Bone’s blockbuster album, Uni5: The World’s Enemy, is its first release in more than 15 years with all five members in tow. During the absence of Flesh-N-Bone (who was arrested in the late 1990s and sentenced to more than a decade in prison) and the off-and-on presence of Bizzy Bone (who regularly left the group while pursuing his solo recording career and beefing with the other group members), Bone became one of rap’s most important groups, selling more than 30 million albums and popularizing an often imitated but never duplicated rapid-fire rhyme style accented by their distinctive harmonizing. Indeed, everyone from Mariah Carey to The Notorious B.I.G. has been influenced by and mimicked Bone’s signature style in their own recordings.
Having all group members working in unison on Uni5: The World’s Enemy resulted in a robust effort. The addition of Flesh, in particular, gave the collection added significance. “It adds a lot more to us,” Krayzie Bone explains. “We could have done four members, but with him being out and with his story to tell, it really adds flavor to what we’ve already been out here going through. People want to know because it’s intriguing.”