Scarface drops deadly verse after verse on "Another ****** In The Morgue", while Houston's Geto Boys diss the police on "Gotta Let Your Nuts Hang". Production which would be described as minimalist today makes the group's lyrics more evident.
#The geto boys we cant be stopped full#
As other reviewers have mentioned this album is full of hardcore lyrics, Bushwick Bill in particular excels at putting the hard in harcore. This track bangs to this day, and influenced many rappers to come. I only came across this release in recent years, the single "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" is a classic Geto Boys track which sampled Isaac Hayes's "Hung Up On My Baby". DJ Ready Red, an original uncredited member of the Geto Boys who appeared on early albums has a limited presence on this release. Bushwick Bill, Hip Hop's only dwarf sits on the stretcher flanked by Scarface and Willie D, in a picture which shows the extent of Bushwick self inflicted gunshot wound. For today's generation the album cover is oldschool, yet remains enthralling to this day. Richard Shaw) fourth album was "We Can't Be Stopped" (1991). God Bless Bushwick Bill and the Geto Boys!" Before the church league softball game last week against the loathed Episcopalians, we even serenaded them with the complete verion of "Read My Nikes." It was great. Our minister even TIVOs it and replays it for our Wednesday evening devotional.
Now that the kids are "tuned in" and "turned on" to the Geto Boys, they are far more receptive to Bushwick Bill's evangelical message. It plays continuously in the minivan on the way to school, church, Walmart and the Saturday morning soccer games.
In any case, as much as I love their first album, I think that "We Can't Be Stopped" is their strongest work. It is safe to say that, were it not for the Geto Boys there never would have been a "50 Cent." While the Geto Boys certainly were criticized for their excessive use of cuss works and racial epithets (come on guys, wouldn't "Trigger Happy African American" gotten the same point across) no one can disagree that they set the standard for all the performers who followed them. Many of his fans are completely unaware however that, before finding his calling in spreading the Gospel, in the 90s, Bill performed with the Geto Boys, perhaps the liveliest "Hip Hop" group of the era. "Today we all know Bushwick Bill from his charistmatic late Friday night variety show that plays on Christian Broadcasting Network (Bushwick Bill's Gospel Hour - CBN, Friday 11:30pm Eastern).
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