Supreme Clientele: lyrical masterpiece or....

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I think it's a classic rap album

I don't know if I'd say a lyrical masterpiece...it's just incredibly dope. A "lyrical masterpiece" is some shhit like...damn, what would an example of a Lyrical Masterpiece be? Food & Liquor, imo. SC is an abstract rap-art masterpiece, lol.
 

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Just copying it straight from Genius whoadie.

I should be able to get this thing done now though. Powering through.

One Ft TMF

We at the weed gate waiting for Jake
We want eight ravioli bags, two thirsty villains yelling bellyaches
Heavyweight rhyme writers, hitting the grass that's the ripest
Pull out this kite from this white bytch
Talking 'bout, "Dear Ghost, you the only nikka I know
Like when the cops come, you never hide your toast"
Guest starred in mad shyt, CBL, Ice Water metallic
Past tense placed in gold caskets
Dru Hill bytches, specialist lounging at the mosque
Suede kufi wrap, undercover dentist
Rhymes is made of garlic, never in the target when the NARCs hit
Rumor is you might start to spit
You nice, Lord, sweet daddy Grace, wind lifted on the dance floor
Makeover's free followed by gauze
Duncan Hines monument cakes, we never half-baked
Alaskan sesscapade, push your new court dates
Trauma, hands is like candy canes, lay my balls on ice
The branches in my weed be the vein
Swimsuit issue, darts sent truly from the heart, boo, I miss you
See daddy rock a wristful
Modern-day slave God, graveyard spells fog you goggles
Laying like needles in the hospital
Five steps to conquer, ask Bernadette, Baguette swizzle
Ziploc the air, hear thistle


> truthfully locs I'm recognizing the drug references, but that about it. It sounds like gibberish with drug talk sprinkled in :manny:

Ayo, crash through, break the glass, Tony with the goalie mask
That's the past, heavy ice Rollie laying on the dash
Love the grass, cauliflower hurting when I dumped the trash
Sour mash served in every glass up at the Wally Bash
Sunsplash, autograph blessing with your name slashed
Backdraft, four-pounders screaming with the pearly ash
Children fix the contrast as the sound clashes
Mrs. Dash, sprinkle with her icicle eyelash
Ask Cappa Pendergrass for backstage passes
Special guest, no more Johnny Blaze, Johnny Mathis
Acrobat, run up on that Love Jones actress
Distract the cat while I'm high, sugar, get a crack at this
dikking down Oprah, jump rope, David Dinkins
Watch the black mayor of DC hit the mocha

Tangerine sofa, two super soakers in the Rover
Hit the sports bar, tell a young lady to bend over
Meditated yoga, Paddle Ball, dancing with the vulture
Castor Troy laying for Travolta
Yo, switch the lingo, five-nine-seventy
God glow, seven fifteen four be ebony

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this verse Ghost was flowin his ass off, but again only catchin drug and gun talk... like I get the DC mayor talk but whats paddle ball dancin with the vulture? Ran through it 2x's but thats about all Ima get on a 1st thorough listen.n And I only seent Face Off once.

2nd verse opening, "Crash through, break the glass....that's the past" Masked up young Ghost performing smash-n-grab robberies. Next few bars is lacing weed, next some gun talk "four pounders screaming with the pearly ash". Children fix the contrast as the sound clashes...he's probably still referencing the past in the whole first half of the bars. It's doing wild ish while being high. That's some old school box TV adjustments that we had to do to get a clear picture.

The next few is about women, pullin them, him and the crew.

Supreme Clientele Ghost is an era where dusted up Ghost was knowing what he was referencing when he was writing it, but it was just so far left that he has no clue in his more sober days.
 

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It's a classic but not my favorite album from him, it's top 5 in his catalog but I don't know if I'd put it in the top 1-3 range.

I still think Ironman is his best album, Supreme Clientele just doesn't do much for me. Probably the one I least go back to when listening to his stuff.

Ironman has better vibes, production, song sequencing, and an overall theme. Supreme for the most part is just Ghost rapping a whole lot of incoherent nonsense over shiny-sounding beats, Ghost is at his best when he's actually rapping with a purpose. I still smirk a little when people (and even Ghost himself) claim this as his career defining record.

