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...betrayed his inner wag on his sex-crazed second solo album, 2007’s “Because of You,” unabashedly playing the field with no regard for female feelings. When Ghostface Killah needed fraternal solidarity on “Fishscale?? single “Back Like That,” Ne-Yo was there to help him admonish his unfaithful paramour (while what Ghost had done was undoubtedly whack, playing him was surely no way to get him back). Plus, long before Elton John ever donned his wacky glasses to shill for Hillary...
...blow the “Big Doe” out of the water. “The Big Doe Rehab” is a quality album, but it’s not one of Ghost’s best. Last year, Ghostface dropped both the phenomenal “Fishscale?? and the surprisingly passable follow-up “More Fish,” which consisted of material withheld from its predecessor. Yet his newest album doesn’t quite meet the high standards he set on his last works. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong...
...there is no question as to which of its former members has done the best for himself. ODB is dead. Method Man will forever live in sitcom infamy. The rest have decent solo careers, but only one, Ghostface Killah, has put out an album so vital (“Fishscale??) that its outtakes are essential listening...
Whether Ghostface is waxing nostalgic about how kids today have it easy or whether flirting at a bus stop goes awry, “Fishscale?? is a work of unabashed, unsentimental love, and a complex and fully formed work of art. Ghostface raps on “The Champ” that “this is architect music / I’m a verbal street opera.” Well said...
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