The Whole World’s A Geto…
ARTIST WEEKS By Gotty™ on April 16, 2007 at 8:50 am
There’s no definitive reason as to why we chose the group Geto Boys as the focus for the week. Going into it, we know that some of the material may get overlooked because for whatever reason, their careers have to a certain degree. We accept that.
True enough, the proverbial odds were stacked against them – being from the South before it was fashionable, being backed by an independent upstart, no true marketable “star”. As a result, they were almost ahead of their time because they had the “image” then that would make them widely known names now.
But somehow, they made it & set the course of Houston’s history & perhaps that of rap itself when you look @ how many current favs cite Scarface as being their favorite & most respected.
While you often hear Schooly D as being the father of gangsta rap & you think of N.W.A. As the ones who brought the hood to all of America, Geto Boys were the ones who brought it to the hood. Let’s rephrase that….they took what the hood was feeling, what they saw, what it made in them, & then broadcasted it back in audio form. Realism @ in its hardest, most accurate form.
In a way, hearing them rap bridged two generational of Black males from the Black existance. If my dad, a Vietnam vet & all-around hustler & street dude, could rap, I felt like he would’ve passed along some of the same cautionary tales & wisdom that the Houston boys did because you could tell the shit they kicked was fueled by the knowledge of oldheads.
And if I, as a young teen, couldn’t possibly tell my parents, my teachers & that generation, what anger, frustration & pressures I saw daily, then I knew that Geto Boys could with their wicked sense of humor, profanity-laced toungues & borderline insanity. As crazy as I felt @ times, the GB’s managed to put that uncertainity & angst into words that were sharp & coherent stories similar to mine so that I didn’t feel like I was the only one.
So maybe this week is dedicated to youth, both forgotten youth of yesterday & the brazen present-day youth.
While the GB’s have grown older & have been virtually silent, they’re still alive with their music & messages contained in their recorded material. And while I may have lost a lot of my memories of my wonder years from too much of that & too many of this, I’ve never forgotten the coming of age that they helped me realize…
The Geto Boys – Brad, Will & Bill…and sometimes Mike.
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We’re gonna do this a little differently than we did for Nas & Weezy. Instead of bombing you with everything @ once, we’re going to break it down – group, solo’s, b-sides, mixtapes, rareities, appearances, etc etc et. al. As well as a compilation or two of our own.
Group Albums
Geto_Boys-Making_Trouble-1988
Geto_Boys-Grip_It_On_That_Other_Level-1989
Geto_Boys-The_Geto_Boys-1990
Geto_Boys-We_Cant_Be_Stopped-1991
Geto_Boys-Uncut_Dope_Geto_Boys_Best-1992
Geto_Boys-Till_Death_Do_Us_Part–1993
Geto_Boys-The_Resurrection-1996
Geto_Boys-Da_Good_Da_Bad___Da_Ugly-1998
Geto_Boys-Greatest_Hits-2002
Geto_Boys-The_Foundation-2005
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Just in case ya’ll missed it…
http://rapidshare.com/files/26064244/MoNasFoThatAzz.zip.html
P.S. We need another Brad Jordan solo album. It’s been 5 years already….(damn that long???)
Gotty, man, this weeks focus is oh so relevant.
During a period when the creditability of almost all current hip-hop artists is suspect… when EVERYBODY wanna claim dope-boy status and preach that baller shit… when even the damn Furious Five will hit BET claiming gangsta…
It’s good to remember when rap wasn’t gangsta just to be gangsta. It was story-telling about the good and bad of hood life. It was about the struggle and the come-up, but not on some glorifying shit. Just being real.
It gets no realer then GB, and Scarface is probably the most slept on down-south cat to ever do it. I hope TSS puts “the Diary” up sometime this week. Classic.
Jerrold – The Diary will be making an appearance.
TC – Agreed. But will we ever get one is the bigger question?
thanks so much for this. i can’t think of a more deserving group to get the full treatment.
i recently found a copy of ‘mr. scarface is back’ in a charity store for old folks. in england. i kid you not.
Just a general question? What can u do with a M4A track? I can’t seem to play it.
5th ward stand up.
Respect that Geto fresh.
M4’s are for iTunes.
yeah, yeah,you can never no doubt, for naithan forget the contribution New Jersey made to this group. The first time I ever heard Geto Boys was via this dude from Camden, NJ. He popped a tape in his radio and all those graphic elements took hold. Gangster of Love is still my joint.
i can only download one of their cds right now. suggestions?
@J Pap…Download Grip It
Chops – Virtuosity
http://rapidshare.com/files/26261271/Chops_-_Virtuosity.rar
DJ Jazzy Jeff – The Magnificent
http://rapidshare.com/files/26262150/DJ_Jazzy_Jeff_-_The_Magnificent.rar
Self Scientific – Gods & Gangsters
http://rapidshare.com/files/26266760/self_scientific_-_gods_and_gangsters__2004_.rar
http://jinginohakaba.blogspot.com/ ENJOY!
