Bone Thugs-N-Harmony gearing up for 'Strength & Loyalty'

By: Yves Erwin Salomon

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is gearing up for the release of their new album, Strength & Loyalty, on April 17th on Interscope Records. The set will be the group's first since signing with Swizz Beatz'Interscope-distributed label.

Group member Krayzie Bone, who won a Grammy Award earlier this month in the best rap performance by duo or group for "Ridin'" with Chamillionaire, provided an update as to what was going on with Bone. He said: "Yeah well right now we got three members in the group. Bizzy Bone is no longer in the group right now. But you know we still moving, know what I'm sayin'? One person don't make the group you know what I'm sayin'and we still Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. We still got the same music, even better if you ask me."

The rapper added: "The first single we have is with Akon, it's called 'I Tried.'We got Chamillionaire on the album. We got Mariah Carey on the album. We got Yolanda Adams on the album, you know what I'm sayin'? There's a lot of people on the album. This is really our first time ever doing collaboration."