Scarface

Gangsta rap is supposed to be all about bravado and bluster, right? So then why does H-Town rapper Scarface sound so somber? The specter of death looms over the chilling ballad "I Seen a Man Die," while on the bitter revenge tale "No Tears," Scarface raps, "I can't talk to my mother, so I talk to my diary/I'm goin off on the deep end." Scary, in the saddest possible way.

So crushing was the DreSnoop power play in 1993 that their G thang all but obliterated the
competition. Any hardcore rap save the loping-beat West Coast kind got sidelined. But only
temporarily. In 1994, southeast Houston's Scarface, for one, bounced back fighting. A
full-blooded member of the Geto Boys (a true PMRC nightmare and one of the first crews to
toss word bombs so explosive as to alienate all but their faithful), Scarface kicks... More >