The song is the antithesis to Ice Cube "It Was a Good Day." It has as similar flow, but whereas Cube is singing about how great his life is that day... Geto Boys singing about how they are in living in hell.
Good comparison. Two of the greatest rap songs of all time!! And Bushwick Bill is criminally underrated. Little Big Man one of the greatest albums I've ever heard!!
This was the ghetto anthem of Houston during the 90s when we were in the middle of a gang war. We were poor and grew up in the bad part of town. I luckily got out because my mother sent me and my brother to live out in the country. Lost a lot of friends during that time. Bittersweet song for me.
The instrumental in this is sampled from Issac Hayes "Hung Up On My Baby” (1974). Another good song to check out is “I Seen A Man Die” from Scarface-a member of Geto Boys.
The life of a Hustler. Too many kids enamored with the fast money, but don't know the true price of the game. The first 3 verses was about that, Bushwick Bill's verse was on something else
"Damn it feels good to be a Gangsta" - Geto Boys "Ever so clear" - Bushwick Bill *A minute to pray and a second to die " - Scarface Every Scarface song is🔥🔥🔥 RIP Bushwick Bill
You're a legend for this comment. Chuckwick is criminally underrated. Ever So Clear and that entire Little Big Man album is one of the best ever! RIP Chuck 🙏🏼♥️
Musical and lyrical genius here. The bars on paranoia, depression, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts are just raw, and totally different from other lyrics that glamorized the game. Brilliant!
as a 60 year old who listened too a bit of rap in my life too me this is the best rap tune i have ever heard. I listen too rock music and jazz generally but listen too a little old school rap. Nas The Lox KRS 3 6 etc. Nothing from the 2000s. This shit is the bomb. GETO BOYS FOR LIFE. Scarface the man. Willie D and Bill aint too be played with either. Love it. Cheers from Canada baby
This one is iconic and will never fade away. The beat, the lyrics, the delivery and raw style are just perfect.. Scarface and Willy made this beat on an MPC and made the lyrics in his bedroom..quite a feat back in those days (expensive too).
Ohhhhhhhhhh Shitttttttt now you in it. Geto Boys were ahead of their time lyrically. Legends. The cover of the LP where they rushing Bushwick Bill into A&E with his eye shot out?!! Woah...
This song definitely put Houston on the map. As you listened to his lyrics, really does reach out for mental health of what a gangster goes through that life.
Dude you picked a classic. These are the Godfathers of Southern Rap. This song was probably the first huge song to come out of the south (Houston) at a time where Hip Hop was being dominated by NY and the West Coast. It also is the first rap song to deal with mental illness. All 4 verses deal with scenarios of mental struggle, anxiety and depression. something you didn't see in hip hop back in the 90's. It was groundbreaking and made Mr. Scarface into a legend. you should really listen to more of him. Also the album cover is legendary. Look up Geto Boys' album cover to this song, That is Bushwick Bill who actually got shot in the eye. They took this photo as he was in the hospital, so that whol thing is real life, no make up.
Good reaction. man This song still goes so damn hard after all this time I can't help but groove everytime. These guys are very interesting. The guy who does the second bar, Willie D, is a real life hustler too. He was in real estate for a while and now he's in Bitcoin and other altcoins too.
I'm glad you like it. This is where and time I was growing up. I lived 10 minutes from 5th Ward. Went to high school with members of this groupThe gang violence in and around our neighborhoods created a whole population of Gangsta. In retrospect this song was about the haunts of banging but the real message is behind the paranoid reactions of Cannabis use that you self medicate with to deal with your demons.
