Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper Layzie Bone, a.k.a. Steven Howse, was reportedly arrested at his Solon, Ohio home Monday afternoon on an old drug warrant according to the "Cleveland Plain Dealer." 

The warrant was reportedly issued in Detroit on March 12, 1997, after Layzie failed to appear in court on a possession of marijuana charge. 

The paper reports that four U.S. Marshals took the rapper into custody without incident. He was released on bond after making an appearance at a federal court hearing in Cleveland. 

We'll keep you posted as more details on this story become available.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony member Krayzie Bone's solo release "Thug Mentality 1999" will debut at number four on next week's "Billboard" chart with more than 136,000 copies sold.
As we previously reported, the double CD set features guest appearances from the likes of Big Punisher, Treach of Naughty By Nature, Snoop Dogg, Fat Joe, and Mariah Carey, as well as his Bone brothers Bizzy, Wish, and Layzie. MTV News recently asked the rapper what inspired him to go double-length."Like I need to do a double CD because... when I did have, like, one album... it felt incomplete to me," he explained. "It felt like I was missing something or like I still had something I wanted to say, you know what I'm saying. So I just... I just kept recording songs... and it just turned out to be a double CD." [RealVideo] In other Krayzie Bone news, the rapper will have a cameo in the upcoming Fat Joe and Mack 10 movie, "Thicker Than Water."

Krayzie Bone's just-released solo debut, "Thug Mentality 1999," is the latest project to emerge from the Cleveland-based Bone Thugs-N-Harmony collective.
The Bones' machine-gun-quick rapping style has been imitated by such fellow artists as the late Biggie Smalls and, most recently, Run of Run-D.M.C. Krayzie recently revealed his thoughts about these "tributes" to MTV News."I realize that we just created a new sound in music, you know what I'm saying, and I take it now as we should be lucky," said Bone. "We can be remembered as a group that changed almost the whole face of urban music, you know what I'm saying. Because everybody's doing it now -- singers got the style, rappers got the style. It's like everybody who's got a hit out almost now is doing the Bones' style." [RealVideo]Krayzie's debut is studded with guest appearances by Big Punisher, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Fat Joe, Juvenile, Kurupt, Naughty By Nature's Treach, and fellow members of the Bone Brotherhood.

Krayzie Bone's solo double album, "Thug Mentality 1999," is due out on April 6, and the rapper is already witnessing the title track take off on urban radio as the first single.
Earlier this year, Bone announced that he had expanded plans for the solo debut into a double album, and in a recent interview with the MTV Radio Network, Krayzie admitted that he had been recording songs ever since the release of the 1997 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony record, "The Art of War."The rapper claims to have more than 200 songs in his vault, but says that the project only came together in the last few months, after he had combed through the archives and selected which tracks he wanted to flesh-out for the album.
"It only took me six months to really get down and dirty with the album and complete it," Krayzie explained, "but I was recording [material] for like a year, doing more solo songs. I had a lot of material, so I just went through, picking songs and putting them all together."Guests joining Krayzie Bone for the album include Mariah Carey, Big Punisher, Fat Joe, Snoop Dogg, Juvenile, Naughty By Nature's Treach, Kurupt and Juvenile, among others. Krayzie has also collaborated with fellow Bone-mates Layzie, Flesh and Wish on one track, "Thug Always," a song that seems to downplay the exaggerated rumors of the group's imminent demise.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper Bizzy Bone was found innocent in just 45 minutes by a jury in Columbus, Ohio yesterday.
Bone, 22, born Bryon McCane, was on trial for misdemeanor charges of assault and battery for allegedly roughing up a barber school student.  The trial wrapped up Monday after four days of testimony. The main point of contention, according to court sources, was whether Bone was even involved in the altercation, or if only the rapper's bodyguards came into contact with the complainant, Terrance Harden. The bodyguards were not charged. According to reports in the Columbus Dispatch, the jurors questioned whether the right people were on trial.The prosecution's case wasn't helped when the original complaint was amended on the first day of the trial, changing the accusations from Bone having assaulted the man to Bone's bodyguards doing the deed with the rapper only attempting to grab the man's collar. The stories offered by the defense and prosecution differed on that point, as the defense contended the men were simply protecting their employer, leaving the case as one side's word against the other.The prosecutors told the Dispatch that they will not be filing charges against the bodyguards. According to a previous interview, however, Harden's lawyer, Robert Caplan, still intends to launch a civil action against Bone which will likely include the bodyguards as well. Caplan wasn't available for comment at press time.Bone thanked the jury and hugged his lawyer and his mother when he heard the news. He later issued a statement in a press release that read: "I'm happy to be vindicated of all charges. With Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, it's always been about turning something negative into something positive. I'm not going to let an incident like this set me back." He added: "It's what happens when you achieve a little success and live in the public's eye."Bone also thanked the media who covered the trial fairly in the statement, but added that to the few who portrayed Bone and rappers in general in a negative manner, "Ignorance is simply not knowing."

