14
11I Got That Recipe3:14
12My Story3:22
13Get U Sum3:07
14Situations4:34
15Hilary Banks2:47
16Mama Ain't3:21
17Imma Push Up4:01
18Scuse' Me3:30
19Live3:04
20BCGYH4:31
Annihilation
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 41:06
1Intro1:06
2Buried Alive3:13
3Annihilation3:56
4Let Me Go Migo (remix)3:14
5What’s Beef2:54
6If Was a 5th4:29
7Skit0:25
8Mad World3:26
9I Get Atcha3:22
10Bring the Pain3:15
11Money & Power3:57
12Doing Thangs3:36
13Outro1:02
14Bonus Snippets3:11
Wanted Dead or Alive
2020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 20 tracks · 1:09:40
1Intro0:55
2Dead or Alive3:24
3Back 2 Life3:24
4Killer Instinct3:21
5Resolution3:31
6Game Time3:45
7Got What You Want3:19
8The Plug3:23
9It's Alright4:33
10Amazing3:42
11Holla When You See Me3:29
12Heat Check3:13
13Insomnia2:34
14Stay Real3:38
15Stir It Up5:11
16I Like to Smoke4:41
17Been Thru It All3:55
18Gone in a Week2:42
19Stop Drop Roll3:59
20Smokin'3:01
Hypnotic Rhythms
2023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 35:35
1Intro2:00
2Year of Goats3:07
3We Ain’t Playin’3:24
4Flyer Than Ever3:22
5Pillar3:20
6Family 1st3:09
7Let’s Eat3:10
8LayGo!2:58
9These Dayz2:29
10The One2:19
11A Place3:28
12Outro2:49
D.a.S.H.
2026 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 53:48
1Who'z Fire2:52
2Body Any Record3:50
3Whatever4:50
4Thankful5:39
5One More Ride2:32
6Building Pyramids3:11
7Marchin Like Martians3:15
8Don't Give Up2:49
9Blame3:03
10Da Coolest4:29
11Rain Down2:54
12Smile4:16
13Running It Big2:42
14Burna Flow2:57
15D.a.S.H.4:29

Album · 2

Album release groups, by first release date
Cover	Year	Title	Notes	First release
	2007	Mo Thug SoldiersSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 13 tracks · 48:35 1Layzie Speaks0:39 2Layzie Bone Live2:47 3Live To Let Go3:51 4Pray On Our Knees4:02 5Mo Thug Anthem3:18 6Don't Sleep3:05 7Who It Is4:06 8My Crew3:50 9I Need A Thug4:35 10We're Outlawz6:22 11Militant Minded4:38 12Friends3:54 13Breakem Down3:28	Compilation	7 September 2007
	2019	Lost & FoundSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 13 tracks · 41:14 1Mama P's Intro2:14 2The Slumz3:59 3Catch A Break2:22 4The Struggle3:27 5Changed Man3:29 6Lost & Found5:00 7Knockin3:17 8Be Somebody3:56 9Can't Fail3:41 10My Story4:02 11One Life, One Shot2:07 12Go Mode3:40 13Untitled Bonus Track	Compilation	2019

Single · 3

Single release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	First release
2018	Emerald TabletsSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 4:43 1Emerald Tablets4:43	21 May 2018
2019	Do As We MustSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 3:35 1Do As We Must3:35	22 March 2019
2019	What's Goin' On?Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 1 track · 3:42 1What's Goin' On?3:42	23 August 2019

Stats & PK

Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Layzie Bone head-to-head →

Layzie Bone metrics with percentile rank among published artists
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	16	74.5th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	23	88.2th
Studio albums	18	95.8th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	20	93.9th
Recording span (years)	25	55.9th
Genres	9	95.7th

Awards & honours

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Line-up

Band line-up and band memberships with dates
Name	From	To
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony(band)	—	present
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony(band)	—	present
Desperidos(band)	—	present
Bone‐ified(band)	—	present

Where this record comes from

portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Layzie-bone-travis-glodt.jpg
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/89933299-e8e8-475d-9ff4-100accfcb298
discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/89933299-e8e8-475d-9ff4-100accfcb298
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1354001
genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1354001
seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layzie_Bone
biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layzie_Bone

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