Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Handle The Vibe (Audio, Lyrics)

Throwback to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s 23-year-old “Handle The Vibe” hit. Listen, stream, buy, mp3 download, read the lyrics to the DJ U-Neek-produced song.

Bone Thugs N Harmony Handle The Vibe

On this day in 1997, the legendary collective Bone Thugs-N-Harmony delivered their ambitious double album The Art Of War, easily one of hip-hop’s best double-disc efforts in recorded history. Boasting a healthy mix of melodic vibes and eerie hyperviolence, the album found Bizzy, Krayzie, Layzie, and Wish at the top of their game; you’d be hard-pressed to find a hip-hop fan who doesn’t tout the project as one of Bone’s defining bodies of work. While there are plenty of highlights to draw from, it’s hard not to appreciate “Handle The Vibe,” a smooth introductory cut laced by DJ U-Neek.

Setting things off is Bizzy Bone, rapping like a man possessed — though when doesn’t he? The man’s flow is simply unhinged in the best possible way, his salvos firing in double-time like an assault rifle. Matching him in intensity is Krayzie Bone, who lays down an equally impressive verse; one thing Bone doesn’t get enough credit for is their ability to bring original flow schemes to their chopping, with each member finding distinct pockets that work for them.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – Handle The Vibe (prod. DJ U-Neek)

Lyrics

[Intro: Krayzie Bone]
This track is tight you should be clapping your hands
[Clapping your hands]
This track is tight you should be clapping your hands
[Clapping your hands]
This track is tight you should be clapping your hands
[Clapping your hands]
This track is tight you should be clapping your hands
[Clapping your hands]

[Chorus: Krayzie Bone]
As we ride by the end of the night
You will envision how thugstas play
Can you handle the vibe?
Pedal to the medal we see blue light
As we ride by the end of the night
You will envision how thugstas play
Can you handle the vibe?
Pedal to the medal we see blue light

[Verse 1: Bizzy Bone]
They wanted to get RIP fuckin’ wit my sawed-off
Polish it all until it replenish
Soon As I’m finished my pistol get jealous especially 357 me punish you
Buck at me bangin with your magnum for
You crept and you came and shit changed
M-11’s grenades and them AK-47’s bang
Nigga what you sayin’ you came and you went
Now bet on the real it’s all the way to the bank and you think
Fin to get that gangster getting a demon you can conjure up and see
If we get angels pinnin my ankles bloody murder fuck with Jesus
He done creeping deep puttin’ those to sleep till I raise up on my enemies
Let’s get pumped for the peeps in Egypt and 400 years of oppression
Spread the message I ain’t finished, diminished you so called critics
And fuck them billboard and the billboard status me kick it
You fucked up for a while for the day that I was in trial
Man and I don’t know how style through with them crowds and now
I got to kick it get on the ground wantin’ my people to gather around
Remember the sound of the rounds came from my town
I know you bitch would bite that we can’t allow
Anyone claim my style, I’m ready to beat you down
Hittin’ them tombstones (sellin volumes) gettin’ them costumes bow now
I’m rolling with Makaveli pinnin’ my pistol steady ready
Buck them flames aim for the pressure point
A point breaking your head in nigga, yeah

[Verse 2: Krayzie Bone]
I beg your pardon my nigga but how do you know me
I roll in your city and people be pinnin me yo but some nigga just told me
He put in your record and you was disrepectin’ off the T-O-P
Should’ve put him in his coffin now ’cause he’d a been found, pow pow
Put him in the river now nigga who wild wild
What incredible style that’s what you was thinkin
When you tried to get it down
We see that you fuck with a daily crowd so nigga just turn your ass out
Whenever you ready to rumble my nigga just meet us outside of the club
Ready to slang slugs nigga done got to drunk and forgot that we claim thug
Nigga this shit is ridiculous
Just dismiss the thought that you could get rid of us
Buck you to hell it was nigga you down with us
Nigga you scared when a St. Clair nigga bust
Aw fuck left his guts in my trunk nigga tried a 211 fucked around got 187
Niggas with heat who could it be nobody but them T-H-U-G’s with artillery
We come in peace nigga please freeze
Put ’em on they knees nigga don’t even breathe and these
Are the warriors killers destroyin’ ya you’re gonna die

[Chorus: Krayzie Bone]
As we ride by the end of the night
You will envision how thugstas play
Can you handle the vibe?
Pedal to the medal we see blue light
As we ride by the end of the night
You will envision how thugstas play
Can you handle the vibe?
Pedal to the medal we see blue light

[Verse 3: Layzie Bone]
The hatin season ceasing agree nigga let this be the reason
Niggas from Cleveland fin to get even
Steven stoppin you bitches from breathing
Time is up you know you can’t catch that thugs who rap fin to put down payments
Criminal mind state of lyricist wanna test us nigga hear this
My niggas are down with the murder mo
Real thugstas and killers that claim
I’m ready to win it my nigga
Now bet it be ripped to the finish that make you the same
But artillery shop stackin Bone got heat for Armageddon
Ready for the war all day want action
Playa hation steadily spray ’em
Even with the buck buck bang my nigga this shit don’t stop
The government all on my dick wanna see little Lay Bone drop
You see the policeman they give me no break
Fin to rest in peace when they try to send me up state no thanks
I got mo money up outta the bank these niggas are stackin’ our rocks
Refuse the peace and nevertheless then you can roll with the bone so come on

[Verse 4: Wish Bone]
When all goes down when all goes down you can count on me
‘Cause I got Mo’ Thugs, Bones-N-Harmony that’s my cavalry
If you ride with Bone you ain’t alone nigga trust us
Follow me down these wicked streets I grew on
Wanna sound like us
Ain’t nothing to do we come for you kiss mommy bye-bye you gone die
And I got heat for every heat you bring you shoot we shoot
Better watch out watch out for them thugsta niggas niggas sneakin up on you
I told you it’s comin’ Armageddon [It’s comin’ Armageddon]
New world order [new world order] If we get our shit together
Bitches we none [we none]
Make this shit on the streets for you to know to know
We gettin’ our shit together
Better get your shit together cause when you go you go you go

[Chorus: Krayzie Bone]
As we ride by the end of the night
You will envision how thugstas play
Can you handle the vibe?
Pedal to the medal we see blue light
As we ride by the end of the night
You will envision how thugstas play
Can you handle the vibe?
Pedal to the medal we see blue light
As we ride by the end of the night
You will envision how thugstas play
Can you handle the vibe?
Pedal to the medal we see blue light
As we ride by the end of the night
You will envision how thugstas play
Can you handle the vibe?
Pedal to the medal we see blue light
As we ride by the end of the night
You will envision how thugstas play
Can you handle the vibe?
Pedal to the medal we see blue light