

Scarface can spit bars with the best of them, but on his 10th album, he spits venom too. With help from Lil Wayne and Bun B, Face laments the industry’s lack of respect for its pioneers on “Forgot About Me” over a soul-sampling beat punctuated with dramatic drumrolls. The smart, seething “Can’t Get Right” gets real about America’s sociopolitical ills, while on the resolute “Redemption” he stares unflinchingly into the face of death, saying: “I’m too hard to kill.”