Scarface has been in the rap game for decades and Tech N9ne says that the Houston rap legend is as strong as ever on his most recent album, Deeply Rooted, which dropped last year.
“I think and I know that what he did on Deeply Rooted let me, let the world know that he can do any style of music,” the Strange Music leader says during an episode of Best Albums. “He can drop knowledge, game, you know what I’m sizzling? It’s just everything is in there, man. Like life lessons, everything. If youngsters would just listen to Deeply Rooted. Maybe everything doesn’t apply to you, if you’ve never been to jail or if you’ve never went through anything with a relationship or if you’ve never been discriminated against or whatever, if none of that applies to you, then you won’t get why I say Deeply Rooted is something. There’s songs on there like [‘Voices’] I can hear that right behind a Taylor Swift song on Top 40 radio. I can hear it. It’s humungous just like that.”
Besides the music, Tech N9ne says that the cover art for Deeply Rooted stands out in today’s industry where he says people just slap photos on their album covers.
“It looked like a dope house or something,” he says. “I don’t know if that’s the house he grew up in. I don’t know if that’s the bando, the trap, but whatever it is, it’s art.”
Tech N9ne has been paying tribute to Scarface on his social media and not only is he a fan, but he has gotten to work with the former Geto Boys rapper, most notably on “Pillow Talkin” from his Killer album. Tech N9ne says that he doesn’t think Scarface gets enough appreciation for his artistry.
“I wish the world would recognize it ’cause it’s in a time, it’s a young man’s game they say, but people like us, me, Scarface, Jay Z, Nas, Eminem, whoever else is in their 40s, E-40, Too $hort, we’re killing young men,” he says. “But at the same time, we adore what the young men are doing. I just wish the younger generation that only listen to the young men would listen to the motherfuckers that started this shit and recognize that it’s killing everything and that’s what I feel about Deeply Rooted.”