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Ghostface speaks on The King of NY, the war in Iraq and thugs on computers.

by Douglas Passion | 2005.03.28
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What can we say about Ghostface that we haven't said before? We fawningly review every album the Wu-Tang clansman chefs up. We quote his culinary-based linguistics while yanking ravioli bags out of the freezer at Pathmark. And we all wish we possessed the gusto to sport a massive golden eagle on our forearm. Without further elaboration, here's Tony.

You’re extremely popular on the Internet. You had a line about being “thugs on computers” – do you read what people are saying about you online?

“Thugs on…?” What song was that? Which album was that?

It was off Bulletproof Wallets.

Um-hmm.

Do you go online and read what people say about your stuff?

Oh, nah, nah, nah. You took it wrong and shit. That was just in the hook when I was like ‘thugs on the computer…some shit…something in Bermuda…we laptop niggas, thugs on the computer.’ We didn’t say nothing ‘bout no rhymes and shit. Just on the computer, you know, you laptop niggas – you still a smart nigga.

I’ve seen people go through and analyze each lyrics on ‘Nutmeg’ and songs you’ve described as ‘Rubik’s Cubes’. Not of lot of Hip-Hop inspires interpretation.

Those are just styles right there. I could make a song that don’t mean nothing from nothing – just a bunch of words that don’t mean shit but it’s just how you just flip it and bounce it over beats and shit. And that’s it. Ghost just threw it out. I don’t give a fuck. Fuck it. As long as I know what I talking about – or even if it didn’t make sense to me – it’s like fuck it, I was the first one to do it. Like I just rhymed over the Delphonics for the ‘Holla’ track with the vocals on it. I did that because I always wanted to do that track but I didn’t have the chance to get the instrumental – so I wrote it over they vocals. I felt comfortable singing it over vocals anyway. Nobody do shit like that – they get fucked up by the niggas’ vocals like ‘nah, I can’t rhyme ‘cause they singing’.

Do you think people put creativity in Hip-Hop secondary to selling records these days?

Oh, yeah. At the same time, it’s a whole new generation of gods out here. They don’t really know about the artistic shit and all the other shit. They don’t know which way to go about it. They just get the beat and lay the vocals down – they don’t know how to paint the walls and decorate the apartment.

Are there any new cats outside of Theodore that you’re feeling these days?

Not too many. It’s like, my Theodore niggas got that street shit, but it’s just a balance. You always gotta keep a balance – everything can’t just be good, you gotta have some stuff that’s negative too. Someone’s a humble person, but when it’s time for war, where your warriors at? I keep some of that shit in me too. Since Cuban Linx, I been street. I been talking that gangster shit, that street shit, that other shit. But I like to keep it moving. A real master is one that leaves his footprints there but keeps moving. Don’t gotta stand there and get stuck in it. That’s how I am about rap music. I like to keep it moving. What goes around comes around. I’m trying to elevate in every album I do – I’m trying to step my game up.

You added multiple syllables, you started fucking around with the hooks more, doing more stuff to go along with the music.

Exactly. I love R. Kelly, I love Missy -- even 50 Cent was good with his hooks. I learn from people – I watch different techniques like ‘okay, damn, I’m missing choruses, I’m missing my little hooks.’ So that’s what I gotta do to step my shit up. All right, ‘boom’, so I’ll do the hook. R. Kelly likes to sing about certain shit that make you see the shit and feel it and shit. Bitches love him. I guess that’s through him painting his picture. So that’s where I be painting my pictures and shit, where I be writing my little shit. So it’s like ‘boom’. Missy’s creative, so you know, I’m an old school nigga but I’m still learning.

Tell me about the ‘crying flow’. That’s one of your more distinctive styles -- how did it come about?

See, niggas gave it the name ‘crying flow’. That’s my old soul flow right there. I always had that in me but I just never put the shit on record until I did ‘Impossible’ where I was like ‘call the ambulance, Annie been shot’. I just started picking it up and putting it in there. And then I did ‘I Can’t Go to Sleep’ and even a little bit of ‘Holla’.

People enjoy that you put so much emotion into it.

I like to be creative, I think to keep Hip-Hop at its essence. It evolves though, but it’s going come back around. If not, I’m always going to be here to rep it.

How do you feel about the whole ‘King of New York’ debate? Is that important to you?

It’s not important to me at all. I don’t give a fuck who’s the king of New York. God is the king of everything. Nobody can rate me but God. It’s whatever. It’s all a blessing, it’s all that…but I want to be the best at what I can do. You can’t say that Marvin Gaye was better than Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder. They all was great guys and they all had different flows and all that shit. You can’t never say who’s really best. It’s the same thing with the guys that’s out there emceeing.

You’ve had a lot of 5-percent rhetoric in your rhymes – what is your religious status?

Ain’t nothing. I deal with Islam. Islam is peace, that’s one who submits. That’s like the first religion ever that was placed upon us – we was born into Islam, everyone of us, either you white, black to purple. Since you were in your mother’s womb, in her stomach, you was submitting without you even knowing. As time goes on, man comes with a lot of different other shit in the game. That’s why we fucked up right now – we’re not in our original state. I like to take it back to it’s original foundation and since Islam is the biggest religion out of all – because it was the first – you got Russian niggas that was Muslim, Chinese Muslims, Indians. They say Buddha was Muslim and went over to India and started teaching Buddhism. And all that shit is older that Christianity. We are really all Muslims.

As a Muslim and someone who said ‘Mr. Bush, sit down, let me handle the war’, what’s your opinion on the things going on in the Middle East?

As Americans, what’s going on over there is really none of our business. Us, being in the USA, we like the biggest selfish motherfuckers in all reality – [from] Hiroshima to all other small countries that we ran in and took over and invaded and did all that shit. You gotta remember the media is only going to show you what they want to show you. We stuff behind the TV and we feed off of everything they show us and that’s where we get our information from. If there wasn’t no TV we wouldn’t have no information on what the fuck was going on. So we’re being fed this – it’s the same thing like school. When they ran in there they set the oil tanks up to go ahead and start sucking all the oil from out of there – but I thought you were going in there to find weapons of mass destruction? They did the best heist in history, but they televised it. People didn’t catch it as being a heist because they don’t really know what the fuck time it is. They just thought ‘oh, they going good, they shooting Saddam’s people, they killing over there.’ Nah. And who the fuck to say Saddam had something to do with 9-11? I thought the focus was on bin Laden – that’s if he did it. I’m not even sure he even did it. That’s what you just tell us. As far I was concerned, I thought y’all niggas did business with bin Laden and he dropped the bomb on Russia over there for the United States. Bush’s father did business with bin Laden – you could’ve fronted on his money! You never know. At the same time, 5,000 Jews ain’t go to work. How the fuck 5,000 Jews ain’t go to work on that day? But yet, America stick up for the Jews – they got me thinking like, damn, hold on, maybe we the ones that did that shit just to put the New World Order into order.

