Why Scarface's "The Diary" Helped Legitimize Southern Rap | 1994 Hip Hop Series
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- In this CZcams exclusive series, Bomani Jones looks back at the year of Hip Hop in 1994, which is considered by some to be one of the greatest years for rap music. For this episode, Bomani breaks down the third album by Scarface called "The Diary." Bomani explains who Scarface before and after the release of this record, why this album's themes were so dark, and what his favorite songs were. He also analyzes the legacy and career of arguably one of the more underrated rappers of all time. #scarface #scarfacethediary #thediary
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Face got classics. Last of a dying breed, untouchable, the fix
Untouchable is my absolute favorite
You forgot "Mr Scarface is back" and "The world is yours"!!!! Money and the power is one of my favorite trap songs
Untouchable and the Fix are my favorite Face albums. Face definitely top 5 to me All Time
The diary is flawless. Untouchable is flawless. The fix is flawless.
The most popular gangster rap gets too much credit for being what this album actually is. Lots of gangster rap tries too hard to glorify it, but this was one of the first albums that actually felt genuine. I Seen A Man Die is such an amazing take on masculinity and a heartbreaking view into the Black/Brown male struggle to find emotional release. You can tell on many Scarface songs that he really cared about the people who listened to what he had to say.
Love that Bo is giving flowers to Scarface and especially that Tiny Desk concert. I absolutely CAN NOT WAIT until Bo drops the UGK - Super tight episode
One of the most existential hip-hop records ever-in an era of existential hip-hop music.
This album and the Geto Boys' Resurrection changed my life!
Scarface is truly treated like a hometown hero here in DC
Face was the only rapper who can perform at the Go-Go and not get ignored if not boooed off the stage.
@@michaelbrown7859 he gon perform wit the band doe y would they boo him? Facemob been locked inn wit BYB for like 20 years
@@sheldonpegram8421 that's what I'm saying. Niggaz wasn't tryna see rappers. They wanted to see the band.
I’ve been singing The Diary’s praises since ’94…my favorite Face album (just slightly ahead of The Fix and The Untouchable). Forget the South…this is a classic regardless of region.
And his Tiny Desk concert is the best! He should get some type of award it was that good.
Keep this series going plz!!!!❤
Face doesn't have a bad album, they are all great to classic. Problem is he fell of the mainstream map after The Fix, but every after is still great and Deeply Rooted is a borderline classic itself.
If you're from that era like me, Scarface was your favorite rapper's favorite rapper. East Coast, West Coast, and the Midwest all love him. Jay-Z, Biggie, Ice Cube, Pac, Common and Talib just to name a few.
Seriously. He had this aura about him. I think he was the first super star rapper!
"I got this killer up inside of me / I can't talk to my mother, so I talk to my diary / I'm goin off on the deep end / I find myself face to face with myself while I'm sleepin..."
My favorite Scarface bars and I rapped it to him once, because we run into each other a lot. He was so appreciative of it when I spit it for him. Props to Bomani for dropping this one on June 27th too. #HTown #RIPDJScrew #RIPBigMoe #FaceMob #RapALotForLife #SouthsideStillHoldin
I know sports analysis is Bomani’s day job or calling card, but him giving these hip hop breakdowns could be a real lane for him.
This was on point 🥃
there's a podcast/show with Bo and Spencer Hall (and maybe Naima Cochrane) breaking down music that would be absolute GOLD
I know him and Spencer were talking about doing a series like this. I'd pay to subscribe.
Big Mike is a huge reason why The Diary is as great as it is. Face felt that pressure Mike was putting on
One of the greatest albums ever. You had to be a teenager back in 94, to truly realize how amazing this album was and how the 🐐 made the rest of the country put some respect on the South name. This album solidified him as being a great rapper and storyteller and not just a great “Southern” rapper and storyteller.
Just remembered an “unblock me Bo” segment where the guy who wanted to get unblocked was told he looked like Scarface. Dude followed up with “ive never seen the movie” 🤣
aww shit, dat boy wouzy!
"what event?"
"scholarship".
Thanks for shouting out my city. (DC) We love Face like he is our own.
Facts. First 5 Geto Boys and the first 5 Face solo albums are some of the most important and underrated albums in hip-hop ✊✊✊✊
I'm from NY. Scarface was in my Top 5 since Mr Scarface Is Back. The Diary really put Scarface on the map.
One of my top 5 favorite albums. Scarface is my favorite MC of all time. I’m from N.O.
scarface is the goat... by far
Scarface Legend
Top 5 ever.
Flawless Catalog
Not making it a thing to be a thing but I do think The Fix is better than the Diary but probably an age thing
Scarface has plenty of albums that are classics even the later ones in 2007/2009…my all time favorite untouchable
The MADE album is a slept on gem.