This is what the Democratic party and those who naively went along with them cause they caused the whole generation to turn to gang violence there was some gang violence starting in the 70s but nothing like the 80s 90s and 2000s, I remember one time I watched play documentary about Detroit crisis started when fathers were kicked out of the home so the mother could get a government welfare check even at the beginning there was still some jobs to be had and there was a lot less gang violence but sometime between the late seventies and the mid-80s the gang violence really started getting bad but even then the hip Hop did it reflect that it was more happy or it would tell you that i if you want to have a better life early hip hop told us a more of the story what happens if you do a bad thing or a good thing what will happen to you either way The Good in The bad, but the people in the music industry around 8889 into 1990 they thought hey we need to exploit this so we can make more money so they took that form of hip hop which was becoming mainstream but it really wasn't that mainstream yet and they corrupted it by promoting drink gangs and drugs and having people who were in rap groups or solo rappers stray away from or shy away from moral lesson stories like we had in our hip hop in the '80s really into about 1992 or '93 even though gangster hip hop was becoming prominent by then there was still some happy or storytelling hip hop about how to change your life if you were gang banging, the powers that be could not have kids hearing a positive message about how g********** is bad or treating women poorly is going to come back at you, so by the early 1990s they were promoting more and more groups like NWA Play NWA with sort of a plant because even in 1989 there really weren't that many people who were in gangster hip hop groups they were more like The fat boys or slick Rick or someone like the Lords of the underground would you talk some about g********** but they talk a lot more about just wrapping and having fun.
One tip, a lot of rap from this era is worth listening to on speakers instead of headphones. Make sure you have a couple of subwoofers for the low end. For reaction videos headphones are the best, but for personal enjoyment some music benefits from speakers.
"Thought it was caine.... but it was Gold Medal flour" Amen. Drugs, lifestyle, mental health, nature vs nurture....guess any one or all of these things can blur those lines of what may or may not be real in our minds. This tune (Isaac Hayes...your impact is epically noted)....of historical and culture significance
One of the great obscure samples, from a soundtrack for a film. Isaac Hayes soundtrack for the film Three Tough Guys -> original here @ Genius that they tapped into the melancholy aspect of it, but this is one of the great classic rap songs, which showed the potential for rap to be social commentary. I think it influenced a lot of rappers, because rap really changed after this.
Hey, Jay! I got a song for you to check out: Skee-Lo, “I Wish.” It came out in 1995. I just heard it for the first time in FOREVER, you HAVE to take a listen!! 😆
It's common for celebrities these days to talk openly about their mental health struggles, but Mr. Scarface aka Brad Jordan was talking about his a couple of decades ago. Waaay ahead of the curve.
Thank you for this. 💜 I missed this when you did this reaction. Glad to see it! I saw their reunion tour the day after my 52nd birthday back in 2013. Scarface and Bushwick Bill were there, and there was a level of chaos that I hadn’t experienced even with hardcore punk.They were amazing. I still recommend “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta”. Pretty sure I still have a flyer from the show. Great stuff. Thank you. 💜💜💜
"Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs Some buck that I roughed up way back Comin' back after all these years Rat-a-tat, tat, tat, tat, that's the way it is" - 2Pac
Great song from my college days. Here s a song from the same era by bushwick bill, but it s his real life story. They shot the album cover based on what he experienced in the video. This is it: th-cam.com/video/VTn2fOAVHYM/w-d-xo.html Option 2 roxanne shante "big mama"this is where she talks about where it began for her, even sampling g her own voice saying , " I gave birth to most of them emcees" this is it th-cam.com/video/OOLynxq4k9w/w-d-xo.html Wondering where she came, start w "roxanne roxanne" by UTFO then "Roxanne s revenge" by rRoxanne shante comes on the scene. I like what u brought to thia getto boys song
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This joint was the first to address PTSD, anxiety, depression, etc that comes from living in the hood
nope. THE MESSAGE
@@MichaelLesesne true that. I stand corrected. Good look, G.
Scarface wrote the whole song. Mainly about being paranoid with Bi Polar disorder. Big ups!
The song is the antithesis to Ice Cube "It Was a Good Day." It has as similar flow, but whereas Cube is singing about how great his life is that day... Geto Boys singing about how they are in living in hell.
You should be doing Reaction videos dude, your analysis was ON POINT, Unlike this other guy..🤨
Best description of this video!
Good comparison. Two of the greatest rap songs of all time!!
And Bushwick Bill is criminally underrated. Little Big Man one of the greatest albums I've ever heard!!
No it’s not. It’s just a separate unrelated song.
did you see the end of today was a good day? where ice cube is surrounded by cops and helicopters? didnt end well
Scarface, the MC on the first and third verses, is a master storyteller...and severely underrated.
TRUTH!
