Even with the success of "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" and her own single on Ruthless, things only got more complicated from there for Shatasha. Shatasha then sang the hook to me on the phone, just as she did that day in the studio in 1994, and revealed that the group decided within an hour that they were going to use her on the song. This was before Bone Thugs had even got on the track, and I was like, 'Oh yeah, I like that.' Bizzy was like, 'We want you to say thuggish ruggish bone.'" They pulled up the track, and I was jamming to it. "I went in and they played the track for me. "I called Eric and he was like, 'Yeah, you know I got a group Bone that's coming out, and we're really trying to get you on these tracks,'" Shatasha recalled. Through a friend, she was put into contact with Eazy, who at the time was looking for female vocalists to work with Bone. Shatasha detailed to me the process of how she first linked with Bone, and what it was like in the studio when she sang the hook on "Thuggish Ruggish Bone." Even before her work with the group, Shatasha appeared on Candyman's 1990 track "Knocking Boots," which helped her build her name as a budding singer in L.A. Shatasha is now removed from the Los Angeles music scene, which is where she recorded with Bone and Eazy, and has since relocated to Shreveport, La., where she has four daughters. Going into the interview, I really didn't know what to expect, but Shatasha seemed eager to talk, and I had questions that needed answers. Note that Eazy-E died from complications of AIDS on March 26, 1995. The interview was posted in The Coli forum, and featured Shatasha talking about her single "Free" and how her debut album with Ruthless was coming out in March of 1995. Even more interesting was an interview I came across that Bone, Eazy, and Shatasha did with MTV in 1994. 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.
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