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”).
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)
I once thought as you. Now I regret I didn’t hear this before I turned in my year-end ballots.
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...
It’s much better than something called More Fish deserves to be.
Ghostace Tilley?
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”
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
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).
Has GQ called it “the black Amnesiac” yet?
The black Return to Cookie Mountain, amirite, amirite?
I preordered this from Hiphopsite along w/ some other stuff and it still hasn’t arrived. : (
GHOSTACE!
The black Return to Cookie Mountain, amirite, amirite?
as opposed to the white Return to Cookie Mountain?
you could always vote for in next year, alfred, but by then ghost will have two more records out