Key Points
- Bone Thugs-n-Harmony received their Hollywood Walk of Fame star on July 8, 2026.
- It is the 2,851st star, set at 6126 Hollywood Boulevard in the Recording category.
- Ice-T and Fat Joe spoke at the ceremony, which Big Boy hosted.
- The Cleveland group has three No. 1 albums and a 1997 Grammy.
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 8, 2026, the 2,851st star since the Walk was completed in 1961. The Cleveland group was honored in the Recording category at 6126 Hollywood Boulevard, with radio host Big Boy emceeing and rappers Ice-T and Fat Joe among those paying tribute. Katt Williams, Lil Eazy-E, Ray J, and Ras Kass were also in attendance, according to the Associated Press.
The group — Bizzy Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, and Wish Bone — formed in 1991 and broke through after signing to Eazy-E's Ruthless Records, the label that had defined West Coast gangsta rap. Their harmonized, double-time delivery on records like "Tha Crossroads," which won the 1997 Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, and "1st of tha Month" made them one of the most imitated acts in rap and carried three of their albums to No. 1.
The Walk of Fame spent decades canonizing rock, film, and pop while treating hip-hop as an afterthought; a star for a group of Cleveland teenagers who reshaped how rappers use melody is the institution catching up to a genre it long kept at the margins. It lands with hip-hop's own bodies moving in the same direction — the BET Awards gave Lauryn Hill its Living Legend Icon Award weeks earlier, and the New York Times recently named JAY-Z one of the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Recognition is arriving all at once for a generation of artists who built the culture without it.
The ceremony landed two days before the group opened a concert tour at the Garden Amp in Garden Grove, California.
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