His name is derived from the alias of the primary villain from the film Ninja Checkmate aka The Mystery of Chess Boxing. After Wu-Tang Clan achieved breakthrough commercial success in the early s, Ghostface, like his clan-mates, began a solo career, which turned out to be one of the most critically and commercially successful solo careers of the group members.
Early in his career he would wear a mask during performances and photoshoots. It was rumoured this was because Ghostface was wanted by the police and did not publicly remove it until his name was cleared. Comments Be Easy off of his last album, Fishscale, was a solid track and highly enjoyable. It will probably only reach the Wu and East Coast rapper fans. Well this dude is ghostface killa…. Please, this album is fucking shit. Shawn Wiggs [Edited]. Josephine feat.
Grew Up Hard feat. Solomon Childs [Edited]. Blue Armor feat. Sheek Louch [Edited]. GFK Clean. Alex Stolen Script [Edited].
Gotta Hold On feat. Eamon [Edited]. Back Like That Remix feat. January 1, 17 Songs, 58 Minutes. Less than nine months after Fishscale, Ghostface returns with another triumphant album.
By Todd Gilchrist Updated: 14 May pm. Even amongst my favorite artists and musicians, I've held a longstanding preference that no one release more than one album per calendar year - lest their creativity be diluted by commercial design. But with the release of More Fish , Ghostface Killah's second album in less than nine months, I find myself reconsidering this hardline policy; because in a year filled with generally lackluster efforts from some of the music business' most venerated talents, Ghostface not only maintains the same stellar quality, but almost surpasses it, setting a new standard not only for his hip-hop contemporaries, but the entire industry.
Much like "Holla," his bizarrely effective reworking of the Delfonics' "La-La Means I Love You" on The Pretty Toney Album , the rapper's penchant for reinventing classics continues unabated; while these new tracks borrow heavily from the original source material without changing much on "Holla," the Delfonics' lyrics are still audible beneath Ghostface's verse , it's a testament to his charisma and talent that he can steal so shamelessly and still make the end result so distinctively his own.
At the same time, the major difference between this album and its predecessor, Fishscale , is the almost ubiquitous presence of Ghost's Theodore Unit crew, which appears on almost every track. Thankfully, the various members can serviceably keep up with their Wu-Tang benefactor, but even when they don't, the music courtesy such underground luminaries as MF Doom, Madlib and Hi-Tek more than maintains a feverish, invigorating intensity: Doom's "Guns N' Razors," for example, uses a beat built from cartoon theme music old-school Marvel, appropriately while Ghostface, Trife Da God, Cappadonna and Killa Sin sound like a Russian army marching into Red Square.
Ultimately, Ghostface's second release might be publicly overshadowed by the glut of even higher-profile discs from reliable sellers like Jay-Z and Nas, but More Fish is no slice of clever counterprogramming; rather, it's the kind of hip-hop that is seldom made in the mainstream, most of all because it flirts shamelessly with the kind of subversive creativity that now seems commonplace only in underground circles. So even if the rapper takes a year or two to follow up this one-two punch with a suitable knockout, hip-hop fans can rest comfortable knowing they already got more than they bargained for; because More is good enough to make one want for a third or fourth or fifth… album from Ghostface, particularly since no matter how many times the rapper returns to his Fish well, the results always sound completely fresh.
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