Twenty years ago, when Tony Buzbee started making his fortune as a personal injury lawyer, reaping the spoils from his lawsuits against oil and gas companies around America’s Gulf Coast, he had a particular liking for rap music.
At the time, Buzbee was driving a Mercedes SLR McLaren Convertible (cost $500,000). “I’d drive around in my fancy car,” he remembers with a laugh, “playing the music real loud, make sure everybody could see me – then come back around again in case you missed me the first time.”
