The band’s major record label, Geffen, refused to put out the album, and veteran hip-hop impresario Rick Rubin had to rerelease it on his own label, Def American. “The Geto Boys” had a few ...

And "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," by the Houston rap trio Geto Boys, was bumping out of nearly every car with speakers in the trunk, putting a voice to the angst and paranoia that defined what it ...

On this date in 2019, the Hip Hop world lost a true pioneer when Richard Shaw, better known as Bushwick Bill, passed away at the age of 52 following a brief but intense battle with stage 4 pancreatic ...

It is Ice T’s. The MC was one of hip-hop’s most colorful and charismatic figures, whose macabre lyricism in the group Geto Boys — imbued with horror-movie violence drawn from life in Houston ...

Beyond defending content, the Geto Boys had to deal with being marginalized regionally. To listen to radio or to walk into a national record chain in 1990 and 1991 was to find hip-hop from New ...

Raheem and Sir Rap-a-Lot left the group and DJ Ready Red ... The group changed the spelling to The Geto Boys from then on. In 1990, the group released its self-titled "The Geto Boys" album.

Originally formed in 1987 by the godfather of Houston rap, J. Prince, the Geto Boys would reach unprecedented heights with vivid tales of murder and mayhem sprinkled with a political perspective ...

The Geto Boys take three of the spots in Texas Monthly’s 20 Essential Rap Tracks, and for good reason. From 1987 through the 1990s, the Houston trio became Texas’s first commercially ...

Bushwick Bill, a founding member of the Houston rap group Geto Boys, has died at age 52. Bill's publicist, who was identified only as Dawn P., told the Associated Press that the pioneering ...

Houston rapper Bushwick Bill, a founding member of the pioneering rap crew Geto Boys, died on Sunday evening in Colorado, his publicist, Dawn P., confirmed with NPR. A cause was not given pending ...

30 years ago on this date, Houston legends the Geto Boys released their most popular album to date, We Can’t Be Stopped, on J. Prince’s Rap A Lot Records. With Bushwick Bill’s self-inflicted ...

Houston hip-hop star Bushwick Bill of the pioneering rap group Geto Boys is still battling cancer, his family confirmed Sunday, after TMZ and others prematurely reported his death. Bushwick Bill ...