BIZZY BONE SIGNS NEW DEAL

Former Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member Bizzy Bone has signed a new recording contract with EMI’s Imperial Records. The rapper will release a new album, called A Song For You, next year which will be produced by After Platinum Entertainment. Imperial Records CEO Neil Levine, who formerly ran Penalty Records (Capone-N-Noreaga and David Banner), said in a released statement, “Working with a true visionary like Bizzy is a dream come true. Bizzy has made a truly amazing record that both Imperial and Virgin Records are ecstatic to be involved with. This record will firmly cement his place in hip hop history.”

Bizzy Bone’s last release was 2005’s Speaking In Tongues. The rapper was kicked out of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony in 2002 because of substance abuse problems and his failure to show up to engagements.

“Ah man I don’t know. I don’t even know bottomline. We was in New York, you know what I’m sayin’? Swizz reached out to our people. We all went in and had a meeting, you know what I’m sayin’, and we put it all together like that.”

The remaining members of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have signed a new deal with Swizz Beatz’s Full Surface label and are working on a new album tentatively titled, Strength & Loyalty.

Wish Bone explained that he has no idea what Bizzy has been up to and how the group hooked up with Swizz Beatz. He said,