Scarface breaks down his 25 essential songs from his catalogue

sully

1. DJ Khaled f/ Nas, Scarface & DJ Premier "Hip-Hop" (2012)
2. Scarface "On My Block" (2002)
3. Scarface f/ Jay-Z & Beanie Sigel "Guess Who's Back?" (2002)
4. Scarface "The Last of a Dying Breed" (2000)
5. Jay-Z f/ Beanie Sigel & Scarface "This Can't Be Life" (2000)
6. Scarface & Beanie Sigel "Mack and Brad" (2000)
7. Gang Starr f/ Scarface "Betrayal" (1998)
8. Scarface f/ Too $hort, Tela, & Devin the Dude "Fuck Faces" (1998)
9. Scarface f/ 2Pac & Johnny P "Smile" (1997)
10. Scarface "Mary Jane" (1997)
11. Scarface f/ Dr. Dre, Ice Cube & Too $hort "Game Over" (1997)
12. Geto Boys "The World Is a Ghetto" (1996)
13. Scarface f/ Ice Cube & Devin The Dude "Hand of the Dead Body" (1994)
14. Scarface "I Seen A Man Die" (1994)
15. Scarface "No Tears" (1994)
16. Scarface "Now I Feel Ya" (1993)
17. Scarface "Let Me Roll" (1993)
18. Geto Boys "Six Feet Deep" (1993)
19. Scarface "I'm Dead" (1991)
20. Scarface "A Minute to Pray and a Second to Die" (1991)
21. Scarface "Diary of a Madman" (1991)
22. Scarface "Mr. Scarface" (1991)
23. Geto Boys "Mind Playin' Tricks on Me" (1991)
24. Geto Boys "Do It Like a G.O." (1989)
25. Geto Boys "Mind of a Lunatic" (1989)

http://www.complex.com/music/2013/01/scarface-breaks-down-his-25-most-essential-songs/

Gonna post the breakdowns Scarface gives post-by-post. It's too long to put in the OP.

sully

Geto Boys "Mind of a Lunatic" (1989)

“We recorded that record at Jay Prince’s ranch. Jay has a ranch where there’s nothing except a house and a studio. And it was in the middle of no-fucking-where. So that record right there just came about of off some sick psychotic ass shit. We were just in the woods recording an album in the house and ‘Mind of a Lunatic’ just came about.

“Ready Red was doing the beat and it sampled the Spiderman cartoon, ‘He’s a paranoiac who’s a menace to our society.’ Ready Red was the shit. He would find dope samples. He did a lot of movie watching and he was really dedicated to his craft. I really hated to lose him. He molded that Rap-a-Lot sound for sure along with me, N.O. Joe, and John Bido.

“Jukebox—one of the original members of the Geto Boys wrote that verse—wrote BIll’s verse. Bill ended up using that verse because ‘Box had got locked up. If you listened to it, it says, ‘Pussy plays superman your ass will get boxed up.’ Box wrote a lot of that shit.

“Let’s be very clear: Bill didn’t write anything. Either Will wrote that shit, Big Mike wrote that shit, Gangsta NIP wrote that shit, or I wrote that shit. Bill didn’t write. We all wrote for him. We would lay the verse down and he would rap it. Willie D wrote a lot on the first Geto Boys album, like ‘Do it Like a G.O’ and ‘No Sellout.’

“I went to Rap-a-lot in 1987, I was playing some songs and they were like, ‘This is not what we’re looking for.’ A few months later, Steve Fournier—thank god for Steve Fournier—he had the record and he played it for Jay Prince. Jay liked what he heard because Jay was on that gangster shit. Jay was looking for me from that day on. When he found me, he had me rap against his brother. I rapped against his brother and beat him out to get into Geto Boys. From that day on, it was history. That’s how shit came about.

“Jay never turned away from us. We was in the ghetto, on the corner selling rocks and trying to get tennis shoe money. Jay came and got us off the streets. He told us, ‘If your gonna do [rap], you can’t do that.’ When we let it go back in ’87, we were doing pretty damn good but he wanted me to be a rapper because I was more skilled than anybody he ever ran across.

