The Rundown: Scarface, Deeply Rooted
Check out the play-by-play of the Geto Boy's 12th release.
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The Rundown: Scarface, Deeply Rooted - The legendary Scarface returns with his new project Deeply Rooted on his own label, Let's Talk. Peep the song-by-song rundown and see what the veteran MC has to say. — Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photo: Let's Talk/BMG Records)
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'Intro' - Mr. Scarface opens up his 12th album over a bluesy Mike Dean backdrop and sets the scene for something epic.(Photo: Bob Levey/Getty Images for UrbanDaddy)
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'Rooted,' Featuring Papa Reu - Face opens up his verses dropping game on the youngstas in a rush to be kingpins and not seeing the pitfalls ahead. The Houston MC shares, "I tell you like them old cats say / Get what you can get and get your a** out the way / 'Cause greed will get you 35 tight / You 27, that's the rest of your f*****g life."(Photo: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for i.am.angel Foundation)
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'The Hot Seat,' Featuring Jack Freeman - It's not a good day for Scarface here after catching a weed case and getting hauled off to central bookings. Showing how the justice system is racially biased, he rhymes, "Just because I'm Black I get f****d with / I bet if had been a white dude I'd never had been arrested / Look at Michael / And even if I swam like a fish though / They still would've threw me in the Crisco."(Photo: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for i.am.angel Foundation)
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'Dope Man Pushin',' Featuring Papa Reu - Scarface hooks back up with one of his long time producers, N.O. Joe, for this dope boy story and recants a few rules. "These n****s out her flashing, that's a no-no / I'm cut from that old law, we don't talk to po-po."(Photo: J. Dennis Thomas/Corbis)
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'F**k You Too,' Featuring Z-Ro - Z-Ro hops in the passenger seat and rides shotgun with his big homey delivering his soulful vocals as Face Mob keeps it G, confessing, "I live like I spit it / Raised by the wolves so my mentality is get it / A life on the street takes commitement / That power that you get is addictive..."(Photo: Christopher Kolk/Corbis)
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'Steer,' Featuring Rush Davis - The Geto Boy showcases his storytelling ability here after he calls on God to steer him to a getaway after forcing some haters to their grave. With jail not an option as he evades police, the outlook is bleak as Face rhymes, "Going back to jail ain't the plan so the outline is to come up with something / I ain't gonna take s**t, I rather be carried by 6 than judged by 12 getting that cell / Or maybe they gone gun a n***a down / 'Cause they don't wanna see me in the trial."(Photo: Scott Gries/ImageDirect/Getty Images)
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'Anything,' Featuring Rich Andruws - Nottz and N.O. Joe supply the funk while Scarface lets a few snitches have it. They feel his wrath when he unleashes, "You slimy n****s play the game wrong / Get popped, can't do their time so they sing songs / I turn the game on, watch the Knicks play / Then send them shottas at your a** because you've been b***h made."(Photo: Ray Tamarra/GC Images)
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'Do What I Do,' Featuring Nas, Rick Ross and Z-Ro - Scarface, Z-Ro, Nas and Rozay gives us the good, the bad and the ugly of the dope game which includes flossing, prison and death for many. Putting it down for the block burners, Face mob starts it off with, "I am a geto boy chilling / Representing for n****s in the hood and how they living / Heavy metal concealing / Hustle till you touch it / 9 to 5 or drug dealing."(Photos from Left: Scott Gries/Getty Images for Vh1, Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Al Bello/Getty Images)
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'God,' Featuring John Legend - John Legend brings his hymnals to this powerful track as Face takes on the essence of God and reveals what he'd do if he was the Almighty. Face's healings for the world include, "If I'm God, huh / All the stabbings, all the war would come to cease / My whole entire hood would be at peace / No more beef..."(Photos from Left: Gary Miller/FilmMagic, Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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'Keep It Movin',' Featuring Avant - Relationships are complicated and Avant helps Face come to a few realizations that it's best to move on after love can't bring peace between two cheating lovers. The pain is revealed with, "I know our days are numbered / Enjoy the moments after / And plus in lust we fell in love, the pains of morning after / Living our separate lives / A husband's reckless wife / Beneath he questions lie, why was she left to cry."(Photos from Left: Leon Bennett/WireImage, Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for EMI Records)
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'You,' Featuring CeeLo Green - CeeLo helps Face remember the lessons his mama taught him on this glowing track where he reminisces about giving his mother hell and running the streets and the tribulations he now faces as a parent. Mama's words must have been right as he rhymes, "Cause what she told me in the end came true / What you do to me, yo' kids gone do to you times two."(Photos from Left: INFphoto.com/Corbis, Larry Busacca/Getty Images)
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'All Bad' - Just waking up is a blessing and Face "smiles cause it's not all bad" on this feel good melody by N.O. Joe and Ervin Pope.(Photo: John Sciulli/Getty Images for Samsung)
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'Voices' - Face Mob has spoken on suicidal thoughts before and this time he hears a few voices in his head that cause him to wake up in sweats after dreaming he took himself away from here.(Photo: J. Dennis Thomas/Corbis)
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'No Problem' - Scarface lives up to his anointment as one of the best lyricists ever and sends this message for "garbage a** rappers": "Dope game, ran it / Rap game, run it / Street cred hundred / Nerd turned D-boy / Not in my genetic make-up / Baby, I'm a G-boy, hashtag street-boy / Wrong one to f**k with / Cross me at your own risk."(Photo: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)
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