He actually wrote the last verse too
The last verse is the best in my opinion
Jamming to the Ghetto Boys and wearing a Bee Gee’s tshirt…. Golden
There are some great vids on TH-cam of black US young people having NO IDEA the BeeGees were white guys.
RIP Bushwick Bill
🙏
This is an all time classic man. One of the greatest rap songs of all time.
Paranoia personified in a song. Scarface is a master story teller.
This was the ghetto anthem of Houston during the 90s when we were in the middle of a gang war. We were poor and grew up in the bad part of town. I luckily got out because my mother sent me and my brother to live out in the country. Lost a lot of friends during that time.
Bittersweet song for me.
The instrumental in this is sampled from Issac Hayes "Hung Up On My Baby” (1974). Another good song to check out is “I Seen A Man Die” from Scarface-a member of Geto Boys.
I Seen a Man Die is 🔥
Hung Up is such a good song. Just a long guitar solo that makes me happy.
You seem to have a kind soul. Bless you my brother, and stay kind
This is one of those songs that just stay with you….I remember when this song came out…. Mind blown
This song made me go crazy in 93, I played it every single day in Nigeria
The life of a Hustler. Too many kids enamored with the fast money, but don't know the true price of the game. The first 3 verses was about that, Bushwick Bill's verse was on something else
Bill’s verse is about psychosis
The ability to tell and DELIVER a story was absolute necessary back then. This song was a monster from the second it was released.
Geto Boyz are just on another level!! I has this album on tape when it dropped!
It was the first true rap album I ever bought. Next was The Chronic. 😁 I'm a metal head, but I love this.
the first rapper is Scareface check his song - Never seen a man cry
I took a ride last night bumping The Diary album
Hip Hop CLASSIC‼️ They help to usher in that southern rap. The put the Texas rap on the map.
This entire album "We Can't Be Stopped" was a banger.
"Damn it feels good to be a Gangsta" - Geto Boys
"Ever so clear" - Bushwick Bill
*A minute to pray and a second to die " - Scarface
Every Scarface song is🔥🔥🔥
RIP Bushwick Bill
You're a legend for this comment. Chuckwick is criminally underrated. Ever So Clear and that entire Little Big Man album is one of the best ever!
RIP Chuck 🙏🏼♥️
I love you
Musical and lyrical genius here. The bars on paranoia, depression, hallucinations, suicidal thoughts are just raw, and totally different from other lyrics that glamorized the game. Brilliant!
All-time best hip-hop song.
as a 60 year old who listened too a bit of rap in my life too me this is the best rap tune i have ever heard. I listen too rock music and jazz generally but listen too a little old school rap. Nas The Lox KRS 3 6 etc. Nothing from the 2000s. This shit is the bomb. GETO BOYS FOR LIFE. Scarface the man. Willie D and Bill aint too be played with either. Love it. Cheers from Canada baby
Put a smile on my face man dope 👍
You like my dad, he's 58
Probably the first legit hip hop song I ever listened to-- just a masterpiece. Awesome video also.
Same. Before that it was Biz Markee. 🤣
A classic 1990s song.word up son
They don't make them like these guys anymore. Love'em
Certified CLASSIC. The storytelling in music was really something then
One of my favorite songs. Great reaction keep up the good work. You should check out Geto Boyz "Damn! It feels good to be a Gangsta"
This was real hip hop man. I miss those days.
Kudos to Geto Boys for writing this important song about mental illness.
Scarface and wille D are two of the best rappers of all time.
One of my favorite hip hop songs ever, and definitely one of the best ever...not just from this era.
Love me some Geto Boys
Certified hood classic
This one is iconic and will never fade away.
The beat, the lyrics, the delivery and raw style are just perfect..
Scarface and Willy made this beat on an MPC and made the lyrics in his bedroom..quite a feat back in those days (expensive too).
Ohhhhhhhhhh Shitttttttt now you in it. Geto Boys were ahead of their time lyrically. Legends. The cover of the LP where they rushing Bushwick Bill into A&E with his eye shot out?!! Woah...
They are great! Spent the 80s and 90s blasting this stuff!!! Great tunes for sho!
This song was a mega hit. Reminds me of that time period so much. Like Naughty by Nature and Phar Side.
