Overview

• In an August 14 Club Shay Shay interview, Scarface credited Jay-Z and DJ Khaled with privately providing him a “lifeline” during his 2020 COVID-19 and kidney failure battle.
• The Houston rap legend praised Jay-Z as “the keeper of the culture” but offered no additional details on how they assisted him.
• Scarface’s illness escalated to double bilateral pneumonia and kidney failure in March 2020, leading to a public donor plea and a successful transplant by his son, Christopher Jordan, in August 2021.
• Shannon Sharpe prompted the revelation by citing Jay-Z’s previous interventions on behalf of Lil Wayne, DMX and 21 Savage.
• Scarface expressed doubt that Jay-Z will record another album, saying the rapper “not starving no more.”