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For a few days I was too tempted to slot this as an appendage to Fishscale, but this is a different entity: more facile lyrically but denser musically; tougher, with a couple of drug songs that might have worked on a Raekwon album circa 1995; and more compassionate. Trife is a worthy foil, if no Raekwon. Stunning tracks (the Ghost-in-Hollywood narrative "Alex," the tender "Josephine") sit next to several retreads ("Guns n Razorz," "Greedy Bitches").

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, so is this actually worth hearing...? cuz I shared yr cash-in skepticism... otoh Ghost has never released an album I don't like (altho Bulletproof Wallets is generally low on my listenin list)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I once thought as you. Now I regret I didn't hear this before I turned in my year-end ballots.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm perhaps I will get. I owe him an album purchase anyway, since I never paid for my copy of Fishscale... yes I feel guilty about these kinds of things...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

It's much better than something called More Fish deserves to be.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Ghostace Tilley?

― f. scott baio (natepatrin), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

And I know it's a pretty solid record but I can't stop cracking up at "Outta Town Shit" when the newscaster mentions a shooting in "downtown Minnesota"

― f. scott baio (natepatrin), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I once thought as you. Now I regret I didn't hear this before I turned in my year-end ballots.
-- Alfred Soto (soto.alfre...), December 18th, 2006.

OTMFM

― hoo keeps it steen/and they love that shit (hoosteen), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Ghostface is always on-point. The only time he released something sub-par was Bulletproof Wallets, but that was due to sample clearance (or a lack thereof).

― brightscreamer (brightscreamer), Monday, 18 December 2006 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Has GQ called it "the black Amnesiac" yet?

― m1cc1o (m1cc1o), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

The black Return to Cookie Mountain, amirite, amirite?

I preordered this from Hiphopsite along w/ some other stuff and it still hasn't arrived. : (

― Rodney picks up his saxophone and dooms the white power structure (Rodney J. Gre, Tuesday, 19 December 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

GHOSTACE!

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/762501/2/istockphoto_762501_ace_up_sleeve.jpg

― Rodney picks up his saxophone and dooms the white power structure (Rodney J. Gre, Tuesday, 19 December 2006 04:46 (seventeen years ago) link

somewhat odd promo clip

― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

The black Return to Cookie Mountain, amirite, amirite?

as opposed to the white Return to Cookie Mountain?

― mehlt (mehlt), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

you could always vote for in next year, alfred, but by then ghost will have two more records out

― Ray Cummings (skateboardr), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

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