"ABK started out in hip-hop as a break dancer who would hype up crowds. Inspired by Run-D.M.C., the Fat Boys and Kurtis Blow, he began rapping under the name Jaymo and formed the Krazy Klan around 1988 with Twiztid, The R.O.C., Lavel, Killjoy and JD tha Weedman.

“There was a bunch of us,” ABK said. “In the neighborhood, that’s what we called ourselves. We all had our Double-K hats and were walking around being 15 and stupid.”

The guys recorded songs on a four-track and played them at house parties. After Twiztid and The R.O.C. broke off to form House Of Krazees and other members dropped out of the picture, the Krazy Klan was down to ABK and Lavel. The duo performed every weekend at a bar Lavel’s aunt owned, playing to “the same old drunks that went there.”

Fueled by cases of 40-ounce bottles of Colt 45, the pair released two albums of party music — “Frustrations” on PCB Productions and “Developmental” on Slangtown Records. Soon after, under the name Native Funk, ABK released an indy album called “Rain From The Sun” and made his solo concert debut opening for House Of Krazees at Detroit’s famed St. Andrew’s Hall.”

The Detroit Rap scene was still pretty much in its infancy in the early 1990s. Local superstars Esham, Kid Rock, and Insane Clown Posse were making their presence felt and started a tidal wave in the local rap scene. The presence of all the groups inspired many rappers to follow their dreams and get into the business. One such group was the Krazy Klan. Having formed sometime between 1989 and 1990, this was a loosely organized group of friends from mainly the Warren area of Detroit. The members of KK included ROC, Big Father Hightop, Big J, EXP, Jayho, and Jaymo. The idea to release an album came up and supposedly there was a recording session and several songs were recorded. Rumor has it that friction between EXP and Jaymo caused a lot of tension in the group and the decision to separate was agreed on. Big J and EXP were looking to put out a tape and pursued that on their own. ROC and Big Father Hightop recruited the help of local legend Esham and began work on the tape that would eventually become “Rollin With Strength”. Esham was asked to produce 2 tracks on the EP and the tape was released in 1992. The exact pressing is unknown. Also in 1992, Esham’s group, Natas, released their first album and Esham reuses one of the same beats on both Life After Death and Rollin With Strength. Back to the Krazy Klan though, Jaymo and Jayho kept the KK name but did not release any material until their 1995 album, Frustrationz. From all accounts, Big J and EXP asked ROC to appear on their upcoming album. The trio worked so smoothly together that they decided to form a group. The origin of the name “House Of Krazees” stems from a trip the trio made into a local Detroit video store. They came upon an old horror movie called the “House Of Crazies” and decided that was the perfect name.

This was the genesis of the House of Krazees. The group was now formed and work began on a full length LP. Recording probably started in early/mid 1993 and later House of Krazees began opening up shows for Esham while he was promoting his Kill The Fetus album. The two main shows were in August and October of 1993 and introduced the Detroit scene to The House. Around this same period, HOK looked into finding a financer for their upcoming album. They finally settled on a man named Walter Stepanenko. House of Krazees had not signed to any record label but their first album, Home Sweet Home, was distributed by Asylum Productions. The album was released on October 1, 1993. Asylum released a “record release pass” that said Home Sweet Home was “available on tapes and cd’s” but no CDs were ever released. The tape was engineered and mixed by a guy named Jim Michewicz who worked at The Disc and then later would work with Mr. Bones on his solo material. HSH was re-released onto cd in July 2003 on Majik Recordz.

The Home Sweet Home album sold well enough to finance another album. Shortly after HSH came out Big J and Walter got into an argument and Walter was fired from his position as executive producer and financer. A guy named Scott Chapman replaced Walter as financer and executive producer for the next album, Home Bound. Also during this early 1994 period, some of HOK’s history came back. Big Father Hightop, now known as Evol, released his first solo tape called Satanic For Life. The tape was produced by the ROC and featured HOK (without Big J) on the title track. The tape dissed Esham, Natas, ICP, and dissed other local rappers such as UNLV (A local group produced by KGP) and Jack Frost. The Satanic For Life tape came out presumably in Spring 1994 and the tape itself says “House of Krazees appear courtesy of Mazz Muzik”. Mazz Muzik was the label that HOK intended to release their next album, Home Bound, on. They even printed up flyers promoting “The Return Of The Mad Men, Forthcoming EP Entitled Home Bound, on Mazz Muzik”. Starting in roughly Jan. 1994, HOK began writing material for the new EP. Released in July 1994, there were approximately 200 Home Bound tapes pressed up. They however changed the name of the record label from Mazz Muzic to Retro Horror Muzik. The cover has a photo of an old house and comes from the cover of a movie called Ghost Story.

The next two releases for House of Krazees were perhaps the most important. Just as HSH did, HB sold well enough to make another album. As Home Bound was coming out, work began on 2 other albums. Big J, who at this point had changed his name to Mr. Bones, began working with Jim Michewicz again on solo material. He and his crew, The Sons of Midnight, decided to put together a little single to get their name out and released a single in September 1994 called “The Demon Inside”. Like with most HOK releases, DI was done independently and released on Bones’ Skelton Records label. Nothing else was ever released on Skelton but the Sons of Midnight did record a few other tracks that are unreleased so far. The first 2 red pressings came out in 1994 and the gold pressing followed in 1995. The first red tape had a barcode on the insert but for some reason the next red and gold pressings did not have barcodes. The red tapes are for some reason incredibly rare and hard to find. One theory is that quite a few of them may have been seized at a local record store called Rock N Rolla, which was seized in 1994 for drug paraphernalia. Just like Home Sweet Home, there is a “record release pass” in existence which features a scene from a horror movie on the front along with the text “Bones & The Sons of Midnight, The Demon Inside” and the Skelton Records logo.

