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Formats and Editions
1. Balls and My Word
2. Recognize
3. On My Grind - (featuring Z-Ro)
4. Bitch Nigga - (featuring Z-Ro/Dirt Bomb/Bun B)
5. Stuck at a Standstill
6. Strapped
7. Only Your Mother - (featuring Devin/Tela)
8. Make Your Peace
9. Spend the Night - (featuring Aries)
10. Mary II
11. Dirty Money - (featuring Tanya Herron)
12. F*ck'n With Face
13. Invincible
14. Real Nigga Blues - (featuring Lil' Papa Roach)
More Info:
Scarface put Houston, Texas, and the south on the rap map with Mind Playing Tricks as a member of the Geto Boys. He is by far the greatest rapper the south has seen and the greatest story teller rap has ever known.Reviews:
''Balls and My Word'' is the eighth studio album released by Scarface. Released of March 25, 2003 through Rap-a-Lot Records, Rap-a-Lot CEO, James Prince organized a studio album of unreleased songs recorded by Scarface that were outtakes from previous albums. The album failed to match the success of Scarface's previous album, becoming only a minor success, having peaked at 20 on the Billboard 200. - Wikipedia
When MTV's "Cribs" invaded the Atlanta home of former Geto Boy Scarface,he made sure to draw attention to his DVD collection which, in addition to somesuspicious selections, included the film from which he draws his name. Saidmovie is also the source of the album's title (co-opted previously by Rakimand Young Bleed, among others) and, on this album's intro, Pacino's Tony Montanais cut up and rewound countless times, a don in his prime.Everywhere else, though, they're dying off. "I'm the last of the dons,goddammit," Scarface boasts on "Recognize." He's partly correct.While the thug is back in vogue, thanks to 50 Cent and others, rap has movedaway from its organized crime fetish. Scarface may well be the only one keepingthe torch lit.
Consisting mostly of tracks Scarface recorded before he defected to Def Jamto record 2002's The Fix, a certified gangster classic, this album strikes aslightly lighter note. There are a pair of funny songs about women—"Spendthe Night" and "Only Your Mother" (featuring Devin the Dude)—the likes of which Face hasn't recorded since his first two solo albums. Butmostly, it's crime that pays, and the code of the streets that keeps you alive.On the excellent "On My Grind," Face toasts the early days: "I'm16 years old, with game so throwed/ I was bucking n****s fronting me and f***ingthey hoes." And on "Bitch N****," upstart labelmate Z-Ro triesto make a name for himself by calling out 50 Cent for "dry-snitching onBET." Face's verse doesn't mention 50 by name, and he's told the pressthat he has no beef with 50, but it's clear that even the biggest stars aren'tbeyond reproach in the world Face inhabits.