@rellj8611 Emeritus is also slept on.
Made and Emeritus plays together like a Double Album
@@rellj8611 a fucking classic
@@stanleyyoungitc another slept on gem! True story
Untouchable is.... Untouchable 😂😂 💯
This was needed, this was needed because of the simple fact that the south has something to say as Andre 3000 quoted and being that it is now explained in such a Intelligent Way, Jess helps plant our flag in history not just in hip-hop 7:12
Mr. Scarface is back is one of the hardest albums of all time.....TO THIS DAY.
Bomanis break downs are so dope. I'm waiting for the Fugees one
It molded me!! man cry was #1 on rap city on Saturday mornings 😅😅😂forever..
This was the best of your hip hop videos so far. Great work.
Gonna ask again: please do a deep dive of the year 2001.
The best storyteller ever in hip hop.
Face is in my top 5 all time! This dropped my Jr year in high school and it's still a go to for me!
I'm a $outh$ide Htown resident & the streetz was insane off the Diary "No Tears" was that real hit. We only played "seen a man die" on $crew tapes. I was in Detroit when "mind playing tricks" dropped, they show us so much love when they saw the Tx plates. They didn't even have the cd up there yet. 💯🤘🏽
The world is yours CLASSIC TOO PERIOD
SLEPT ON! I used to wear that tape OUT in my walkman. "He's Dead" might be my all time favorite 'face song.
I love these man, Bo is in his element, reaching into his bag and delivering
Mr. Scarface is Back his first solo put him on the 🎤 MAP. 7th grade California.
If West coast, sonically, spanned from California to the Mississippi, the East Coast, sonically, spanned from Boston to Durham. After Durham, the aesthetic changed dramatically by the time you get to Charlotte. This is why Little Brother, Phonte, Rapsody and Skillz sound more like Tribe or Boot Camp than they sound like No Limit or Petey Pablo. Gotta be honest though. The hip hop artists from the south that broke through prior to to Dungeon Fam didn’t possess the talent of the west coast (Cube, Heiro, Freestyle Fellowship, Snoop, etc) or the Northeast (Kane, KRS, G Rap, De La, Wu, etc). Before Goodie Mob and OutKast, there was just D.O.C. and Geto Boys/Scarface. There was nothing else breaking through.
My mind playing tricks on me was big in Philly
Bo this is a great series, keep up the great work .
Great review!
I definitely agree. 👏🏾👏🏾✌🏾✊🏿💯
Jay Z hopped on Guess Who's Back and Big Pimpin too. No other artist east or west gave us any love.
What about ice cube? Hand of the dead body is a classic. Also made music with willie d, and tupac had smile with scarface.
@@Gh-jo1sr i think those only got local play from what i remember.
LL did "4,3,2,1" with Master P, Raekwon did "Skew It on the BBQ" with Outkast, Nas did "Favor for a Favor" with Face.
However, out of the NY artists Jay was the one that reached out the most. BIG was definitely going to collab with Southern rappers, but first worked on putting on his own people, then the Pac beef happened, then he got in the car accident, then he died. But he showed mad love to the South.
Nore showed 36 and cash money love
Bomani, can you do a story on ice cube with the premise being? He had the best first four albums out of any hip-hop artist?
I grew up in Ohio and used to listen to the Ghetto Boys, but I wasn’t really curious about where they were from. I joined the Coast Guard in ‘94 and my first assignment was in Galveston TX. about an hour south of Houston. I didn’t have a car so I was stuck on the boat every weekend until I made friends with a Mexican guy who said let’s ride up to Houston and pickup some girls. What I wasn’t ready for as I jumped in the Suzuki Samurai was to hear him ask if I like Scarface? Man we bumped this tape front-to-back, back-to-front, from Galveston, to Houston, to Galveston, and back up to Houston, that night to meet up with the girls we met at the mall. You couldn’t tell me I didn’t sound like Face as I rapped every damn word! 😂
I was only 19 and I swear it was a special kind of vibe that’s impossible to recreate.
Man o Man……. I dig the way Bomani breaks it down. This is what we need instead of hollering ass SAS talmbout he a RnB dude
One of the dopest memories for me was going to visit my cousins over in South Park off of Bellfort in early '89. We went and got some food at the catfish spot and was crossing over the train tracks at reed road and bellfort . There was a big field seperating the street and in the middle of the field we saw a Cutlas with the trunk open and two dudes and what looked like a kid jumping up and down and trying to get everybodies attention. Turns out that kid was Bushwick and the other dudes were Scarface and Willie D lol. As soon as Grip It! On That Other Level came out we saw the album cover and was like Yoooooo that was them dudes 😂......Them dudes were selling tapes STRAIGHT outta the trunk!
