Smith was trying to launch a group he tagged the Geto Boys, and he eventually asked Akshen to join the group in the late '80s. Scarface (at the time recording under the alias of Akshen) began his rap career first as a solo artist in his native Houston during the mid-'80s for James Smith's then fledging Rap-a-Lot label. This became glaringly evident in the late '90s when a massive wave of young MCs arose from Houston, New Orleans, and Memphis emulating his style of hard-boiled, ghetto-bred, straight-up hardcore rapping. He has managed to define what it meant to be a Southern thug rapper years before anyone even coined the term Dirty South. Even if he has never scored any national hits or stormed up the Billboard charts with any of his numerous albums throughout the '90s, no one could question his clout throughout the South. He was an early member of the Southern rap group The Geto Boys and still maintains ties with them, though he has been a solo artist since 1991.
He is originally from the South Acres neighborhood of Houston, Texas. Rapper Scarface was born Bradley Jordan on November 9, 1970.
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