He went out of his way to say it was a very big thing in his life. Yes, at Shaquille O’Neal’s birthday party. Jay-Z has famously sampled and referenced “Scarface” multiple times over his career - have you come across him? Here, Bauer explains how figures in hip-hop and the wider world of pop culture have expressed their love of the movie. During the era of “MTV Cribs,” it was a cliché to see rappers such as Lil Wayne and Big Boi showing off their memorabilia, and one member of the Houston gangsta-rap crew the Geto Boys identified with the lead character so much, he called himself “Scarface.” 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart with his debut, “The World Is Yours” - a phrase lifted from the flick. And earlier this week, Queens rapper Rich the Kid hit No. The movie’s dialogue has been sampled and reproduced dozens of times: There’s a reference to “Scarface” dialogue in the new Nicki Minaj track “Chun-Li,” which just came out Thursday. Diddy in the 2003 documentary, “Scarface: Origins of a Hip-Hop Classic.” “We were just happy to see another cat that had nothing, making it … no matter how he was getting it,” said P. They would say, ‘Oh, I gotta give you respect - that’s THE movie.’ I didn’t know all of them, so I would have to ask someone, ‘Who was that?’ ”Ī major part of the appeal was Montana’s determination to climb out of poverty and street life to achieve success and extreme wealth - an origin story mirrored frequently in hip-hop. “In the early ’90s, I would start getting recognized on the street by rappers. “‘Scarface’ was dead and buried until hip-hop rediscovered it,” says the 61-year-old actor. But as Steven Bauer (who played Montana’s sidekick, Manny Ribera) tells The Post, it was hip-hop culture that did the most to restore it to prominence. Thirty-five years later, the movie is lauded as a classic, and it’s being given a special anniversary screening Thursday at the Beacon Theatre, as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. The Post’s headline at the time simply called it a “pointless bloodbath.” “An overblown B-movie,” was New York Magazine’s assessment of De Palma’s ultra-violent depiction of Cuban immigrant Tony Montana (played by Al Pacino) and his rise through the drug world. Brian De Palma’s “Scarface” has a rightfully earned reputation as a blood-fest, but the reviews it received upon release in 1983 were almost as gory.

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