Grip It! On That Other Level (Explicit)
Geto Boys
Released:
Mar 1989
Label:
Rap-A-Lot Fontana
The Geto Boys' second album is a tough nut to crack. Nestled between angrily lucid claims of black pride ("Talkin' Loud"), funky James Brown samples and shout-outs to Public Enemy ("No Sellout") are "Gangsta of Love," "Let a Ho Be a Ho," "Mind of a Lunatic," and songs where they lyrically rape and pillage Houston's Fifth Ward. Willie D., DJ Akshen (later known as Scarface) and Bushwick Bill were three amoral revolutionaries straight out of Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice. Along with N.W.A, they were the tipping point in hip-hop's embrace of gangsterism, an era that has yet to end.
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