“Matter fact, I was more skilled than the motherfuckers in New York and Los Angeles where the music was coming from. I easily could have been out there doing that shit with them. I was that skilled at that age. You can look at it yourself. The shit I was doing back then when I was a kid, think of how skilled I was. You think I could have done a song with N.W.A.? For sure! You think I could have done a song with Public Enemy? Hell yeah! Now, Rakim might have been a little out of my league [Laughs.], but everyone else I could have been on a track with and done well.”

buttuh_b

Top 5 all time MC. My OG Uncle Face.

buttuh_b

It should be some songs in between The Fix and now on the list.

ohhhla

The list is solid.

buttuh_b

Top Cat

Im my top 3

sully

Geto Boys "Do It Like a G.O." (1989)

“I didn’t make that record originally. Willie D made that record with the original Geto Boy’s. If you listen to Willie D’s first album Controversy, that song is on Controversy with different rappers on it. The first Geto Boy’s record I wasn’t a part of. I wasn’t on Makin' Trouble at all. Now, when I got into the crew I came in on On That Other Level.

“After that album was successful, Rick Rubin came in to give us the deal. The big guy comes in to give us small indies the deal, and he put our album out through Def American which was the reprint of that album. Unfortunately, the deal with Rick Rubin didn’t work out like it was supposed to work out.

“I didn’t know the business side of it, they kept us in the dark about all of the business with all the different distributors. We knew nothing about that. All we knew was that we were doing shows and that was that. We didn’t give a fuck or know shit about the business part of it. Did we miss a lot of motherfucking money? Yeah, sure. But it ain’t Jay’s fault. Jay did what a businessman is supposed to do. It’s business.

“J Prince had a lot of input on shit. As far as him actually getting down and busting a rhyme, no, but he was very instrumental in the writing. He wrote his part on ‘Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangster’ and he wrote Bushwhick’s part too.

“Jay Prince was instrumental in everything that came out of Rap-a-Lot, especially anything that had to do with the Geto Boys or Scarface. We were Jay Prince’s babies. There’s a lot of people that signed to Rap-a-Lot and Jay put it out or whatever, but when it came to me going into the studio or the Geto Boys, Jay would be there every day. He was the brain behind all that. A lot of that controversial shit that we talked about, Jay inspired that.

“Don’t for one second get it fucked up, Jay Prince is a real gangster. He ain’t no TV motherfucker or a motherfucker that’s hiding behind a desk talking that shit. He is the true living definition of what a gangster is. If you’re looking at the shit you see on fucking TV, nah, that motherfucker is a real true gangster. If you wanna see the truth and what gangster really is, that’s what my nigga is.

“That's why the feds was watching us all. Back in 1999 or maybe 2000, the feds came to see me. One of my really close friends sold dope to a confidential informant. So they were trying to get him to roll over on me to try to get me to roll over on Jay. But that plot failed. They always had a hard-on for [Jay Prince] because he did his shit legitimately. In the United States, it's against the law for a young black man to be doing anything constructive to uplift his community, even today."

YapatnaJB

He should of had look me in my eyes on the list I bet the breakdown of that song is crazy

aladdin1978

Face is #1 on my list of all time

southsil4lil

Facemobb top 5 dead or alive

marc123

thx 4 this homie. imo 'now i feel ya' and 'seen a man die' are 1 and 2

southernmade

good shit bro.....

marc123

after a 2nd look. how the fuck is 'jesse james' not on that list?!

sully

Geto Boys "Mind Playin' Tricks on Me" (1991)

“I had no idea back in 1990 that it was gonna be a big record. That record was written when I was 19-years-old, I was a kid then. Those Geto Boys records were recorded when I was a teenager.

“Long story short, I was doing a solo album. I had originally done the it as a solo song but then the owner of Rap-a-Lot heard it. They sent the song out to Priority and the people at Priority were doing fucking flips over the record.

“After everybody fell in love with the record, Willie D wrote a verse to it and put his verse on it and Bill took the last verse that I did. That’s why it’s four verses. The three verses was really me by myself, the verse that you heard Bill on was my original verse. I originally wrote and rapped Bill’s verse. I wrote every verse except for Will’s verse. And I produced the beat too.

