Scarface
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You are missing the point entirely.
You are suggesting that hip-hop has nothing to do with the movie's success in the past decade because you don't pay attention to hip-hop.
Yet you named Jay-Z whose first album even had someone imitating Scarface in intros and on songs and has continued to name drop him continuously throughout his career, and 50 Cent who even just recently had a song in which direct cuts from the movie were in the song.
Those are the two biggest names in hip-hop (for better or worse [worst]) and some can argue up there in all of current music.
Scarface from Geto Boys chose his moniker as an homage to him.
Nas had a song called, "The World Is Yours".
Mobb Deep has used direct and blatant (on purpose) samples from Giorgio Moroder's soundtrack.
The Latin/Hispanic movement of Hip-Hop hail him as a hero and glorify him in songs as if he was a real person.
Yes, you don't have to like the movie and like hip-hop, but you can not put on blinders and act like other people's initial impression at the very least was not based in hip-hop.
The movie itself carries itself afterwards.
I mean Christ, my fucking old barber had "The World Is Yours" tattoed on his right arm and on the left, "It's mine, it's mine, it's mine."
He is also currently enjoying a concrete vacation, haha.