Scarface: The Reunion
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Houston rapper Scarface is one of the most recognizable, respected voices in hip-hop. When he was just 17 years-old, Scarface was recruited to join Bushwik Bill and Willie D in the Geto Boys. The group was one of Rick Rubin’s earliest rap signings for his post Def Jam label, Def American.
On today’s episode, Scarface and Rick reminisce about working together, and Face talks about how his recent experience with covid was eerily similar to his classic verse on “Mind Playing Tricks On Me.” Scarface also talks about the Miranda Lambert song that makes him yearn for his childhood Texas home.
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| 0:00.0 | I sit alone in my fork on a broom, stamina, candor, |
| 0:07.0 | What's your zone? |
| 0:09.0 | Let me drop some shit like this here. |
| 0:11.0 | Scarface is a Houston rapper with a rough baritone. |
| 0:15.0 | He's one of the most recognizable, respected voices in hip hop. |
| 0:19.0 | For decades now, he's strung by a lot of people. |
| 0:23.0 | The most powerful, and most powerful, and most powerful, |
| 0:27.0 | and most powerful, and most powerful, and most powerful, and most powerful, and most powerful, and most powerful in hip hop. |
| 0:36.0 | For decades now, he straddled the line between commercial and authentic, |
| 0:41.0 | a dynamic that was once rare in the culture. |
| 0:44.0 | Scarface is appealed with his vulnerability. |
| 0:49.0 | His graphic depictions of Hoodlife, paired with a psychological toll |
| 0:53.0 | that environment took on its residents, was groundbreaking. |
| 0:56.0 | It got the attention of Rapalot Records CEO James Prince, |
| 1:00.0 | who recruited face to join the Ghetto Boys when he was only 17 years old. |
| 1:05.0 | The group, which also included Willie D and Bushwood Bill, |
| 1:08.0 | were one of Rick Rubin's earliest rap signings for his post-Def Jam label, Deaf American. |
| 1:14.0 | The main national news in 1990, when Deaf Americans distributor, Geffen Records, |
| 1:19.0 | refused to release the Ghetto Boys music because of its violent miracle content. |
| 1:25.0 | Already square in the middle of the gangster rap era, |
| 1:28.0 | the group's lyrics pushed the genre even further. |
| 1:31.0 | They were tagged with a label Horacore, |
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