Making Trouble‘s sleeve prominently pictures Bushwick Bill, but the psychotic midget who would become the Geto Boys’ greatest selling point is only featured talking on the album’s final track, “The Problem.” The rest of the record is essentially lame, as can be seen from the obvious Run-DMC image - gold chains and ugly sporting gear - and the rudimentary beats. Initially formed as the Ghetto Boys in the mid-’80s, the band began with only a hint of the overload they would ultimately unleash. Though they never achieve PE’s defined production or density of sound, Geto Boys’ records remain the equal of any well-done horror flick you’d care to name - full of gratuitous violence, unfeeling sex and endless exaggerations designed to split your sides in the way only the best non-family entertainment can. The Houston rap group presents a vision so brilliantly overdone that many will never fully accept that it is just as valid as the righteous rage proffered by such would-be prophets as Public Enemy or KRS-One.

Anyone who comes to Geto Boys records for anything other than entertainment is barking up the wrong gallows pole.

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