According to Scarface, his sullen facial expression on the album cover is a result of his annoyance with the label’s exploitation of Bill. Rap-A-Lot then made the questionable decision to use his injury as a photo op. Right before the release of We Can’t Be Stopped, Geto Boys rapper Buskwick Bill shot himself in the eye during a drunken dispute with his then-girlfriend. Scarface wasn’t the only group member in the depths of despair when “My Mind’s Playing Tricks” dropped. “I was in a real fucked up state of mind man. “I was in a part of my brain that was almost spooky,” he told. “I think my manic-depressive state and suicidal tendencies played a huge role on who I was back then,” he told Da Shelter.įace was in such a dark place it’s fair to wonder what would have happened without music as an outlet.
I swear…nobody.”ĭespite the seemingly insurmountable internal battle, he was fighting at the time, his mental illness and paranoia also served as part of his creative fuel. “It was a record I originally recorded for my solo album, but nobody wanted that song. Experimenting with a toxic cocktail of downers, shrooms, and weed, the Houston icon was in rough shape when he wrote lyrics like:Īt night I can’t sleep, I toss and turn Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned Four walls just staring at a n***a I’m paranoid, sleeping with my finger on the trigger My mother’s always stressin’ I ain’t living right But I ain’t going out without a fight While breaking the song down for in a 2013 interview, Face said his frequent self-medication at the time of the song’s release made him paranoid. Listeners should note that the turmoil found in the words from “Mind Playing Tricks” wasn’t just good storytelling- it was a reflection of Scarface’s life. It became a Geto Boys record.”Īs the years pass, critics and fans continue to marvel at the power of every lyric in the song. “ found some people who were really feeling it. Prince had done his research on this song,” Face told Da Shelter. “Willie D didn’t think the record would work, but he wrote a verse to it anyway after J. The Spotify version of ‘We Can’t Be Stopped’.Įven some of Scarface’s group mates missed the song’s potential when they first heard it. If you’re not crying when the song’s done, you ain’t wrote the right record.”
“I was always taught to write your heart, write your life. “There were three verses: my first two verses - the verse that Bill rapped was my own third verse,” Face told the website Da Shelter in a 2010 interview. Having written and produced “Mind Playing Tricks”, Scarface was responsible for every verse on the track except for Willie D’s. Somebody has that fucking tape somewhere.” That’s the only copy of ‘My Mind Playing Tricks On Me’ with every verse by me.
“I gave it to a buddy of mine named Lil’ Silver, and he died. “I wish I could find the original version of this song, the one I first recorded,” Scarface told the website Genius in a personal notation from 2015. The music video for “Mind Playing Tricks on Me”.īefore appearing on The Geto Boys sophomore album We Can’t Be Stopped and gaining the group national attention, the song started out as a record for Scarface’s solo debut Mr.
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