Scarred Face
Your favorite rapper’s rapper dishes about retirement and his adoration for UGK.By Richard “Treats” Dryden
The life of a gangster only gets easier. In the five years since Scarface’s last studio album, The Fix, rap’s revered godfather balanced one foot in music and the other in the streets. Compilation albums, and unofficial releases kept the Houston legend’s name relevant while he coached high school football, and perfected his golf swing. Still, Brad, as the kids know him, couldn’t stay away from the mic when he dropped the long-awaited return, Made, last December. In our extended interview with Face, he opens up about his strained relationship with Rap-A-Lot records, the true meaning of retirement, and praises the impact of UGK, ironically just weeks before Pimp C’s death dealt a bigger blow to music. Pour one out for the homies.
Complex: Between the last album and this one, what have you been up to?
Scarface: Coaching little league football, playing poker, playing golf.
Complex: Good for you man, is this with your kids? Or do you just coach a team?
Scarface: Oh hell nah, I just like to go back to my old neighborhood, the school I went to, and coach the little kids. And then watch them grow up, go to high school, follow their career through high school.
Complex: How old are those kids that you’re coaching?
Scarface: 7 and 8 years old.
Complex: So they probably don’t even know your catalog of music, but they know who you are though.
Scarface: Oh they know! They don’t know the catalog. You know what they call me?
Complex: What they call you?
Scarface: Some of them call me Coach Brad, you know, but them other little bad mu’fuckas call me Coach Face. Haha!
Complex: Haha. But then do you have to school them after that?
Scarface: Nah it’s all good, I ain’t trippin’.
Complex: How do you stay relevant to those just hearing your music for the first time starting with The Fix?
Scarface: I try to keep it as strong as I can, I just try to continue to do me man, I don’t wanna do nothing no different from what I been doing. If I caught 19-year olds before, I’ll definitely catch ‘em again, because I was 19 once.
Complex: Having such a long recording career, does it get easier for you?
Scarface: Yeah, to me, it’s never been a difficult thing to me. The only difficult thing I have in this is getting my fucking money, you feel me? Chasing money down.
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