Geto Boys "Mind Playing Tricks On Me"

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[KingsOfKings]

Alternative intro

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

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.

The pain that's deep inside of everybody grows
As they approach to see the body before the casket close
The person standin next to me has snapped a flick
Once I seen the casket closed I knew that that was it
The whole entire family spoke on his defense
The choir sung the songs that make us reminisce
And durin all the singin I broke down myself
When I looked and seen the family that my partner left
And then the choir broke into its final song
Thinkin to myself the worst is yet to come
Everyone was headed for the final flight
As we creeped along the gravel on the burial site
The director said his words and there was not a sound
As they lowered my little partner towards inside the ground
Everybody dropped their flowers on the coffin top
And then they work alone with the concrete block
And that's deep

Such a great song overall!

 

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[Tommy Gibbs]

I remember being on a school trip back in late September or early October of 1991(don't remember the exact month) and this being the theme of the bus coming back home that day. I was in 9th grade and on that trip back from the state fair, my man Anthony had a boom box and he played that song all the way back from Raleigh to Greenville on an activity bus going 45 mph until the batteries died. Everyone around him, the black males, reciting the lyrics word for word from the middle of the bus to the back. The teachers and chaperones in the front didn't even care and let us be.

I remember when I had got a copy of it. Prior to that day, I had called Kiss 102 and asked DJ Troy G if he could play it around 7 pm one night. He assured me that he would so I sat by the radio with my tape on record/pause and around 730 , he played it for me. This is a big deal, cuz it's 1991 and hip hop just wasn't on mainstream radio like that in my area. We had 4 or 5 songs throughout the day total and they played hip hop Friday night and all day Saturday.. Stuff like that you never forget for the rest of your life.