Ghostface lists his favorite songs from his albums

[Cole Cash]

With ‘The Watch,’ Barry White didn’t want to clear the sample. He didn’t want me to use it. And it was like, ‘Damn, yo. I love you, B.’ And RZA, he couldn’t find the fukkin’ sample for ‘The Sun.’ Motherfukkers get high, and he didn’t know where he put it at, like, ‘Yo, I can’t find the sample.’ So I was assed out.

lmao..ive done this

 

[Darth Nubian]

Whoever got RZA high that day fukked up

It was the blunts dipped in honey.

 

[bk120]

 

[JasonSJackson]

crazy he said he dont like how pretty tony album turned out......

that joint is a classic to me

 

[mortuus est]

I was doing that Hip-Hop Squares shyt, and Fat Joe and Khaled were up there, and they were telling me how them nikkas had used my voice and the beat from ‘Mighty Healthy’ and how Kanye had put it on ‘New God Flow.’ They said the shyt was crazy, shyt was bangin’. So I’m like, ‘Word?’ And they’re like, ‘You gotta hear this shyt

So after a while, I heard the shyt, and you know, it was aiight. I didn’t really go crazy for it and stuff like that, though, probably because I heard the beat so many times. But they flipped it, though. Sometimes, when you hear a song the first time, you gotta hear it more and more before you be like, ‘Oh shyt.’ Especially on the radio.

“So I fukked around and just took the initiative to do it myself, ‘cause my voice was on it. So I took it and was like, ‘You know what? Let me just get some of that real quick.’ So I tackled that shyt, and did it.

“When it came out, I been did that, like two, three months ago. ‘Cause Kanye was busy doing whatever he was doing. I could’ve put it out myself, but something said, ‘Nah, just give it to him.’ Because more than likely, he’d make it like a remix, which he did. And it would be more powerful, instead of me just putting it out myself.

“So yeah, I did it myself, and just sent it to Kanye. And two or three months later, it was out, like, ‘Aiight, cool.’ And that was it, though. I never even spoke to him when I sent it or after it was released. But I appreciate it. He fukked around and made a movie out of it, and got it out there. It was cool.”

 

[J.Connor]

man it still pains me to hear about him not getting those samples cleared on bulletproof wallets. I remember bumpin the bootleg of that album for a few years but wanted to support the God MC and bought the retail. Even though it's only a few tracks, it's a different album IMO. Woulda been compared directly with Supreme Clientele. And don't forget the original version of The Forest. MY WALLOWS!! . Good Times was my shyt too.

 

[Swirv]

Bulletproof wallets is second best behind SC. He was on another planet with delivery, content & styles with those two albums. Those two albums are his best to me.

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

From reading this interview, it seems Ghost is a little too hard on himself when it comes to his albums. He said Fishscale was "decent" He also said Pretty Toney wasn't what he wanted it to be

 

[Piff Perkins]

Wait, is he saying he didn't get paid for the New God Flow verse?

 

[Taadow]

You b*stards know how we supposed to do Complex chits.

36 Chambers: "Method Man", "Can It Be (All So Simple)"
Cuban Linx: "Wisdom Body", "Spot Rusherz"
Ironman: "All That I Got Is You"
Wu-Tang Forever: "Impossible"
Supreme Clientele: "Mighty Healthy"
The W: "Jah World", "Let My N-ggas Live"
Bulletproof Wallets: "Love Session" (of the ones that made the album)
Pretty Toney: no favorite
Fishscale: "Shakey Dog"
Cuban Linx 2: "Gihad"
Ghostdini-Wizard Of Poetry: "Do Over"
Wu-Block: "Crack Spot Stories"
12 Reasons To Die: "I Declare War"

 

[Methodical]

Complex = Plagiarism

 

[JCalli]

“I still ain’t back. I ain’t never go nowhere, but I’m not back to where I’m comfortable and in there like that. A lot of these rappers that nikkas look up to, I’ll dart ‘em out. Early. And get the belt back overnight. When you’re not getting that play on radio, and you’re not around, they forget. Until they be like, ‘That was that nikka that brought the eagles out and the robes and the Wallabees and all that other shyt.’ Watch what happens in the next couple weeks. It’s on." - Tone Starks




Good read:

Ghostface Killah Names His Favorite Songs From His Essential Albums | Complex


Also:

The 50 Best Ghostface Killah Songs | Complex

That paragraph that he signed off with

That was a dam good article. I love his brutal honesty.

I liked how he described Ironman, saying it was dark but not lyrically where he wanted it and then I Am came out and it was all colorful, he was like oh well .....

.... then dropped Supreme Clientelle. That was his colorful shyt. I will forever be grateful for that album

His comments about the Wizardry album were interesting to me. I may have to give that a spin again.

This just made me anticipate Supreme Clientelle 2 more, if that was possible

 

[JCalli]

We went to Barbados to record that ****, then got kicked out, and went to record it in Miami. We got kicked out I guess ‘cause the British, well there was black people too, and I love white people, but they were too much under us. Whatever music we played, not even turned up, they’d go and call the people on us. They kept doing it every fukking time. And then, we had fatigues on. And we couldn’t wear them out there. ‘Take that **** off!’ We had to get the **** outta there. It was too much.

I'm British, my family is from Barbados

My peoples treating Ghost wrong tho

Worked out well in the end tho

 

[Piano Reevez]

Gihad is the truth glad he picked that out

Necro's production is up there with Alchemist, IMO. I don't know why more dudes hit him up for beats. Must be the

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

what he say about meth, i fukkin hate how complex lays out their interviews

“My favorite on 36 Chambers gotta be between ‘Method Man’ and ‘Can It Be All So Simple.’ ‘Method Man’ because at that time, he had so many fukkin’ styles, B. It’s old to us, but if you really sit there and hear the shyt that he was saying?

[Meth] got kinda mad. We didn’t really know at that time, but he was like, ‘Y’all the ones that stopped me from rhymin’ [like that].

“One day, me and Rae, you know, we’re fukkin’ around, and we took him out of his element. We just snapped on him, like, ‘Yo, what the fukk you doing with that Dr. Seuss rap shyt?’ He got kinda mad. We didn’t really know at that time, but he was like, ‘Y’all the ones that stopped me from rhymin’ like that. And I be telling him, ‘Go back to that shyt.’ That was the witty unpredictable shyt.