You’re obviously a politically savvy cat – why doesn’t more of this stuff find its way into your current music?

I speak about it, maybe not on the album right there. It’s certain things, man, it’s like certain shit, unless we all ready to pop off, that you leave alone. You don’t even talk about the shit unless you want CIA niggas at your fucking door like ‘you giving too much information up.’ That don’t stop the kid though, but my mind’s on other shit right now and shit.

In general, that seems to be the case with most rappers.

We not as strong as we used to be back in the days. We don’t even stick together. Nobody don’t give a fuck about nothing and don’t care about nothing. And if they do, they be the first to be like ‘oh, what can we do? We can’t do nothing about it’. In all reality, we could do something about it but we always take the easy way out. Back in the days you had Black Panthers and Malcolm X – niggas was strong. Niggas would fuck around and march with you. These motherfuckers don’t want to go to jail and they don’t want to get killed. We gotta start learning how to stand for something because we’ll fall for everything. You can shoot [Amadou] Diallo 41 times and nothing happens -- you can stick a plunger up [Abner] Louima’s ass and rupture his spleen and we don’t do nothing. It’s like, yo, man, we’re not as strong as we used to be. The world is getting worse.

From your style -- the medallions, the breakbeat, the furry Kangols – it seems like the ‘80s were a period you cherished.

It was a good era. I’d like to bring those days back, in a sense. You can never bring it back, but I feel like that’s when Hip-Hop was at its best. Guns wasn’t that heavy and crack had just hit the scene a couple years before that. It was a lot better -- you walked outside and it felt better than you feel nowadays, especially being up in New York. That’s was just a phase that we had went through. We gotta at least be alert about were he headed. We headed for some real self-destruction shit, just like how KRS and ‘em were saying back in the days.

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With four solo albums to his credit, Ghostface Killah has not only the largest discography of Staten Island’s Wu-Tang Clan, but the strongest. Ten years since his work with Raekwon on the landmark Only Built For Cuban Linx… and approaching the decade mark on his solo debut Ironman, Ghostface is preparing to release the album Fish Scale (named after the purest type of cocaine) this winter. Our interview with Ghost can be seen in F33, and you can read the complete transcript from the interview by clicking below.

When did you first meet Raekwon?
We went to the same school, but he was from a different project. Throughout the years we always used to see each other, say peace, whatever whatever, until we really got on this Wu-Tang shit in like ’92. We’d been seeing each other for years, because my project [Stapleton] is five minutes away from his project [Park Hill].

Did you know he was rapping back then?
Yeah, he was rhyming. He was making tapes back then on his side of the projects and I was making mine on my side of the projects.

Was the rivalry between Park Hill and Stapleton?
Hell yeah. We used to go to war.

But when Wu-Tang got together it got squashed?
It was squashed before that, because brothers was always cool. The ones in Wu-Tang wasn’t really warring with each other like that.

What are the different reputations of the two projects?
We like to fight. They was more dressy. They came with fashion way before we was coming with the fashion. And I like the fashion. I picked up a lot of ill shit from the niggas from up there.

When did you get into the Five Percent Nation? Was that always around the neighborhood?
You always had a few brothers that was speaking on Islam, like my brother’s uncle. It wasn’t big in my neighborhood, but with certain brothers it was big. I respected it, because Islam is my home. I found my home when Islam came to me. I’ve been living with it ever since.

What other MCs from Staten Island came before you?
The Force MDs was laying it down on Staten Island. The UMCs. You had the Biff Brothers and Scotty Watty. You had a couple more MCs that was getting busy on the old school tip.

Was Staten Island known more for party joints?
Back then when the Force was doing it, they was harmonizing and rhyming. They was tearing it down. They done burnt the Cold Crush and all of that. They got tapes on that right there.

In XXL’s article about the making of Only Built For Cuban Linx… you said, “This was ’95, when hip-hop was still hip-hop.” What did you mean by that?
That’s when it was just real. It was fresh. It’s all dogged out now, hip-hop is like a bitch that’s been fucked. It’s been stomped out, you know what I mean? Right now the game needs to get itself cleaned up. When we did it back then, it was just fresh. You had us. You had Mobb Deep. You had Nas. It was a feeling in hip-hop. Now it’s too stale for me. It’s like a nigga talking to a girl and the girl is saying, “All these niggas is all the same, with the same shit.” Ain’t nothing refreshing coming at her. And that’s what it is right now. Ain’t nothing really hitting me. And it’s not just me, other people say it. That’s why niggas listen to old shit, classic shit. Ain’t no classic shit coming out right now. You can’t call niggas’ shits classics.

On both the unreleased Bulletproof Wallets-era song “The Watch” and “Beat The Clock” from Pretty Toney there seems to be this concept of you battling time, what’s the science behind that?
It’s just me arguing with the watch really. Sometimes I say stuff that people may see things more than what I’m seeing. I just say what God sends me even if I don’t know what I’m talking about or I can’t break down the revelation of it. I just take what I receive and put it out there to the people.

Can you explain where the abstract wordplay style you used on Supreme Clientele and [Wu-Tang album] The W came from?
I played with that and people couldn’t understand it. Some people downgraded it. Some people said, I don’t know what you’re saying, but it sounds fly. It’s just a different style though. I left that and carried on.

What styles are you using now?
Right now I’m more in the story mode. I’m getting back to finding me again. I’m still trying to experiment, like I did on “Holla” [from Pretty Toney]. I’m just trying to take it there. I’m just playing with music, good music.

What was your approach for this new album?
I went back to the guns and drugs on this one right here. People respect that right now in these days and times. If you try to slow down and not do much, they think you might be getting a little soft on them. Or they might not respect your tape. I’m the king of what a lot of people talk about right now. I just went back to that. I might let it ride for another 24 months and then see where it’s at.

Do you think people recognize you pioneered the style of a lot of current hip-hop?
People don’t recognize that until you’re dead.

Is every day as crazy as today for you?
It’s hectic. It’s cool. I give all praises due to the most high. I try to be more relaxed. I take life one day at a time. I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life. And that’s it. My day isn’t like, “Oh shit, this nigga had a hellafied day.” It’s not like that. I’m a human, man. I got to take a shit just like you’ve got to take a shit. I’ve got to piss just like you’ve got to piss. And that’s that, G.


