advice supercargo: Scarface Learned Child-Support Lesson The Hard Way

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Scarface Learned Child-Support Lesson The Hard Way

'My advice to any father out there is that if you send anything, you send it through the courts,' MC says on 'RapFix Live.'
By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway

Scarface on "RapFix Live"
Photo: Natasha Chandel/ MTV News

Scarface had to learn a hard lesson when he sat in jail from October 2010 to August 2011. The Houston rap legend, who was jailed for failure to pay child support after it was tallied that he owed more than $123,000, cleared the air on Wednesday's (May 9) episode of "RapFix Live." The MC explained that his mistake wasn't that he didn't pay his just due — it was that he didn't keep proper record of his payments.

"In the system, when your kids get grown and you pay all this money direct and it's time for the money to stop being issued out, they gonna want to appeal because there ain't no more money coming in no more," the "I Seen a Man Die" rapper explained to "RapFix" host Sway. "So they may go and say you ain't pay nothing, so that how it go."

Face's logic is that, if he wasn't paying child support for all these years, why didn't his child's mother come after him earlier? "21 years? C'mon, man. You want to do it now, 21 years later?" he rhetorically questioned. "Why you ain't do that 20 years ago, if it really was what it was?"

Regardless of what happened in the past, the rapper, who is planning to drop a new solo album later this year, is ready to move on. "It was an experience that I like to touch on and not dwell on," he said. "It was a learning experience, and my advice to any father out there is that if you send anything, you send it through the courts. That's the best way to do, because at the end of the day, you not gonna get no credit for it."