Great commentary on the Geto Boys, Alec, and interesting encounter with Bushwick.
I also used to follow Scarface and I remember buying the 'World Is Yours' album back then. My interest dwindled as 'The Diary (?)' album came out. Still waiting to hear his "whole new thing" with a band and him playing guitar or bass...but maybe that was him talking while he was smoking those Swisher Sweets.
Had a mild interest in Willie D too...thanks to getting a five finger discount while working at Tower Records in Pasadena. 'Going Out Like A Soldier'...it was ayight. Ha!
The closest I ever came to the 5th Ward in Houston was on my way driving to New Orleans. As I turned on some city street off the 10 freeway, it just seemed way too scary for this suburbanite...Made a quick U-turn back to the freeway. Trippin' off of Chuck Wick.
I like your observations on the GB's loops made out of great Soul music from the 70's. That was what attracted me the most...and the way they delivered their funky rhymes.
On another note...I wish Bill would use more Drum & Bass rhythms in some songs...that would be the real un-cut dope! Ha ha.
It was that first Scarface CD that caught my attention. The track A Minute to Pray, A Second To Die was also the name of a spaghetti western I remember watching on one of those dreamy Sunday afternoons from childhood, after church, homework completed, and PBS airing odd stuff.
Another like that for me was the movie My Name Is Nobody, a hypnotic Italian western, with equally hypnotic and strange soundtrack, from Ennio Morricone.
Thought and still think Scarface’s delivery was unique on that track.
This appeared in my YouTube feed a few days prior to Bushwick left us .... MC Serch reveals story about Bushwick Bill as terrifying and surreal as some of BB’s lyrics:
Great commentary on the Geto Boys, Alec, and interesting encounter with Bushwick.
I also used to follow Scarface and I remember buying the 'World Is Yours' album back then. My interest dwindled as 'The Diary (?)' album came out. Still waiting to hear his "whole new thing" with a band and him playing guitar or bass...but maybe that was him talking while he was smoking those Swisher Sweets.
Had a mild interest in Willie D too...thanks to getting a five finger discount while working at Tower Records in Pasadena. 'Going Out Like A Soldier'...it was ayight. Ha!
The closest I ever came to the 5th Ward in Houston was on my way driving to New Orleans. As I turned on some city street off the 10 freeway, it just seemed way too scary for this suburbanite...Made a quick U-turn back to the freeway. Trippin' off of Chuck Wick.
I like your observations on the GB's loops made out of great Soul music from the 70's. That was what attracted me the most...and the way they delivered their funky rhymes.
On another note...I wish Bill would use more Drum & Bass rhythms in some songs...that would be the real un-cut dope! Ha ha.