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The geto boys blogspot
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Till Death Do Us Part was certified gold. The album featured the single " Mind Playing Tricks on Me," which became a hit and charted at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.Īfter Willie D left the group, Scarface and Bushwick Bill continued with the Geto Boys with the addition of Big Mike, who made his debut appearance with the group on 1993's album Till Death Do Us Part. On the album's title track, the group responded to Geffen Records ending its distribution deal with Def American. The album cover features a graphic 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 helped boost sales of the group's 1991 album We Can't Be Stopped. In the early 1990s, several American politicians attacked rap artists associated with the subgenre gangsta rap, including the Geto Boys. sister label Giant Records) because of controversy over the lyrics. Records (with marketing for the album done by Warner Bros. The group's 1990 self-titled 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. This new line-up recorded the 1989 album, Grip It! On That Other Level. With the release receiving very little attention, the group broke up shortly thereafter and a new line-up was put together in which Bushwick Bill was joined by Scarface and Willie D, both aspiring solo artists. In 1988, the group released its debut album, Making Trouble. The first single the group released was "Car Freak" in 1986, which then followed with two singles: "You Ain't Nothin'/I Run This" in 1987, and "Be Down" in 1988.

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When Raheem and Sir Rap-A-Lot left, the group added DJ Ready Red, Prince Johnny C, and Little Billy, the dancer who later came to be known as Bushwick Bill. The original Geto Boys consisted first of Raheem, The Sire Jukebox and Sir Rap-A-Lot.






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