![]() SCARFACE: (Rapping) I sit alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles.īUSHWICK BILL: Cool out, man. It really put a voice to the angst and paranoia that defined what it meant to be a young black man in America at the time. In the fall of 1991, you could hear this song bumping out of just about every car with speakers in the trunk. KING: Tell us about this song and what it meant.ĬARMICHAEL: Noel, "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" was practically my theme song when it came out, and it wasn't just me. KING: Today, as part of our American Anthem series, NPR Music's Rodney Carmichael is here to talk about how "Mind Playing Tricks" became an anthem and laid the groundwork for generations of young black men to express their anxiety. SCARFACE: (Rapping) My mind is playing tricks on me. ![]() ![]() (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MIND PLAYING TRICKS ON ME") And this song by a Houston rap group called the Geto Boys brought never-before-heard vulnerability to the subgenre known as gangsta rap. Coverage of Rodney King being beaten by Los Angeles cops was playing practically on a loop on television screens. In 1991, the late director John Singleton's "Boyz N The Hood" came out in theaters.
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