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A PLACE IN THE SUN.(hip-hop music from Houston)
In the fall of 1991, an unusual song found its way onto the radio. It was called "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," and was performed by a Houston hip-hop trio called Geto Boys. A slow, mournful plaint, "Mind" relied on long, harmonically complex guitar samples--a departure from the short horn bursts and rapid drums then dominating hip-hop. If the song had an antecedent, it was the blues, not music you might have heard in a disco. Geto Boys--Scarface, Bushwick Bill, and Willie D--had deep, unmistakably Southern voices, and their lyrics didn't celebrate or protest anything. "Mind" is an unsettling song, its opening couplets freighted with anxiety: "At night I can't sleep, I toss ...
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