My mind playing tricks on me

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It’s performance review time at your company, and your manager compliments your hard work several times. In the end, they make one improvement suggestion. You leave the meeting feeling miserable and dwell on that one suggestion all day long. My mind is playing tricks on me The Rolling Stones – Wild Horses

Geto boys mind playing tricks on me

The year was 1991. John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood was playing on the big screen. Rodney King's beating by LA cops was on virtual loop on the small screen. And "Mind Playing Tricks on Me," by the Houston rap trio Geto Boys, was bumping out of nearly every car with speakers in the trunk, putting a voice to the angst and paranoia that defined what it meant to be a young black man in America at the time. The Meaning Behind The Song: Mind Playing Tricks on Me by Geto Boys Then things get really weird. “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.” Behold, a plot twist that makes M. Night Shyamalan seem like Karl Ove Knausgaard. “My hands were all bloody, from punching on the concrete,” laments Bushwick, which frankly seems like the least of his present concerns. It wasn’t even close to Halloween?! How did Bushwick Bill lose track of what time of year it was? Forget what he may or may not have been punching; who on earth had he been out robbing? “God damn, homey,” he sighs; “my mind is playing tricks on me.”

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Geto boys my mind playing tricks on me

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