What's the most you would pay for a one in a million classic album? Say, a million dollars?
Well that's the asking price for Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's forthcoming album.
According to HipHopDX, the St. Claire thugstas were inspired by Wu-Tang Clan's plan to restore value to the art of the rap album by releasing a single copy of a never-before-heard album...and auctioning it off for $1 million.
"When I heard about what [Wu-Tang Clan] was doing-and I think it was you who told me about it-I just thought it was a brilliant and genius idea," Krayzie Bone explained to the site. "We talked about it for a while then we were coming up on this world tour. We said, 'We need to do everything simultaneously. The idea for that is to make it the final group project. What better way to go out and to solidify the [Bone Thugs-N-Harmony] brand. I don't see no other way. It has to be big. We have to make sure we reach everybody. So I think doing it like this will be huge, especially for our last group album."
Earlier this week, the group announced they were prepping their final world tour and they would be releasing a final album. There will only be one copy of the album.
During the interview with HipHopDX, Krayzie Bone also revealed the album's title.
"The title's going to be E.1999/Legends," he said.
When asked if the album would be thematically similar to E.1999 Eternal, Krayzie says it's still up for debate.
"We've thought about it, but that's something we're still negotiating and talking about amongst ourselves-trying to come up with the proper theme for it-because we're trying to tie in our entire life story from before we met Eazy E," he said. "There's gonna be a lot of that, a lot of pre-Bone Thugs-N-Harmony all the way through everything we went through up until now."
The group is also preparing to release a documentary.
Read more of the interview here.
