Geto Boys - Mind Playing Tricks On Me

My cassette single is censored. (Actually, it would be more accurate to call it 'clean', since most of the words-you-can't-say-on-the-radio are changed rather than bleeped.)

Digging up another old one here...

I believe I've heard more than one "clean" version of this song. Does
anyone know which one is on the cassette single?

The "clean" version I'm most familiar with is the one that contains
dialogue at the beginning. It starts with Scarface saying the line "I sit
alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles," but then somebody
(Willie D?) jumps in and says "Cool out man, we're on the radio" and then
there's a bit of a spoken back and forth before the song starts in earnest.
This version then has alternate lyrics to the album version (not muted, but
alternate lyrics)--- for example, "4 walls just staring at a n****" becomes
"4 walls, closing in, getting bigger." Is this the version on the cassette
single?

According to Discogs, there may be several "clean" versions--- it looks
like there may be a "radio version," a "pop radio mix," and an "r&b radio
mix." My guess is these are all different than the censored album version,
but I don't know. Discogs says the "radio version" is on the cassette
single.

So, first, does anyone know which version is on the cassette single?
Second, does anyone know what the version I described above is called (if
it is not the version on the cassette single)? And, third, does anyone know
if any of these clean "radio" versions are available on CD?

Thanks.


Edited by JL328

Hey Jeff, I also have the same two CDs that Smokin' TomGary has, and I can help you with this. The version you are describing is the clean album version. This mix has many different names:

- clean album version
- Urban Radio
- R and B Mix (Original) (erraneously labeled as "Rond B Mix" on the promo CD)
- Radio Version

All of the above are the same mix and the one you are looking for.

The CD singles are pretty hard to find and/or are expensive, and so is the clean album on CD. Your best bet is to buy a used copy of "Rap Beat From The Street," which I mentioned in my first post. It's a K-Tel compilation that can be found for less than a buck on amazon.

Same one on the cassette single, as far as I know.

Ok, sorry, just so I'm clear--- the cassette single contains the initial dialogue and the line "Cool out man, we're on the radio"??