Scarface announced his retirement from rap.
The announcement came ahead of his final show in Houston, Texas, a city he helped put on the map as a hub of Hip Hop talent.
“The cool part about it is, I get to say farewell twice,” he said. “I get to go out there and say farewell by myself, and then I get to say it with you,” he said during an interview of the “Geto Boys Reloaded.”
Scarface’s final performance took place at The House of Blues in Houston last week. However, he did share that he is eager to continue making music—just in other genres.
“If I could, I would love to go into a different lane of music,” he explained. “Maybe blues or rock. Maybe alternative. I want to do something different now. You know how you burn the lane? I burned the lane?”
This is not the first time the legendary rapper has expressed a desire to step away from the Hip Hop limelight. In 2019, he shared that he wanted to walk away from rap to focus on his political career, announcing his run for Houston City Council in District D.
“As I got older I noticed that there was still a lot of struggling going on,” he said at the time. “If it wasn’t drugs, it was no jobs. If it wasn’t no jobs, it was people out loitering, hanging out, getting in trouble. I’m 48 years old and that’s been going on before me. I wanna take it upon myself to fix the situation.”
However, Scarface’s life would take a biting turn.
In September, Scarface made headlines after receiving a kidney from his son. After testing positive for Covid-19, the rapper, real name Brad Jordan, suffered from complications for months. The virus severely impacted his kidneys and he was forced to receive dialysis treatments.
“COVID attacked my lungs first, and then it attacked my kidneys and knocked them out. I got full lung recovery, but my kidneys never came back,” he said in June.