10/13/2005


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"hip-hop is like a bitch that’s been fucked" lol, geile aussage von ghost

"Right now I’m more in the story mode. I’m getting back to finding me again. I’m still trying to experiment, like I did on “Holla” [from Pretty Toney]. I’m just trying to take it there. I’m just playing with music, good music."
diese "experimente" werden wohl bei vielen nicht so gut ankommen...schade dass er seinen style aus der supreme clientele zeit abgelegt hat..

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	Ghostface - The Fish Scale Project Interview by: Michael Ivey DJ Chela InterviewGhostface aka Tony Starks is borderline legendary. He’s a major reason why Raekwon’s ‘95 debut “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx” is generally considered an all time classic. And his own sophomore album “Supreme Clientele” is widely held as a new millennium masterpiece-not to mention the dozens of Wu-Tang joints he’s blessed. An illustrious career not withstanding, hip hop, the industry especially, is about here and now. Ghostface’s last two LP’s (“BulletProof Wallets” and “Pretty Tony”) haven’t sold well, though maintaining quality sounds. An emcee introduced to us at the beginning of a golden era twelve years ago, Tony Starks is fighting to keep his voice relevant to products of the bling era. Judging from his contributions to protégé Trife Da God’s recent debut, “Put It On the Line”, he’s still a problem. NobodySmiling rep Mike Ivey Jr. caught up with Theodore Unit’s cagey vet after a show in DC, to talk about his second Def Jam release, albums he’s pumping, and the future of the Unit. NOBODYSMILING.COM : How has the Presidential change at Def Jam, you know Hov coming in, effected your situation there? Ghostface Quote GHOSTFACE : That’s my nigga. Hov is my nigga man. You know what I mean, he’s a good nigga-good dude. We see eye to eye. He was a artist, I’m a artist man. It’s easy to talk with em, ya-na-mean, and resolve shit. NOBODYSMILING.COM : Tell me about the Fish Scale Project- who’s on it, when’s it coming out? GHOSTFACE : Fish Scale is coming out February, ‘posed to been December, they pushed it back. I got Raekwon on it, on mad joints. My man Cappadonna- I got Trife Da God, Theodore Unit. Ya-na-mean the whole Clan on a song. And me just doing what I do best and shit. NOBODYSMILING.COM : Speaking of the unit, are you shopping around to get a major label deal for the whole crew, or when is that gonna happen? GHOSTFACE : Yeah we definitely gon receive a major deal. That’s after all my shit is wiped out. This Fish Scale shit and then it’s a whole new beginning. Theodore Unit is just gon take all this shit. NOBODYSMILING.COM : How do you personally measure success in this craft/business? Ghostface with Mike Ivey GHOSTFACE : It’s like yo man, I’mma regular nigga man. I try to work hard, put the work in and shit ya-na-mean. Nigga ain’t no rich nigga or none of that bullshit ya-na-mean. I’m just like the people man ya-na-mean, but I just make good music and shit. So I’m just striving like everybody else, but I’m staying focused though. NOBODYSMILING.COM : And finally man, who’s your favorite artist in music? GHOSTFACE : Ummm… right now in music my favorite artists is niggas like Blue Magic and The Stylistics and them niggas right now. And New Birth… that I got inside my cd and shit, my case and shit. Ya-na-mean that’s some of the shit I’m listening to. I’m listening to old school shit. NOBODYSMILING.COM : Still a fan as an artist huh? GHOSTFACE : Of course, of course yeah.

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	Ghostface - The Fish Scale Project NOBODYSMILING.COM : Tell me about the Fish Scale Project- who’s on it, when’s it coming out? GHOSTFACE : Fish Scale is coming out February, ‘posed to been December, they pushed it back. I got Raekwon on it, on mad joints. My man Cappadonna- I got Trife Da God, Theodore Unit. Ya-na-mean the whole Clan on a song. And me just doing what I do best and shit.

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Radio 1 Interview

Hier ein interview bei Radio 1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio1_ao...o1/westwood_fri

hier ne kurze zusammenfassung:

	He talks about how Wu-Tang inspired lots of artists, about The Pretty Toney album gettin caught up in the Defjam take over move therefore not gettin pushed as much as it shoud have, Talks about being on the road with the wu & Dirty gettin jealous of Meth's popularity and always trying to be more outrageous to outshine him etc. (but not in a disrespectful way) They played "Back like that" and ghost says its a joint Ne-Yo helped him out with because "Be Easy" wasn't causing enough buzz and that it he needed to be in a good position before the album drops. He said its due to drop feb 28th, as long as the timings right and people are talking about the album etc... (he says something along those lines) Then they play about 20 secs of Kilos until the equipment fucks up, ....and thats about it! They very nearly played a snippet of a new song, but for some reason they decided to play kilos instead.... nevermind. Peace

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Ghost hat dem Radiosender Shade 45 ein Interview gegeben...
http://rapidshare.de/files/11017279/Ghos..._Nabs_.rar.html

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	Zitat von Travis Bickle
	Ghost hat dem Radiosender Shade 45 ein Interview gegeben... http://rapidshare.de/files/11017279/Ghos..._Nabs_.rar.html

hier eine kurze zusammenfassung des interviews:

	-Fishscale dropping feb. 28 -RZA will have vocals on fishscale but no beats -Ghostface/Doom project is still on(i heard some stupid rumor that it got scrapped but thats not the case) -Ghostface will be heavily featured on Rae's cuban linx 2 and Rae is on 4 fishscale tracks -ghost will be touring for the next 3 months or so. -Ghost said that there will most definetly be another clan album they just need to work out thier schedules. theyve had talks about it but one of the whole points of the Wu tour is to get all the members together to iron shit out and set up another album.

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Village Voice Ghostface Interview

Village Voice Ghostface Interview


I'm on the top floor of a riverside Jersey City apartment complex, and Ghostface is here to shoot the video for "Back Like That," the first single from his feverishly anticipated new album Fish Scale. On the building's rooftop deck, Ghost and the young R&B singer Ne-Yo jump on top of a concrete flowerpot riser and strike poses against the surreally bright Manhattan skyline, Ghost flaunting a purple fur coat and about fifty pounds of gold medallions. A short while later, he's in the apartment's penthouse, surrounded by members of his Theodore Unit crew and acting out the video's dramatic scenes while the building's tenants wander around dazed and technicians set up smoke machines and enormous lighting rigs. I'm here to interview Ghost for an article I'm writing for the Voice print edition about the upcoming Wu-Tang reunion tour, and I'm here for four hours before Ghost grabs me for a quick ten-minute interview. I don't get a chance to ask him about Fish Scale's cavalcade of backpack-rap producers or the changes at Def Jam or the red velvet smoking jacket and rhinestone-lined jeans he's wearing, but I do get to ask him about Wu-Tang, and here's the uncut transcript.

