Scarface

XXL highlights rappers who were cheated by the prestigious award ceremony.

OutKast is reuniting and the Grammy-winning duo will go on a reunion run that includes a 40-plus-date festival tour throughout the Spring and Summer. This news didn't just make fans excited but plenty of hip-hop artists. Yesterday (Jan. 21), Wiz thanks Big Boi and Andre 3000 for giving him and fellow fans a chance to witness them play some of their classics records. So ...

Houston hip-hop legend Scarface told XXL last week that hip-hop has lost its soul, claiming that in this day and age, lyrics are being dumbed down because everyone is so focused on turning up. “I feel like our music was dumbed down,” the Houston legend said in a phone interview, echoing a number of his peers who have vocalized similar frustrations recently. “I grew up listening...

Scarface is a Houston hip-hop legend, and when the man speaks, people listen. The twenty-plus-year rap veteran was a pioneer for Southern artists of the next generation when he started his career with the Geto Boys back in the late 1980s...

Tony Montana, the starring character of the legendary gangster flick Scarface, is something of a hip-hop staple. Sometimes his name is a euphemism for cocaine (the very drug he pushed and used in the film), while other times he is name-checked as the quintessential gangster boss...

Today, Nov. 9, marks the 47th birthday of Houston rap icon, Scarface!

As many rappers happen to be Scorpios, there seems to be something about that time of the year that makes for a good MCs. With Drake, ScHoolboy Q, Future, and B.o.B all born in that time frame, one can't help but wonder if rapping simply comes easy to Scorpios...

"Once upon a time not long ago/When people wore pajamas and lived life slow," rapped Slick Rick on "Children's Story" off The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick, conjuring up one of hip-hop's most iconic and lasting images with 15 simple words...

In the sixteen years since XXL's inception, we have spoken with a LOT of rappers about how the sausage is made with their music. Pretty much since the mag's beginnings, we have been running a reoccurring column "Train Of Thought" where hip-hop's most esteemed lyricists touch upon the inspiration for their illest verses. Over the year...

As the BET Cyphers last week proved, there's something special about watching a rapper just spit. Though the cyphers only come once a year, there are still places out there that force rappers to deliver verses over a beat in a live setting...

In two days, DJ Khaled will share his agony, releasing his LP, Suffering From Success. Over the past week, the We The Best boss has liberated a few tracks off the album including "Hell's Kitchen" with J. Cole and Bas, and two new posse cuts featuring everybody...

Scarface's XXL album.