Grip It! On That Other Level

Grip It! On That Other Level is the second album by the Geto Boys and is the first to feature the classic lineup of Scarface, Willie D, and Bushwick Bill. The album caused controversy because of its violent and misogynistic content. Attention increased with the release of the Rick Rubin remix album The Geto Boys, which contained remixes of several songs from this album. Grip It! On That Other Level is also seen as a pioneer of the horrorcore hip-hop style with songs such as “Mind Of A Lunatic” and “Trigga-Happy Nigga.”

Scarface said the following about the album:

I had no fucking idea this record was going to be [so controversial]. I was so excited to finally get my face on somebody’s cassette. The music just drove me. Willie D, Bill and myself literally didn’t know each other. We just sat around for a little while and recorded a few songs and after that James told us, ‘Y’all ain’t getting it done fast enough.’ They took us out to the middle of nowhere and left us together. We were in a house and it was the nicest fucking house I had ever been in my life. But back then we didn’t want to see no beautiful houses in the middle of nowhere. We wanted to be around that hip-hop movement. You also have to take into consideration that we were kids. I was about 17 back then. And we were not recording in a professional studio.