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The album was nominated for the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, ultimately losing to Naughty by Nature's Poverty's Paradise at the 1996 Grammy Awards.In 2015, the group toured in support of the 20th anniversary of the album, performing it in its entirety for the first time. 1999 Eternal Tee at Urban Outfitters today. Following the surprise success of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's summer 1994 anthem 'Thuggish Ruggish Bone,' the group returned a year later with E 1999 Eternal, an impressive debut full-length that dismisses any notion that the group was merely a one-hit wonder. It topped the US Billboard 200 for two consecutive weeks. 1999 Eternal became the group's best-selling album, with over six million copies sold in the United States and nearly twenty million worldwide.

Clair Avenue where the group is based and the then-future year 1999.Į.

The album title is a portmanteau of Cleveland's eastside neighborhood centering on East 99th Street and St. 1999 Eternal in particular is a landmark album for the genre, and it’s one that holds a special place in my heart as well. From Lauryn Hill to Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine to Janet Jackson, Nirvana to Wu-Tang Clan, and so many more, these are the albums that changed music. I truly believe the sound of rap today would not be the same if it were not for Bone Thugs. Following up on the surprise success of their breakthrough single "Thuggish Ruggish Bone", it became a popular album and received positive reviews from music critics, earning praise for the group's melodic rapping style. Billie Helton Bone Thugs-N-Harmony were easily one of the most influential rap groups of the 1990s. Both the album and single "Tha Crossroads" are dedicated to him. The album was released four months after the death of rapper Eazy-E, the group's mentor and the executive producer of the album. 1999 Eternal is the second studio album by American hip hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, released July 25, 1995, on Ruthless Records.