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It was definitely political, even if it was far from "conscious" rap. His grandmama told him her mind was playing tricks, and he turned it into something bigger than a hit: Just listen to him in the song's third verse: But now, it began to echo the blues tradition it grew out of. This was confessional rap — street ministry. Rodney King's beating by LA cops was on virtual loop on the small screen.

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Our generation knew how to posture. Today, mental health is one of the biggest topics in hip-hop culture: This page was last edited on 24 September minfs, at The song was originally intended for a Scarface solo album Scarface penned three of the song's four versesbut the label decided that the song would be more valuable as a Geto Boys single.

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Accessibility links Skip to main content Keyboard shortcuts for audio player. There's still pain, and a whole lot of the wrong coping mechanisms. This story includes includes brief mentions of suicide. Retrieved from " https: Geto Boys lowered their masks enough to reveal their inner fears, but you didn't have to be an ex-drug dealer like Scarface to relate. Therapy was still a huge taboo — and really a privilege — that most black folks just weren't privy to.

He wrote three of the four verses in this song, originally intended for his solo album until Rap-A-Lot Records founder J. But now, it began to echo the blues tradition it grew out of. One moment he's in church praying for an exit out the drug game; the next, he's boyw-my suicide.

Stressed Out: How 'Mind Playing Tricks On Me' Gave Anxiety A Home In Hip-Hop

Radio personality Charlamagne the God wrote a whole book, Shook One: We knew how to pose and play hard. I make big money, I drive big cars Everybody know me, it's like I'm a movie star But late at night, something ain't right I feel I'm being tailed by the same sucker's headlights. But growing up in Houston's Southside introduced getl to a different kind of hard rock: He said, 'Mawmaw, what you talking about?

Learning to articulate his feelings must have contributed to making him the coldest songwriter in rap, more Southern Gothic than Edgar Allan Poe. It was misogynistic and hyper-masculine to a fault.

It was definitely political, even if it was far from "conscious" rap. Pretty soon, you even had preachers using the song as text for their Sunday sermons. Horrorcore Hardcore hip hop. That distinction came nearly a decade earlier, thanks to three gangstas of a different stripe.

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This story is part of American Anthem, a yearlong series on songs that rouse, unite, celebrate and call to action.

Then there's Scarface, easily one of the greatest rappers of all time.

A multi-instrumentalist from a long line of musical talent, Mindss had been a fan of metal as a kid. Walter Ray Watson and Noel King contributed to the radio version of this story. Or just maybe, 30 years later, he's seeing reality with more clarity than ever before.

Last year, Kanye West called his bipolar diagnosis his "superpower" tricjs an attempt to destigmatize mental illness.

If you were black, if you felt the pressure of growing up with a target on your back, "Mind Playing Tricks" was your anxiety anthem.

According to a NPR review of thethe song was unique at the time because it emphasized the trauma and vulnerability of life in the streets. InRolling Stone Magazine ranked it the fifth greatest hip hop song of all time. They were haunted by their own demons, but also by the economic degradation that hollowed out the hoods from which they came. And there isn't a popular rapper out there who doesn't owe their career to this song in some way — whether they know it or not.