Taking his name from the 1983 Brian De Palma film, Scarface, a one-time member of the Geto Boys finally surpassed them with his third solo album, and this release marked his first big hit and his acceptance by the mainstream. With Mafioso Rap coming to the fore in the mid-nineties, “The Diary” fitted perfectly into the Hip-Hop genre during the emergence of Puffy and Biggie’s suit-wearing, wannabe Italian-Gangster-Movie takeover. Scarface’s album “The Diary” rarely gets mentioned when people speak about Hip-Hop from the golden era and that’s pretty strange since it was a platinum selling LP. And that's something you can't say about the work of most rappers, particularly ones as creative as Scarface.By What Went Wrong Or Right With.? on Octo It may make the album a short listen, yet it also makes The Diary one of Scarface's most solid efforts, one where you rarely, if ever, feel inclined to skip a song.
Elsewhere, he teams up with fellow gangsta veteran Ice Cube on "Hand of the Dead Body" and reprises his best-known song, "Mind Playin' Tricks 94." Not counting the interludes, there's only ten songs here, and they're nearly all produced by the team of N.O. Scarface here once again offers a laid-back gangsta ballad, "I Seen a Man Die," that's as thoughtful and somber as the style gets and also perhaps the album highlight. That's less the case with the 43-minute Diary, which doesn't overextend its ambitions. There was plenty of brilliance there, including the stunning "Now I Feel Ya," but you had to do some sifting to find it. Never short on ideas, Scarface had nonetheless gone a little too far with the 70-minute The World Is Yours. With the dissolution of the Geto Boys far behind him, Scarface follows the epic overreaching of The World Is Yours with The Diary, a refreshingly modest album with a few really strong moments and little filler.
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