#GANGSTA RAP MADE ME DO IT ACAPELLA MOVIE#

It sounds, essentially, like it shouldn’t be there - which, for a song primarily about feeling gut-wrenchingly out of place in your own story, turns out to be the ideal note to start the final verse on.įrom there, Bill’s verse matter-of-factly tells the story of the Geto Boys “robbin’ little kids for bags.” (Whether they’re symbolically jacking young street players for cash or literally stealing candy from school kids is unclear both seem plausible.) The trio attract police attention, and turn their hostility on a “six-or-seven-feet”-tall cop, with Bill punching him bloody. And in stark contrast to Scarface and Willie’s booming baritones, Bill’s voice is thin and high-pitched, his delivery flat and clipped.

#GANGSTA RAP MADE ME DO IT ACAPELLA MOVIE#

The line is the perfect curveball to throw after three confessional verses: The opening bar removes the first-person perspective for what feels like the first time in the entire song, sounding more like the narration to a horror movie trailer than an MC scribbling in a notepad.

But then Bill’s voice enters like an apparition: “This year Halloween fell on a weekend/ Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatin’.” The song’s nocturnal combination of violent paranoia and diaristic self-loathing, tied together musically through old-school soul, has proven impressively enduring: With minor alternations, it could easily fit within the catalogues of 2Pac, Kanye West or even Juice WRLD.īut it’s the final verse - delivered by the late Bushwick Bill, who died at 52 over the weekend - that makes the song indelible. Partly because “Tricks” feels complete even without him: Three verses, each more potent and poignant than the last, all punctuated with the brilliant title and assuaged by that non-judgmental Isaac Hayes guitar hook, and it feels like the whole thing should probably be over. Dre’s The Chronic a year later, and which lends the song both accessibility and structural stability. But while no one would consider the bleary-eyed “Tricks” to be a compromise to the group’s integrity - the lyrics are brutally honest and visceral - it’s paired with an introspection that set an early high-water mark for the genre. It’s also connected together by a silky Isaac Hayes loop that could’ve appeared on Dr. The trio of Scarface, Willie D and Bushwick Bill had earned their reputation as an unflinching, confrontational hardcore hip-hop act - so much so that when Bill shot himself in the eye during a fight with his girlfriend, they put him, still bandaged and on his hospital gurney, front and center on the cover to 1991’s We Can’t Be Stopped.

Gangsta rap made me do it acapella