Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

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Harmonising while rapping that fast was not a style anybody else could pick up, which is why thirty years on there is still no real imitation of it - plenty of people rap quickly and almost nobody sings in chords while doing it. That technical oddity is also why the records have aged strangely well. They sound less like a decade and more like a thing that happened once. Live, the harmonies are the whole test, and a crowd that grew up on those songs is unforgiving about which parts get handled properly. Expect a lot of people in their forties who know every interlocking line, and a front row that has been waiting since the first chorus of the night. Seven on Saturday on South Hill Street downtown. Los Angeles runs a steady circuit of nineties rap shows in theatres this size, and the audience for them turns out to be considerably larger and more loyal than the booking suggests.