"Tha Crossroads" was nominated for the Best Rap Video at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1996, although it lost to Coolio's " Gangsta's Paradise". The Reaper then leads the souls, with the baby in his arms, up a mountain where he reveals himself to be an angel, then takes the dead to Heaven. Bone are among the few who can see the man, and watch him as he gathers souls of various individuals who are marked for death, such as a young man who leaves his distraught mother behind (presumably having died after entering life as a gang member), Bone's friend Wally, Wish Bone's Uncle Charles, Eazy-E, and a newborn baby (possibly to have died from a childbirth complication). The main focus of the video is an imposing man with sunglasses and a trench coat, akin to a Reaper. It opens with the female vocal group Tre' (Kimberly Cromartie, Rebecca Forsha and Maniko Williams) singing the traditional spiritual " Mary Don't You Weep" in a church funeral setting, followed by the members of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony singing the main song in several settings, such as a church and a mountain top. The music video was filmed on February 27–28, 1996. In 2008, "Tha Crossroads" was ranked number 33 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. It has been certified double platinum in the United States and platinum in New Zealand. The song was a hit worldwide and reached the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 and the New Zealand Singles Chart on the latter chart, it was the most successful song of 1996. (After receiving their publishing rights from Ruthless Records.) In 2019, a version including other group member Flesh-n-Bone was released with the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony compilation album Lost Archives Vol 1. After receiving high praise for their song the group decided to make it their third single for their already released album, E. The song is performed by four of the group's members, ( Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Bizzy Bone and Wish Bone). The original song appears on the edited version of the album, though the European release has the original as track number 8 and the remix as track 18. It was dedicated to Bone's dead friend Wallace (Wally) Laird III, but after the death of Eazy-E they decided to remake it as "Tha Crossroads". ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone."Crossroad" originally debuted in 1995 on the E. Thuggish Ruggish Bone (U-Neek's Mix), appears on " Foe tha Love of $" single.Thuggish Ruggish Bone (EP Version) (4:40).
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The music video also featured rapper Eazy-E. The music video (directed by Terry Heller) was shot near the Cuyahoga River on Cleveland's westside, near from the Lakeview Estates public housing units. The song was included in the soundtrack of the video game True Crime: Streets of LA and the second half of Layzie Bone's verse was reused on the track "Family Scriptures" on the Mo Thugs Family debut album, Family Scriptures. The song reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100. It features local Cleveland singer Shatasha Williams. " Thuggish Ruggish Bone" is the debut single by American hip hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, from their debut EP Creepin on ah Come Up. Single by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony featuring Shatasha WilliamsĪnthony Henderson, Stanley Howse, Bryon McCane, Kenneth McCloud, Steven Howse, Tim Middleton, Charles Scruggs 1994 single by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony featuring Shatasha Williams "Thuggish Ruggish Bone"