Geto Boys' The Geto Boys (33 1/3)
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1628929464 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Geto Boys is a welcome addition to the 33 1/3 canon, as it brings some much-needed diversity on several levelsPotts delivers a strong history lesson that is well-researched and gives the Geto Boys their due as hip-hop pioneers. Houston Press
In creating an album that was both sonically innovative and unprecedentedly vulgar, the Geto Boys were accomplishing something that went beyond music. At the outset of summer in 1990, a Houston gangsta rap group called the Geto Boys was poised to debut its self-titled third album under the guidance of hip-hop guru Rick Rubin. What might have been a low-profile remix release from a little-known corner of the rap universe began to make headlines when the album's distributor refused to work with the group, citing its violent and depraved lyrics. Charting the rise of the Geto Boys from the earliest days of Houston's rap scene, Rolf Potts documents a moment in music history when hip-hop was beginning to replace rock as the transgressive sound of American youth. To paraphrase a sentiment from Don DeLillo, this group of young men from Houston's Fifth Ward ghetto had figured out the "language of being noticed" - which is, in the end, the only language America understands.. When The Geto Boys was finally released, chain stores refused to stock it, concert promoters canceled th
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Rolf Potts has traveled around the world, from Fifth Ward to the Falkland Islands, reporting for the likes of Slate, the New Yorker, and SI.