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Hip-hop music emerged as a testament to resilience and creative ingenuity, yet many of its foundational rappers departed ...
Fusing gritty street poems and throbbing beats, legendary Houston rap group the Geto Boys, from left, Scarface, Willie D. and Bushwick Bill, paved the way for many aspiring Southern artists.
Scarface started his career in the 1980s, DJing around Houston as DJ Akshen before signing to record executive J. Prince’s Rap-A-Lot label and eventually joining legendary rap group Geto Boys.
I know we already mentioned another amazing Houston hip-hop group, but the Geto Boys are the true godfathers of rap in H-town. Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill were a special trio that was ...
Ghetto Boys with an “h” and extra “t” were a short-lived, hugely-popular Run DMC knockoff and considered the first real southern rap group.
On this day in Hip-Hop History, Texas OGs The Geto Boys released their debut LP Making Trouble 31 years ago. Although the start of the career of one of the most prolific southern rap groups to ...
The Geto Boys take three of the spots in Texas Monthly’s 20 Essential Rap Tracks, and for good reason. From 1987 through the 1990s, the Houston trio became Texas’s first commercially ...
Its July 5 premiere found them talking to Houston hip-hop guru J. Prince, founder of the Rap-A-Lot label, about the Geto Boys’s early days, but it was primarily about the value of self-respect ...
Bushwick Bill, a member of the iconic Houston rap group Geto Boys, died on Sunday, succumbing to pancreatic cancer. He was 52. “Bushwick Bill passed away peacefully this evening at 9:35 p.m. He ...
Monsters and Critics reported that Scarface, best known as a member of the Houston hip hop group Geto Boys, revealed during a Zoom interview with his Geto Boys bandmate, Willie D (William Dennis ...
As a member of Houston’s pioneering rap group The Geto Boys, Brad Jordan co-wrote the early 1990s hip-hop anthem “Mind Playing Tricks on Me.
As a member of Houston’s pioneering rap group The Geto Boys, Brad Jordan co-wrote the early 1990s hip-hop anthem “Mind Playing Tricks on Me.” A 49-year-old rapper known as Scarface from The ...