Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia faced off against each other in California’s Hollywood Palladium last December for a controversial Verzuz battle against the two triplet flow giants. The hip-hop battle concert broke into a full-blown fistfight during the first half of the show after Bizzy Bone felt some disrespect from Three 6 Mafia’s side of the stage. 

Cleveland Hip Hop legend Layzie Bone took it upon himself to play peacemaker during the altercation, earning plenty of praise along the way. In an interview with HipHopDX, he took some time to reflect on that moment in his long-standing career.

“Overall, it was cool,” he says. “From reading all the responses and everything afterwards, I did feel like I got my flowers. All a person ever want to do is be acknowledged for what he really do in life. Keeping Bone Thugs-n-Harmony together, assembling my group, and all that. That pat on the back, it felt really, really good to hear it from my peers. For them to see how we held it together through all these years? It’s been a crazy-ass ride, you feel me? And that’s the role I play. So I felt good.”

As for the fight itself, he was happy they were able to squash it so quickly, adding, “We kept that party going and really got to showcase what it was about, the ’90s, because we was banging. Three 6 and Bone Thugs was banging, and really we all friends now. So I don’t really know Juicy J too much because I found out that he’s an introvert, and that’s probably why, but DJ Paul and Gangsta Boo, I’ve been cool with them for a long time, so I’m glad we got to show that. It was a beautiful experience, and we let them know God rule. That’s what it do.”

Lil Flip, who attended the Verzuz battle, later went on record saying he’d be willing to hop in the Verzuz arena with his former rival T.I. Speaking to VladTV in January, Flip said he’d have to be paid at least $500,000 for the show, a price Layzie isn’t so sure about.

“[The battle] could probably happen,” he says. “Well, I hope it happens. I really would hope that it would happen, and they can end that peacefully, too, so we can keep pushing this culture along. But, yeah, I’d love to see that. That’s something that I’d love to see. I don’t know about $500,000 on that, though. I don’t know. That would be a dope Verzuz though. That’s the first time I heard that, so I think that should happen.”

T.I. and Lil Flip have been rivals since the mid 200s when they got into an altercation in Houston, Texas. Tip had been claiming the “King of the South” title for roughly two years, which Flip didn’t agree with. After months of animosity, Tip called him out on the Houston radio station 97.9 FM and said he was going to expose him as a “fraud.” The respective crews met up in Cloverland, and the fight ensued.

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