He was finally being recognized as one of the best to ever do it, with the influence and discography to back it up.įast forward more than 10 years since he sat in the NYC studio, playing the guitar backward, and Face’s legacy has not only remained unshaken but grown stronger. In 2008, he was basking in the unadulterated respect that he’d been due for years, as a rapper and musician, as evidenced by his VH1 Hip Honors appearance. The album was made during his five-year tenure as president of Def Jam South (he held the post from 2000-2005), signing Atlanta-based rapper Ludacris, who’d go on to sell millions of records. Just six years earlier, in 2002 he released what’s regarded as possibly his best work, The Fix. He finds solace in the guitar (his musician uncles taught him to play when he was a boy), and its welcome distraction as he gives his umpteenth interview about his pending album, 2008’s Emeritus. It’s a calm moment for the artist known to the music world as Scarface. He shrugs when asked about it, grinning before refocusing on the instrument. He’s a lefty, and there were no left-handed guitars on deck when he got the urge to play, so undeterred, he flipped the guitar around and played that way.
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