But Rick did not want me in the Geto Boys. We didn’t get into a professional studio until Rick Rubin came along. And we were not recording in a professional studio.

You also have to take into consideration that we were kids. We wanted to be around that hip-hop movement.

But back then we didn’t want to see no beautiful houses in the middle of nowhere. We were in a house and it was the nicest fucking house I had ever been in my life. We just sat around for a little while and recorded a few songs and after that James told us, ‘Ya’ll aint getting it done fast enough.’ They took us out to the middle of nowhere and left us together. Willie D, Bill and myself literally didn’t know each other. I was so excited to finally get my face on somebody’s cassette. I had no fucking idea this record was going to be. Grip It! On That Other Level (1989)-Geto Boys This is Part 1 and Im gonna feature Part II and III in the later weeks. This was a very interesting read because Face takes us back on what his mentality was when he was putting together this music and his creative process as well. This is a the legendary Scarface breaking down his Geto Boys and solo albums.

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