Maybe Ghost did the right thing by leaving his boys to handle their business alone.ģ. Trife sounds as good as he usually does, but the surprise here is Ghost's son Sun God, who turns in his best performance to date. Second song on the album, and already Ghost is sitting out. MIGUEL SANCHEZ (FEAT TRIFE DA GOD & SUN GOD) That's always a good reason to release an album, Pretty Toney.Ģ. The reason this track falls apart is because of Ghost's incessant need to list all of his friend at the very end, right before he mentions he has bills to pay. & Rakim's "Juice (Know The Ledge)" with good results. I believe the rest of the Wu was outside on a union-sanctioned smoke break, as none of them bother to make an appearance: considering the heavy Wu involvement on Ghost's next opus, The Big Doe Rehab, that's just another reason I believe these songs were just sitting around Ghost's bedroom for years before he decided to clean up his apartment.Īfter a lengthy and unnecessary intro revolving around a New Year's Eve celebration leading into 2007, Ghostface Killah jumps onto the beat from Eric B. The disc is heavy on guest appearances and is produced mostly by unknowns, except for MF Doom, Hi-Tek, Madlib, and Mark Ronson (based on a technicality). When More Fish hit store shelves, I was surprised at how grade school the packaging and liner notes appeared, especially after the professional-quality shots that filled Fishscale's booklet. Early reviews by the press were positive, but, as you two may already be aware by now, Ghostface Killah is the most liked member of the Wu-Tang Clan when it comes to his music, and hardly ever garners a negative review, unless it comes from this very blog. It was titled More Fish, which led bloggers to immediately believe that it was a sequel to Fishscale, or, at least, maybe included some tracks which were dropped from the original disc due to time constraints or whatnot. While it didn't sell nearly as well as some of his past work, Fishscale was generally seen as a success.Įven with that information, it was still surprising when Def Jam president Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter greenlit a second Ghostface album to be released around Christmas 2006.
It featured heavy involvement from both his Wu-Tang brethren (they all even managed to appear on a single song together, although that was more of a feat of studio wizardry than an actual attempt at closeness) and his newly-formed Theodore Unit crew, with production duties handled by, among others, two guys on opposite ends of the hip hop spectrum: Pete Rock and MF Doom. In 2006, Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah released Fishscale, a critically praised album that earned the nine-man collective some of their best press in years.
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