Now I know this album has a lot of significance due to being considered Wu's comeback album after a slew of subpar solo efforts after Forever, and in some ways the influencer of Jay Z's The Blueprint (in terms of sound) which has a lot to do with it's prestigious claim.
 

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Grew to be one of my favorite albums ever. A beautifully dense, off the rails, hyper descriptive, simile driven masterpiece.

One of the most fun albums I’ve ever listened to. If there was ever an example of true artistry in rap, “Supreme Clientele” was it. Unorthodox but perfect from front to back.
 

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Ghost Deini ft Superb


Yo, summer time, holdin' the nine, split the Vega in half
Jeeps rumble and my dogs puff grass
Bank stoppin', hide your rocks, hydraulic
The kid with the most knowledge will obtain and touch top dollars
Hold me down, hand me my cake
Dust and bake, activate
fukk your corny debates
I'm like cake, or maybe like ten thousand dollar rabbits
The kid walked through, switch up his accent, now I'm from Paris
Cash the bill, frozen elements in gold
Signs from the most high causes me to break the mold
How the fukk was y'all nikkas thinkin'?
You think I fell off the ledge?
The legendary Ghost Deini might be dead?
Never, impossible, pull out black burners like tonsils
Two Galants, hittin' if we got to
Bustin' at y'all nikkas daily, wall to wall, hawkin'
Suckin' your teeth 'cause God chain-talkin'
Like Ghostface this, Ghostface that, Ghost sold crack
Now his revelations spoken through rap
Velour-ed down like the Sheikh of Iran
Gasoline CREAM wrapped in hospital bands
Model vans, Michael Davis, it's me against housing
Extraordinary pro-black, sold God creations to control thousands
Catch me at the flicks, Apollo rap Frederick Douglass
You know what? Aiyo, fukk this!
Aiyo, how can I move the crowd?
First of all, ain't no mistakes allowed
Here's the instructions, put it together
It's simple, ain't it? Well, quite clever



>Nothing special, not bad either. I'm trying to find some stuff that says GOAT

Aiyo, I'm Gucci down, Wally boots, Jamaican hat, long 4-pound
Ask nikkas how I get down
Don't speak much, deluxe plush imaginations
Hold a note like Willie Hutch
You might've bumped into me on the Rikers bus
Weed in my cheeks, gem in my beauty sleep sleeve
Dead serious, knowledge by 2% triple geese
Come on, we juggle mics
Three Card Molly, amps advance to the final
Show these nikkas how the way we dance
Hot night, Jamaica
Came through in a booger green '68 Pacer
Mad paper, high as a fukk, truck
Two rappers got stuck that night, I ain't saying no names
They know who, thank you for the chains
Outdoor event, New Year's Eve, Cali weed
30 seconds 'til we tear and decease
Quick, call my seeds, dipped in the crowd
The ho spotted me, he knew not to call my name out
He walked off softly, we exactly
Formed like Christ and his disciples
Black fatigues, lethal-faced doonie, he held the rifle
We had the whole shyt shook
Your favorite rappers droppin' they drinks
On the low, tuckin' they links, we made eighty off the books

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lol at 'thank you for the chains' wonder who it was, also who was spillin drinks? Otherwise again nothing spectacular. Flow was good.

One of the illest since Magic Johnson, no disrespect
But metaphors'll keep me out the projects
Rap connects'll keep me correct

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prolly my favorite bar on the whole song although by 2000 Magic Johnson/sick/ill bars were played, but he followed it up nice

Aiyo, I wrote this on Donnie roof, after his funeral, on one knee
Thinkin' his killer's followin' me
So to my nikka Donnie, up there
Can you please tell God that we fukked up here?
You got beer, weed, guns, AIDS
All these obstacles, it's hard to make it nowadays
Why's the Devil winnin'? Some say it's our fault
If that's the answer, you know smokin' cause cancer
Let me drop a bracelet, leave a chain behind
My tape stay at the beginnin' 'cause that's how they rewind
Y'all know how we dine, we don't eat swine
And we don't drink wine
If you don't bring me some motherfukkin' cognac, I'll kill you!
I can't feel you, ain't in my senses, and you ain't in my dollars
I fukk with rottweilers, no leashes, no collars, brolic scholars
That's Ghost Deini!!

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next time Im at the bar Ima use that cognac line :mjgrin:

Overll another solid song
 
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