Awesome Music: The Eternal album universally speaking. For the core fanbase it also includes The Art Of War.
Awesome Moments: Strength & Loyalty album. Went gold when no other rappers from their era was going gold. Not only that but with just 3/5 of the group no less.
Base-Breaking Character: Bizzy has either become enlightened and more of a deep introspective artisan, or a self indulgent, pretentious, narcissistic jack ass who almost derailed the group.
Ensemble Dark Horse: The group itself could qualify in the context of the Hip-Hop scene. Their success came out of nowhere, nobody expected them to last as long as they did, and this is in spite of their lack of respect from the industry.
Epileptic Trees: Fan theories about the group's misfortunes being linked to their obsession with the Ouija board. Not to mention the speculation that they are cursed, because a lot of their collaboration partners are dead:
Their mentor Eazy-E (Layzie has openly accused this of being the product of an evil conspiracy, and not without good questions).
Memetic Mutation: Layzie Bone's "Look what the wind blew in" Lyric became this as he recycles the verse a lot. Wish Bone's solo album that's always "Coming Soon", and the fat jokes. The Mutations have got on some fans nerves.
Newbie Boom: Post-"Tha Crossroads", and probably again after "I Tried".
Nightmare Fuel: A lot of their earlier material from Faces of Death up to The Art Of War. Specifically songs like the "Mr. Ouija" tracks, "Mo'Murder", "Hell Sent", "Sons of Assassins", etc…
Questionable Casting: Featuring Phil Collins in "Home". See Heartwarming Moments above to see how it worked a lot better than one would think.
Signature Song: Thuggish Ruggish Bone, and Tha Crossroads.
Tear Jerker: "Tha Crossroads", made more powerful when watching the music video (which has a mysterious black man in a leather trenchcoat and dark glasses taking the spirits of anyone who has died: a man at a funeral, a teen who got shot in the street, an old man playing cards who his grandson, and worse of all, a premature baby at the hospital).
Primarily after they started to shy away from darker occult themes, tone, and beats.
When they started infusing more R&B.
Using standard song structures like verse choruses verse. When they use to trade back to back interwoven verses then followed by a chorus (if there is a chorus).
Being more overt with the religious/spiritual symbolism. Particularly Bizzy, Krayzie is now starting to get this as well.
Moving further away from their old producers.
Vindicated by History: After the absolute failure and implosion of The World's Enemy album fans are starting to appreciate Strength & Loyalty more.
