" Look Into My Eyes " Bone Thugs N Harmony

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"Look into My Eyes" is a song performed by American hip hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, written by members Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, Bizzy Bone and Wish Bone, Anthony Eugene Cowan, and producer Tim "DJ U-Neek" Middleton. It was released on June 3, 1997, via Ruthless and Relativity Records as the third single from Music from and Inspired by the "Batman & Robin" Motion Picture and lead single from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony's third studio album The Art of War. Recording sessions took place at Studio Cat and at U-Neeks Workshop in Los Angeles.

In the United States, the single peaked at number four on both the Billboard 200 and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. On November 24, 1997, it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of one million copies. The song made it to number three in New Zealand and number sixteen in the UK Singles Chart. A music video was released for the single. Bizzy Bone did not appear in it, but the clips from the film were scattered throughout the video. A remix also produced by DJ U-Neek entitled "Look into My Eyes (Atlantis Remix)" was released on the compilation album The Collection: Volume Two.
Chuck Eddy of Entertainment Weekly wrote: "The staccato rap harmonies of these hugely popular Cleveland gangsta youngstas, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, resulted in startling gospel beauty on earlier hits. "Look Into My Eyes", the first commercial single from the Batman & Robin soundtrack, aims for a hypnotic darkness but ultimately feels tired and trite: spiritless voices dragging themselves through formless tempo shifts over a beatless background blur".AllMusic critic gave the single 1.5 out of five stars.

Weekly charts
Chart (1997) Peak
position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[3] 3
UK Singles (OCC)[4] 16
UK R&B (OCC)[5] 6
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 4
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[7] 4
US Rhythmic (Billboard)[8] 15
Year-end charts
Chart (1997) Position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[9] 17
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 47
Certifications
Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[11] Platinum 1,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States June 3, 1997
12-inch vinylCDca
"Look into My Eyes"
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Single by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
from the album Music from and Inspired by the "Batman & Robin" Motion Picture and The Art of War
Released June 3, 1997
Recorded 1996
Studio
Studio Cat (Hollywood, CA)U-Neeks Workshop (Los Angeles, CA)
Genre Hip hop
Length 4:28
Label
RuthlessRelativity
Songwriter(s)
Anthony HendersonSteven HowseBryon McCaneCharles ScruggsTim MiddletonAnthony Eugene Cowan
Producer(s) DJ U-Neek
The Art of War is the third studio album by hip hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony which was released on July 29, 1997. The album sold 394,000 units in its first week of release. The album was certified quadruple Platinum by the RIAA in June 1998. It was the first double-album from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. The album included the platinum-single "Look into My Eyes", and the gold-single "If I Could Teach the World". The whole album is produced by DJ U-Neek.

A sequel to the album The Art of War: World War III was released on December 10, 2013.
The album was rumored to be called "DNA Level C" which is Cleveland backwards. "The Art of War" was created largely as a response to rappers deemed "Clones" (copycats) by the group. Such rappers included Do or Die, Crucial Conflict, Twista & The Speedknots & Three 6 Mafia.

In the wake of his father's death and Tomica Wright now heading Ruthless, Bizzy Bone was not happy, and thus did not appear for many shows or promotions. Now calling the shots, many tracks were altered by Tomica Wright, attempting to head the group into a new direction. Such tracks include Thug Luv with Sylk-E. Fyne, If I Could Teach the World, Friends, Ready For War and many others. While the group appeared at Sprite Nite on BET, Keenan Ivory Wayans (with Bizzy), and several other promotions, their tour began to lag without Bizzy.
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