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Those outtakes and a few new tracks make up “More Fish,” a guest-appearance-heavy work that oozes the street appeal and stream of consciousness narrative style Ghost is known for. Despite the title, “More Fish” is itself a quality album, not just a recycling of unused tracks from Ghost’s latest album, “Fishscale,” released earlier this year...
...song “Outta Town Shit” is entirely about a dice game, and songs like “Guns N’ Razors” and “Grew Up Hard” emphasize the life of drug dealing and violence oft portrayed in rap. Ghost doesn’t just glorify this life though; in his song “Josephine” he tells the story of a woman whose life was ruined by drug abuse, a common theme throughout his work. Other, lighter material is featured in “Pokerface...
...list producers (MF Doom, Madlib) as well as lesser-knowns (Fantom of the Beats), provide most of the songs on “More Fish” with hearty, soulful beats. Samples of classic soul tracks have always been fertile backgrounds for Ghost, and this album shows no exceptions. One standout here is the use of Michael Jackson’s “Ain’t No Sunshine” on “Street Opera.” But that’s not to say the album has only one sound; other tracks like...
Like the dealer characters he often describes, Ghost always keeps you coming back for more. Ghostface is a great storyteller, which is what sets him apart from a most other rappers. Songs like “Miguel Sanchez” and “Alex (Stolen Script)” portray complicated situations so enthralling that they practically demand that you listen repeatedly until you understand everything. His depictions of the street life are vivid and even touching in the case of “Josephine.” Yet they still always seem real and raw: contrast...
...Ghost Map, Steven Johnson gives a ground-zero account of the outbreak that would take 50,000 lives before it was done. "Imagine the terror and panic," he writes, "if a biological attack killed 4,000 otherwise healthy New Yorkers over a 20-day period. Living amid cholera in 1854 was like living in a world where urban tragedies on that scale happened week after week...