The assault trial of Bizzy Bone in Columbus, Ohio, is not expected to go to the jury until late Monday at the earliest, according to court officials. 

The Bone Thugs-N-Harmony rapper, a.k.a. Bryon McCane, is accused of assaulting Terrance Harden, a barber student. According to testimony and reports in the Columbus Dispatch, Bizzy Bone met Harden casually once at a nightclub and again in a mall parking lot where Harden asked the rapper for contacts to help the student break into the entertainment business. They had no further contact until months later when an acquaintance of Bone's received a haircut from Harden. At that time, the student apparently made disparaging remarks about the rapper. Later, he was confronted by Bone and two bodyguards.

The plaintiff's original statement, amended at the outset of the trial, said that Bone had punched and kicked him in a stairwell at the barber school on Sept. 16 causing a back injury, scrapes and bruises. Harden told the jury, however, that it was Bone's bodyguards who physically assaulted him and that Bone only grabbed his collar while he was being held by the guards, who have not been charged. Harden also said on the stand that Bone had not directly ordered the bodyguards to do so. 

Bone's lawyer contends that Harden, who they say was known to carry a gun, had made a threatening move towards Bone when the rappers guards stepped in to protect him.

Testimony is expected to continue all day Monday. Harden is also expected to launch a civil suit against Bone.

After spearheading the Mo Thugs Family to the top of the rap charts with "Ghetto Cowboy," rapper Krayzie Bone recently convened in a studio with diva Mariah Carey to cut a track for his upcoming solo album, "Thug Mentality."

Other notable names coming out for Krayzie's debut record, which is now due out in April, include Big Punisher, Fat Joe and Cuban Link from the Terror Squad, Naughty By Nature, Juvenile, MJG and Eightball.

Krayzie also handles most of the production chores on "Thug Mentality" by himself, although he did step aside to let NBN's KayGee man the boards for Krayzie's cut with Treach.  Krayzie plans to release the album's title track as the first single, and will shoot a video in Los Angeles with director Gregory Dark in the next few weeks.Dark, who has made quite a successful transition from directing adult films to handling rap videos, previously collaborated with Krayzie on the clip for "Ghetto Cowboy" and also filmed Ice Cube's "Pushin' Weight."The single version of "Thug Mentality" will be released to radio in February.

     COLUMBUS (AP) -- Grammy Award-winning rapper Bizzy Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony maintained in court Tuesday that he did not hurt a student barber who accused him of dragging him down a flight of stairs.
     The rapper, whose real name is Bryon McCane, is accused of attacking Terrance Harden on Sept. 16, at the Hair Experts Barber School.
     McCane, 22, is charged with assault and disorderly conduct.  His trail began in the late afternoon in Franklin County Municipal Court with Judge Teresa Liston giving 24 potential jurors preliminary instructions.
     McCane, who could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, wore a black suit and his hair braided and pulled back into a pony tail as he sat with defense attorney Randy Treneff.
     The singer had two bodyguards with him when he confronted harden to find out why he had been spreading rumors about McCane, Treneff said.
     "I think both of them (McCane and Harden) thought when they met in such a public place that it was going to be an amiable meeting," Treneff said.
     Treneff said Harden filed the complaint because he was looking for money from McCane, whose band won the 1997 Grammy for best rap performance by a duo or group.
     Harden, who was not in court when jury selection began, said he had been advised by his attorneys not to comment.
     Assistant City Prosecutor Nathan Akamine said he did not want to get into specifics about the case before the trial began.