Scarface is a writer who writes about death, and by 1994, the rapper born Brad Jordan was figuring out the type of solo artist he could be for years to come. His first two solo albums outside of his success with the underground Houston rap group Geto Boys—1991’s Mr. Scarface Is ...
Hip-hop albums were dropping at a dizzying pace throughout the 1990s. Kyle Eustice Kyle Eustice a year ago Hip-Hop Gets Serious About Golf Hip-Hop Gets Serious About Golf These days, hip-hop is serious about golf. Explore why ScHoolboy Q, Scarface, OMB Peezy and more are hitting the ...
The 49-year-old rap great talks about the artists and albums that have meant the most to him throughout his life—Prince, Coldplay, Kendrick—five years at a time.
Brad “Scarface” Jordan put Southern hip-hop on the radar as a member of theGeto Boys, a pioneering solo rapper and a Def Jam executive, selling millions of albums. But in his brutally honest memoirDiary of a Madman(out April 21 on Dey Street), written with Benjamin Meadows-Ingram, t...
Twenty-five years later, Scarface’sThe Diaryremains a voice crying in a wilderness. For an album that went platinum, and for a rapper who would go on to record another nine albums and who remains a legend to fans and other MCs, an aura of burden exists around Scarface andThe Diary....
sure to tell the stories he feels the world needs to hear. Whether it is speaking out against injustice, reflecting on his struggles with depression and his own mental health, or just telling the stories of the streets, he is one rapper you can always rely on to give you the real deal...
With that in mind, we’ve ranked the Best Rap Albums of the 90s. The classics you’ve played every day since elementary school, to the records you forgot existed, and maybe an album or two you didn’t even know about—all compiled in one place. Hit the jump and take a journey throu...