Experimenting with a toxic cocktail of downers, shrooms, and weed, the Houston icon was in rough shape when he wrote lyrics like:Īt night I can’t sleep, I toss and turn Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned Four walls just staring at a n***a I’m paranoid, sleeping with my finger on the trigger My mother’s always stressin’ I ain’t living right But I ain’t going out without a fight While breaking the song down for in a 2013 interview, Face said his frequent self-medication at the time of the song’s release made him paranoid. Listeners should note that the turmoil found in the words from “Mind Playing Tricks” wasn’t just good storytelling- it was a reflection of Scarface’s life. It became a Geto Boys record.”Īs the years pass, critics and fans continue to marvel at the power of every lyric in the song. “ found some people who were really feeling it. Prince had done his research on this song,” Face told Da Shelter. “Willie D didn’t think the record would work, but he wrote a verse to it anyway after J. The Spotify version of ‘We Can’t Be Stopped’.Įven some of Scarface’s group mates missed the song’s potential when they first heard it. If you’re not crying when the song’s done, you ain’t wrote the right record.” “I was always taught to write your heart, write your life. “It was a record I originally recorded for my solo album, but nobody wanted that song.
“There were three verses: my first two verses - the verse that Bill rapped was my own third verse,” Face told the website Da Shelter in a 2010 interview. Having written and produced “Mind Playing Tricks”, Scarface was responsible for every verse on the track except for Willie D’s. Somebody has that fucking tape somewhere.” That’s the only copy of ‘My Mind Playing Tricks On Me’ with every verse by me. “I gave it to a buddy of mine named Lil’ Silver, and he died. “I wish I could find the original version of this song, the one I first recorded,” Scarface told the website Genius in a personal notation from 2015. The music video for “Mind Playing Tricks on Me”.īefore appearing on The Geto Boys sophomore album We Can’t Be Stopped and gaining the group national attention, the song started out as a record for Scarface’s solo debut Mr.
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