Ganksta N-I-P (these days the spelling is Ganxsta) wrote the Geto Boys' 'Chuckie,' which references the diabolical Chuckie doll from the Child's Play franchise.ДЄfter Grip It! On That Other Level and the Rick Rubin-helmed The Geto Boys, Ready Red no longer appeared on album covers, though his production is featured on the We Can't Be Stopped album. Early Geto Boys collaborator and horrorcore pioneer Ganksta N-I-P was at the time a Rap-A-Lot labelmate 'Psycho Rap' remains a macabre anthem, and his 1992 album South Park Psycho album sometimes sells for as much as $100. Prince Johnny C's solo album It's Been a Long Rhyme Coming appeared in 1992. Another song, 'Balls and My Word,' features Tony Montana dialogue like his 'All I have in this world' speech. Ready Red's production of the Geto Boys' 'Life in the Fast Lane' pays homage to '70s Houston soul and funk outfit Soul Bros Inc's classic instrumental 'Hot Pants.' Two songs from the Making Trouble album, 'Making Trouble' (with its heavy-metal guitar solos) and 'Snitches' (with its reference to Bob James' oft-sampled 'Nautilus'), borrowed heavily from Run-D.M.C. Ready Red, who maintains he left the Geto Boys over business reasons, produced many of the group's best early songs including the Superfly-inspired 'Do it Like a G.O.,' 'Mind of a Lunatic,' the Fifth Ward and Leatherface-inspired 'Assassins,' and 'Let a Ho be a Ho' (which samples the Honey Drippers' 'Impeach the President' and the cash-register sound effects in Pink Floyd's 'Money'). The second lineup consisting of DJ Ready Red (Collins Leysath), Prince Johnny C, Sire Juke Box and Little Billy - Bushwick Bill's first stage name, when he served more as a hype man and dancer - didn't last long beyond the Geto Boys' 1988 Making Trouble album. sound and even aestheticallyВ emulated the Hollis, Queens pioneers by wearing the requisite black fedoras, black clothes and ostentatious gold chains. Group members replicated the Larry Smith-produced Run-D.M.C. The second incarnation of the group functioned under the freshly minted Geto Boys name. Prince when he also operated a luxury used-car lot. Raheem's two solo albums, The Vigilante and The Invincible, both appeared on Rap-A-Lot, which was founded in 1986 by J. Like later Geto Boys members DJ Ready Red and Prince Johnny C, Raheem hailed originally from Trenton, N.J., though he later adopted Houston as a second hometown. Houston has some great rappers.' Raheem (who rarely used his last name Ceres), was 17 at the time that article appeared, and had already left The Ghetto Boys. were saying Texas rappers ain't about nothin'. Ceres, speaking in a 1988 Los Angeles Times story which featured the headline 'No Hick Jokes, Please,' emphatically stated, 'Rappers from New York and L.A. The group posed for a picture in front of a car parked adjacent to a Fifth Ward brick building near the intersection of Russell Street and Liberty Road. Under the Ghetto Boys spelling, the trio released 'Car Freak' in 1986 at a time when group members wore flat caps and Fila tracksuits. The first incarnation of the group, known in its early days as The Ghetto Boys, had an original lineup including 14-year-old Raheem Bashawn (Oscar Ceres), 15-year-old Sire Juke Box (Keith Rogers), and J Prince's 19-year-old brother K9/Sir Rap-A-Lot (Thelton Polk) - the original namesake of the Rap-A-Lot label.

Though the lyrics and personalities of the group - Bushwick Bill, Scarface and Willie D - are part of the public's cultural stream of consciousness, their distinctive sound should also be more known on a technical level than it is. Many groups and individual artists, working in numerous genres not just limited to hip-hop, have perhaps unwittingly and often knowingly prospered as a direct result of the group's distinctive style and ouevre. Within the context of music history, The Geto Boys have achieved rarely earned nonpareil status. Their main thematic inspirations and references have included Brian DePalma's Scarface and the occasional horror-movie nemesis like Freddie Kruger, Friday the 13th's Jason or the less obviously stated Leatherface from Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The founders of the hip-hop subgenre known as horrorcore created macabre street anthems linked inextricably to the horror movie-influenced, 'Helter Skelter'-style modus operandi of H-town's post-Scorsese version of Mean Streets. The Geto Boys are unequivocally one of the best and most famous musical groups to ever come out of Houston.

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