"Action Speaks Louder Than Words" originally appeared on Ganksta N-I-P's The South Park Psycho. The album cover had a picture of the injured Bushwick being carted through a hospital by Scarface and Willie D.
Uncut Dope also contained two previously unreleased songs: "The Unseen" (which is the first Geto Boys song with Big Mike) and "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta". The compilation contained tracks from their first four albums: Grip It! On That Other Level (1989), The Geto Boys (1990) and We Can't Be Stopped (1991), although their first album, Making Trouble (1988), is only represented by the DJ recording, "Balls and My Word" (renamed to "And My Word" in the album's liner notes). The compilation's new songs were "The Unseen", which was subject to discussion due to lyrics expressing anti-abortion views, and "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta", which later appeared in the film Office Space. Geto Boys member Scarface suffered from an unspecified medical condition that forced the rapper to be hospitalized on June 30th. Released on Novemthrough Priority Records, the compilation peaked at #147 on the Billboard 200. Scarface of the Geto Boys in Houston, Texas on July 31st, 2014. Never short on ideas, Scarface had nonetheless gone a little too far with the 70-minute The World Is Yours. Uncut Dope: Geto Boys' Best is a compilation album by the Geto Boys consisting of previously released tracks from the group's Rap-a-Lot albums and two new songs. With the dissolution of the Geto Boys far behind him, Scarface follows the epic overreaching of The World Is Yours with The Diary, a refreshingly modest album with a few really strong moments and little filler.
0 kommentar(er)
