Editing Layzie Bone

{{short description|American rapper}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| image           = Layzie-bone-travis-glodt.jpg
| caption         = Layzie Bone in 2007
| name            = Layzie Bone
| birth_name      = Steven Howse
| alias           = {{flatlist|
* The #1 Assassin
* L-Burna
* Lil' Layzie
}}
| birth_date      = {{nowrap|{{Birth date and age|1974|9|23}}}}
| birth_place     = [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], U.S.
| genre           = {{flatlist|
* [[Hip hop music|Hip hop]]
* [[gangsta rap]]
}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Rapper|singer}}
| years_active    = 1991–present
| label           = {{flatlist|
* [[Ruthless Records|Ruthless]]
* [[Mo Thugs Records|Mo Thugs]]
* [[BTNH Worldwide]]
* [[Real Talk Entertainment|Real Talk]]
* [[RBC Records|RBC]]
* Harmony Howse<ref name="harmonyhowseent.com">{{cite web|url=http://harmonyhowseent.com/|title=© 2017 – Harmony Howse Ent|website=harmonyhowseent.com}}</ref>
}}
| associated_acts = [[Bone Thugs-n-Harmony]], [[Eazy-E]], [[Bone Brothers]], [[Mo Thugs]], [[Young Noble]], [[Yukmouth]], [[Snoop Dogg]], [[Twiztid]], [[Tech N9ne]], [[Mr. Capone-E]], [[Busta Rhymes]], [[Swizz Beatz]], [[Too $hort]], [[Twista]], [[Bow Wow (rapper)|Bow Wow]], [[Dizzy Wright]]
| website         =
}}

'''Steven Howse''' (born September 23, 1974), known professionally as '''Layzie Bone''', is an American rapper known primarily for being a member of the group [[Bone Thugs-n-Harmony]]. He has also gone by the names '''L-Burna''', '''Lil Lay''', and '''The #1 Assassin'''.<ref>[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p474311|pure_url=yes}} Prato, Greg. Allmusic]</ref> He is the younger brother of fellow group member [[Flesh-N-Bone]] and cousin of group member [[Bone Thugs-n-Harmony|Wish Bone]]. Layzie is also a member of the rap group [[Bone Brothers]] and [[CEO]] of the [[record label]] Harmony Howse Entertainment.<ref name="harmonyhowseent.com" />

== Music career ==
The group formed the band '''B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e''' (all except for Flesh-N-Bone) and recorded an album entitled ''[[Faces of Death (album)|Faces of Death]]'' in the studio of their then-mentor, Kermit Henderson, on his indie label Stoney Burke in 1993. After this Layzie and the rest of the Bone Family boarded a [[Greyhound Bus]] to [[Los Angeles]] where they worked with notable producer and rapper [[Eazy-E]] and his Ruthless/Relativity Records label. Diego Blak (born Diego Hodge), a marketer and promoter and co-executive producer of ''Faces of Death'', introduced them to Eazy-E at a concert he promoted in Cleveland, Ohio, where they auditioned for him in his dressing room and then traveled back to Los Angeles after the show to seal the deal. At this point Eazy named them Thugs-n-Harmony but they wanted to keep the Bone name so they were called [[Bone Thugs-N-Harmony]].<ref name="Adams 2002 534-546">{{cite book|last=Adams|first=Deanna R.|title=Rock 'n' Roll and the Cleveland Connection|publisher=Kent State University Press|year=2002|pages=534–546|isbn=0-87338-691-4}}</ref><!--This reference is for the majority of this paragraph-->

=== Solo career, Mo Thugs & Bone Brothers ===
Layzie has also promoted the indie label [[Mo Thugs Records]] which he and the rest of Bone originated. He released his first solo album [[Thug By Nature]] on March 20, 2001, exactly the same day Bizzy Bone released his second solo album, ''[[The Gift (Bizzy Bone album)|The Gift]]''. He also has collaborative albums with [[Young Noble]] from [[The Outlawz]] and A.K. of [[Do or Die (group)|Do or Die]], solo albums out such as It's Not A Game, The New Revolution, Cleveland, Startin' from Scratch: How A Thug Was Born, and Thugz Nation. He has had a series of albums with [[Bizzy Bone]]; [[Still Creepin On Ah Come Up]] and under the name [[Bone Brothers]] entitled: [[Bone Brothers]], [[Bone Brothers 2]], [[Bone Brothers 3]]. 

