With Kanye beats and splashy verses from JAY Z ("Guess Who's Back") and Nas ("In Between Us"), Scarface's seventh album is steeped in New York influences. But beneath that veneer, the Texan's gripping, finely wrought street tales remain undeniably Houston. "On My Block" registers ghetto trauma as warmed-over nostalgia, where shell-shocked vets "inhale rocks" over breezy soul samples. "In Cold Blood," meanwhile, is pure "goon squad" nihilism. Scarface may have survived the game of life, as he boasts on "Sellout," but it left a mark.