Profane rap star Scarface trades lyrics for a lob wedge
The edgy, profanity-laced lyrics of hip-hop star Scarface might keep him off the radio, but they can’t keep him off the golf course.
Turns out the rambunctious rapper, known for his “hard-boiled, ghetto-bred” style and who has twice been convicted on gun charges, is a golf nut. “Golf is like a woman,” Scarface told an MTV.com reporter during a recent round at Wildcat Golf Club in Houston. “One day everything is cool. Next day, you be like, 'What happened?' "
‘Face has been playing for about a year and says he tees it up just about every day. "Messing with wanting to hit the ball straighter and even straighter and wanting to chip the ball and place the ball got me addicted,” he says. Still, he finds it easier to bust a rhyme than break 90.
"Vijay Singh would kick my ass. Tiger Woods, on the other hand, I might kick Tiger's ass. ... Nah. God sent Tiger Woods here to play golf for real," ’Face says.
The rapper says the album he released last week, Emeritus, will be his last, which should leave him plenty of time to tighten up his swing and win a few skins. As ’Face himself once wrote, and you'll excuse me if I've misheard the lyric:
Everybody in the game know how it go
It's a whole lotta holes, a whole lotta dough…
(Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images)
Posted by: Blklight | Dec 15, 2008 3:51:46 PM
Scarface is cool...glad to see he's picked up the game and seems to already knows how addictive it will become!
Posted by: randy | Dec 15, 2008 3:50:50 PM
wonder if a course would enforce a dress code on him?
Posted by: Ian | Dec 14, 2008 5:09:50 AM
Someone sounds a bit insecure about this article...
or that he might one day have a better handicap than you?
Posted by: Young | Dec 13, 2008 6:30:15 PM
Great comment Cam! I would be curious to hear what Bastasble's response would be to your well thought out point.
Posted by: Cam | Dec 13, 2008 1:07:22 PM
The point that is most interesting to me is how the title reads "Profane rap star..." Ok, His lyrics are rough - no disputing that. But when Alice Cooper tees it up there is no mention of any of his on stage antics (blood, guillotine...) just how close he is to scratch.
There are fewer golfers of color now then when Tiger Woods became professional, and anything that creates a link between kids who have no idea what golf is about or how important the rules and ethics could be in their lives is only positive.
Fewer golf courses were built this year than in the last 10. Anything that helps put attention back on golf as an inclusive, important and and wickedly fun (and addictive) sport is only good press. Anything is better than the reports on Trip Isenhour (sp?) killing that eagle...
Posted by: Ringo Demaret | Dec 13, 2008 3:51:26 AM
Easy on the man. I believe in the redemptive values of the golf lifestyle.