 |  | CLASSIC GETO BOYS. A MUST-HAVE; 4.5 STARS |  |
SHORTLY BEFORE THIS ALBUM WAS RECORDED, WILLIE D LEFT THE GETO BOYS TO PURSUE A SOLO RAP CAREER. TO TAKE HIS PLACE, BIG MIKE WAS ADDED TO THE GROUP. THIS WAS A REAL GOOD ALBUM. IT'S NO ''WE CAN'T BE STOPPED'', BUT IT'S REAL GOOD. THE BEST TRACKS ARE ''STRAIGHT GANGSTAISM'', ''CEREAL KILLER'', ''SIX FEET DEEP'', ''IT AIN'T'', AND OF COURSE, THE 8 MINUTE-PLUS ''BRING IT ON'' WHICH FEATURES NUMEROUS RAP-A-LOT RAPPERS FROM THE EARLY 90S. SHORTLY AFTER THIS ALBUM, THE GETO BOYS ANNOUNCED THEIR BREAK-UP. BUT, THEY CAME BACK 3 YEARS LATER [WITH WILLIE D AGAIN] TO DO ''THE RESURRECTION'' AND THE GETO BOYS CAME BACK FOR A FINAL TIME IN 1998 WITHOUT BUSHWICK BILL TO DO ''DA GOOD, DA BAD, & DA UGLY''.
August 13, 2004Even though this album is ten years old, it still is a great album.
If you love Scarface as a solo artist you'll love this album with his old group - the Geto Boys.
If you like Body Count's "Cop Killer" you have to listen to "Mr. Officer" on this album.
Also, has one of the saddest ghetto stories "Six Feet Deep" before Ghostface's.
Almost every song on the album is a winner. June 12, 2004
It's hard to pick the best song on the album cause their is a lot of good ones. It's not the same w/out Willie D but Big Mike fits in and is tight. His song Gangsterism is a classic. More than half the cd is so good I could listen to it a few times in a row, but the other part is getting skipped cuz it's either too violent (bushwicks solos are always f'd up) or just not hittin right. But there is more really good songs than almost any other album I own.
March 30, 2003exit willie d enter big mike along with scarface and bushwick bill these mugs from texas put out another banging classic crooked officer deals with police brutality, six feet deep talks about black on black violence, bushwick continues his chuckie tales on murder ave, other songs deal with drugs, sex, and murder in the hood my favorite is the last cut bring it on which features the whole rap a lot mob a must buy.
December 29, 2002This album by the Geto Boys solitifies the South in the rap game. Every track is tyte. Every lyric is tyte. Even Lil J's intro and outro are tyte. Big Mike stepped in for Willie D and the trio still didn't fall off. Bring It On is probably one of the tytest rap songs in history with 7 or 8 different artist just ripping the mic followed up by yours truly Mr. Scarface. That song along is just one reason to get this album and there are about 10 other songs that are worthy of the same praise, so this here work of art by the Geto Boys difinetly gets 5 mics from a boy straight out of Southwest Houston!
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