![]() ‘’We were just expressing stuff that happens in the ghetto, just being like reporters.” “Love, sex, war and politics - that’s what the album is about,’’ Bill told the New York Times at the time. But in an era when N.W.A became Christian-right villains and 2 Live Crew challenged obscenity charges in court, the major-label debut was thwarted after the label got nervous, declining to distribute it over its NC-17 content. Rubin reworked their second album, “Grip It! On That Other Level,” into what would have been the group’s Geffen Records-distributed debut. Geto Boys were an independent commercial hit, selling hundreds of thousands of copies of their albums across the south, and soon signed with mega-producer Rick Rubin. “It’s okay for the President to start a war in Iraq, but it’s not okay for me to talk about what I see around me in the ghetto.” ![]() “People want to hear what’s going on around them in everyday life - war, blood, violence,” Bill told Spin in 1990. Geto Boys immediately attracted controversy and intrigue for their surreally violent lyrics, which both reflected and amplified their lived experiences surrounded by drugs, guns and poverty in Houston’s humid haze. ![]() The group - revamped with MCs Willie D and Scarface in its popular incarnation - gained notice on the Houston imprint Rap-A-Lot, which helped pioneer a Southern-rap style of brash, noisy and tape-warped productions. ![]() He initially joined Geto Boys as dancer billed as Little Billy but soon became its most recognizable MC from the group’s 1988 debut “Making Trouble” onward. After spending his early life in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, his family moved to Houston in the ‘80s. The rapper was born in Kingston, Jamaica, with a form of dwarfism (he stood roughly 3 feet, 8 inches). ![]()
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