I wanted to ask you about the Wu-Tang tour. It's been a long time.

It's been a very long time. We had a tragedy, a death in the family. We here, though.

I've been talking to different members of the group, and it seems like there's still, I guess, some tension between certain members. Some members don't feel like they ever got their due. How is it going to feel seeing everyone face-to-face?

For nights like that, you have to put that to the side, do your show, get your money. Niggas need paper, and that's how you gonna get by. You can't fuck around and act like you owe me this, and you gonna lose both ways because you ain't doing the show. That's what I feel. Put all that shit to the side for these little dates here, get what you gotta get, and then get the fuck out. And then however you feel after that is how you feel.

Do you see this tour opening up a door to more collaborative stuff?

It depends. Because it's a test. It might be a test where niggas fuck around and say, 'Nah, I'm not fucking with that nigga.' Or it might be a test where it's like, 'You know what? I'm only fucking with niggas for paper, and if there's paper involved, we could get the paper.' Or it could be like, 'Damn, it's love, y'all. I miss you, son.' It could be any of those three, but I can't tell you what till the end of the tour.

I don't know anyone who's still friends with the same nine guys as they were fifteen years ago.

You're right. Things do happen, and for us, it fucked us up big time.

When Wu-Tang first came up, for a lot of suburban fans like myself, a large part of the fan base, it was the first experience with a large rap crew with its own mythology and its own imagery. It seems like that's been something that's become more and more dominant lately with Dipset and G-Unit, stuff like that. Do you feel like Wu-Tang provided a blueprint for that?

No doubt, we did set the blueprint on how to be strong, how to come in and stick together as a family. No doubt, one of the first that came in with the family. It's somewhat still a family, but we got a lot of miscommunication. This one's thinking this way and this one's thinking this way, and that's what brings confusion and at the same time a lack of understanding. That's what's circulating right now.

And when Wu-Tang first came up, it was this moment where something as weird as that could become popular. Wu-Tang was strange; it made you work to understand everything you were saying, and that continued for years. I still don't understand a lot of the stuff you were saying on Supreme Clientele.

On Preme, I just fucked around and was trying a new style. Some people took it serious, some people respected it as something else. I just said I'm going to come with a group of words or make a joint that don't mean nothing from nothing, but that's what I felt like doing at that time. When I created "Nutmeg," I went in, and when I did "One," I went in like that. Just focusing on sounding a little bit fly. Rap is universal, man. You can take it wherever you want to take it. I wanted to take it on some shit, like, let me sit down and play with niggas. On some of that whatever shit. It was new. It was new to me too. A bunch of words, shit that nobody has ever said before; you don't even have to understand it. It confused a lot of motherfuckers. Some motherfuckers like it. But it's all good at the end of the day; it's still dope.

These days, it seems like music is less willing to be confusing and rap is more willing to spoon-feed. It makes me wonder if something like Wu-Tang came out now, if it would have the opportunity to blow.

I don't know. We would all have to be in sync with each other. I know that niggas still do it. But at the same time, you've got to be more or less in the streets to see what's going on. Young niggas coming up, they know all that. You gotta be in touch with niggas that are out there. My Theodore niggas, they out there when I don't really have a chance to be out there. So they bring whatever's in the streets back to me, and that's how I stay alive. I'm not on the block selling that crack. I'm trying to beat the odds. I don't want to fuck around and go to jail just because a nigga done pissed me off and now I gotta fuck around and do some shit. And now, yo, he did it because Tone ain't no sucker, but now I gotta sit there for twenty years or twenty-five years, but who gonna take care of my motherfucking family? Just because this nigga trying to play me. What am I gonna do, let my baby suffer or turn the other cheek? I gotta think like a grown man in this type of situation. Sometimes you gotta go inside and go do your fucking thing. That's just what I had to do.

Now having both Wu-Tang and Theodore Unit, not too many rappers have two separate crews. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of overlap. Is that ever a source of tension or division?

No. My breed is my breed, your breed is your breed. That's just what it is. I love my niggas, my niggas love me. They come through. If I was holding heavy, all my niggas would be taken care of, and they would be good.

Right now, you're probably the most successful or at least the most visible member of Wu-Tang.

I wouldn't say the most successful. I don't know what I would say. Because to me, I'm still in the group, and I feel the same way about my brothers, even though it's a lot of other shit going on. At the end of the day, son, I still love you regardless to whatever-whatever. Like I told you, I like to be around niggas that's in the street, that keep me there, so when I'm working, I can get these joints done and get them out there and know what's going on. They enhance my game, and I continue to shoot that ball.

The tour is going to smaller venues than you'd think it would be able to. It's playing venues that you've done yourself in the very recent past. Why do you think that is?

Because hip-hop is not the same as how it was back a few years ago. The industry is down, sales in hip-hop is down something like 70%. So if the game is down 70% and you've been missing for like six years or seven, eight years, what you think is going to happen? You've got a whole new generation of rap. All the older motherfuckers our age is doing a lot of other shit; they don't have time to check that shit out like they had time to check back in the days when they didn't have no job or times were a little bit easy. 9/11 came in and fucked a lot of shit up. Niggas don't got money like they used to have. We're not in these kids' faces like that. 106 & Park and TRL is based on different types of crowds. 106 & Park is a younger crowd. They don't know about Wu like that; they wasn't into that. They know about what's going on now, the Nellys and whatever's popular.

You've got a lot of Wu-Tang guys on Fish Scale, and you didn't do that on the last album. Is there any reason why you decided to do that again?

No real reason. I been moving. And plus, at the same time, you don't always gotta do that. I been making joints with them for years. So sometimes it's like, just do what you wanna do.

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Oh shit, bonus material! Here's what happens when Trife Da God, Tommy Whispers, and Irv Diesel from Theodore Unit get bored and hijack my tape recorder for an impromptu interview.

How long have you all known Ghost for?

TW: About like fifteen, ten years. We grew up with him. He's like a big brother to us.

TDG: Because we all from Stapleton projects, Staten Island. Everybody from Staten Island know Ghost. At the same time, we from Stapleton and he from Stapleton, so the love is always going to be there.

