Scarface is the celebrated rapper whose hits include 'On My Block,' 'Mind Playing Tricks on Me' and 'Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta' (made famous in the cult film Office Space). He is the iconic frontman of the seminal rap group Geto Boys, the former president of Def Jam South, and has had many solo hits such as 'Guess Who's Back feat. Jay-Z' and 'Smile feat. Tupac' (plus collaborations with everyone from Kanye West and Eminem to Ice Cube and Nas). But before that he was a kid from Houston in love with rock-and-roll, listening to AC/DC and KISS.
Brad was a '70s baby growing up in Houston when two new things swept into town-hip-hop and crack-that would change him and kids like him forever. The son of a singer and a DJ, and the cousin of star Johnny Nash ('I Can See Clearly Now'), music was in Brad's blood, and he became heavily involved in it. And in hustling.
What emerges in DIARY OF A MADMAN is not only Brad's story but the whole story of the rise of Southern rap. Akin to a Southern version of Decoded, Scarface's book reads ultimately not only as dynamic lens into a lifetime in music but also as a powerful articulation of the whole genre as an art from, from someone who has been there from the beginning.
