Ghostface Killah — Fishscale (Expanded Edition)

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Тип релиза: альбом
Жанр: Hip-Hop/Rap
Дата релиза: 2006-01-01
Треков: 27
Лейбл: Def Jam Recordings

Fans might argue over how to rank his best albums, especially when you get to the top (Ironman or Supreme Clientele? How lucky we are to live in a world with both), but if you want to hear everything that makes Ghostface one of the best rappers to ever do it in one place, it’s 2006’s Fishscale. As a storyteller, nobody paints such full pictures in so few words (“Shakey Dog”), not to mention has the range to come back two tracks later with the kind of gym-ready raps-for-rap’s-sake that make you grateful the form was invented (“The Champ”). He can do pop (“Back Like That”), he can do posse cuts (“Be Easy”), he can do old-school soul-sampling drug rap (“Crack Spot”) and streams of consciousness that would make quote-unquote alternative rappers pale with envy (“Underwater”). And hey, if a big-time label like Def Jam is willing to listen, he can even sing—just don’t expect him to do it in tune (his verse on “Jellyfish”). Wu-Tang might’ve bridged the gap between what we think of as mainstream and what we think of as underground, but it was Ghostface who maintained it. By this point, Wu-Tang was dormant, and rap was shifting toward novelties like Dem Franchize Boyz and D4L on one hand (beautiful, exhilarating novelties) and the mixtape-driven experiments of Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane on the other. Not gangsta, but trap; not New York or LA, but Atlanta. An artist like Ghostface was on some level a throwback just for continuing to exist—not to mention one wading into the uncharted waters of being a rapper over the age of 35. Few rap albums of the time have aged better.

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