![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately the 1990’s proved to be a perplexing time for the group’s fans, as the trio seemed at times more interested in their solo careers than achieving more success as a unit. With almost no radio or video exposure save for the brilliant “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” single, the record pushed platinum status and assured their iconic status not only in Southern rap but in the hearts of hip-hop fans worldwide. ![]() ![]() Parents and media critics were outraged, but the more they decried the album and the group the more they fueled it’s success. The album shows Bushwick Bill being pushed on a gurney through the hospital by his labelmates, talking on a cell phone, shortly after his eye had been shot out in a drunken domestic dispute (Bushwick later recounted the story on the song “Ever So Cleer”). Things got even hotter when the trio released “We Can’t Be Stopped” in 1991, which depending on your point of view featured the most disturbing or most brilliant cover art of all time. When Geffen records refused to distribute “Grip It! On That Other Level” due to the graphic nature of songs like “Mind of a Lunatic,” they unintentionally made the Geto Boys a cult phenomenon, assuring both the album and the group’s future success. Early in the life of the group when the membership had settled into the familiar trio of Bushwick Bill, Scarface and Willie D, the Geto Boys proved to the rap world that there was no such thing as negative publicity. The Geto Boys have always been a little bit ahead of their time, which is why after a career spanning three different decades they’re still having to fight for the props and recognition they deserve. ![]()
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