The most interesting segue on "The Resurrection" involves a conversation between James Smith and Chicago prison inmate (and founder of South Side street gang the Gangster Disciples) Larry Hoover, where the latter urges kids in the street to use their political power to vote. "Niggas in the street have to get together all over the nation...Chicago, L.A., Houston, New York, Detroit. Not the regular people in the streets, I'm talking about street niggas, niggas that call themselves gangstas. Real gangstas go to the polls," Hoover insists. "These young brothers pay attention to what I say because I'm one of them. I been where they've been, I come from where they come from. I'm where they going [prison] if they don't watch out."

Five years away from the spotlight have definitely changed Willie D. He's hard to recognize when he walks into the TV lounge while Scarface continues his midnight vilification of Bob Dole. Gone are the huge black-leather fedora and the denim penitentiary-style shirts; in their place are a denim shirt and blue jeans straight out of an L.L. Bean catalog, and eyeglasses that make him look like a graduate student. Tall and handsome in a very rustic sense, only his voice and the same "don't give a f**k " attitude that he expresses with subtle body language let people know that this is the same man who was the first to "let a hoe be a hoe."

Willie D. sits next to Scarface and the two laugh like old friends, people who, despite their differences, love and respect one another. Only months ago they were at each other's throats, and it was tension between the pair that led to the group's initial breakup. It took the two of them following the same messages of maturity that they extol on this new album for them to reach a new level of understanding. "It was a real bitter parting," Willie D. remembers, waiting for 'Face to leave the room before he opens the whole can of worms that split the trio. "A lot of shit was going on, so I stepped away for a while. But the whole time I was gone, people would never refer to me as anything but a Geto Boy. It used to drive me crazy."

Willie D.'s departure from the group had more than the expected effect on the fans--it split an entire Houston neighborhood. Willie D. represented the 5th Ward and Scarface South Park, so when D. left, he took his people with him, causing a breach not much different then the one Malcolm X created when he left the Nation Of Islam. Believe it or not, it got just that serious when the two had a run-in at a club in 1993.

"I did some shit on my solo albums and Brad thought that I was pointing it towards him. So we ran into each other at a club on the South Side. He came up to me and asked me about it, and I told him to take it however he wanted to take it. He went for his shit, and I went for mine. I was 'bout 199 niggas strong, and he was there deep, and before you know it shots started going off." Willie D. grows quiet but slowly continues his story. "A bunch of niggas ended up injured, and a few on both sides were dead. It was on! Pure street justice. It wasn't like niggas was gonna call the law or nothing--all they was gonna do was write a report and scoop niggas up anyhow. It got so real, it was scary. It got to the point where you couldn't even play a Scarface record in the 5th Ward or wear a Willie D. T-shirt in South Park without risking your life."