=== New Label and CEO ===

In the fall of 2010, Layzie established a new label, Harmony Howse Entertainment. In 2011, he and [[Fredro Starr]] of the [[Onyx (hip hop group)|Onyx]] group were planning on releasing a collaborative [[Extended play|EP]] entitled ''FireSquad''. Layzie would go on to release two separate albums [[The Definition (album)|The Definition]] and [[The Meaning]] on February 22, 2011 under his new label Harmony Howse Entertainment. In 2015 Layzie released the single ''Cleveland is The City'' Featuring Aaron "D-Boyy" Dissell. The song was used by Fox News during the 2015 NBA Finals as the Cleveland Cavaliers theme song.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fox8.com/2015/06/18/seen-on-tv-61815/|title=Seen on TV: 6/18/15|date=June 18, 2015|website=fox8.com}}</ref> Layzie was also working on an album called ''Perfect Timing'', which was originally scheduled to be released in 2016, but is now TBD. Layzie is the uncle of the independent rapper, [[Dizzy Wright]].

=== Feud with Migos ===

During a brief feud with [[Migos]], Layzie Bone would release the album ''Annihilation'' on April 19, 2019, featuring the song ''If was a 5th'' featuring [[Bizzy Bone]], and the diss song ''Let me go Migo (Remix)''.

== Discography ==
{{Main|Layzie Bone discography}}
{{See also|Bone Thugs-n-Harmony discography}}

=== Studio albums ===
*''[[Thug by Nature]]'' (2001)
*''[[It's Not a Game]]'' (2005)
*''The New Revolution'' (2006)
*''Cleveland'' (2006)
*''Startin' from Scratch: How a Thug Was Born'' (2007)
*''Thugz Nation'' (2008)
*''The Definition'' (2011)
*''The Meaning'' (2011)
*''Annihilation'' (2019)
*''Lost & Found'' (2019)
*''Wanted Dead or Alive'' (2020)
*''Hypnotic Rhythms'' (2023)

=== Collaboration albums ===
*''[[Bone Brothers (album)|Bone Brothers]]'' <small>with Bone Brothers</small> (2005)
*''[[Thug Brothers]]'' <small>with Young Noble</small> (2006)
*''[[Bone Brothers 2]]'' <small>with Bone Brothers</small> (2007)
*''[[Bone Brothers 3|Bone Brothers III]]'' <small>with Bone Brothers</small> (2008)
*''[[Still Creepin on Ah Come Up]]'' <small>with Bone Brothers</small> (2008)
*''[[Finally (Layzie Bone and A.K. album)|Finally]]'' <small>with A.K.</small> (2008)
*''[[Thug Twinz]]'' <small>with Big Sloan</small> (2009)
*''Eyez On The Prize'' <small>with HC The Chemist</small> (2021)

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071020043157/http://www.btnhcentral.com/layziebone.php Layzie Bone]
*{{IMDb name|1214409}}
*{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p352090|label=Layzie Bone}}
{{Commons category|Layzie Bone}}

{{Layzie Bone}}
{{BTNH}}
{{Mo Thugs}}

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Layzie Bone}}
[[Category:1974 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:African-American male rappers]]
[[Category:21st-century American male rappers]]
[[Category:20th-century American male rappers]]
[[Category:American hip-hop singers]]
[[Category:Bone Thugs-n-Harmony members]]
[[Category:Rappers from Cleveland]]
[[Category:Gangsta rappers]]
[[Category:RBC Records artists]]
[[Category:21st-century American rappers]]
[[Category:21st-century American male musicians]]
[[Category:21st-century African-American musicians]]
[[Category:20th-century African-American musicians]]
[[Category:Mo Thugs members]]