This is a second and more inclusive package of
the Geto Boys' best moments. The first,
Uncut Dope, covered the group through 1991's
We Can't Be Stopped; this opens it up to include tracks from 1993's
Till Death Do Us Part, 1996's
Resurrection, and 1998's
Da Good da Bad & da Ugly. Those three albums were more patchy than the ones that came before them -- with the exception of
Making Trouble -- and none of the highlights from them are of the caliber of earlier tracks like "Mind of a Lunatic," "My Mind Playing Tricks on Me," and "Trigga Happy Nigga." So, going strictly by pound-for-pound quality,
Uncut Dope is the better of the two, but it's not as if later tracks like "Six Feet Deep," "The World Is a Geto," and "Gangsta (Put Me Down)" are entirely undeserving of anthology status. Furthermore, this disc has five more tracks and has better sound quality -- naturally so since it was released ten years after
Uncut Dope. Choosing where to go first with this group is a tough call: The Geto Boys is the group's best album, but going with that leaves one without some of the group's best material. And neither
Uncut Dope nor
Greatest Hits are clear-cut first stops. Regardless of the choice, some of the most brutally descriptive and alternately funny Southern hip-hop is in well-stocked supply. ~ Andy Kellman