best known as a member of the Geto Boys, a hip hop group from Houston, Texas. Like similar Rap-A-Lot titles for Scarface, Devin the Dude, Yukmouth, and Pimp C, Best of the Geto Boys is a mixtape-style overview, not a track-in-whole compilation like 1992s Uncut Dope or 2002s Greatest Hits. ( Bio continued)įor this list, we selected our top 15 Geto Boys songs. known as Ghetto Boys replacing one member who left, later respelled Geto Boys, and released the groups second album Grip It On That Other Level (1989). Listening to Music On Resso - Listen and download new songs by Scarface. After releasing solo albums during the mid-’90s, the Geto Boys reunited in 1996 for one of their most praised albums, The Resurrection. Their follow-up, We Can’t Be Stopped, eventually hit platinum, though the trio of Scarface, Willie D., and Bushwick Bill began to fracture by 1993. The controversy, which occurred two years earlier than similar censorship incidents involving Ice-T and 2 Live Crew, gave the Geto Boys a large amount of publicity. 1 DJ Screw 2 Scarface 3 Geto Boys He first started releasing records in the late 1980s Yella Beezy 2 The more popular artists that have a combination of the. In 1989, the Geto Boys released Grip It On That Other Level, an album. Blocked from distributing their 1990 major-label debut by Geffen - who insisted that a track dealing with necrophilia as well as murder was a step too far – the group’s label, Rap-A-Lot Records struck a deal with producer Rick Rubin, who arranged another distributor for the album, released on his own Def American label. When all is said, Scarface probably has the strongest discography in rap history. Though the controversial subject matter of gangsta rap wasn’t much of a barrier to popular success during the ’90s, the Geto Boys’ recordings proved almost too extreme for widespread exposure.
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