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Bushwick Bill’s Verse on Geto Boys’ ‘Mind Playing Tricks on Me’ Is One of Hip-Hop’s All-Time Greatest. The Geto Boys' signature single, a Hot 100 top 40 hit from an era when gangsta rap ...
Essential listening: "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," The Geto Boys , 1991. A guilty conscience paves a pathway to paranoia and madness. Macbeth and his wife found this out the hard way, ...
Gangsta rap had been known as aggressive, rebellious and political, but the Geto Boys' 1991 hit made it something new: vulnerable.
Ya’ll remember back in the early ’90s when Geto Boys dropped “Mind Playing Tricks on Me”? Scarface’s verse on that track was raw, honest, and haunting. It was one of those songs that ...
Scarface performed “Mind Playing Tricks On Me” without Willie D at the 2023 Grammys, which created tension between the Geto Boys members. Willie D discussed the state of his relationship with ...
Scarface, “Mind Playing Tricks on Me ... Yes, in 1991’s “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” video, the Geto Boys do jump out of a tree and beat up a paid extra, without warning him.
Gangsta rap had been known as aggressive, rebellious and political, but the Geto Boys' 1991 hit made it something new: vulnerable. Hip-hop's relationship with mental health has never been the same.
And "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," by the Houston rap trio Geto Boys, was bumping out of nearly every car with speakers in the trunk, putting a voice to the angst and paranoia that defined what it ...
John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood was playing on the big screen. Rodney King's beating by LA cops was on virtual loop on the small screen. And " Mind Playing Tricks on Me ," by the Houston rap trio ...