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The Resurrection is the fifth studio album by the hip-hop group known as the Geto Boys. The album was released on April 2, 1996, when the Geto Boys reunited following a 3-year breakup. It peaked at number six on the Billboard 200, becoming the group's only top ten album in the United States. It is considered by fans to be one of the group's most critically praised albums and the first of two especially creative albums, followed by 1998's Da Good Da Bag & Da Ugly.[2] The majority of the album was produced by Mike Dean.
| The Resurrection | ||||
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| Released | April 2, 1996[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1995–1996 | |||
| Studio | Lil J's Studio (Houston, Texas) | |||
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| Length | 57:27 | |||
| Label | Rap-A-Lot | |||
| Producer | Brad Jordan, Mike Dean, N.O. Joe, Uncle Eddie, Derick Edwards | |||
| Geto Boys chronology | ||||
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| Singles from The Resurrection | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[4] |
| Los Angeles Times | [5] |
| Muzik | [6] |
| RapReviews | 8/10[7] |
| Rolling Stone | [8] |
The Resurrection has received positive reviews, with some reviewers calling the album the best album the Geto Boys have ever made. In a positive review, AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote "The Resurrection outstrips every other Geto Boys record in every sense -- it is the leanest, meanest, and funkiest thing they've ever recorded."[1] James Bernard of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a B+, writing "What makes this their best work is the album's festive mood, despite its harsh subject matter."[4]
In 2005, the comedian Chris Rock ranked The Resurrection 15th on his list of the Top-25 Hip-Hop Albums ever.[9]
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| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ghetto Prisoner" | 1:25 | |
| 2. | "Still" | Joseph Johnson, Brad Jordan, Willie Dennis | 4:00 |
| 3. | "The World Is a Ghetto" (featuring Flaj) | Thomas Allen, Harold Ray Brown, B.B. Dickerson, Lonnie Jordan, Howard E. Scott, Charles Miller, Lee Oskar | 4:25 |
| 4. | "Open Minded" (featuring DMG) | Mike Dean, Johnson, DeVongelo Jones, B. Jordan, Dennis | 4:10 |
| 5. | "Killer 4 Scratch" | 0:36 | |
| 6. | "Hold It Down" (featuring Facemob) | Dean, Loretta Dorsey, Jones, B. Jordan, Roderick Smith | 5:27 |
| 7. | "Blind Leading the Blind" (featuring Menace Clan) | Walter Adams, Dean, B. Jordan, Dante Miller, Dennis | 5:04 |
| 8. | "First Light of the Day" | Dean, B. Jordan, Dennis, Eddie Wilson | 5:07 |
| 9. | "Time Taker" | Dean, B. Jordan, Dennis | 5:12 |
| 10. | "Geto Boys and Girls" | Dean, B. Jordan, Dennis | 5:59 |
| 11. | "Geto Fantasy" | Dean, Miles Gregory, Johnson, B. Jordan, Miller, Dennis | 4:30 |
| 12. | "I Just Wanna Die" | Dean, Johnson, B. Jordan | 4:00 |
| 13. | "Niggas and Flies" | Derick Edwards, Dennis | 3:09 |
| 14. | "A Visit with Larry Hoover" | 1:25 | |
| 15. | "Point of No Return" | Dean, B. Jordan, Dennis | 3:06 |
Note
- Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 12 & 14 are omitted on the vinyl LP, cutting the album's track listing in half for that format.
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- "Geto Fantasy"
- "The World Is a Ghetto"
- "The World Is a Ghetto" by War
The song "Still" was used in the 1999 Mike Judge film Office Space during the scene when Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston), Samir Nagheenanajar (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman) destroy a printer in the middle of a field with a baseball bat. A parody of the scene (using a censored version of "Still") was made by Brian Griffin and Stewie Griffin (both voiced by Seth MacFarlane) on 2008 the Family Guy season seven episode "I Dream of Jesus", in which they destroy a record of the song "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen. The uncensored version of the song is available on the Family Guy volume seven DVD. Another parody of the scene was used for Spike TV's commercial of their coverage of the Consumer Electronics Convention in Las Vegas, shown in December 2011 and starring iJustine.[10] On the television series Silicon Valley, Mike Judge again sampled from this album by using the song "First Light of the Day" in the closing credits of the fourth episode of the show's sixth season "Maximizing Alphaness" in 2019.
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Weekly charts
| Chart (1996) | Peak position |
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| US Billboard 200[11] | 6 |
| US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[12] | 1 |
Year-end charts
| Year | Song | Chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billboard Hot 100 | Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks | Hot Rap Singles | ||
| 1996 | "The World Is a Ghetto" | 82 | 37 | 12 |
| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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| United States (RIAA)[15] | Gold | 500,000^ |
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^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. | ||
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