Bushwick Bill is being carted through a hospital by Scarface and Willie D on the album cover, an incident recreated after Bushwick Bill lost an eye in a high profile shooting.

The song is on the group’s 1991 album, We Can’t Be Stopped. “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” hit Number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1992. The group touched on taboo issues such as suicidal thoughts and tendencies, paranoia and the hidden traumas of witnessing the bodies of murder victims lying in the street. The Geto Boys’ music went deeper into the psychology of the Black youth growing up during the crack cocaine epidemic. Where gangsta rap has been pigeon-holed as glorifying guns and drugs, it also addresses social issues of drug addiction, poverty and the family dynamic suffering under both issues. Their blend of gangsta rap, gore and psychotic lyrics put them in a lane of their own. While New York and California were dominating the rap scene at the time, the Geto Boys kicked the door in for rappers from the South. The group consisted of Bushwick Bill, Scarface and Willie D. The late ‘80s and early ‘90s rappers hailed from Houston, Texas. “This year Halloween fell on a weekend / Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treating,” sang the rap group Geto Boys on their hit single “Mind Playing Tricks on Me.”

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