13. GETO BOYS

Once it settled on the right lineup of Willie D., Scarface and Bushwick Bill, Houston’s Geto Boys created the perfect hip-hop storm, a dark and violent sound that raged through race issues, urban horror and mental illness that alternately shocked and sated hungry music fans. The trio’s landmark “We Can’t Be Stopped” album, released in 1991, put on for Fifth Ward, the city of Houston and the whole of Southern hip-hop. It’s considered a masterpiece of the genre and spawned a Top 40 single in “Mind Playing Tricks on Me,” another touchstone that presaged today’s hip-hop confessionals. Even so, Scarface maintains it was a tumultuous triumph. “We didn’t know who the (expletive) we were,” he said earlier this year on the Questlove Supreme podcast. “We’re not friends. We don’t hang out. We’re not cool. ‘I don’t know y’all.’ ” But to a legion of hip-hop fans and artists, the trio likely feels like family. Most Texas musical moment: Witnessing Bushwick Bill join local rock group Lonestar Pornstar in 2006 for an impromptu jam session at a rehearsal space. He was impressed by their debut album.