Willie Dee got a great TH-cam Channel!👑
Hardcore hip hop track right here and the album is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Other Geto Boys songs to check out: Still, and Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
We use to party to this! Forever a hit!
This beat hits smooth. He is really spitting those lyrics.
One of the best rap band and say what he mines great live music
Damn, Geto Boys Appreciation Society jumped in here quick lol
GOAT level rap and rapping.
Excellent song. Try "Six Feet Deep" and "Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta" by them as well.
This song definitely put Houston on the map. As you listened to his lyrics, really does reach out for mental health of what a gangster goes through that life.
You can’t go wrong with Geto Boys and Scarface went solo. They have an amazing backstory too. Scarface is the original storyteller!
Geto Boys are my favorite rap group of all time. The Resurrection is one of the best albums of all time. Geto Boys for life!
Yay! I voted for this song so glad you’re reacting to it even though it didn’t win the poll. This takes me back to high school. 👍🏼
Song is absolutely incredible, one of my favorites next to this d.j.
It just makes you feel a certain way
Cool! Finally you reacted to this!! Brilliant song and video.
Dude you picked a classic. These are the Godfathers of Southern Rap. This song was probably the first huge song to come out of the south (Houston) at a time where Hip Hop was being dominated by NY and the West Coast.
It also is the first rap song to deal with mental illness. All 4 verses deal with scenarios of mental struggle, anxiety and depression. something you didn't see in hip hop back in the 90's. It was groundbreaking and made Mr. Scarface into a legend. you should really listen to more of him. Also the album cover is legendary. Look up Geto Boys' album cover to this song, That is Bushwick Bill who actually got shot in the eye. They took this photo as he was in the hospital, so that whol thing is real life, no make up.
This is one of the songs that put Houston on the hip-hop map
Geto Boyz are legendary. Size Ain’t S$&t by Bushwick Bill is legendary. Scarface had great solo career.
the more I swung the more blood flew.. then he disappeared and my boys disappeared too Gahhhdamn Homey that boy be on some strong shrooms..
Good reaction. man This song still goes so damn hard after all this time I can't help but groove everytime. These guys are very interesting. The guy who does the second bar, Willie D, is a real life hustler too. He was in real estate for a while and now he's in Bitcoin and other altcoins too.
Ah. Memories of high school. One of the best rap singles ever in my opinion. Great reaction.
Senior year. 🤘
All I can say is YASSSSSSS! I see you diggin that groove...uh huh. Me too!
I remember this coming out in high school. Got my first car a year later and this was on heavy rotation….
R.I.P Bushwick Bill
I think in the first verse he is implying its himself. Either way this song is super dope. I remember banging it when it came out. Love it.
One of the greatest songs and videos in hip hop history.
I'm glad you like it. This is where and time I was growing up. I lived 10 minutes from 5th Ward. Went to high school with members of this groupThe gang violence in and around our neighborhoods created a whole population of Gangsta. In retrospect this song was about the haunts of banging but the real message is behind the paranoid reactions of Cannabis use that you self medicate with to deal with your demons.
This is what the Democratic party and those who naively went along with them cause they caused the whole generation to turn to gang violence there was some gang violence starting in the 70s but nothing like the 80s 90s and 2000s, I remember one time I watched play documentary about Detroit crisis started when fathers were kicked out of the home so the mother could get a government welfare check even at the beginning there was still some jobs to be had and there was a lot less gang violence but sometime between the late seventies and the mid-80s the gang violence really started getting bad but even then the hip Hop did it reflect that it was more happy or it would tell you that i if you want to have a better life early hip hop told us a more of the story what happens if you do a bad thing or a good thing what will happen to you either way The Good in The bad, but the people in the music industry around 8889 into 1990 they thought hey we need to exploit this so we can make more money so they took that form of hip hop which was becoming mainstream but it really wasn't that mainstream yet and they corrupted it by promoting drink gangs and drugs and having people who were in rap groups or solo rappers stray away from or shy away from moral lesson stories like we had in our hip hop in the '80s really into about 1992 or '93 even though gangster hip hop was becoming prominent by then there was still some happy or storytelling hip hop about how to change your life if you were gang banging, the powers that be could not have kids hearing a positive message about how g********** is bad or treating women poorly is going to come back at you, so by the early 1990s they were promoting more and more groups like NWA Play NWA with sort of a plant because even in 1989 there really weren't that many people who were in gangster hip hop groups they were more like The fat boys or slick Rick or someone like the Lords of the underground would you talk some about g********** but they talk a lot more about just wrapping and having fun.