Brad Jordan is a Top 5 Storyteller!
The King of the South
This was the first rap album 8 was exposed to as a 10 year old. My brotger moved back to Philly and left this and red mans myddy waters. And booooy. The pictures he painted on this was like reading a book wgich i e joy doing. Jessie james was so vivid. I grew up in tge soutt so if it didnt give me this feeling i didbt tune in. Master p was going crazy and i didnt pay no linit aby attention. This will be ppsyed at ky funeral in 2098. 😅😅😅😅lol
I love sports and music. Its cool to get your view on these classics. Thanks.
Favorite Scarface line… “If you ain’t at peace with God you need to patch it up!”
Let's be very clear, Bo! I'm from Compton, not where gangsta rap started (Schooly D - Philly) but where it took off! We always thought Face and Ice Cube were neck and neck since 88, 89, 90. We weren't regional dudes when it came to the music. My homies was bumping Brand Nubian , I was the biggest Cool James fan, and I had a homie bumping Gangsta Nip. I say all that to say , as a fan of rap. We thought scarface was the man, a beast way before that! To this day, I'll argue anyone down with facts that CUBE is #1 of all time and SSCARFACE is 1A! The only thing that separates them is the simple fact that CUBE had a few songs that but asses on the dance floor( We be clubbing) (Tadow How you like me now) Wicked ( maybe not so much) ( Put your back into it) . I might be off on the songs, but trust and believe THATS THE DIFFERENCE! I think it was a Ludachris video when I saw Scarface smile ! I said wooow he smiled hahahhahahhahhahhha ! I swear I thought Scarface was a MONSTER! Those songs are what separated the two.
I don’t know if this was a coincidence or or but to drop this video on Scarface on June 27th is dope. 💯💯💯🤘🏿🤘🏿
Best southern hip hop album of all time bar none
The best Scarface album song for song is "Made".
I've seen Face at a bar back in Houston, he pulled the COLDEST piece out the whole place. Shooed me aside and I guess got to mackin'.
Face…. Nuff said💯
On the Mt. Rushmore of Southern rap albums.
Geto Boyz/Scarface was the only legitimate hip hop act from the South from it's inception until Outkast came out. Luke/2 Live Crew and Kriss Kross were novelty acts but no-one respected them as true artists. They always will be highly regarded in hip hop.
Illmatic
Diary
Ready to Die
My top 3 from 94
Its not changing haha
worth noting: DC ain't really a hip-hop city, but it was a PCP city.
them formaldehyde alumni LOVE them some RapALot
Diary is good, but Face 3rd best Alumb. Mr.Scarface is back is number one, and The Fix is 2nd best alumb. World is yours is slept on. See about Face he was accept by West, and East
Dude said he wouldn't cover the WNBA bc no one was interested -- but he thinks ppl gon be interest in obscure 90s hiphop
The people who listened to the music from that era are interested. Please tell me what era of the WNBA are people interested in? Outside of this current era where most people aren’t even interested in the actual basketball.
Official hip-hop classics, that your favorite rappers will tell you is their inspiration, is "obscure?" Y'all some weird minds.
This isn't obscure. I anticipate these. I've never watched a WNBA game.
Just because you might not have heard of it or come across it or regard it to any degree means it’s “obscure”? That’s some weird logic. That album was released when I was in middle school in Northern California and believe me, it was not “obscure”.
Real street Ninjas know about track #3 - No Tears! Get Back muzik!!! 💯 🫡
Where is the fuccin lie!!❤❤
Good series, however, some of the commentary hinges on the perspective of being in the moment or review in hindsight. Depending on your age in 1994 and where you were in your life, your perspective is greatly impacted by what you choose to be the soundtrack. For most people that greatest time of impact is senior year of high school to senior year of college (approximately 17 to 22 years old or so). That's what you're choosing to bump in your ride or dorm room or first apartment. I'm guessing these reviews all have to be from the perspective of hindsight, though not stated as such. In which case, these reviews would have to be the perspective of someone who was maybe 13-14 at the time.
I still don't fuck with the North side ever since Fat Pat.
I think untouchable was his best album
Bo ... Do your Thang for H-Tine
Boyz outside Htown don't understand Northside v Southside.
I don't know what the FUCK Lupe was talking about!
12:00
Better than illmatic
FACE!
Hows it Goin Down was shiiiiiit
This is the only album from face that i didn't like. Just 3 songs eere good
These have been necessary viewing for heads. Thank you for this series, Bo. 🫡