In 2002, Brad 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. The latter of which received positive reviews and sales, and earned him Lyricist of the Year at the 2001 Source Awards. He peaked with The Diary and The Last of a Dying Breed. This made him the only Geto Boys member that has always remained with the group since the group personnel was revamped in 1989. He still remained in the group while releasing a series of solo albums that kept him in the public view with increasing sales. Scarface Is Back was a success and his popularity soon overshadowed the other Geto Boys. In 1992, Brad appeared along with Bushwick Bill on the Kool G Rap & DJ Polo album Live and Let Die. Brad took his stage name from the 1983 film Scarface. The group released its second album Grip It! On That Other Level (1989), a highly successful album that garnered the group a large fanbase. He later went on to sign with Rap-A-Lot and join a group who were collectively known as Geto Boys replacing a member who left.

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In 1989, he released a 12″ single “Scarface/Another Head Put To Rest” which was written by Chris “Mr. Scarface Geto Boysīrad began his career as DJ Akshen (pronounced Action) recording and deejaying for Lil’ Troy’s Short Stop. He was however in a relationship with Lisa Varner and they had a child together a girl. Scarface Wifeīrad has been very private about his personal life. He, however, dropped out of high school and worked as a drug dealer.Īs a teenager, Brad attempted suicide and subsequently spent time in a hospital psychiatric ward.īrad was brought up as a Christian but converted to Islam in 2006. Scarface Early Lifeīrad attended Woodson Middle School in Houston, Texas.

Scarface was born on November 9, 1970, in Houston, Texas, U.S. In 2012, Brad was ranked him number 16 by The Source on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time.Ī ranked him number 6 on its list of the 50 Greatest MCs of Our Time (1987-2007). Scarface is an American rapper and record producer, best known as a member of the Geto Boys, a hip hop group from Houston, Texas.īrad grew up in Houston and is originally from the city’s South Acres (Crestmont Park) neighborhood.

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