Very underrated rapper
One tip, a lot of rap from this era is worth listening to on speakers instead of headphones. Make sure you have a couple of subwoofers for the low end. For reaction videos headphones are the best, but for personal enjoyment some music benefits from speakers.
Dude, an iconic classic.
Great beat, great song
On their album cover "We Can't Be Stopped" it shows Bushwick Bill's face all jacked up in the emergency. That really happed and not makeup.
Attempted suicide over a woman. had a glass eye
I love this song it's the real thing....fell in love with it a long time ago...just the way it was made the flow of it
"Thought it was caine.... but it was Gold Medal flour" Amen.
Drugs, lifestyle, mental health, nature vs nurture....guess any one or all of these things can blur those lines of what may or may not be real in our minds. This tune (Isaac Hayes...your impact is epically noted)....of historical and culture significance
One of the great obscure samples, from a soundtrack for a film. Isaac Hayes soundtrack for the film Three Tough Guys -> original here @ Genius that they tapped into the melancholy aspect of it, but this is one of the great classic rap songs, which showed the potential for rap to be social commentary. I think it influenced a lot of rappers, because rap really changed after this.
Love to hear you do Flint Town, Welcome to Flint, and Dope Dayton Ave all by The Dayton Family. Somewhat similar vibe that I think you'll love.
Hey, Jay! I got a song for you to check out: Skee-Lo, “I Wish.” It came out in 1995. I just heard it for the first time in FOREVER, you HAVE to take a listen!! 😆
Good one‼️‼️
Great classic song RlP Bushwick bill ❤️
Amazing song.
It's common for celebrities these days to talk openly about their mental health struggles, but Mr. Scarface aka Brad Jordan was talking about his a couple of decades ago. Waaay ahead of the curve.
Thank you for this. 💜 I missed this when you did this reaction. Glad to see it! I saw their reunion tour the day after my 52nd birthday back in 2013. Scarface and Bushwick Bill were there, and there was a level of chaos that I hadn’t experienced even with hardcore punk.They were amazing. I still recommend “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta”. Pretty sure I still have a flyer from the show. Great stuff. Thank you. 💜💜💜
They sampled the music from an old Isaac Hayes song- Hung Up On My Baby.
This is a great song.. gives me a panic attack haha
"Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs
Some buck that I roughed up way back
Comin' back after all these years
Rat-a-tat, tat, tat, tat, that's the way it is" - 2Pac
WORD
I first heard this on GTA 5 this is a banging tune!
😂 haha Bushwick Bill...😂
Not the same genre but I would love to see you react to The Dave Mathews Band...Ant's Marching.
This was a instant classic
One of my favorite songs!..Scarface is dope
I’m 49 now and this is my generation
A 42 mother rapping along lol
anything from Scarface’s solo albums are straight fire too
Yessssss I've been waiting for this!
When I could actually listen to rap
You should listen to It feels good to be a Gangsta by Geto Boys, that’s a good one too.
Classic
So glad i grew up in the 80s 90s era of music Scarface is a beast
Love this song. Some of us are sick.
Geto Boys - Still
The whole album is bumpin
R.I.P Bushwick Bill.
Great song.
Take care brother
Great song from my college days. Here s a song from the same era by bushwick bill, but it s his real life story. They shot the album cover based on what he experienced in the video. This is it: th-cam.com/video/VTn2fOAVHYM/w-d-xo.html
Option 2 roxanne shante "big mama"this is where she talks about where it began for her, even sampling g her own voice saying , " I gave birth to most of them emcees" this is it th-cam.com/video/OOLynxq4k9w/w-d-xo.html
Wondering where she came, start w "roxanne roxanne" by UTFO then "Roxanne s revenge" by rRoxanne shante comes on the scene. I like what u brought to thia getto boys song