Rappers and the hip-hop culture worship to SCARFACE is a major factor. However, to say its simply the rappers is pretty...well, fucking simplistic.

Even before Hip-Hop became mainstream, and thus before they could supposedly "spread" the movie, SCARFACE started a cult following in the last days of its 1983/84 theatrical engagements. Midnight screenings, many within inner-cities of America, help SCARFACE make a tiny profit.

Then it became one of the top-selling catalogue titles within Universal's library on VHS, and later on DVD. Yet on VHS, it snorted coke way before the Rap Revolution could even be factored into the equation.