( Bio continued)įor this list, we selected our top 15 Geto Boys songs. Those three albums were more patchy than.

The first, Uncut Dope, covered the group through 1991's We Can't Be Stopped this opens it up to include tracks from 1993's Till Death Do Us Part, 1996's Resurrection, and 1998's Da Good da Bad & da Ugly. After releasing solo albums during the mid-’90s, the Geto Boys reunited in 1996 for one of their most praised albums, The Resurrection. This is a second and more inclusive package of the Geto Boys' best moments. 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. 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. 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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