Thuggish Ruggish Bustaz

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"Thuggish Ruggish Bustaz"
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Single by Tommy Wright III
from the album On The Run
Released 1996
Genre Rap
Length 4:54
Label Street Smart Records
Writer(s) Tommy Wright III
Producer(s) Tommy Wright III

Thuggish Ruggish Bustaz is a diss song to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony from Memphis underground rapper, Tommy Wright III. The song came about after Tommy Wright read an article in VIBE Magazine which featured the Cleveland based rap group. During that time, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony was in a heated lyrical battle with other rappers and rap groups which had the same or similar styles, among these rap groups were Triple 6 Mafia. In the article, the rap group said some things about Triple 6 and their city, Memphis, Tennessee, calling it country. This derogatory remarks about the city was reason enough for Tommy to make Thuggish Ruggish Bustaz and feature it on his 1996 album, On The Run.

[edit] Diss

On the song, Tommy sampled from Bone Thugs' 1994 song , Thuggish Ruggish Bone, (as it clearly states in the title) and dissed them through many of their hit songs. One in particular was their hit 1995 song, 1st of tha Month, stating:

Tommy gonna wait till the first of the month get Bone for they food stamps when we shoot em up

At the end of the song, Tommy stated how he use to like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's music, but after reading the article, he no long perferred it.