His collaboration with Tupac Shakur on “Smile” was one of the last songs Pac recorded before he was fatally shot in Las Vegas in 1996.Īccording to J. “ The Fix” and “The Diary” are among two of the culturally revered Houston rap albums of all time. “Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangster” means two different things for two different sects of America. ” “Minds Playing Tricks On Me” with The Geto Boys, released in 1991, introduced the world to a slice of Houston and the recurring characters of paranoia and frustration in his life. He’s the first Houston rapper to have a No. The accolades for Scarface are immeasurable in terms of Houston hip-hop, much less the South. “I get to go out there and say farewell by myself, and then I get to say it with you.” “The cool part about it is, I get to say farewell twice,” he told Willie D. He’s Houston’s original microphone gangster. It will ultimately succeed because somehow, someway, Brad Jordan has beaten death (he attempted suicide as a child), COVID, a stint in a mental health facility, the criminal justice system and is credited with being among the first to introduce mental health, depression and more to hip-hop.

It’s asking to pack nearly 30 plus years of history, themes, mythology and more into one night. The show, announced via his “Geto Boys Reloaded” podcast with Willie D, is a swan song. Scarface took one final bow on stage at the House of Blues.

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