A biography for Scarfacehasn’t been written yet.
“I never want to make my music sound like what someone else is doing. That's not my thing.”
“It's always been my time. I'm a musician, and musicians are time-less.”
“I don't like any of the Geto Boys albums at all. Not one. There isn't a Geto Boys album that I like. I didn't learn anything from it, and it was a bad time in life for me too. With the label, with life, whatever... it's a point in my life where I was the most miserable.”
“Contractual obligations may not allow it, but that's a big dream of mine, to be able to make an album with a rock band.”
“Listening to my records, you feel one way about it when you hear it, but reading my words - that makes us a little bit more intimate.”
“The game of golf slows the whole world down and gives you time to think. Inner-city kids could learn a lot about patience.”
“I don't feel like I have to fit in. I don't even feel like I even should fit in. I feel like I should just do.”
“Every time I'm out on the road, everywhere I go, somebody got a demo for me.”
“I grew up listening to great music that molded my character and my artistry, that helped me.”
“I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will really happen, something that could really happen. It ain't nothing that I'm making up; I think that's why people listen to it.”
“I want to be the best in what I do, just like everybody else.”
“I think that my favorite album has to be 'The Fix' because I was in a very comfortable place. Mentally, financially... I was in a great place. Def Jam really took care of me, Lyor Cohen took care of me and that's why that great. Kanye West was just starting off and being the great producer that he is - it came out incredible.”
“I had to learn how to eat to live and not live to eat.”
“Golf is the best game that you'll never learn how to play.”
“I had it all: congestive heart failure, malignant high blood pressure, kidney damage, enlarged heart, sleep apnea, borderline diabetic, etc.”
“Girls are really resentful to their fathers when they don't get a chance to spend time with them, but now that my daughter knows everything I say damn near will come true or damn near is what it is, she loves me for that, she respects me for it, and I feel the same way with her.”
“In order to be a great, you gotta be among the greats.”
“I play golf every day if I can, but it's not fun and games for me.”
“Jay Prince is a real gangster. He ain't hiding behind a desk talking. He is the true living definition of what a gangster is. If you wanna see the truth and what gangster really is, that's what Jay Prince is.”
“I remember my uncle used to work pouring concrete and as a plumber. Now, I don't see uncles working as plumbers or pouring concrete no more. Let's open up some trades for these youngsters that are getting out of school that are not gonna go to college.”