![]() ![]() Then Geto Boys-and Southern hip-hop-seemed to disappear. I’m paranoid, sleeping with my finger on the trigger.” For several months, “Mind” was on the radio all the time. ![]() Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned. “Mind” is an unsettling song, its opening couplets freighted with anxiety: “At night I can’t sleep, I toss and turn. Geto Boys-Scarface, Bushwick Bill, and Willie D-had deep, unmistakably Southern voices, and their lyrics didn’t celebrate or protest anything. ![]() If the song had an antecedent, it was the blues, not music you might have heard in a disco. A slow, mournful plaint, “Mind” relied on long, harmonically complex guitar samples-a departure from the short horn bursts and rapid drums then dominating hip-hop. It was called “Mind Playing Tricks on Me,” and was performed by a Houston hip-hop trio called Geto Boys. In the fall of 1991, an unusual song found its way onto the radio. ![]()
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