ID: We always been in his circle, so he knows us, we know him. And when he get on, he's gonna come back and get us. That's what he's doing right now. He kept his word.

The first chance you had to get on, Trife, was Pretty Toney, right?

TDG: Nah, even before that, motherfucking Bulletproof Wallets. That was around like 2001. Bulletproof Wallets, I was on like three joints: "Pop Ya Collar," the second to the last song, and "Theodore." So I've been doing this shit. I always had it in my heart, but ever since then, 2001, boom boom, I don't paid my dues truthfully. I been paying my dues ever since 2001. It's 2006 right now, that's five years in the making. During those times, I was putting my work through. My nigga Tommy Whispers, My nigga Irv Dies, we always putting that work in together. Constant elevation.

ID: Yo, we was stealing papers together! That's how real it was! Before all this rap shit started!

TDG: What he mean, like niggas was stealing papers, it was like the newspapers.

ID: The newspaper dropped the bundles, and we'd steal them, and we'd sell them door to door. That's how we got our money.

TDG: 25 apiece. Every Sunday, we'd steal the papers and just get our money.

ID: But I ain't gonna lie, I was one of the scaredest niggas. I was always running before the paper got dropped. But it's real, though.

TW: Ghost seen the hunger in us, and he gonna make it happen. We hustle all day.

TDG: We hustlers all day. Got the Put It on the Line jump-off in stores right now. My nigga Tommy Whispers, Irv Dies, Ill Will sick with the pill, my nigga Crime Life, we just in the building right now supporting my nigga on the video shoot "Back Like That" featuring Ne-Yo. You got mega-entities popping off right now.

ID: And you know how everyone's talking about they got real niggas that's coming out? These are the the real niggas right here, my nigga Tommy Whispers and my nigga Trife Diesel. This is the real shit. I'm on my man's bandwagon right now because I don't rhyme.

TW: You could ask us anything! Ask me my shoe size, whatever.

OK. Since Ghost has Theodore Unit and he's also part of Wu-Tang, has there ever been any tension or conflict there?

TW: Not at all. He's his own man. He does what he has to do. He's always Wu-Tang, always, but at the end of the day, he has to do his thing with his family. You got your cousins, you got your brothers.

TDG: Everybody's doing their own thing, but everybody had their family to bring through. Wu-Tang is the greatest rap group of all time. Everything that happened, it's still going on right now.

TW: It's like New Edition. New Edition had Bel Biv DeVoe, they had Ralph Tresvant, they had Bobby Brown. New Edition is always New Edition, but it's like that.

ID: Just remember, all nine members ate. Plain and simple, they always had a nice plate.

TW: Some people take they plate and put it in they own fridge.

But there's also been some splintering; certain members don't feel like they got their due. Right now, you'd have to say he's the most successful member of the group.

TDG: You could say that. But at the same time, everybody had they own chance to do whatever they had to do. It's consistency and it's whoever wants it more. Me and this nigga's in a group.

TW: Yeah, TMF. Me, him, and my brother Crime Life, we TMF.

TDG: It's like whoever wants it more is going to get it. We could do this all night. We could have freestyles, doing videos, going to the club, boom boom, shouting everybody out, DVDs. Whoever wants it more is going to get it. So you can't be acting like you just be popping up like yo, 'Boom boom boom boom.' Me and you might've been taking care of all the work, and you got so-and-so popping up like, 'Yo, boom boom, I'm here now' and boom boom, trying to get paid. Like, 'No, we put this together for you, and we had you in mind.' We just gotta work. I'm ready to go to Brooklyn, man. Shout out to Brooklyn!

ID: We shooting up with Johnny Walker Red and all that! The Black Neighbor and all that!

TW: What's the name of your magazine?

Village Voice.

TW: Shout out to Village Voice! Keeping it official!

TDG: Ay yo, this Trife Da God! Village Voice! Top choice! Keeping it moist!

TW: Fresh from the bakery!

TDG: Word up, Staten Island is in the building!

TW: And this is for my man Tom, and my name is Tommy Whispers, so we keeping it straight Tom right now.

ID: Big shout out to my brothers on lockdown. Bump, C Bruise, Polly Don, CLR, Super!

TDG: Keep that right there. Any more questions, Village Voice boom boom top choice?

What's touring with Ghost been like?

TDG: Touring with Ghost has been lovely. I done seen mad shit that most rappers don't even see. I've been to Idaho, Kansas, Milwaukee. I've been across the whole map. I never been to Alaska, but I know they got hip-hop out there, I know they listening to Trife Dies.

ID: And it's ya boy Irv Diesel, and I still carry bags, nigga, when I got out on the road, so it's real!

TDG: In Alaska, they got, what, six months of daylight, six months of darkness. I want to do that shit! Go out there in six months of darkness! That's like being in the bing! Six months of darkness is like being in the bing. Village Voice, top choice, keeping the crowd moist, man.

ID: Big shout-out to my nigga Sun Ra. It's real!

Is Cappadonna part of Theodore Unit?

TW: Of course, Cappa is the illest.

ID: Shows, freestyle in the hood, Cappa is the illest. Cappa will do a show for you by himself.

TW: He'd DJ it out, dance it out and all that. He's animated, man.

ID: He already won an award already, straight up and down.

How did he become part of this group?

TW: He was already Wu-Tang, but he was Ghost's man. If you see Ironman, you see Ghost, Raekwon, and Cappa holding the Wallies on the front cover. He knew what was real, and he ran with the real.

ID: When you feel the rage, you got to go that way, fuck it. He's a live nigga. Cappa do it by his self. J Bird, we love you nigga, it's real.

I think that's all the questions I got.

TW: Put It on the Line album is in stores now!

TDG: 30,000 units have sold already right now! Put It on the Line!

ID: And I still live in the projects, nigga! That's how real it is!

TDG: It's war in the East right now.

TW: Yo Tom, keep doing your thing, man, and showing support!

TDG: Tom with the megabomb!

ID: Shout out to Stapleton, Port Richmond, the harbor! Cottonville, I don't give a fuck, West Brighton!

TDG: Village Voice, wack music or rap music, it's your choice! And we out!

