Plus there’s this exchange between Ghost as Ghost and Rae as…his watch: He kinda sorta revisited this concept on The Pretty Toney Album but it wasn’t quite the same. It’s not a long track but it shows Ghost’s level of creativity and penchant for thinking outside of the box. Oh and Rae is rapping as Ghost’s brand new watch, poking and prodding him. Ghost interrogating his status in the game at the time. Some, like Kim Osorio of The Source, heard the original album and showered it with nothing but love. Samples changed, features disappeared, and a couple of songs fans expected to hear based on leaks and official tracklists were nowhere to be found. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but I ndustry Rule #4080 reared its ugly head for the umpteenth time. The fact the album featured Raekwon spoke to the glory days of Only Built for Cuban Linx and possibly a portend of dope things to come.īut something funny happened between Ghost giving the album to his label and the label giving it to the fans. He put the shine back on the Wu emblem and made himself a bit of a star in the process. Coming off the roaring success of Supreme Clientele just one year earlier, anticipation was high for Dennis Coles’ third-at-bat. Now that you’ve come to after the shock of realizing just how old you are, it’s important to remember the context for Ghostface Killah’s third album.
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