By this point, Geto Boys albums began to read like a macabre anthology of grisly ghetto slasher/horror stories, with each subsequent release trying to outgross the previous effort. It all came to a peak in the fall of 1991 when they had a hit with "Mind Playing Tricks On Me", followed quickly by Scarface's solo release, which turned out to be another thriller, and on a lot of levels, better than actual Geto Boys records. Essentially, this is a Geto Boys-style record executed by Scarface, with his own unique imprint (the man in the black hat), so it's fairly clear Willie D and Bushwick weren't really needed to make Geto Boys records, right? "A Minute to Pray and a Second to Die" thematically capitalizes on "Mind Playing Tricks On Me's success, and like every good horror protagonist he had enough sense to off himself at the end ("I'm Dead"), but not before leaving a trail of dead bodies ("Diary of a Madman").