"I remember going to Virginia Beach and fuckin' with the Neptunes," he recalls. "I know when we recorded it, [Pharrell] had a lady on it first, that sung it first. I don't remember her name—I'm sure Pharrell remembers her name because she was from Virginia Beach. That was the only song that I got...it wasn't a beat CD from Pharrell. Pharrell and his partners handcrafted that shit. Needless to say, it turned out to be big. It was a big record."
Among the other producers that Scarface connected with via Def Jam was a young, hot hitmaker named Kanye West. West was fresh off of his successes with Jay-Z's Blueprint album and other Roc-A-Fella Records/Def Jam projects like Cam'ron's Come Home With Me and supergroup State Property's self-titled 2001 album.
"I got tons of records from Kanye West," Face says. "Kanye's a dopeass rapper. I would put Kanye's beats up against anybody's shit. Like, Kanye had fuckin' smoke! 'In Cold Blood' on The Fix album? That's Kanye with that shit!"
On The Fix, Kanye and Scarface teamed up for some of the album's most memorable tracks, including "In Cold Blood," the Kelly Price-featuring "Heaven," and one of the most celebrated songs in Scarface's discography: "Guess Who's Back" which prominently featured Jay-Z.
"[Young] Guru was playing songs on the board," Face said of working with Jay. "A beat would play and Jay-Z would say 'go to the next one.' [He would] start vibing to a beat. Then he'd look at you and go 'ooooooh!' and he'd go lay the shit. [laughs]. Like that—it's over! That's Jay-Z."
Nas also prominently featured on The Fix, on the standout track "In Between Us." Scarface told RTB that he was intentional about putting two of New York's most iconic emcees on the album, because of the infamous drama between them at the time.
"I wanted to get Jay-Z and Nas on my album because they were feuding," Face remembers. "I wanted to bring these two together on a record and show the world that it's just rap. Why they were feuding, that's no my fuckin' business. I wanted to make the dopest fucking record that I could make and I feel like to make the dopest fuckin' record that I could make, I would have to have two of the best MCs of all-time on that shit."