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Das Vibe-Magazin hat ein Interview mit Ghost am Start:

	Ghostface - Back Like That By: Elle Castro February 3, 2006 In the realm of hip hop, there are a number of rappers that come and go, but there are also those select few that maintain longevity in the game. Wu Tang Clan‘s member with the most monikers, Ghostface Killah - aka Toney Starks, aka Pretty Toney -, is one such lyricist that gets better with age. With ten plus years under his belt, Ghostface is back at it again prepping for the release of his forthcoming album, Fish Scale, which is slated to drop on March 14th. This will be an addition to his array of classics including Ironman (1996), Supreme Clientele (2000), Bulletproof Wallets (2001) and his most recent release, The Pretty Toney LP (2004). Besides putting out four solo projects, Ghost has also had his fair share of input on other Wu Tang related albums, including Raekwon’s classic Only Built For Cuban Linx. However, this time around Ghost is doing things a little different. He’s reclaiming his unique style, letting others know how it should be done. With the hard work and dedication put into this effort, Ghost is anticipating to step back on the scene heavy, just as he did with his sophomore album that included his most successful song released–“Chercez La Ghost.” Currently in the midst of the Wu Tang Clan reunion tour, a promotional Fish Scale tour and various other video shoots, Starky Love One made time to chop it up with VIBE.com. In this exclusive chat, the busy rapper gives a mock-up of rap lesson 101, explains why he’s meant to be back on top, discusses why fellow Wu Tang leader, RZA, isn’t on the album, and unveils his personal “Ghostface Doll” collectible figurine. Vibe.com: So what are your thoughts on Fish Scale? Ghostface: Fish Scale, you know I’m just an old school head and I love real music. Right now the game is in somebody else’s pocket, and I just want to let the kids know who aren’t really up on their history where real music came from. I wanna give them a taste of what the streets was like when I was coming up and what was being played, and what type of dude I am. Right now it’s kind of crazy and the kids don’t know but it’s not their fault, ‘cause if you don’t know your history you don’t know where you’re going. So that’s why the game is crazy right now. Fish Scale is an interesting title. What’s the significance behind it? Print Email Comment Ghostface: It represents dopeness. I call it that because the block knows what time it is. My era of kids and where I came from, you know, the real cats out there understand it. Fish Scale is like that cocaine that if you put it on the streets it’s the purest and realest form that could touch the ground in any projects anywhere. I called my album a package, ‘cause what I’m about to give y’all is the dopest sh*t out of all these nigg*s shi*t. I just came up with Fish Scale and that’s what it was. There’s a rumor that you have an album coming out with MF Doom called Swift and Changeable. Can you shed some light on that? Ghostface: Before MF Doom gave me beats for my album I did like around 6 joints for Doom, and people was like ‘damn you did like 6 joints for him already you might as well just make another 3 or 4 and just make a whole album’. And that’s what it was. I didn’t get to record the other 3 or 4 yet ‘cause I’ve been moving around trying to get things done for my joint. But that’s what it’s gonna be. You know Doom is like the king of the underground. When it comes to certain markets that niggas don’t have, Doom got the backpackers, and all of that is good ‘cause people are people. What producers worked on Fish Scale? Ghostface: Just Doom, Pete Rock, J. Dillah, The Wise Men, Studio Steve. I realized there aren't any tracks on this album produced by RZA.Why is that? Ghostface: Uh-uh, nah I didn’t touch RZA. You know I had reached out to him, but he was kind of caught up with what he was caught up in. So I had to do what I had to do. I reached out to other brothers too. So by the time I heard back from him I had got all of my beats already. Talk to me about the “Ghostface Doll” you have coming out this spring? Ghostface: Yea, that’s the Ghostface doll. It’s me, they dressed him how I get down, the robe, wallabies, hard jeans and a wife beater. Real gold, 14 KT. The doll is 9’’. You know one of my mans from Cali wanted to do something real quick and [he’s] what we put together. It’s going to be limited, just 1000 dolls that’s it. It’s selling for $500. It’s a figurine collectable item for fans of my music. I see that you were up in Young Jeezy’s video for “Go Crazy” since he made reference to you in the song. How does it make you feel when newcomers actually make reference to? Ghostface: It’s respect. It’s a good feeling, but it’s crazy. ‘Cause you don’t really recognize who loves you and who’s been a fan since day one. And for someone to just throw a nigga name up in their joint, it’s just crazy. All respect is due. I met him, he’s a very good brother and all of that, he’s not stuck up or any of that shit. It was just man to man respect. You’re on Def Jam now, and there has been a lot of changes going on over there. How do you feel about that? Ghostface: It’s all good man. As long as it don’t get in my way and everybody’s eyes are still on me, I’m good with it. The people who’s making the changes, I’m good with them. So I’m gonna let them do what they gotta do, and they gonna let us do what we gotta do. I’m gonna let them know that I’m in this building too to get busy. I’m letting niggas know that I’m that nigga. It’s like a baseball player: he can come to the team and put his work in until his contract is up. And that’s what I’m doing right now.

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Soundslam.com Interview

nächstes interview, diesmal mit soundslam.com:

