Since there currently appears to be no new music from the group on the horizon, maybe now is as good a time as any to catch our breath and re-examine a few of the deep cuts. Ultimately, their voices were too loud to ignore, even if their antisocial rhymes often slipped right through the cracks in the mainstream. Their lyrics were so shocking, so gleefully violent and sexist, that there was very little chance of their best stuff ever finding a home on MTV or radio. Throughout their 28-year, on-and-off career together, the Geto Boys have often had to struggle to be heard.
But when the Geto Boys dropped Grip It! On That Other Level in 1989 and then followed it up with We Cant Be Stopped, rap fans, record labels and cultural critics across the country were forced to address the fact that H-Town was home to some of the best and most fearless rappers on the planet. Before Rap-A-Lot Records founder James Prince plugged stars-in-waiting Willie D, Scarface and Bushwick Bill into a stalled-out group backed by DJ Ready Red, the words “Houston rappers” rarely came up outside of a few inner-city high schools. The facts don’t bear out that legend, but there’s a ring of truth to it nonetheless.
For all most of the world knows, hip-hop in Houston began with the Geto Boys.
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