I love all things 90s! While I was born in the late 80s, most of the formative moments of my adolescence happened between 1990 and 2000. I began learning how to live life during that decade with the help of my parents and guides and mentors. I started coming into my own. Similarly, there was an American hip-hop group known as Bone Thugs-n-Harmony that also came into their own during this decade. They were formerly known as B.O.N.E. Enterprises and this group was composed of rappers like Bizzy Bone, Wish Bone and Krayzie Bone. They started making it big around 1993 when they signed with Ruthless Records. They released two records in quick succession after signing with the help of their confidant and record label executive, Eazy-E. Things were going well for Bone Thugs. They knew they hadn’t quite arrived yet, but they were on their way. Album sales were going well. They were booking larger venues on each tour. They were bonding more as a group. Plus, they were getting sage wisdom from their mentor at every turn — that is until Eazy-E got sick and suddenly passed away. They wrote a song, “Tha Crossroads,” as a tribute to Eazy-E and it won a Grammy in 1997. A few of the lines from that song seem to encapsulate the existential angst they were facing: “Now Eazy's long gone/ … now tell me whatcha gonna do? / Can somebody anybody tell me why we die, we die? / I don’t wanna die.” They found themselves in that liminal space between human freedom and responsibility. They found themselves about to continue their journey without the man who had been serving as their guide. They had to figure out how to live life in the next phase of their journey. They found themselves at a crossroads. I think this is also where we find the Israelites in Deuteronomy 30 — they are at a crossroads.
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