“Growing up in Houston's 5th Ward, ex-Geto Boy Scarface waded through a constant litany of violence, drugs, and gangs. But rather than buckle under the pressure and become another statistic running through ballistics, 'Face managed to cipher that pain and struggle into his rhymes. His booming baritone sounded alternately boastful and besieged, paranoid and supremely confident. His straight-forward ”
