Scarface is a legend. Sending prayers up for this incredibly important artist. He has - in more recent times - been focused on being Brad Jordan, with an interest in pursuing a life of public service. I hope he can make it to the other side of this to realize that dream fully.

“You know me as Scarface,” he told the council, “but now you get the opportunity to meet Brad Jordan. I really want to let you all know that I’m getting ready to make a super impact in the community because that’s the most important thing to me right now.”

He announced a run for Houston City Council last year:

“I’m super-passionate when it comes to the people. This is the district that I’m from, and I recognize the problems. But I don’t want to point the finger at the problems. I just want to be responsible for the solutions.”

After campaigning for six months, he lost this race. But it is notable that he garnered a reported (and fairly impressive) 38% of the vote.

“I’ve always been a part of the reality of street life. I don’t have a lot of fancy titles in front or behind my name, but I do have the fancy title of being realistic.”

Fire ass quote. Salute.

“You don’t need to bring a company from Ohio into your neighborhood to rebuild that muh’f*cka. In order to rebuild your neighborhood, you should be hiring muh’f*ckas from inside your neighborhood to be working the [jobs]. That’s how you grow a community.”

“You grow that muthaf*cka from the inside out. You don’t grow it from the outside in. You can’t [just] bring [outsourced jobs] to make the muh’f*cka look good—and ain’t nobody in there can afford to stay there no more. Like, we gotta put us down again.”