“I was really going through some deep shit when I was a kid. I was going through manic depression. I just wanted to die. I spent a lot of time in hospitals for depression. I was really one of those kids that was fucked up. It had nothing to do with the way I was brought up, but I didn’t value life back then as much as I value it right now. I thought about death, I thought about crazy shit.

“I spent a lot of time in this hospital in the adolescent unit for troubled kids. I was fucking terrible. I beat up teachers, students, mommas, daddys. I was a fighting motherfucker when I was a little kid. The doctors gave me shit like Mellaril and Lithium. They didn’t give me shit like they give these kids now a days. They give them all kinds of dope nowadays.


“Growing up I did all the cool drugs like hallucinogens, I did a lot of rush, and I smoked a lot of weed. Rush a little jar with a red top, you can get it at the head shops, and it says ‘Rush’. It ain’t no popper, it's a puff. We sniffed a lot of paint, sniffed a lot of glue, and did a lot of acid. I didn’t start fucking with acid until I was probably about 17. Oh and mushrooms.

“My uncles were drug heads, so I was getting high when I was 8-years-old—I'm not even exaggerating. My uncles would blow me charges while my other uncle would squeeze my chest, like they put me in a death grip from behind where I couldn’t breathe and you would black out. You would call it an Indian Charge.

“When I wrote ‘Mind Playing Tricks on Me’ I'm pretty sure I was high. I know I was high on alcohol and maybe like a fucking drop of something crazy. I mean I did a lot of fucking dope, man. I mean like, ‘Holy Fuck!’ I got real high and maybe that put a lot of the darkness that came out in my records back then. I'm so blessed to still be in my right state of mind as an adult.”

KingGivBiz

ohhhla wrote: »

The list is solid.

Ya sig bruh >>>>>>>>

goat shit bruh.

new found respect for you.

On a side note tho Scarface is in my personal top 10 forever.

Supreme_Mind999

Face is GOAT, hands down

back to back classics

I just listened to Untouchable and last of a dying breed back to back without skipping one track

genocidecutter

They all number 1 for me

gman82

Scarface one of the best to ever do it. Props

ohhhla

KingGivBiz wrote: »

ohhhla wrote: »

The list is solid.

Ya sig bruh >>>>>>>>

goat shit bruh.

new found respect for you.

On a side note tho Scarface is in my personal top 10 forever.

Really?

I thought you would make fun of me like Supreme Mind.

DMTxCannabis

Wow, Complex did something right for once.. props..

soufside.supastar

good drop..

sully

Scarface "Mr. Scarface" (1991)

“In the beginning, everybody thought that Ready Red was Scarface. They would be like, ‘Oh whatsup Akshun, where’s Scarface at?’ They thought that me and Scarface were two different people. When that song came out is when the identity changed. Everybody knew who Scarface was and nobody knew who Akshun was. They would still say, ‘Which one of y’all is Scarface?’ and I would have to say, ‘That’s me man.’ So I just followed suit with the public because that’s what the public wanted.

“The shit that we were doing made me write that fucking song. The motherfuckers were calling me Scarface. They started saying, ‘That shit is straight out of the Scarface movie, I can’t believe y’all did that shit.’ But we hadn’t seen Scarface yet. I didn’t see the movie until ’88. five years after it came out.

“‘Nobody knows my name they only know my face.’ That’s the truth. That record right there summed up my whole life. ‘You try to school me you get served with no regard.’ People respect my shit because it's so authentic, it's so Houston. After all these fucking years, I even had a record with Gucci Mane called ‘Scarface.’ People called me Scarface cause I gave them a reason too.

“In the late ‘80s, we was on some real ignorant shit. ’88, it was on. We were doing some crazy ass shit, like some Scarface shit. We were selling rocks man. That’s about as much information as I can give you.”

P. Town

In before niggas come in here trying to tell Face which 25 of his own songs he allowed to like the most

P. Town

and Face Top 5 of All Time

Disciplined InSight

Anyone that refuses to recognize 'Face as an emeritus of uncut dope realism needs to re-evaluate their Hip Hop life.