Four days earlier, current District D council member Dwight Boykins, whom Jordan calls a good friend, announced plans to vacate the seat to run for mayor. [Bushwick Bill, grim rapper of hip-hop’s Geto Boys, dies at 52]The Geto Boys rose to prominence amid controversy around the violent and sexually explicit lyrics they said reflected the reality they saw in their Houston neighborhood. Jordan also released several solo albums as Scarface on the way to earning a reputation as an elder statesman of hip-hop. After the height of the Geto Boys’ fame, Jordan helped launch the careers of rappers such as Ludacris as head of Def Jam South in the early 2000s. “You know me as Scarface,” he told the council, “but now you get the opportunity to meet Brad Jordan.

Source: Washington Post June 11, 2019 23:01 UTC