Creepin on ah Come Up

Creepin on ah Come Up
EP by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Released	June 21, 1994
Recorded	1993–1994
Studio	Dirtbiker Studios, Audio Achievements Studios, and Blackhole Recording Studio
Genre	Gangsta rap R&B G-Funk Horrorcore
Length	29:50
Label	Ruthless Relativity Epic
Producer	Eazy-E (Executive Producer) DJ Yella DJ U-Neek Rhythum D
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony chronology
Faces of Death (1993) Creepin on ah Come Up (1994) E. 1999 Eternal (1995)
Singles from Creepin' on ah Come Up
"Thuggish Ruggish Bone" Released: April 20, 1994 "Foe tha Love of $" Released: August 7, 1994

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B[2]
RapReviews	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Creepin on ah Come Up is the debut EP by rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. The album was released on June 21, 1994 on Ruthless Records. In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums.^[5]

History

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's first album, with the singles "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" and "Foe tha Love of $". Features on the album include Shatasha Williams (the first Mo Thugs member) and their mentor and executive producer Eazy-E, and these collaborations began a new fad of having sung vocals for choruses and tight flowing lyrics. The first two lines of "Intro" are backwards. Played forward are "Heaven in art which Father our, Our Father which art in Heaven" Tracks 3, 4 and 6 have listed, "Keenu Songs" which is "U-Neek" spelled backwards. In The Source (8-97) article "Crossroads To Riches" Bone states that they changed their name to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony because they had a song called "Thugs-N-Harmony".

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Intro"	Bone Eazy-E	Eazy-E	1:25
2.	"Mr. Ouija"	Bone	U-Neek	1:20
3.	"Thuggish Ruggish Bone"	Bone U-Neek	U-Neek	4:41
4.	"No Surrender"	Bone U-Neek	U-Neek	3:36
5.	"Down Foe My Thang"	Bone Rhythum D	Rythm D	4:48
6.	"Creepin on ah Come Up"	Bone U-Neek	U-Neek	4:50
7.	"Foe tha Love of $"	Bone DJ Yella & Eazy-E	DJ Yella & Eazy-E	4:32
8.	"Moe Cheese"	Bone U-Neek	U-Neek	4:32

Sample credits

• "Foe tha Love of $" contains a sample of "For the Love of Money" as performed by Yomo & Maulkie
• "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" contains a sample of "Mama Used to Say" as performed by Junior

Appearances

• Krayzie Bone appears on 7 tracks.
• Layzie Bone appears on 7 tracks.
• Bizzy Bone appears on 7 tracks.
• Wish Bone appears on 4 tracks.
• Flesh-n-Bone appears on 4 tracks.
• Eazy-E appears on 3 tracks.

Chart positions

Album

Chart (1994)
Billboard 200	Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	Top 50 Albums (NZ)
12	2	29[6]

Singles

Song	Chart (1994)
	Billboard Hot 100	Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop	Billboard Hot Rap	Top 50 Singles (NZ)
Thuggish Ruggish Bone (featuring Shatasha Williams)	22	17	2	2
Foe tha Love of $ (featuring Eazy-E)	41	33	4	—

End of decade charts

Chart (1990–1999)	Position
U.S. Billboard 200[7]	13

See also

• List of number-one albums of 1997 (U.S.)
• List of number-one R&B albums of 1997 (U.S.)

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Entertainment Weekly review
3. RapReviews review
4. The new Rolling Stone album guide - Nathan Brackett, Christian David Hoard - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
5. ~~~~ www.rocklist.net ~~~~
6. Steffen Hung. "Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - Creepin' On Ah Come Up". charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
7. Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade - The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. Retrieved October 15, 2010.

External links

• Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Official Website
• Ruthless Records Official Website