Geto Boys "Mind Playing Tricks On Me"

[dennis roadman]

my mother use to date Willie Dee

then he had to let a hoe be a hoe

Spoiler

my fault bruh too easy ya mom is a nice lady

 

[zayk35]

He stood about 6 or 7 feet....

Low key, still one of the funniest lines of the song.

Bushwick was a little person tho

 

[Tflasha]

then he had to let a hoe be a hoe

Spoiler

my fault bruh too easy ya mom is a nice lady

My mom was out there fam

 

[General Mills]

Scarface was so friggin vivid with expressing paranoia and depression its not even funny.

I know the Lord is lookin' at me
But yet and still it's hard for me to feel happy
I often drift while I drive
Havin' fatal thoughts of suicide
BANG and get it over with
And then I'm worry-free, but that's nonsense
I got a little boy to look after
And if I died then my child would be a b*stard
I had a woman down with me
But to me it seems like she was down to get me
She helped me out in this
But to me she was just another chick
Now she's back with her mother
Now I'm realizing that I love her
Now I'm feelin' lonely
My mind is playin' tricks on me

Face you hitting home a bit...ease back dude.

Timeless bars. Saw Face at a old school hip hop concert back in the summer. While everyone else was jumping around the stage and hollering..Face came out and spit straight hot chicken grease. I was

 

[Erratic415]

This song is a masterpiece. Scarface is brilliant with giving vivid pictures of what's going on (especially his second verse in Six Feet Deep). He wrote Bill's verse, which I like the best because of the dark twist at the end.

 

[ChuckTaylor84]

Timeless song

One of my all time favorites in music PERIOD!

 

[Antiquity]

That Isaac Hayes sampling tho

 

[Bugsmoran]

Taking me back to being 11

I was around that age when it dropped too

 

[mobbinfms]

I was around that age when it dropped too

 

[Erratic415]

Taking me back to being 11

Yeah, same here.

To feel a little better, Holmes was 46 when Tupac made that line about him. At 35-36, he was only semi-flabby

 

[R-Typ3]

The worst that you could do is let me keep your fukkin kids
Cause I'm a teach 'em how to act
And if they ain't actin' right, they dyin' tonight
So, uh, ain't no use in you tryin' to spot 'em
I send you a motherfukkin note that says "Chuckie's got em!"


Chuckie - Geto Boys






I could see why a lil kid would be scared of someone who makes songs with those type of lyrics

That was Ganksta Nip behind that one

 

[zayk35]

This is something that seems to be lacking ....That universal hit that everybody" can feel" ...but in defense of today this was some "Brand New Story-tellin type shyt" for its time and all things considered it should have won a Grammy or AMA or some Smithsonian shyt to it .....just for the small spotlight it put on the South which ultimately for better or for worse led to today...... with the South running shyt on hip hop for the past decade plus

 

[Big Mark]

To me, Scarface hands down is the Godfather of gangsta rap because of his vivid story telling and emotion that he puts in his bars. In fact, You can easily see his influence in Nas and Big's story telling. Before Scarface, there were no rappers showing this level of vulnerability and raw emotion In Their story telling. His stories were unpredictable too. He didn't always win. He didn't always come out on top. It was the realist shyt. When I first heard mr. Scarface is back, I was like damn.

The very first time I heard mind playing tricks on me played, I was really feeling the Isaac Hayes sample and just before the beat kicked in, I thought to myself, if they drop the right beat in, this shyt will be classic. Then the beat dropped and I was like Lol. This was befor I heard a single rhyme.

 

[Stir Fry]

One of the GOAT hip-hop songs

 

[The_Hillsta]

To me, Scarface hands down is the Godfather of gangsta rap because of his vivid story telling and emotion that he puts in his bars. In fact, You can easily see his influence in Nas and Big's story telling. Before Scarface, there were no rappers showing this level of vulnerability and raw emotion In Their story telling. His stories were unpredictable too. He didn't always win. He didn't always come out on top. It was the realist shyt. When I first heard mr. Scarface is back, I was like damn.

The very first time I heard mind playing tricks on me played, I was really feeling the Isaac Hayes sample and just before the beat kicked in, I thought to myself, if they drop the right beat in, this shyt will be classic. Then the beat dropped and I was like Lol. This was befor I heard a single rhyme.

Rap A Lot feastin in 91' what a muthafukkin time to be a hardcore rap fan. We had the GB tape that summer then a couple months later we got that Face solo all these cuts in video and radio rotation along with Mind Playin Tricks...