was the only one who actually left the group. 'Mind Playing Tricks on Me' became a hit in the hip-hop community.Īll three members began solo careers, but Willie D. On the album's title track, the group responded to Geffen Records ending its distribution deal with Def American.

The album cover had a picture of the injured Bushwick being carted through a hospital by Scarface and Willie D. A high-profile incident in which Bushwick Bill lost an eye in a shooting with his girlfriend helped boost sales of its third album, We Can't Be Stopped. In the early part of the decade, several American politicians attacked gangsta emcees, including the Geto Boys (most famously Ice-T and N.W.A). The album, however, was actually a compilation, consisting mainly of ten tracks taken from its 1989 album Grip It! On That Other Level, as well as two new songs and one song from its debut LP, Making Trouble. The group's 1990 album The Geto Boys caused Def American Recordings, the label to which the group was signed at the time, to switch distributors from Geffen Records to Warner (Bros.) Records (with marketing for the album done by WB sister label Giant Records) because of controversy over the graphic portrayal of rape, necrophilia, murder, explicit sex, cartoonish violence, and hostility toward women. Despite the explicit content of their songs, critic Alex Henderson argues that the group 'comes across as much more heartfelt than the numerous gangsta rap.wannabes who jumped on the gangsta bandwagon in the early '90s.' The Geto Boys broke new ground with their soulful southern sound (a precursor to the Dirty South style). The Geto Boys earned notoriety for its transgressive lyrics which included gore, psychotic experiences, Cold-Blooded Torture, homicidal maniacs, people who are extremely sadistic, necrophilia and misogyny, shaping Gangsta Rap and pretty much inventing Horrorcore.

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