I’m gonna be honest. I never heard these guys until I watched “Mind playing tricks on me” video on MTV2. I really loved the sample they chose for that song. I never heard any Scarface’s music until I copped his album “The Fix”. Let the stoning commence.
Out here in the Pacific during the 90’s, you grew up on 3 artists, 2pac ,Eazy-E, Dr. Dre,. Eventually, I grew to like other artists (Ghostface, Nas, Jay-Z, BIG)as I grew older.
I’ve been try to look for music on these guys for a while now. Thanks alot for this Gotty.
“Out here in the Pacific during the 90’s, you grew up on 3 artists, 2pac, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre…”
I understand. But I disagree.
I visited the record stores 2-3 times per week back then and knew of nearly every artist out there – especially independent artists. Even though I was in California as well, I knew of groups, acts, and artists such as Geto Boys, 8Ball & MJG, Three 6 Mafia – even Cas$h Money back when BG was the only one with an album out. Being from the Bay, I was well aware of the independent market.
The music was out there… you simply had to notice it.
(Which is why I wasn’t, and still am not surprised by the South’s reign)
Yo! Get Grip It! & the self-titled joint for sure. & don’t worry, you’re gonna get your complete fill & then some this week. As mentioned we’ve got a compilation too to help out cats new to them.
“The music was out there… you simply had to notice it.”
No you do have a point Anonymous. But when I said “Pacific” I meant out here in American Samoa not Hawaii. If I played that Mind Playing.. joint out here, I would bet my life on it 90% of the folks out here wouldn’t know that song.
Thanks for the posts Gotty. I love the Nas and Weezy weeks too. It’s cool how you dedicate a week to an artist or group. Wondering who will be next. A West Coast Artist?
Longtime Reader, First Time Poster.
I’m all eastcoast minded now but I grew up with No Limit, UGK & Geto Boys. For real, me 20 year old kid from the netherlands was bumping UGK ‘ridin dirty’ album when I was 13, imagine that. Still UGK track ‘One Day’ with 3-2 is one of the realest songs ever released. Geto Boys just got that power in em like Ice Cube had.
“No you do have a point Anonymous. But when I said “Pacific” I meant out here in American Samoa not Hawaii.”
Ahhh… got you! Sorry for the confusion / assumption.
I even had a difficult time finding MC Pooh (Pooh Man) out in Oahu in 94 – and they had no JT Tha Bigga Figga.
Understood.
Thanks for the response and clarification!
Yes Yes Y’all has been on repeat all day for me…..Am i the only one that thinks Jazzy Jeff is gonna have a 5 micer? I ain’t listened yet, but everything so far is hot as hell!
Oh yea, anyone else hitting up Rock The Bells San Fran?
Ahhh… got you! Sorry for the confusion / assumption.
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No worries.
I even had a difficult time finding MC Pooh (Pooh Man) out in Oahu in 94 – and they had no JT Tha Bigga Figga.
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Man, I’m still going thru that.
“Oh yea, anyone else hitting up Rock The Bells San Fran?”
Yessir!
Wouldn’t miss it…
Geto Boys. The shit that when I was a short dawg coming up, I listened to and really worried about whether my folks would find the tape in my player. Shit was really hard, gangsta as can be. If you don’t know ‘em, you need to turn in your fitted and replace with a dunce cap son
Yo King. Something told me that this album might be gripping 5 too…haven’t opened it yet but I had that thought “what if”…
Yeah…same here…I just hope I don’t over-anticipate and ruin the listen
Geto Boys was Texas version of NWA. They told what was going on in Texas and Louisana in the early 90’s and let people know that the south was more than cars and jewelery.
Scarface The Diary
http://www.zshare.net/download/diary-rar-un6.html
The realest thing Brad Johnson ever wrote.
yall know the deal
already
MAN IT’S ABOUT TIME!! I’VE BEEN JAMMING THE GETO BOYS SINCE 89. I’M FROM THE SOUTH,GETO BOYS FACED ALOT OF HATE BACK IN THE DAY BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T FROM THE EAST OR WEST COAST. THE GETO BOYS INSPIRED A WHOLE GENERATION OF RAPPERS.THEY OFTEN GET OVERLOOKED, BUT THEY ARE ONE OF THE GREATEST RAP GROUPS OF ALL TIME THEY RANK WITH RUN-DMC & N.W.A.SCARFACE IS ONE OF THE BEST LYRACIST OUT THERE..WILLIE D TELLS YOU LIKE IT IS WITH NO APOLOGY. BUSHWICK DROPS SOME KNOWLEDGE ON YOU WITH A LIL’ HUMOR.GOTTY YOU DID A GOOD JOB RECOGNIZING THE TRUTH KINGS OF THE SOUTH!!! DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE A GANGSTA IS MY ALL-TIME GETO BOYS CLASSIC!!! PEACE & BLESSINGS!!
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