When it comes to being a writer, Scarface may just be my favorite in Hip Hop

[I love Latina women]

I’ve had “Sorry For What?” on repeat for the last 40 minutes

I forgot just how dark and great this song is

Whole song plays out like a movie on record

 

[How Sway?]

 

[I love Latina women]

First time I heard that verse I remember thinking how hard it had to have been for him to write that verse

 

[Tasha And]

He has a ton of lowkey gems and I'm not sure anyone writes mental health gangsta raps better than him.

Like in the Diary of a Madman song, I always imagined it as him making three separate entries in a diary, each showing him progressively deeper in mental health decline



The first verse/entry he is still salvageable, voicing his issues out loud but having no one willing or capable of hearing him or helping him....and it leads to him turning to his diary to express his negative emotions on paper.

Dear Diary, I'm having a little problem
I can't make it by myself maybe you can help me solve 'em
I'm confused and I don't know what to do
I'm hoping you can help me 'cause there's no one else to talk to
I want to die, but it ain't for me
I try to talk to my dad, but my old man ignores me


But it reveals a ton of issues he's battling, insomnia, depression, suicide, paranoia, substance abuse, existentialism.

The second verse/entry finds him writing in his book again but now he's progressed from being depressed with no one to talk to, to using violence to make his way through the world and becoming numb to it. First verse he might have been saved by having someone to talk to, he might have been able to find a path forward, but by this point in his life he has lost his identity as troubled civilian and is now a numbed killer.

Dear diary, today I hit a nikka with the torch
Shot him in his face and watched him die on his front porch
Left his family heartbroken
Flashbacks of him laying there bleeding with his eyes open
I can't put the shyt behind me
I'm know I'm here somewhere, but I can't find me

And the final verse/entry is written completely in metaphor. It's shorter and doesn't have a set time or place because he has succumb completely to his mental illness, and is now "crazy."


Dear diary, help me 'cause I'm frantic
Sometimes I think I'm going schizophrenic
The world's looking dark for instance
Maybe 'cause I'm looking from a distance
But then again I wear a blindfold
Staring at the motherfukking world with my eyes closed
To myself, I'm a stranger
Walking in the footsteps of danger
It's a long path ahead of me
I gotta get somewhere 'cause everybody here is scared of me


And the final line reveals that he's not even writing this entry down on paper, the diary is now just the fragmented thoughts in his head.

My wife walked off, now I'm living in my diary

It's not even a song I hear brought up often but it's just brilliant storytelling.

 

[I love Latina women]

He has a ton of lowkey gems and I'm not sure anyone writes mental health gangsta raps better than him.

Like in the Diary of a Madman song, I always imagined it as him making three separate entries in a diary, each showing him progressively deeper in mental health decline



The first verse/entry he is still salvageable, voicing his issues out loud but having no one willing or capable of hearing him or helping him....and it leads to him turning to his diary to express his negative emotions on paper.

Dear Diary, I'm having a little problem
I can't make it by myself maybe you can help me solve 'em
I'm confused and I don't know what to do
I'm hoping you can help me 'cause there's no one else to talk to
I want to die, but it ain't for me
I try to talk to my dad, but my old man ignores me


But it reveals a ton of issues he's battling, insomnia, depression, suicide, paranoia, substance abuse, existentialism.

The second verse/entry finds him writing in his book again but now he's progressed from being depressed with no one to talk to, to using violence to make his way through the world and becoming numb to it. First verse he might have been saved by having someone to talk to, he might have been able to find a path forward, but by this point in his life he has lost his identity as troubled civilian and is now a numbed killer.

Dear diary, today I hit a nikka with the torch
Shot him in his face and watched him die on his front porch
Left his family heartbroken
Flashbacks of him laying there bleeding with his eyes open
I can't put the shyt behind me
I'm know I'm here somewhere, but I can't find me

And the final verse/entry is written completely in metaphor. It's shorter and doesn't have a set time or place because he has succumb completely to his mental illness, and is now "crazy."


Dear diary, help me 'cause I'm frantic
Sometimes I think I'm going schizophrenic
The world's looking dark for instance
Maybe 'cause I'm looking from a distance
But then again I wear a blindfold
Staring at the motherfukking world with my eyes closed
To myself, I'm a stranger
Walking in the footsteps of danger
It's a long path ahead of me
I gotta get somewhere 'cause everybody here is scared of me


And the final line reveals that he's not even writing this entry down on paper, the diary is now just the fragmented thoughts in his head.

My wife walked off, now I'm living in my diary

It's not even a song I hear brought up often but it's just brilliant storytelling.

Great post and this is a perfect example of why I made this this thread to showcase how brilliant Scarface is as a writer

 

[I love Latina women]

The Untouchable album is as flawless as it gets


Smartz
Faith
Southside
No Warning
Untouchable
Ya Money or Ya Life
Sunshine
For Real
Smile


Whole album is perfect

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Absolutely.

As a writer there's only a handful of rappers that can compete. Talking Nas, Ghost and Pac. Admittedly, I don't rank Scarface as high as them overall - but purely with the pen I respect him so fukking much.

I need to do a proper relisten of his discography at some point.

 

[Mandizi]

The true King of the South

 

[H. Selassie]

In my Top 3 All-Time along with Nas and Pac.

 

[O.Red]

Scarface taught nikkas how to rap with emotion, and it's a shame I've only seen Kanye speak on this

When you talk about vocal emphasis to convey emotions, particularly pain, Face brought that shyt to the game and nikkas ran with it immediately. Pac is the most obvious example

 

[Erratic415]

That second verse on 6 Feet Deep

 

[Barney Rubble]

Scarface taught nikkas how to rap with emotion, and it's a shame I've only seen Kanye speak on this

When you talk about vocal emphasis to convey emotions, particularly pain, Face brought that shyt to the game and nikkas ran with it immediately. Pac is the most obvious example

DMX, too, and Face was his favorite rapper.

 

[KingSol81]

Face could write novels with the way he approaches writing

Songs like “Diary of a Mad Man, “I’m Dead”, “The Wall”, “A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die”, “Look Into My Eyes”, “No Tears In The End, “Now I Feel Ya”, “Win Lose or Draw”, and “In My Time”

Bruh is a writer’s writer

You ever read his book? It's a great read front to back, gives a lot of insight into his writing.

Also, when you joining dapcity.com breh? The site needs some Sweeney piff.

 

[Braman]

Going to see him tomorrow. My homie runs the venue I rarely call in favors but I might have to fan out for this one

 

[I love Latina women]

You ever read his book? It's a great read front to back, gives a lot of insight into his writing.

Also, when you joining dapcity.com breh? The site needs some Sweeney piff.

I haven’t.

I need to get it

I don’t think I am, lol.