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 ...

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 ...

Essential listening: "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," The Geto Boys , 1991 A guilty conscience paves a pathway to paranoia and madness.

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.

He's one of the founding members of the Houston rap group Geto Boys and now Brad Jordan, a.k.a. Scarface, has his sights set on City Hall.

Upon its debut, the “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” video was scorned by religious purists and lobbyists, with politicians calling the song absolute moral poison.

They were really hitting their stride when -- 40 minutes in -- they wheeled out "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta" followed by "My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me," clearly the 1-2 finish.

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.

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 ...

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 ...