Season of the Pumpkin was the group’s next project. This marked a changed in production as all the members of HOK and Evol produced tracks. The tape also marks the first solo songs by Hektik (known as EXP on the HSH album), Bones, and ROC. The original version was released on Retro Horror Muzik and features several uncleared samples and shout outs. One of the groups mentioned, 2 Krazie Devils, collaborated with HOK on their album. HOK was featured on 2 tracks and ROC helped produce the album. The original version of the song “Lettin You Know” (later redone for the HOK Outbreed album) was featured on the 2KD album, Flipped Insanity. SOTP was then re-released on Latnem in 1995 with some slight beat changes and edited shout outs. The original Retro version of SOTP was re-released on cd in July 2003 on Majik Recordz.

Outbreed was the fourth album by HOK. This album dropped in May 1995 and was the first release on the new record label, Latnem Records (Mental backwards). This EP really marks a turning point for HOK.No only were they reunited with Walter Stepanenko, whom they had worked with on the HSH album, but they stareted getting more into hip hop and less into the "horror rap" style they had becom infamous for. Outbredd was pressed up in unknown quantites on both cd and tape. The cover is from the insert of an old Sega 32 X game called Corpse Killer.

Sacrifice was the second and full album release by Mr. Bones and it came out in November 1995. It features almost all the tracks from Demon Inside except On The Run and the Intro/Outro tracks. Most of the songs were recorded in September 1995. Sacrifice was produced by ROC and engineered by Jim Michewicz. There were only 500 blue cassettes pressed and the album was never re-released except for the tracks Why The Children? And Liquid Friend that appeared on Cryptic Collection 2 (and Dr. Jekel & Mr. Bones on CC1). Plain black and white flyers were supposedly made up and handed out to promote the album but none have surfaced. This album also marks the first “solo” shirt released by Mr. Bones. There were 12 Sacrifice promo shirt pressed up. Bones himself told Count Fetty that 10 were made, referring to the black shirts. I have also talked with Bones and he told me that 2 of the dark green shirts were pressed up. These are the only 2 colors of the shirt and they are INCREDIBLY RARE. Only 3 of these shirts are known to exist.

ROC became the second member of HOK to drop a solo album in mid 1996 with his solo effort, X-Posed. This album was a real family effort since the album features Ragz, Evol, Spice-D, Mr. Bones, and The House. Mr. Bones did the cover design. The album was promoted and distributed by Latnem and the promotion included a Sampler tape and several different flyers. There also seems to be some debate about the pressings. Certain pressings of the tape have yellow stickers on the front when sealed and some do not. It is unknown if the tape was reissued but the facts seem to indicate as such. This album is perhaps best known because it promotes 4 HOK related albums (3 of which were never released): Hektik’s solo album The Underworld, Mr. Bones’ solo album Something Weird, Evol’s The Beginning To The End, and HOK’s Head Trauma album.

Head Trauma was the fifth album by HOK. The album has a very distinctive hip hop flavor mainly because of the influence that people like Eminem, his manager Marc Kempf, and Vitamin E had on HOK’s sound. Marc Kempf helped promote the album and also did the cover art (for which he was never paid). There was only one pressing and the album was only released on tape on October 31, 1996 (2 years after SOTP and 3 years after HSH).

Something Weird would have been the third release by Mr. Bones. The album, as it has been released as of now, did not feature any other HOK members or other special guests. There is a flyer promoting the album as an LP with 21+ tracks and a list of artists who were scheduled to appear on the album but it is unknown exactly how many tracks were recorded. All the tracks for the album were recorded between November and December 1996. Various tracks from the album have been released on the Cryptic Collection 1 & 2 and Psychopathics From Outer Space albums. Released in fall of 1999 during ICP’s WCFOS tour, PFOS features the track “Old School Pervert”, a song that was going to be featured on Something Weird. Cryptic Collection was basically Twiztid’s version of the ICP Forgotten Freshness albums. It gave new fans a chance to hear the old and rare songs and also some unreleased Mr. Bones solo material. Cryptic Collection 1 was released at the GOTJ 2000 and sold on subsequent tours for roughly the next year. Cryptic Collection 2 was released during the last leg of the Freek Show Tour, roughly around June 2001.

Collectors Edition 97 (also known as Remix & Rewind) is technically the last HOK album, which does not include any “new” material except for remixed versions of a few songs. The cover was a drawing by Mr. Bones. Not too much to say about the album except it featured some great remixes of old HOK songs. In mid-1997, HOK did a show with Mob Mentality and KGP and Eminem opened the show. Eminem did his song “Low Down, Dirty” and KGP and Mob Mentality did various songs off their albums of the time. HOK performed the following songs:

Home Bound, FX, The Mask (Collectors Edition Remix), Dark Images, Hypno, Slip Into Reality, and Nosferatu

House of Krazees also has an unreleased album. The title was originally going to be “The Evolution” and it was going to be a double album but the title was then changed to “Shit To Make Your Ears Bleed”. The album was scheduled to come out in November 1997 and was promoted in ads for the Hack & Slash Masquerade show, the very last show that HOK ever did.