My first reaction to the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony “I Tried” video is how it’s snowing. Since when does it snow in hiphop videos? Isn’t it always supposed to be sunny? The lone exception being when the video is shot in the club, a locale where weather matters not.

But sure enough, that is snow. Lots of it, piled high on the desolate streets of Cleveland, where cops chase a kid who did nothing wrong, and Senegalese hit machine Akon belts out the mighty chorus.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony play at The Crystal Ballroom tonight.