![]() ![]() He was also featured on The Biggie Duets alongside Big Gee and Akon. In 2002, he released The Fix, the follow-up to The Last of a Dying Breed and returned to the studio with the Geto Boys for their album, The Foundation. This peaked with The Diary and The Last of a Dying Breed, which received overwhelmingly positive reviews and sales, and earned him Lyricist of the Year at the 2001 Source Awards. Scarface remained in the group while releasing a series of solo albums that kept him in the public view with increasing sales, making him the only Geto Boys member that has always remained with the group since the group personnel was revamped in 1989. ![]() Scarface Is Back was a success, and Scarface's popularity soon overshadowed the other Geto Boys. In 1992, Scarface appeared (along with Ice Cube and Bushwick Bill) on the Kool G Rap & DJ Polo album: Live and Let Die. He took his stage name from the 1983 film Scarface. After releasing the 12" single "Scarface", he would go on to sign with Rap-A-Lot Records and join a group who were collectively known as Geto Boys replacing one member who left, and released the group's second album Grip It! On That Other Level (1989), a highly successful album that garnered the group a large fanbase, in spite of their violent lyrics keeping them from radio and MTV. He began his career as Akshun (pronounced Action) recording solo for Lil' Troy's Short Stop Records, a local label in Houston. ![]()
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