Scarface has appeared on Freeway's album Free at Last and on Beanie Sigel's album, The Solution. In addition to his career as a rapper, Scarface was the coordinator and president of Def Jam South from 2000 to 2005, where he has fostered the career of rapper Ludacris, whom he originally signed to the label. He guested on Ray Cash's debut single "Bumpin' My Music". He was also featured on The Biggie Duets alongside Big Gee and Akon. In 2002, he released The Fix, the follow-up to The Last of a Dying Breed and returned to the studio with the Geto Boys for their album, The Foundation. This peaked with The Diary and The Last of a Dying Breed, the latter of which received positive reviews and sales, and earned him Lyricist of the Year at the 2001 Source Awards.
Scarface remained in the group while releasing a series of solo albums that kept him in the public view with increasing sales, making him the only Geto Boys member that has always remained with the group since the group personnel was revamped in 1989. Scarface Is Back was a success, and Scarface's popularity soon overshadowed the other Geto Boys. In 1992, Scarface appeared (along with Bushwick Bill) on the Kool G Rap & DJ Polo album Live and Let Die.
He took his stage name from the 1983 film Scarface.
3-2" Barriere and produced by Def Jam Blaster, Bruce "Grim" Rhodes, he would go on to sign with Rap-A-Lot and join a group who were collectively known as Geto Boys replacing a member who left, and released the group's second album Grip It! On That Other Level (1989), a highly successful album that garnered the group a large fanbase, in spite of their violent lyrics keeping them from radio and MTV. After releasing the 12" single "Scarface/Another Head Put To Rest" (1989), written by Chris "Mr. He began his career as DJ Akshen (pronounced Action) recording and deejaying for Lil' Troy's Short Stop, a local record label in Houston. He was brought up as a Christian, and converted to Islam in 2006. As a teenager, he attempted suicide, and subsequently spent time in a hospital psychiatric ward. He dropped out of high school and worked as a drug dealer. Scarface attended Woodson Middle School in Houston, Texas.
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