10 Most 'Woke' Songs Scarface Ever Made

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The Last Of A Dying Breed - Brad Jordan a/k/a, Scarface has a storied hip hop career that spans over 20 years. When BET Hip Hop Awards airs on October 13th at 8P/7C the respected lyricists from Houston will be the "I Am Hip Hop" honoree. In honor of this lifetime achievement, let's take a look at a few scriptures from his diaries. (Photo: Leon Bennett/WireImage)

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The Last Of A Dying Breed - Brad Jordan a/k/a, Scarface has a storied hip hop career that spans over 20 years. When BET Hip Hop Awards airs on October 13th at 8P/7C the respected lyricists from Houston will be the "I Am Hip Hop" honoree. In honor of this lifetime achievement, let's take a look at a few scriptures from his diaries. (Photo: Leon Bennett/WireImage)

"Mind Playing Tricks On Me," Geto Boys - Face never shied away from discussing his battles with despression. Heavy is the head that wears the crown and he took us through a dope boy’s mind with his lyrics on this Geto Boy classic. His relatability had everyone rapping, “Every Sunday morning I’m in service/ Praying for forgiveness/ And trying to find an exit out the business…”(Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

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"Mind Playing Tricks On Me," Geto Boys - Face never shied away from discussing his battles with despression. Heavy is the head that wears the crown and he took us through a dope boy’s mind with his lyrics on this Geto Boy classic. His relatability had everyone rapping, “Every Sunday morning I’m in service/ Praying for forgiveness/ And trying to find an exit out the business…”(Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

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"Geto Fantasy," Geto Boys - Mr. Jordan took shots at crooked politicians and the prison industrial complex on this empowering track of The Geto Boys’ Resurrection Album. He aimed, spitting: “And while you build your penitentiaries for my children I plant seeds for my children/ So when they cross these roads you'll be prepared and never show no respect to these h**s that never cared for.” (Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

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"Geto Fantasy," Geto Boys - Mr. Jordan took shots at crooked politicians and the prison industrial complex on this empowering track of The Geto Boys’ Resurrection Album. He aimed, spitting: “And while you build your penitentiaries for my children I plant seeds for my children/ So when they cross these roads you'll be prepared and never show no respect to these h**s that never cared for.” (Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

"Hand Of The Dead Body," Featuring Scarface - Face and Ice Cube put the establishment on blast for blaming gangsta rap for society’s ills. The rap star dropped,  “America's been always known for blaming us n****s for they f**k-ups/And we were always considered evil/ Now they trying to bust our only code of communicating with our people.” (Photos from left: Alex B. Huckle/Getty Images, Walik Goshorn ./Retna Ltd./Corbis)

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"Hand Of The Dead Body," Featuring Scarface - Face and Ice Cube put the establishment on blast for blaming gangsta rap for society’s ills. The rap star dropped,  “America's been always known for blaming us n****s for they f**k-ups/And we were always considered evil/ Now they trying to bust our only code of communicating with our people.” (Photos from left: Alex B. Huckle/Getty Images, Walik Goshorn ./Retna Ltd./Corbis)

"This Can't Be Life, " Jay Z Featuring Beanie Sigel and Scarface - Brad touched hearts literally when he closed out this collaboration with Jay and Beanie. “And ain't no bright side to losing life; but you can view it like this/ God's got open hands homey, he in the midst.. of good company…” (Photos from left: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Splash News, Walik Goshorn ./Retna Ltd./Corbis, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Roc Nation)

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"This Can't Be Life, " Jay Z Featuring Beanie Sigel and Scarface - Brad touched hearts literally when he closed out this collaboration with Jay and Beanie. “And ain't no bright side to losing life; but you can view it like this/ God's got open hands homey, he in the midst.. of good company…” (Photos from left: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Splash News, Walik Goshorn ./Retna Ltd./Corbis, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Roc Nation)

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“What’s Going On”  - Marvin Gaye felt the plight of mothers losing sons on 1971’s “What’s Going On” and the Geto Boys felt the emotion in the track and decided to use it as the backdrop to pay respects to their dead homies on “Six Feet Deep” in 1993.(Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

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"Crooked Officer," Geto Boys - Big Mike, Scarface and Bushwick Bill were putting police brutality on blast way back in 1993 and the H-Town boss pointed out, “Just because you legally pack a gat man/ Doesn't necessarily mean you have to point it at the Black man/ Especially you Black cops, you let your gats pop/ Because them honkies got you brainwashed.” (Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

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"I Seen A Man Die" - Face gave us a look at a cold-hearted killer who sees his wrongs right before his final breaths. The clock was ticking as he spit, “I hear you breathing but your heart no longer sounds strong/ But you kinda scared of dying so you hold on/ And you keep on blacking out and your pulse is low/Stop trying to fight the reaper just relax and let it go…” (Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

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"I Seen A Man Die" - Face gave us a look at a cold-hearted killer who sees his wrongs right before his final breaths. The clock was ticking as he spit, “I hear you breathing but your heart no longer sounds strong/ But you kinda scared of dying so you hold on/ And you keep on blacking out and your pulse is low/Stop trying to fight the reaper just relax and let it go…” (Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

'Outro' - After inspiring and empowering, Scarface closes the show explaining that his words ring truth because he's "deeply rooted" in his convictions and the streets.(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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"6 Feet Deep," Geto Boys - Face and the Geto Boys put a light on Black-on-Black crime with this vivid track features Face giving a solemn rundown of a funeral procession that included, “Mommy dear's crying at the wake/ And everybody's dressed up in black suits/ Going to pay their last respects to the Black troop.”(Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

"Girl You Know," Featuring Trey Songz - Scarface has explained sometimes you just have to call it quits and Trey Songz couldn’t even save his union after he revealed, “And trust me, I tried to be a one woman man/ But for every one woman, there's a man, home man/ Saying, "Damn, I done spent six years in this s**t/ The first two was cool and then the b***h just flipped." (Photo: WENN.com)

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"Girl You Know," Featuring Trey Songz - Scarface has explained sometimes you just have to call it quits and Trey Songz couldn’t even save his union after he revealed, “And trust me, I tried to be a one woman man/ But for every one woman, there's a man, home man/ Saying, "Damn, I done spent six years in this s**t/ The first two was cool and then the b***h just flipped." (Photo: WENN.com)

"Boy Meets Girl" - Mr. Scarface told a tragic Romeo and Juliet hood tale of how a drug dealer and stripper both with horrible and abusive childhoods eventually get hooked on coke and heroin on this downward love story about addiction off MADE.(Photo: John Sciulli/Getty Images for Samsung)

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"Boy Meets Girl" - Mr. Scarface told a tragic Romeo and Juliet hood tale of how a drug dealer and stripper both with horrible and abusive childhoods eventually get hooked on coke and heroin on this downward love story about addiction off MADE.(Photo: John Sciulli/Getty Images for Samsung)

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"A Minute To Pray And A Second To Die" - Face gave his own version of Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues” when he told the trials of a hustler on “A Minute To Pray And A Second To Die.” Strapped with an “Ak-47, M-11 and a pump,” Brad’s eerie story of how the streets devoured this troubled soul in the end was just another one of Mr. Jordan’s cautionary tales off his 1991 debut.(Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)

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"A Minute To Pray And A Second To Die" - Face gave his own version of Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues” when he told the trials of a hustler on “A Minute To Pray And A Second To Die.” Strapped with an “Ak-47, M-11 and a pump,” Brad’s eerie story of how the streets devoured this troubled soul in the end was just another one of Mr. Jordan’s cautionary tales off his 1991 debut.(Photo: Rap-A-Lot Records)