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Monday, July 13, 2009

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Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:05 PM

Is this root of all hiphop evil? Scarface? ff08/1247519186-scarface-photo-xl-scarface-6235696.jpg

Those hip-hop artists who chose to go the "hard" musical route, using the music as means of social commentary and, less seriously, as a celebration of conspicuous capitalism, took the Al Pacino Scarface as their touchstone. In the 20-minute mini-documentary Def Jam Presents: Origins of a Hip-hop Classic that appears on the 20th-anniversary DVD of Scarface, Sean Combs claims that he’s watched that movie "63 times" as of the day of taping that interview. Combs describes Tony Montana as "an upstanding gangsta, which is rare; he played by rules and morals." The Geto Boys' Bradley Jordan, took the stage-name Scarface. A more mainstream artist, Mariah Carey, used the video for her 1999 song "Heartbreaker" as a full-on Scarface salute to one particular scene, with Jay-Z in a sunken bathtub and Carey dressed as Michelle Pfeiffer’s Elvira.
More work must done on this link between rap and Scarface.

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Moorpheus talks about the "Scarface dreams" in connection to his song East Union St Hustlers, in the 23rd and Union project. He calls it "the Ghetto American Dream..."

http://23rdandunion.org/features.htm
Posted by phonojenny on July 13, 2009 at 2:55 PM
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Moorpheus talks about the "Scarface dreams" in connection to his song East Union St Hustlers, in the 23rd and Union project. He calls it "the Ghetto American Dream..."

http://23rdandunion.org/features.htm
Posted by phonojenny on July 13, 2009 at 2:55 PM
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Well, of course they're tough, what with that disco soundtrack.
Posted by Garth B on July 13, 2009 at 7:19 PM

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