The Gift in Bloomington, MN

Three years after
Bizzy Bone
quietly released his largely unheard debut album,
Heaven'z Movie
, the soon-to-be-ousted
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
member followed with a similarly personal and at times confessional album,
The Gift
.
Bizzy
's ties to his
Bone
colleagues had become frayed by this point, and he consequently seems a bit distant and alone here.
fans should regardless find
's perspective interesting, and it's thankfully still easy to appreciate the rapper's versatile style. ~ Jason Birchmeier