COREY HUNTER

THE RUTHLESS POETRY STEPSON OF DEATH ROW,
THE LENCH MOB, WU-TANG AND THE BONE:1990 TO 1994

Born after 5 months of the Lench Mob leader Ice Cube’s rise

I was a little one

Playing in my crib, laughing, and smiling

The classical orchestra of Tchaikovsky and Mozart was my birth sound

Two soldiers from Death Row Records on my screen as I turned a year old

The D.R.E. and the DO-GG are their names

A feud with the Ruthless leader Eazy-E, after shattering their bond in the N.W.A days

The No Vaseline track, leading to a brawl in 1991 at the new music seminar

The beating of Rodney King, one year before the predator

The Gin and Juice was the track that moves my attitude

The more I listened, the less I was fooled

The Sound of Ice Cube’s day event was the second line of war at the age of 2

As the EFX says to check before the wreckage of self

The G Thang of Dre and Snoop is the final line of fire

With two combining their lyrics into a bond in Death Row that will live on

The war/alliance between the two swords: The Wu-Tang and the Shaolin

Moving towards the home of Staten Island, New York

Organized by the sample master known as the RZA, along with warriors the GZA, ODB, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, U-God, the Chef, Ghostface, and Masta Killa.

The Ruckus and the Pain has burned the stage into oblivion

The regulator, or Warren G as he’s called, is the innovator of the G-Funk in ‘94

The legendary Nate Dogg remains on everyone’s spirits

…but one more influence has my fate changed

And my childhood becoming the best

The N.W.A’s Ruthless legend, the E, forming a partnership with the group that transformed the industry

5 from the Double Glock and Straight Outta Cleveland: Bizzy, Wish, Krayzie, Layzie, and the Flesh

The Thuggish Ruggish ones may have lost him in 1995

It led to me engraving the name in eternal life: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

CREEPIN' ON THE THUGGISH RUGGISH CROSSROAD

The tender age of 3, a number I didn’t expect myself to survive

The summer of 1994, with the legendary Danny Elfman well and alive

The souls of Mary J. Blige and Xscape may be in my mind after a year

…but the Rap City program on the Tube, shifting my powerful sight and ears

The sign of E.99 and St. Clair

No one knew who was there

Five young MC’s warming up by the fire in sung harmony

“We’re not against rap. We’re not against rappers, but we are against those thugs.”

A preacher, taking a stand against the ways of the thug nation

My eyes watching the Layzie, Krayzie, Bizzy, Wish, and Flesh

walking out the door and to the streets

The three words will stand to this day, the Thuggish Ruggish Bone

but that’s the beginning for me

The warzone of Cleveland, a battleground to jack the automobiles

All for the love of money, which is still the same

The Eazy-E, exploding with the Compton blood and the powerful storytelling

of the street life

That’s the way of the Come Up

The representing of E.99 in 1995, but with the Eternal rising to dominance

So many samples that the U-Neek and the E designed, most notably

Earth, Wind and Fire’s “Reasons” and the Isleys for the stoners

It’s the first of the Month

The crossroads, the heavens where Uncle Charles and Wally reside

The E, succumbed to the virus of hell: HIV, joining the two souls on the side

I was 4 years old, the very day in elementary school when I didn’t know what to write

That was until I got to that damn chalkboard

Shocking my teacher first and my parents, I wrote the first words

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and that has changed me from a child

to the Bonekeeper, the General of the Thugs

These maggots from today’s generation still don’t even know what I am

I am still loyal to the Bone, Bone, Bone, and will be coming around

They will know the Execution double-9 style

Sending the evil souls underground

COREY HUNTER is a slam poet from Denver, Colorado