Scarface, who suffered from manic depression when he was a kid, and used. However, not just crime more the psychological consequences of it. Halloween becomes a metaphor for Bushwick Bill’s everyday life, an existence filled with ghoulish realities usually reserved for only one day on the calendar. During the golden age of hip-hop, where most rappers focused on the social conditions, the Geto boys´s song Mind playing tricks on me instead focused on crime. Things aren’t entirely what they seem however, and the story’s conclusion perfectly reflects the kind of warped psychological state someone might develope from suffering through the nightmarish environment that is the ghetto. The setting is based in a house, most likely his own, in his bedroom, in his bathroom, his mother’s kitchen, where she is yelling at him, on the street (in a car and beating someone up) and in a church. They triple-team him, bringing him down to the sidewalk, with Bill continuing to bash his head into the concrete long after the squabble’s been settled. Geto Boys, My Mind Playing Tricks on Me, is a structure narrative because in the video, the singer is acting out what he is singing about. Soon enough, the monster cop catches up to them and a brawl ensues. While “robbin’ little kids for bags” on his neighborhood block, Bill and the Boys get stalked by a monstrous, seven-foot cop. Though primarily a song about inner-city paranoia and depression, the song’s most famous moment occurs when Bushwick Bill lays down a Halloween tale that puts most campfire urban legends to shame. Then look no further than the Geto Boys’ 1991 classic “Mind Playing Tricks on Me”.
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