Supposedly Dre had intended to lure The Convicts from RAL when he first started Death Row and you can definetly see this album as a precursor to the Chronic sound.
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Although it’s dope from top to bottom, I think the highlight of the album is “1-900-DIAL-A-CROOK“, where the Geto Boys show up to help the convicts give step by step advice on how to steal a car, get into the coke game and even kill Sadaam Hussein, each over a different beat change. Today, rap and hip hop sound more gangsta with rappin' your ass off and cussin' your ass off. At first, rap sounded like pop and rock mixed together with rapping. A couple tracks seem to lose sight of the concept, but that doesn’t detract from the quality (like the would be anthem “Fuck School” or “Peter Man“). This group invented rap in New York City in 1986. From dealing with parole hearings, jail cell blues, to what to do with your broad when you get out (WHOOP HER ASS!). Prince Johnny C & Juke Box (the Mcs that I mentioned earlier) had been. A few things happened between the release of Making Trouble in 88 and Grip It in 89.
Featuring sometimes Geto Boy Big Mike and Lord 3-2 (who was bounced around to and from various Rap-A-Lot projects over the years before releasing a solo album in ‘96), The Convicts are a concept group based mostly around being, well, convicts. He would also re-master,tweak, re-arrange,re-title and re-release Grip It on Def American in 1990 as The Geto Boys (Assassins from Making Trouble was re worked and added as well). I'm setting this off real big with is said to be one of the holy grails of the my collection.
The album has been out of print for years and is highly sought after by fans. Convicts consists of Houston, Texas rappers: Big 'Money' Mike (before Geto Boys) and 3-2 (before Blac Monks) on the straight up gangsta and the south'n aspect of the rap game and the street. Convicts is a 1991 album by the group of the same name.
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