| Grip It! On That Other Level | |
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 Studio album by Geto Boys | |
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Released |
12 March 1989 |
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Recorded |
1988-1989 |
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Genre |
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Length |
54:03 |
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Producer |
DJ Ready Red, Doug King, John Bido, Prince Johnny C |
| Geto Boys chronology | |
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Previous |
Making Trouble (1988) |
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Next |
The Geto Boys (1990) |
Grip It! On That Other Level is the second studio album by American hip hop group Geto Boys (then known as Ghetto Boys), released in 1989 by Rap-A-Lot. Following the disappointing results of the group's first album, Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince replaced two of the group members, Prince Johnny C and The Sire Jukebox, with Scarface (then known as DJ Akshen) and Willie D, who joined the original members Bushwick Bill and DJ Ready Red. The majority of the album's tracks were produced by DJ Ready Red, and much of the album's lyrical content deals with violent and misogynistic topics, which would later be credited for pioneering the horrorcore hip hop subgenre.
Upon its release, Grip It! On That Other Level reached number 166 on the Billboard 200 chart, and number 19 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The song "Do It Like a G.O." was the album's only single used for promotion and was released with an accompanying music video. Grip It! was well-received in the hip hop community, and was considered to be the group's breakout album, as it gave them national exposure and eventually sold 500,000 copies. A year after its release, Rick Rubin remixed 10 of its tracks for the 1990 Geto Boys remix album The Geto Boys. In 1998, The Source magazine included Grip It! on their 100 Best Albums list, and in 2002, they give it the perfect five mic rating.
Track listing[]
| No. | Title | Performer(s) | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Time |
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| 1. | "Do It Like a G.O." | Bushwick Bill, Willie D, Scarface | Dennis, Jordan, Leysath, Shaw | DJ Ready Red | 4:34 |
| 2. | "Gangsta of Love" | Scarface, Willie D | Dennis, Johnny C, Jordan, | Prince Johnny C | 5:41 |
| 3. | "Talkin' Loud, Ain't Saying Nothin'" | Bushwick Bill, Willie D | Dennis, Jordan, Leysath, Shaw | DJ Ready Red | 5:07 |
| 4. | "Read These Nikes" | Willie D, Bushwick Bill | Dennis, Leysath | DJ Ready Red | 3:40 |
| 5. | "Size Ain't Shit" | Bushwick Bill | Jordan, Leysath, Shaw | DJ Ready Red | 3:39 |
| 6. | "Seek and Destroy" | Willie D, Scarface | Bido, Jordan, King | John Bido, Doug King | 3:30 |
| 7. | "No Sell Out" | Willie D | Dennis, Leysath | DJ Ready Red | 4:38 |
| 8. | "Let a Ho be a Ho" | Willie D | Dennis, Leysath | DJ Ready Red | 4:31 |
| 9. | "Scarface" | Scarface | Bido, Jordan | John Bido | 5:05 |
| 10. | "Life in the Fast Lane" | Scarface | Jordan, Leysath | DJ Ready Red | 3:15 |
| 11. | "Trigga Happy Nigga" | Bushwick Bill, Willie D, Scarface | Bido, Dennis, Jordan, Leysath, Shaw | DJ Ready Red, John Bido | 4:46 |
| 12. | "Mind of a Lunatic" | Bushwick Bill, Willie D, Scarface | Dennis, Jordan, King, Shaw | Doug King | 5:24 |