I was able to find a video she shot for her Ruthless Records single "Free," which was pretty interesting because it didn't seem like common knowledge that Shatasha was signed or strongly affiliated with Eazy and Ruthless. There were reports that she had died in a shooting, but nothing was confirmed. I started digging, and through my research, I found a Facebook page that was associated with a Shatasha Williams, but it hadn't been active in years. Bone hasn't really talked about her in interviews, though Krayzie Bone did speak about the recording of the song in a piece they did with XXL for the 20th anniversary of the EP last year. In the age of the Internet and social media, it's almost impossible for anyone to completely disappear, and thus, I knew I would be able to at least get an idea of what happened to her. There were just too many questions and not enough answers about her story. For years, I also wondered what happened to Shatasha. Williams basically disappeared from the public eye following the platinum-level success of "Thuggish Ruggish Bone," on which she is an officially credited artist. Her name, though mistaken by many as Tasha, pops up on Twitter every week with people wondering what happened to her. Shatasha Williams is one of the biggest mysteries in rap history. For my money, the song is one of the greatest in rap history ( Questlove agrees!), and a large part of that is due to the mesmerizing hook, which was sung by Shatasha Williams. This story isn't about my personal love for Bone Thugs-N-Harmony though, but about the one song that turned me into a Bone Thugs loyalist, "Thuggish Ruggish Bone." Everything about the song, and also the video, which had Eazy-E strolling through Cleveland, built the foundation for my love of hip-hop. Regional bias aside, from that point on, Bone Thugs was cemented into my favorites for life. More specifically, the first time I heard the group's song "Thuggish Ruggish Bone," which was the lead single from the project they released in 1994, I was hooked. For me-a Cleveland native-one of my earliest experiences with rap occurred when I was formally introduced to Bone Thugs-N-Harmony via their EP, Creepin on ah Come Up. When you boil it down, hip-hop, and music in general, is about memories and how songs and moments stick with you in a personal way over time.