	Artist: Ghostface Interviewer: Da Metrognome Ghostface. The name alone conjures up a little something in nearly any Hip Hop fan’s mind, ranging from brilliant, lyrical, or obscure to Wu Tang, wack, or just plain weird. His longevity has been built upon his hardcore fan base, and this Staten Island emcee is still gaining momentum. From Ironman through Supreme Clientele, Ghost might be peaking at the right time with Fishscale. With unparalleled wordplay and a stream-of-consciousness style flow, the lethal-tongued Tony Starks can turn listeners on or off within the matter of a single sentence. SoundSlam only had a few minutes to get down with the Ghostface Killah, but he shouldn’t be slept on. Check out what he thinks about today’s rapper beef, DJ’s involved in payola, and why love prevails over hate. Here’s a small glass of water for those of you that are thirsty! Check it. SoundSlam: Alright, so Fishscale, the new project, is highly anticipated. Now, the name itself suggests some coded gangster sh*t. What’s the main objective of the album in your eyes? Ghostface: Ain’t nothin’, I just wanna let brothers know that for the new cats out there, you know, where hip hop used to be. At the same time, it’s got a kind of grimy street edge on it, you know what I mean, but it’s got that feel that I know I miss. But at the same time, these little kids nowadays, because it’s the meek that are inheriting the earth now, but what they’re inheriting doesn’t really have any feeling to it. And I’m not knockin’ nothin’, know what I mean, but it really has no feeling to it. Back in the days, our music that we came up on had a lot of feeling in it and right now everything is straight from the brain and not really from the heart. So, I just really wanted to give them a taste of the musical side and the lyrical content. Regardless of what the content is, I’m not sayin’ all mine is clean content, because as you know, it’s fishscale. I gots to go in on fishscale. I just want these people, like a lot of these kids out here, they might not even really know me like that because the game changed so much. But, they must know because it’s like ‘if you don’t know your history, son, you ain’t gonna know where you are going’, so right now, they are caught up with everything they see like on 106th and Park and all that, and thinking that’s really the truth. I mean, a lot of them aren’t even knowing and haven’t ever heard like Kool G. Rap, you know what I mean. Sh*t like that. So, I just wanna give them a dose of some real sh*t a little bit and some other sh*t here and there… just let them live with that and digest that for a change and say ‘let me see what’s up’ and all that.’ Plus, a lot of my real people, they miss a lot of that real sh*t, too, and especially where it came from. So, it’s like, I just wanna hit ‘em with that glass of water you’ve been thirstin’ for. Here you go, take that until the next time, know what I mean. SoundSlam: No doubt. Okay, you and Rae, as well as Kool G. Rap, were really the first to present that whole Mafioso allure and lifestyle. Now, braggadocio and masculinity have always played a role in Hip Hop, but explain the differences between how you depict it and how cats like “Mr. How-To-Rob” (50 Cent) do it. Ghostface: Yeah, rap right now is like wrestling, G. I mean, that’s just like some other type of entertainment, you know? It’s like, even with the names n***as got and the games they playin’ right now because it’s like, yo G, for somebody to go at you or talk about your moms, whatever, whatever, n***as be gettin’ killed right now, G. This is real s*t, man. Words can kill, man, especially when you comin’ at the wrong people with all that bullsh*t. At the same time, the reason I say it’s more or less wrestling, you might f**k around and be goin’ at it with a n***a and then the next day, it’s like, yo, y’all n***as be on some real shaking-hands sh*t after a n***a been mad disrespectful. Either you’re gonna just bow out gracefully and just chill and don’t say nothin’ or it’s like, ‘yo dogg, man, when I see you, I’m gonna have to f**k around and knock your f**kin’ teeth out or somethin’… that’s how I feel, you know what I mean? But yeah, the game is definitely taken out of context. Like I said, when we came back in the days, we was gorillas with our sh*t. We were savages, know what I mean, just fiendin’ for blood, for whatever, whatever, whatever. But, as time goes on, son, you mature. Tony Starks matured right now into a grown man. Doing what I was doing back then, just doing sh*t without thinking… startin’, jabbin’ n***as, whatever you wanna call it… but you get older, got babies, man, and I learned that you can’t mix pork with beef, G. Do this or do that. And I can’t risk for me coming from somethin’ that didn’t really have nothin’, you can’t risk it over just a bunch of street sh*t. But when a n***a f**k around and get too disrespectful, I’d rather see you… see, I can’t argue… my voice go out arguing too much and all that other sh*t. I can’t even argue with my girl, but when I see you, it’s gonna be on. So, it’s like yo, I don’t know what’s up with n***as though, but what it is in the game, especially for the East coast n***as, we too serious, man. We live with a frown, we wake up with a frown. And you not liking me for whatever reason… man, I don’t even know you, but I know that love beats hate any day, and that’s how come you got the South winnin’ right now. They represent for each other, they in each other’s videos, they do this and that, they support each other and they chillin’. And n***as in Atlanta right now, it’s like it’s ’88… it’s like our good ol’ days back then. They havin’ the time of they life right now, but it’s like, what goes around comes around. It was they time and that’s why you can’t knock ‘em for that. I love them n***as because they havin’ fun with it. They gonna start going through they little war times, too, but right now, they winnin’. We over here hatin’ and we let that sh*t come through. I mean, a lot of the DJ’s let that sh*t slip through because n***as be gettin’ paid off just to play a little Master P record. I remember when it was like, ‘yo, hold on, where the f**k this come from, we ain’t never been bouncin’ before’ but now when I go to Alabama, I can’t get even not one spin. They play all they own sh*t, they don’t play no New York sh*t from out of town. Soundslam.com

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	Champagne Thoughts With Ghostface Interviewed by Darin Gloe From when I was in High School I was always fascinated by the Wu-Tang sound. It was truly an honor and a privilege for me to sit down and actually talk to someone who I felt changed the face of hip-hop. With the "Fishscale" dropping on March 14th, Ghostface has been a very busy man. I got a chance to ask him about the new album, his latest ventures and his feelings about hip-hop in 2006. Nearly 11 years after his debut album "Ironman" dropped Ghostface is still the same hungry emcee and is ready to take 2006 by storm. What's good, how are you doing. Ain't shit, just holding it down. I have been running around and doing a lot of stuff trying to promote the "Fishscale" So what all have you been working on, aside from the new album. We have some movie shit on the low though. I'm not going to let that get exposed until later on. Once everything is confirmed on the paper and then that's it. We are right there and we are just waiting for certain characters to commit to the cash. Seems like the Wu are making a nice little comeback in '06, "Cuban Linx 2" is supposed to drop and your new album, what do you have to say to those that thought the Wu were done? It's always like that, I'm not going to disrespect anybody and say fuck ya'll or nothing. It's all good, what goes around comes around. If you are out of the light for a minute and we all go through problems. It doesn't even matter right now. Sounds like Ghostface is calming down as he gets older Naw, Ghostface isn't calming down I'm just more wise now. I'm that dude that's more mature and I'm just watching everything. So, we know the new album is on Def Jam, but that's really it. When does the album drop and can you tell us guests or anything like that? The official release date is March 14th but you know we keeping a lot of that under wraps. The first buzz single "Be Easy" produced by Pete Rock got lots of college spins, why do you think mainstream didn't pick up on it? Def Jam really didn't push the button on that single right there. I was on the road and Def Jam got behind or whatever. They didn't really push the single like they were supposed to; it got some spins here and there or whatever but now everything is on point for the next joint. "Be Easy" is what it is. We know Pete Rock makes an appearance on the upcoming LP, who else is doing tracks for you? Pete Rock, Doom, J-Dilla, The Wiseman, Studio Steve and my man Lewis Parker. Only people on the record are the Clan. What are you thoughts on the radio game in 06, nearly 20 years after you and Wu came onto the scene, why is radio so wack? Times change you know what I'm saying. You have people that have come into radio that didn't have it like that when they were growing. Nowadays you might make some cat that's going to Harvard and A&R and it's like what the fuck does he know about hip-hop. So then you got motherfuckers trying to tell you what direction in what you need to do and what type of record you need to make. All that shit really fucks up the game up. Back then we didn't have to make radio songs, now we have to do it to lighten it up a little bit, which is all good. It's just that people aren't original no more. They don't really use their talents; you don't have to have any talent any more to make a record. If your shit sounds like another record people look at it like "yo, it can get some radio spins" then your artist now out of no where. It's not about talent no more. People need to try to experiment more and tell more stories and shit. They need to get off the same shit you have talked about for whatever years. People need to have fun with hip-hop. Back in the days it was fun and guys weren't even cussing. That's what hip-hop is about. The new single "Back Like That" features Ne-Yo, who I personally think is real nice. Why did you choose that as a single and who produced it, since Def Jam conveniently leaves on production credits for their 12"s That's the real single right there; we just shot the video for that. That's going to open a lot of doors. To tell you the truth, I never really met the dude who made the record, but I do want to give a little shout out to him. You have always come with something for ladies, with "All I Got Iz You" and "Never Be the Same Again" off the last album, why do you think the ladies love Ghost? I don't know why they love Ghost, if they do its all love love. I'm not like a full blown rapper so I can't even tell you that. The question on everybody's mind is...when is the Ghost and Doom album coming; can you tell us anything about the album? Yeah, we are gonna do that. Ghost and Doom is going to be nice. I did like 5 or 6 joints for Doom and I want do like 3 or 4 joints so we can make an album. He did beats for me and before that I was doing some work for him. Since we both be throwing on the mask and shit it couldn't be a better collabo. We know that Ghostface the artist is signed to a major label, but you have been everywhere lately. You dropped the album with Trife and the 718 album since "Pretty Toney", what else you have in store for us this year? Yeah, I got the album with Trife and then I was with Sony and Sony fucked me around. Landed on Def Jam and got caught in the transition, but now I'm under new management so it's all good. As we look back on the Ghostface legacy over the last 10 plus years, is there anything else you would like to accomplish before you call it quits? I haven't really let the world see my talent yet. I might want to do some plays on some theater Broadway type shit and everybody can see me do my thing right there on stage. Just speak the word, speak the truth, I want to let people know that it's not just based on rap music. There is a higher being that controls all of us that we need to give respect to. Right now people don't believe because if you really believe a lot of this foul shit wouldn't be taken place because you would be too scared to do what you do. I just want to be allowed to play my part and get them to believe. It's whatever whatever man, let me just do what I do and keep my mind open and God will keep hitting me with the revelations.

