![]() Prince had never thrown the group together. The rap landscape would look incomparably different today if J. Their “one hit,” “Mind Playing Tricks on Me,” is an absolute masterpiece, a deeply evocative and compelling study in bad faith and paranoia. ![]() They also have one of the most fascinating stories in rap, an epic saga of controversy and jealousy and reconciliation and attempted suicide. They were the first Southern group to be taken seriously all over the country, and they introduced a meditative style of introspective, depressive gangsta rap, which makes them indirectly responsible for some of the best music being made today (I really need to write an entry about Restless, the fucking magnificent new Trae album). But the network hit rock bottom a few years ago during one of those smarmy one-hit wonder countdowns, when they inexplicably shoved the Geto Boys in with EMF and the guy who sang “Kung Fu Fighting,” basically the rap equivalent of including Radiohead on the countdown because they never had a radio hit that rivaled “Creep.” The Geto Boys are one of the most important groups in rap history. ![]() VH-1 runs a lot of irritating shit: James Blunt videos, Flavor of Love, El Chupacabra beating the Boegy Bunch in The World Series of Pop Culture.
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