Random Album Suggestion

Whenever I'm a fan of an artist, I like to take a look back at their history and see where they come from. Sometimes the artists back catalog is full of awesome surprises and other times it's full of garbage that is so shitty I wouldn't even let a pack of rabid wolves hump it. Luckily this time around it was the former, and the artist I'm talking about is Scarface. That dudes solo career contains an extensive amount of music BUT I'm not talking about his solo stuff. I'm talking about his group...the Geto Boys. Now originally the Geto Boys were The Ghetto Boys and the first album was done by DJ Ready Red, Bushwick Bill, and two clowns that obviously set their Xerox machine to "Run-DMC" before they stepped in the booth. An absolutely terrible album resulted, and if this stayed as the group, I would tell you to set all of the Ghetto Boys albums on fire. Luckily, the 2 clowns left, and Willie D and Scarface joined the group resulting in a new 4 man group that was 8 trillion times better than the pile of shit that was there before. They released their first album together "Grip It On That Other Level" which contained such profane lyrics that people were calling to ban the album. Like usual though, this brought more attention to the group and generated more album sales. It even caught the attention of producer Rick Rubin (Producer for Run-DMC, Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc etc etc) who wanted to revamp some of the track and create a few new tracks for an even wider distributed release. This resulted in one of my favorite albums of all time, The Geto Boys self titled album. You may find the production on the album to sound dated (its from 1990 afterall) especially compared to all the shit thats out now, but it still sounds raw as fuck and funky as hell to me. So if you want to take a chance on an old school classic (in my opinion) check this album out. You'll see where a lot of the stuff your favorite "gangsta" rappers got their ideas from...especially the ridiculous amount of Scarface movie references. Check out the first track on the album.