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Bone Thugs-N-Harmony playing 'E. 1999 Eternal' on tour, will play Ice-T's new festival, sang "Crossroads" for Blake Griffin

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Cleveland hip hop vets Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have been playing their 1995 sophomore album, E. 1999 Eternal, in full on tour this year, and that tour’s recently been expanded into the summer.

The new dates bring them to NYC on July 30 at Irving Plaza. Tickets for that show go on Live Nation/Music Geeks (pw: musicgeeks) presales today (4/22) at 10 AM, and the general on-sale starts Friday (4/24) at 10 AM.

Bone Thugs were also announced for Ice-T‘s inaugural Art of Rap Festival which takes place at Irvine, CA’s Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on July 18 and Mountain View, CA’s Shoreline Amphitheatre on July 19. A lot of the artists (including Ice-T and Bone Thugs) play both days, and others on the bill include The Game, Afrika Bambaataa, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, DJ Quik, Dough E Fresh, EPM, King T, Grand Master Melle Mel, Kool Moe Dee, Kurtis Blow, Mack 10, Naughty Nation ft. Treach & Kaygee, Rakim, Ras Kass, Slick Rick, The Alkaholics, Too Short, Warren G, Xzibit, Cold Crush Brothers and Rapper’s Delight. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 AM.

In other related news, Sports Nation had Bone Thugs sing “Crossroads” from E. 1999 Eternal after NBA star Blake Griffin dunked three times on Aaron Baynes. Watch that video, with the list of Bone Thugs dates, below…

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony — 2015 Tour Dates
Apr 23 The Vogue Indianapolis, IN
Apr 24 Bogart’s Cincinnati, OH
Apr 26 Agora Ballroom Cleveland, OH
May 03 The Observatory Santa Ana, CA
May 21 Granada Lawrence, KS
May 22 Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa, OK
Jul 18 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Irvine Irvine, CA
Jul 19 Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA
Jul 30 Irving Plaza New York, NY
Jul 31 Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD
Aug 01 The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD
Aug 14 Somerset Amphitheater Somerset, WI