Scarface News

All of the original members of Goodie Mob , the hip-hop group who coined the term "dirty south," have cleaned up their act and are touring together for the first time since releasing 1999's World Party .

The reaction at Polson Pier when Rick Ross steps in on Saturday night should be intriguing.

A must-see for rap fans, the group that helped create Southern rap gets back together.

With his home base in Houston, TX, rapper Scarface has made his way by working with other hip-hop/rap artists such as Ice Cube and Dr.

No idea how we're supposed to take the above, although you can be sure it pertains to Nah Right's CMJ Showcase tomorrow night, featuring more rap in one shot than the festival has otherwise seen in years.

If Raekwon's 1995 masterwork Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is the rap equivalent of Brian De Palma's Scarface, then this, the 14-years-later sequel, is like Michael Mann's Heat.

Founded in the mid-'90s, Goodie Mob is one of Southern hip-hop's most revered acts.

Roughly 84,000 rap albums that have been released in Houston since 1989. We're counting down the 25 best of all time every Thursday.

ROLLS UP TO THE 'CYPRESS HILL SMOKEOUT' ON 10/23 GOODIE MOB TO OFFER SNEAK PEAK AT BET AWARDS TAPING 10/10 RENOWNED RAPPER SCARFACE TO APPEAR AS VERY SPECIAL GUEST ON ALL DATES Pomona, CA -- Guerilla Union, Inc, producer of Rock The Bells, The Cypress Hill SmokeOut, and Paid Dues Festival, is proud to present the return of the legendary Goodie Mob.

When news hit about a little known deejay, DJ BK-One and his partner Benzilla dropping a compilation, many were intrigued by the line-up on the disc.

While not quite a concept album, Raekwon's 1995 solo debut Only Built for Cuban Linx , is considered by many to be one of the greatest gangsta films to ever be put on wax.

Rapper Big Daddy Kane once boasted, "My rhymes are so dope . . . I'll have to open a school of MCing," on his 1988 classic "Ain't No Half-Steppin'." Since then, his records have served as classrooms, and some of rap's great heroes are his star pupils: Chuck D calls him the "most gifted rapper of all time"; RZA praises the Bed-Stuy lyricist's " ...

Envision a desolate warehouse; everything about this building is nondescript. Let's call this place corporate headquarters.

Take your seats, class: We're on week 2 of EW University, with our third and final class on gangster movies in pop culture.

Take your seats, class: We'restarting up week2 of EWUniversitywith aweeklong look at gangster movies in pop culture.

The hip-hop world is a less than sensible place - lots of times, you're even required to clarify when bad means bad and when bad means good - so once a week we're going to get with a rapper and ask them to explain things.

Is Nas the greatest rapper of all time? That's a loaded, highly debatable question, of course: From Kurtis Blow and Big Daddy Kane to Lil Wayne and T-Pain, everyone's got a rhyme-splitter-spitter -- Biggie, Jigga, Scarface Rakim or Snoop; Ghost, Em, Big Pun, 'Pac and Posdunos -- who they think has spun flax into the most durable gold on the ...

This Jersey housewife's past is like a scene out of "Scarface." The cat fights and quarrels on Bravo's "Housewive's of New Jersey" must be child's play for Danielle Staub .

Welcome back to Five Spot. Every Friday, we'll examine a recent bit of music news and, sometimes awkwardly, tie it to a bit of Houston rap.

M.O.P. have stomped around Hip-Hop's battlefield for quite sometime all the while crafting some of the most frenetic, aggressive and lyrical songs ever.