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Brandneues Interview mit Iron Man...u.a. ist zu erfahren, dass er auf cuban linx 2 auf 4 tracks gefeatured ist, und gerade eben einen track für das masta killa album beigesteuert hat...

	Ghostface Killah raps Granada By DeJuan Atway, Fred Davis (Contact) Thursday, March 16, 2006 Some might know him as the Ironman, Others have heard of him as Tony Starks. Regardless of the moniker applied to one of the smoothest lyricists in hip-hop, Ghostface Killah’s sometimes rapid, often refreshing but never duplicated delivery and style was in full effect Tuesday night at the Granada. On tour supporting his new album “Fishscale”, which Ghost described as the “new cocaine,” the Wu-Tang Clan veteran headlined a show that featured two of his Theodore Unit members, Trife Da God and Solomon Childs, as well as M1 of Dead Prez and Umi. Local acts Tech N9ne and Scatter & Snug opened the show. After the police-bashing, revolutionary rants from M1 and the three song filler from his Theodore Unit members, the Staten Island native finally made his long-awaited entrance to the stage. Rapping as he came in, Ghost then appologized to the crowd for his tardy arrival ­­— a delayed flight from NYC where he was appearing on BET’s Rap City and doing other “stuff” caused the hang-up. For nearly an hour on stage, Ghost sifted through songs from all four of his previous albums as well as Wu-Tang classics like “Ice Cream” and “Protect Ya Neck.” Ghost also had the crowd observe a five-second moment of silence for the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Ghost then lead the crowd in a rendition of ODB’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.” In a night that was reserved not only for musical performances, midway through his set, Ghost invited the girls in the crowd to the stage to dance alongside him. With the girls on stage, Ghost offered $100 ‘beans’ — along with money being thrown from the crowd — to the girl with the best breasts. No girl chose to participate. After the show was over, Ghost was cordial enough to spend a few minutes answering questions about his tour, a new Wu-Tang album and his movie career. UDK: How’s the road treating you right now? Ghost: Ahh, ya knows it’s good. It’s kinda tiring right now cause there’s a show everyday, we goin’ back to back. But ya know, I’m just gettin’ my voice ready for when the album drop, so we can just go in. UDK: Speaking of that new album, you got that new album dropping in two weeks— what do you think of it and how’s it compare to the other for you’ve dropped already? Ghost: I mean, it’s just another outdog of me, ya know what I mean, I just do what I do, ain’t nothing really too big – it’s a mixture of all my albums mixed into one though; it’s just some more ghostface. UDK: What’s your favorite album you’ve done to date? Ghost: I don’t know, you know what I mean — that’s like asking me which one of my kids I like the best. I can’t say it. UDK: Do you feel underappreciated as a lyricist? You know, you got guys like 50 Cent getting out in the mainstream more than you— but aren’t near as good lyrically as you. Do you feel underrated in the game? Ghost: You know I used to, but now I don’t let that get to my head, because it is what is — and at the end of the day all the real fans know what time it is — ya know what I mean, it’s like I’m just takin’ it step by step, doin’ what I do. Some brothers get their light early, some brothers get their light last – whatever gets ‘em on that train. But it’s all good though, I’m just happy to be doin’ what I’m doin’. UDK: What’s the status of the Wu-Tang Clan right now? Ghost: It is alright, we just did the tour, 14 days we was out, did 11 shows, brothas is chillin’. Raekwon’s working on his Cuban Linx, Meth is workin on his (stuff), doin’ his (stuff), Master Killah, I just did a song with him for his album. Ya know, we gonna do a new Wu album next year sometime, ya know, we gotta pre-plan it, we gotta take like three months, put the other (stuff) aside, whether it’s March, April or May, go record that and get back to what we was dealin’ with. UDK: Speaking of that Cuban Linx II, you drop any tracks on that? Ghost: Yes, I just finished up like four tracks for Rae, ya know what I mean, I’m supposed to get some more though, but you know, I’m on the road right now. UDK: Any idea when that album might drop? Ghost: It’s suppposed to drop in the summertime. I don’t know what date, they always switchin’ dates. UDK: Finally, as I understand it, you like to write movies. When are we gonna see a Ghostface movie? Ghost: Uhmmm, ya’ll gonna see a Ghostface movie this year or the top of next year. Ya know, eventually they gon’ put this money up for my movie called “Raccoons” coming out on Starks Films. We just waitin’ on one more guy for the letter of intent of his commitment, and then we can start shootin’ probably whenever we got free time when I’m off the road.

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