BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY Announce NZ Show
With over three decades of shared experience, success and legacy between them, legendary US hip hop crew BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY are relishing a new chapter of opportunity and greatness – reuniting to create new music and tour internationally once more!
Twenty years on from their last release, the influential group has recently celebrated the reveal of new track 'AWW SHIT' (out now via Greenback Records) and have now dropped details of a highly anticipated Australia and New Zealand live return this October.
Performing at Spark Arena in Auckland, Aotearoa on Friday October 24, as well as shows in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in Australia; Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will honour their timeless catalogue of music, all the while reconnecting with Australasian audiences and showing them the potential that is still to be tapped into. Such potential is clear with their latest release 'Aww Shit'; all five members of the group – Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone, Layzie Bone, Krayzie Bone and Flesh-n-Bone – flexing over an insatiable West Coast-style beat.
Tickets are on sale via the Destroy All Line pre-sale at 2pm, Wednesday June 4. With the generalon sale from 2pm, Thursday June 5.
West Coast legend XZIBIT has long held a strong following in Aotearoa and Australia, and will be bringing his first studio album in over a decade KINGMAKER – featuring collaborations with heavyweights such as Dr. Dre, Ty Dolla $ign, Ice Cube and more – to audiences for the first time. Bay Area legend TOO $HORT is a West Coast hip hop pioneer, an impactful figure whose music shaped an entire wave of the West's movement and popularity in the '90s and '00s. Maintaining his relevance via classic hits and his recent album, SIR TOO $HORT, VOL. 1 (FREAKY TALES), Too $hort 's sound is never far from a club beat or being sampled on a modern day hit.
Regarded as 'the world's most influential rap group', Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's impact on the culture and the mainstream is undeniable. Multi-Platinum selling records, chart-topping projects and genre defining songs in the bank, this is a group that has over 60 million records sold to their name, remaining to this day the best-selling rap group of all time. Thirty years on, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have created a legacy not many can match and in 2025, the original line-up comes back together, hungrier than before
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