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Japanese rapper Ryo Muranaka really wanted to meet\u00a0Bone Thugs-N-Harmony<\/a>\u00a0in person. So much so that he sold\u00a0his possessions before travelling 6,000 miles from Japan to Cleveland.<\/p>\n “I thought I could get in the US in exchange for my CD,”\u00a0Muranaka told<\/a> Fox 8 Cleveland through an\u00a0interpreter app on his phone. “No. No plan. One-way ticket.” He soon realized that the lofty aspirations of meeting his\u00a0“heroes” with nothing but his CD, luggage, and a one-way ticket\u00a0in his pockets was a bad idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n When\u00a0local activists James Norton and Kwas Bibbs found\u00a0Muranaka, he was all\u00a0alone, broke, and had been robbed of his luggage. To make matters worse, his\u00a0temporary permission into the United States\u00a0had already\u00a0expired, and was at\u00a0risk of being arrested by immigration officials\u00a0and subsequently tossed out of the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the meantime,\u00a0Norton and Bibbs tried to help\u00a0Muranaka out however they could, and even got him a brief stay in a hotel, thanks to\u00a0Bone Thugs member\u00a0Layzie Bone, who also got a chance to meet with the superfan.\u00a0<\/p>\n While\u00a0Layzie commends\u00a0Muranaka for his “determination and passion” in traveling halfway across the world to\u00a0meet\u00a0Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, the rap legend wants to use this story as a launching pad in advising\u00a0other diehard fans that they should be “very careful when you go to places you know nothing about.”\u00a0<\/p>\n “But I will also say this to other fans and artist that are looking to do the same thing as us or this gentleman did \u2014 follow your dreams by all means, but you have to be very careful when you go to places you know nothing about,”\u00a0Layzie told<\/a>\u00a0HipHopDX.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We\u2019re not from the suburbs, we\u2019re from the ghetto,” Layzie continued. “The area we grew up in is not nice by any means, and I’m just thankful all they took from him was his luggage and not his life because it gets real like that. So, be very careful and have some kind of plan.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Ohio\u00a0Sen. Sherrod Brown and\u00a0Marcia Fudge,\u00a0Rep. for Ohio’s 11th congressional district, are said to be working for a way to resolve Muranaka’s\u00a0immigration situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n