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7 unusual facts about Scarface


Latin Soul Syndicate

They also had their song Narco Traffico featured in the game Scarface: The World Is Yours.

Los Angeles Pop Art

A partnership with Vivendi Games, in 2006, regarding the release of Scarface: The World Is Yours video game, led Los Angeles Pop Art to create an exclusive poster to be used as a pre-order gift by Vivendi Games, in order to assist in the pre-ordering of the game.

Scarface: Money. Power. Respect.

Through turn based showdowns and real time combat each player will manage production and distribution of drugs, build up enough cartel strength to overpower adversaries, conquer turf and rule the Miami drug scene.

Scarface: The World Is Yours

The game begins in the film's final scene, with the mansion of Tony Montana (voiced by André Sogliuzzo) being raided by assassins sent by Alejandro Sosa (Robert Davi).

However, the band's drummer, Tommy Lee, played the role of the manager of Fidel's Records and Tapes.

The World Is Yours

Scarface: The World Is Yours, a video game based on the 1983 movie Scarface

Tranquilandia

In the 2006 movie-based game Scarface: The World Is Yours, near the end of the game, the main character was asked by his partner to liberate a vast drug facility in an island offshore Bahamas (the Islands in the game) for him.


10th Anniversary: Rap-a-Lot Records

The compilation contained 11 hits from the likes of the Geto Boys, Scarface and the 5th Ward Boyz, as well as two previously unreleased songs ("Sunshine" by Scarface and "Don't Give No..." by Do or Die) and one song recorded exclusively for the album ("Bring It On").

A Minute to Pray and a Second to Die

Released on February 28, 1992 and produced by Crazy C and Scarface, "A Minute to Pray and a Second to Die" made it to two Billboard charts, peaking at 69 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks" and 13 on the Hot Rap Singles. The song features a sample of Marvin Gaye's "Inner City Blues".

Armitage Trail

Armitage Trail (1902-1930) was an American crime writer best known for his 1929 novel Scarface, depicting the rise of gangster Al Capone, which was adapted into the 1932 film Scarface directed by Howard Hawks.

Drumma Boy

Citing Dr. Dre, Quincy Jones, Raphael Saadiq and The Funk Brothers as his signature production inspirations his musical influences range from German composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, and Johann Sebastian Bach to Jazz icons Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis all the way to Academy Award winning hip hop group Three 6 Mafia and Houston rapper, Scarface.

First You Get the Sugar

The name was chosen as a reference to a quotation from the "Lisa's Rival" episode of the American animated sitcom television series The Simpsons, in which the quotation itself is a homage to the American crime film Scarface (1983).

Geographic areas of Houston

Collectively (with the Third Ward) known as the "Southside", these formerly rural communities were childhood homes of country singer Kenny Rogers and (more recently) rap artist Scarface.

Guy Schwartz

Directing concert films on Billy Joe Shaver, Mr. Scarface and Carolyn Wonderland, as well as films about SOUTH BY DUE EAST and Schwartz' own New Jack Hippies, Schwartz, Blue & their SIRIUS HIPPIES PRODUCTIONS have created three successful TV series - 'Hippies.TV' (10th season), 'SOUTH BY DUE EAST TELEVISION'(4th season), and 'Guy Schwartz' Road Journal'(3rd season)

Helen St. John

St. John was involved in the making of the soundtracks for Scarface, Superman III and Electric Dreams and two of her solo albums, Power To The Piano and Take Your Passion, were produced by Giorgio Moroder.

Inez Palange

Inez Palange was an Italian-born American actress who was best known for her role as Mrs. Camonte in the 1932 film Scarface.

Infamous Mobb

The only known track released that Scarface appeared on is "All Pro" on Big Noyd's debut album Episodes of a Hustla.

James Georgopoulos

Famous cinematic guns in that series include those used by Al Pacino in Scarface, Lady Gaga in her music video "Born This Way", John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John Malkovich in RED and Angelina Jolie in Salt.

Jersey Shore house

During the filming of Jersey Shore, the house was decorated with Scarface posters and Cadillac symbols and wheels.

Meg: Primal Waters

Also someone behind the scenes of Daredevils has a grudge on Jonas, Michael Maren, and is planning to get revenge on Jonas using his pet Megalodon nicknamed Scarface, so named due to terrible scars caused by a territory dispute with his brother; the same Meg Terry is pursuing (both of which are Angel's litter from the Trench in the last book).

Montana Management

Not coincidentally, "Montana Management, Inc." was also the name of a money-laundering front company controlled by fictional drug lord Tony Montana (Al Pacino) in the 1983 film Scarface.

On Your Every Word

This would be her second studio album and would be her last one, before she spent the rest of the 1980s recording songs for film soundtracks such as Scarface, Teen Wolf, Night of the Comet, St. Elmo's Fire, K-9, and much more.

Pabst Brewing Company

Ice Cube, 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Scarface, The Notorious B.I.G., and Method Man & Redman were a few of the rappers who endorsed the brand.

Patricia Norris

She went on to design costumes for several iconic films of the 1970s and 80s, including Capricorn One (1977), Days of Heaven (1978), Victor Victoria (1982) and Scarface (1983).

Paul Monette

Monette also wrote the novelizations of the films Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Scarface (1983), Predator (1987) and Midnight Run (1988), as well as the novels "Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll" (1978), "Afterlife" (1990), and "Halfway Home" (1991).

Paul Shenar

He also portrayed the murderous Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in Brian De Palma's 1983 version of Scarface.

Scarface Claw

Scarface Claw is a fictitious tom cat who features in the Hairy Maclary children's stories written by New Zealand author Lynley Dodd.

The Breaks

The song has been featured in a few games: the 2002 game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the 2005 game True Crime: New York City, the 2006 game Scarface: The World Is Yours and 2011 Kinect game Dance Central 2.

Turn Out the Night

While most of the songs from the Scarface soundtrack were put into Grand Theft Auto III, this song was not.

Amy Holland also recorded another song for the Scarface soundtrack "She's On Fire" which eventually ended up on the soundtrack for Grand Theft Auto 3.

Willie D

Considered the classic line up, Willie D, Bushwick Bill, and Scarface first emerged as the Geto Boys in 1989 with their Gold record, "Grip It! On That Other Level."


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