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Geto Boys - Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap - Mind Playing Tricks on Me
Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap
Disc 1
01. King Tim III (Personality Jock)
02. Rapper’s Delight (7″ single version)
03. Funk You Up (12″ single, short version)
04. The Breaks
05. That’s the Joint
06. Monster Jam
07. The Body Rock
08. Rapture
09. The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
10. Planet Rock
Disc 2
01. The Message
02. Rockin’ It
03. Punk Rock Rap
04. Rockit
05. Looking for the Perfect Beat
06. It’s Like That
07. Friends
08. Fresh, Wild, Fly and Bold
09. It’s Yours (12″ radio mix)
10. Hey DJ (original 12″ mix)
11. Jam On It
12. Roxanne, Roxanne
Disc 3
01. Roxanne’s Revenge
02. Fat Boys
03. La‐di‐da‐di
04. I Can’t Live Without My Radio
05. P.S.K. ‘What Does It Mean’?
06. Walk This Way
07. Paul Revere
08. Ego Tripping
09. 6 ’n the Mornin’
10. How Ya Like Me Now
11. I Need Love
12. Eric B. Is President
13. King of the Beats
Disc 4
01. A.F.R.I.C.A.
02. Parents Just Don’t Understand
03. Top Billin’
04. Lyte as a Rock
05. Raw
06. The Symphony
07. I Cram to Understand U (Sam)
08. Wild Thing
09. It Takes Two
10. I’ll House You
11. Fuck tha Police
12. Fight the Power
13. Self Destruction
14. Life Is… Too Short
15. Children’s Story
16. The Gas Face (radio edit)
Disc 5
01. Ladies First
02. Bring the Noise
03. Me Myself and I (remastered single version)
04. Just a Friend
05. It’s Funky Enough
06. Me So Horny
07. The Humpty Dance
08. U Can’t Touch This
09. Ice Ice Baby
10. All for One
11. Mind Playing Tricks on Me
12. Scenario (LP mix)
13. The Choice Is Yours
14. Let’s Talk About Sex
15. You Can’t Play With My Yo‐Yo
16. O.P.P.
Disc 6
01. Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang
02. It Was a Good Day
03. Baby Got Back
04. Tennessee
05. Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
06. Jump Around
07. I Got a Man
08. They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)
09. Pocket Full of Stones
10. C.R.E.A.M.
11. Insane in the Brain (radio edit)
12. Passin’ Me By
13. Comin’ Out Hard
14. I Used to Love H.E.R.
15. Funkdafied
16. N.Y. State of Mind
17. Flava in Ya Ear (remix)
Disc 7
01. Sabotage
02. Juicy
03. DWYCK
04. Regulate
05. Murder Was the Case
06. Sprinkle Me
07. Cell Therapy
08. Gangsta’s Paradise
09. Dear Mama
10. Shook Ones, Part 2
11. I’ll Be There for You / You’re All I Need to Get By (Razor Sharp mix)
12. I’ll Be
13. No Time
14. Tha Crossroads
15. Triumph
16. Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
17. Make ’Em Say Uhh!
Disc 8
01. The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
02. Doo Wop (That Thing)
03. Ruff Ryders’ Anthem
04. The Next Movement
05. Mathematics
06. Bling Bling
07. Hip‐Hop
08. Stan
09. Ms. Jackson
10. Country Grammar (Hot Shit)
11. Southern Hospitality
12. One Mic
13. In da Club
14. Get Low
Disc 9
01. Black Girl Pain
02. Jesus Walks
03. Stay Fly
04. Hustlin’
05. Hop‐Hop Saved My Life
06. My President
07. Get Like Me
08. Tie My Hands
09. Exhibit C
10. Super Bass
11. Thrift Shop
12. Crooked Smile
13. Blood on the Leaves
14. Started from the Bottom
I sit alone in my four cornered room
Staring at candles
Yo that shit is on?
Let me drop some shit like this here

At night I can't sleep
I toss an turn
Candlesticks in the dark
Visions of bodies burned

Four walls just staring at a nigga
I'm paranoid sleepin with my finger on the trigger
My mothers always stressin I ain't livin right
But I ain't goin out without a fight
See Everytime my eyes close
I start sweating
An blood starts comin out my nose
Is somebody watchin me act
But I don't know who it is
So I'm watchin my back
I can see em when I'm deep in the covers
When I awake I don't see the motherfucker
He owns a black hat like I own
A black suit and a cane like my own
Some might say take a chill B
But fuck that shit there's a nigga tryna kill me
I'm poppin in the clip when the wind blows
Every 20 seconds got me peepin out my window
Investigating the joint for traps
Checkin my telephone for taps
I'm staring at the woman on the corner
It's fucked up when ya mind is playin tricks on ya

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 suckers headlights
Is it that fool that I ran off the block
Or is it that nigga last week that I shot
Or is it the one I beat for five thousand dollars
Thought he had Caine but it was Gold
Made of flour
Reached under my seat, grabbed a pumper for the suckers
Ain't no used to me lying, I was scared er than a motherfucker
Whipped a left in the Popeyes
An barreled out quick if it's goin down let's get this shit over wit
Here they come, just like I figured
I got my hand on the motherfuckin trigger
What I saw make ya ass start giggling
Three blind, crippled and crazy senior citizens
I live by the sword
I take my boys everywhere I go
Because I'm paranoid
I keep looking over my shoulder
Peeping around corners
My mind is playin tricks on me

Day by day it's more impossible to cope
I feel like I'm the one that's doing dope
Can't keep a steady hand because I'm nervous
Every Sunday morning I'm in service
Prayin for forgiveness
An tryna find an exit out the business
I know the Lord is lookin at me
But yet it's still hard for me to feel happy
I often drift when I drive
Having fatal thoughts of suicide
Bang! And get it over with
An then I'm worry free!
But that's bullshit
I got a little boy to look after
And if I die then my child will be a bastard
I had a woman down wit me
But to me it seemed like she was down to get me
She helped me out in this shit
But to me she was just another bitch
Now she's back with her mother
Now I'm realizing that I love her
Now I'm feeling lonely
My mind is playin tricks on me

This year Halloween fell on the weekend
Me an Geto boys are trick-r-treatin'
Robbin little kids for bags
Till an old man got behind our ass
So we speeded up the pace
Took a look back
An he was right before our face
He'd be in for a squabble no doubt
So I swung an hit the nigga in his mouth
He was goin down we figured
But this wasn't no ordinary nigga
He stood about six or seven feet
Now that's the nigga I be seein in my sleep
So we triple teamed on em
Droppin them motherfuckin B's on em
The more I swung, the more blood flew
Then he disappeared
And my boys disappeared too
Then I felt just like a fiend
It wasn't even close to Halloween
It was dark as fuck on the streets
My hands were all bloody
From punchin on the concrete
Goddamn homie
My mind is playing tricks on me