ps. the way he spits throughout the album tho?...
i can tell that he had fun makin it how he wanted the cd to sound like himself, and it came out how we wanted too, so that's real, no bullshit!...
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ps. the way he spits throughout the album tho?...
i can tell that he had fun makin it how he wanted the cd to sound like himself, and it came out how we wanted too, so that's real, no bullshit!...
ya here the XXL reviewQuote:
Originally Posted by tragedykhadafi12
dont think it has been reviewed in THE SAUCE yet
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Ghostface
Fishscale
Def Jam
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http://xxlmag.com/online/wp-content/.../GFK-cover.jpgDespite rarely being mentioned amid “best rappers alive” rumblings, Ghostface has yet to release anything but acclaimed hip-hop since his 1996 solo debut, Ironman. Even when Wu-Tang releases started failing to find an audience, Ghost put the Clan on his back and kept the crew relevant with 2000’s seminal disc Supreme Clientele. Possessing a unique pedigree of prose (i.e. “Ayo, this rappin’s like ziti, facin’ me real TV/Crash at high speeds, strawberry kiwi”) and unbridled lyrical passion, he is the reigning king of consistency. Inexplicably, though, the Staten Islander’s tunes tend to excite critics more than consumers. After treading more accessible waters with 2004’s kinder and gentler disc, The Pretty Toney Album, Starks takes it back to his Killah roots with his fifth solo platter, Fishscale.
Clan connoisseurs will find comfort in “9 Milli Bros.,” a colossal posse cut featuring all of the Clansmen—including ODB and the return of Ghost’s longtime partner in rhyme Raekwon, who appears four times here as opposed to not at all last time around. The duo rekindles that classic Cuban Linx chemistry on the cocaine instructional “Kilo” and “R.A.G.U.,” an intense crime saga heightened by chilling strings and bells. Bullet-ridden narratives continue on the captivating “Shakey Dog,” where Ghost stages a botched heist over Lewis Parker’s horn-heavy Blaxploitation soundtrack with scene-setting detail: “Three fuckin’ maricones on the couch, watching Sanford & Son/Passing they rum, fried plantains and rice/Big rounds of onions on the T-bone steak/My stomach growling, Yo, I want some!”
Surprisingly, Ghost’s return to a darker sound doesn’t include the RZA. In his place is a crop of subterranean track masters. The most prominent being underground poster boy MF Doom, whose avant-garde replacement of Bobby Digital’s sonic grit is triumphant. Collaborating on five cuts, Ghost and Doom mesh like dust brothers from another. Metal Face’s hypnotic flutes and wave sound effects anchor “Underwater,” Tony’s bugged-out aquatic fantasy, complete with “mermaids with Halle Berry haircuts” and “SpongeBob in the Bentley coupé, banging the Isleys.” Their combined excellence continues on the acid-trip symphony “Charlie Brown” and the body-dropping “Clips of Doom,” a murder-gram ripe with piercing electric guitars and Ghost’s vivid violence: “Put two cutter mirrors replacing the eyes/So when the cops come they’ll see themselves, they all gonna die.”
Lightening up for a moment, Toney turns his attention toward estrogen for “Big Girl,” where the Pretty One sweet-talks shorties with his signature peculiarity. Later he waxes parental atop J Dilla’s subdued guitar lift on “Strap,” a candid reflection about today’s wayward parental discipline. “Nowadays kids don’t get beat/They get big treats, fresh pair of sneaks/Punishments is like, Here, have a seat.”
Unfortunately, Ghost Deini succumbs to commercial pressure. Amid the shadowy production scope of the album, the love-gone-bad R&B number “Back Like That” featuring Ne-Yo feels out of place. Equally confusing is the head-scratching “3 Bricks,” which awkwardly combines Ghost and Rae with Notorious B.I.G.’s “Somebody’s Gotta Die” vocals. Produced by Cool & Dre, the track seems better suited for Biggie’s slapdash Duets.
With a few forced collaborations being its only flaw, Fishscale is Ghost’s most addictive dosage post Supreme Clientele. Packed with vivid street tales, comic relief and straight spittin’, the album continues his standard of excellence. Now if only consistency equaled power. If it did, Ghostface would be king. —MATT BARONE
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No what i'm syaing is people just need to face the facts that a group or an MC isn't going to repeat the exact same thing. I thought that shit was Ghost, so I dont even know what people are complaining about. Maybe it didn't have the exact same sound, but thats one thing thats invariably gonna change with an artist. Their life changes and they are going to reflect that in their music. Thats how art works. So yeah, this is definitely something different, but its sure as hell still Ghost. Its not like he totally changed his style, unless your going to compare every fiber of it to Ironman or something,and thats where people start getting on this shit like an artist can never change.Quote:
Originally Posted by B-Hop
I thought this was some HOT shit anyway, and thats too bad if someone cant bring themselves to like it.
Yes, I can read. Only that first sentence applied to you. You dont need to go crazy, yelling about sheep and shit like that. Stupid people are going to be stupid people.Quote:
what the f is wrong with you?
I did not say anything against him. Can you read?
niggas always wanna bump they gums but dont want to use thier brains
my post was how people try to find fault with his stuff insteade of just enjoying it
be easy
and step your reading game up
wtf
just woundering if anyone knew how many copies the ablum sold in its first week?
Scratch Mag gave it 4.5 (is this old news? cuz i just got my scratch in the mail TODAY!)
I give the album like an 8.5/10. My only gripe with it is that there could have been more harder sounding beats and that the beats for Dogs of War and Kilo are boring (but not terrible). Rhymewise its a 9 though. Ghost doesnt miss a step on this album.
PS. Back like that was the #1 most searched lyric LAST week. It just came down to 2 today.
the album was tight. now i cant wait for ghost and dooms collab
~115K first week. the number now is ~154KQuote:
Originally Posted by nascarhick20
Beautiful Album, although it can't touch Supreme Clientele (althogh it sold more :) )
Is the 154K on hits double daily website??Quote:
Originally Posted by wadeDyNaMiTe
Back like That is finally on the Hot 100...at 76 on its first week
at this pace, it has a good chance of going platinum. i dont think ghost even hit gold with PT & BW.. dope.. whens the last time wu sold a mil ?
Plat was 6 years ago with The W. Kinda shocking, six full years. Ah well Wu is coming back. Fishscale going plat i'm not sure about that, Gold is mos def in the near future. But remember we still have Ob4cl2, thats going to be on a new killer level. As we have seen on R.A.G.U the chemistry is STILL there. And than i'm pretty sure Ob4cl2 is gonna go plat.
With a little hype and the huge reputation Cuban Linx has the sales will be of the charts andf the Wu will be back.
Co sign.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghostlaced
dont know how to delete my own post....
I wanted to know how most of you felt about getting quality for free. Did most of you purchase fishscale or ripped it? If you ripped it and enjoyed it, did you then buy it or what? Just curious.