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If you ask me, this album has aged very well and I still think it's Ghost's best solo album.

What say you?

Absolutely.
This will be a tough one.
Soul Controllah was the last cut that I was rockin' tough.
I haven't listened to this album in over a year, though.
I got the tape in my truck. I'll knock it tomorrow and vote.

Obviously Daytona500.
Faster Blade 2nd.

I will be all alone on this, but I fucks hard with "Faster Blade."

:elil:

Daytona 500

was between winter warz and faster blade, went with ww

this is like picking between children, assuming all your children are awesome

I have always thought that <i>Fish</i> was amazing.

it was between fish, assassination day and iron maiden for me....
i went with iron maiden.
and i agree, it's my favorite ghost album.

Voted WW. Cappa's verse >>>

IMO SC is a better album though.

voted Winter Warz. Cappa's verse is top 5 for me.
as for the rest, its very close. I prefer Supreme Clientele but this is more consistent throughout.

"All That I Got is You" is my favourite track, but not the best.

budhaa head wrote:"All That I Got is You" is my favourite track, but not the best.

I voted for it. No emo.

I think 'After the Smoke Is Clear' is an underrated track on this album.

Today I'm picking Iron Maiden. Tomorrow it may be 260.

winter warz for me. very rarely does cappa steal the show but his verse on here is insane

faster blade. shit knocks.
to me, ironman is ghost's best effort on wax.

wow... impossible to choose. too many classics.

it's definitely my favorite ghost album, way better than supreme clientele.

cappadonna ripped it on winter warz!

Y@k Bollocks wrote:I think 'After the Smoke Is Clear' is an underrated track on this album.

i agree

after some deliberation i'd go with this over sc. very close though

"Fish" easily for me.

I voted for the faster blade but i think the best performance on a verse wise basis is Cappa on Iron Maiden. The flow he used on that song is what made his 5 words and pause flow on his solo debut so disappointing at the time. That "stormy wind blew" line is an all time favorite for me. The by myself meeting line is from that verse too.

The cut your face a buck fifty short, why you smiling line as well. Fuck he was on fire at that time.

This is a Top 3 album for me.
Went with Poisonous Darts, Ghost ripped that track.

FISH

I've NEVER understood why people dig Cappa on WW, EVER. His whole shit is corny and he sounds like a thug Kermit the Frog. Whenever I think of Cappa my mind instantly goes to "and got ran over/ by the Method Man jeep". Dumbest line ever.

Yakub Shabazz wrote:I've NEVER understood why people dig Cappa on WW, EVER. His whole shit is corny and he sounds like a thug Kermit the Frog. Whenever I think of Cappa my mind instantly goes to "and got ran over/ by the Method Man jeep". Dumbest line ever.

Because (to me) his lyrics and delivery are ill and his voice is well suited to the track.


You heard of the rasp before but kept waitin
for the sun of song, I keep dancehalls strong
Beats never worthy of my cause, I prolong
Extravangza, time sits still
No propoganda, be wary of the skill
As I bring forth the music, make love to your eardrum
Dedicated to rap nigga beware of the fearsome
Lebanon Don, Malcolm X beat threat
CD massacre, murder to cassette
I blow the shop up, you ain't seen nuttin yet
One man ran, tryin to get away from it
Put your bifocal on, watch me a-cometh
into your chamber like Freddy enter dream
Discombumberate your technique and your scheme
Four course applause, like a black dat to dat
You're stuck on stupid like I'm stuck on the map
Nowhere to go except next show bro
Entertainin motherfuckers can't stop O
in battlin, you don't want me to start tattlin
All upon the stage cause y'all snakes keep rattlin
Bitch, you ain't got nothin on the rich
Every other day my whole dress code switch
So just in case you want to clock me like Sherry
All y'all crab bitches ain't got to worry
Can't get a nigga like Don dime a dozen
Even if I'm smoked out I can't be scoped out
I'm too ill, I represent Park Hill
See my face on the twenty dollar bill
Cash it in, and get ten dollars back
The fat LP with Cappachino on the wax
Pass it in your think, put valve up to twelve
Put all the other LP's back on the shelf
And smoke a blunt, and dial 9-1-7
1-6-0-4-9-3-11
And you could get long dick hip-hop affection
I damage any MC who step in my direction
I'm Staten Island's best son fuck what you heard
Niggaz still talkin that shit is absurd
My repotoire, is U.S.S.R.
P.L.O. style got thrown out the car
and ran over, by the Method Man jeep
Divine can't define my style is so deep
like pussy, my low cut fade stay bushy
like a porcupine, I part backs like a spine
Cut you like a blunt and reconstruct your design
I know you want to diss me, but I can read your mind
Cuz you weak in the knees, like SWV
Tryin to get a title like Wu Killa Bee
Kid change your habit, you know I'm friends with the Abbott
Me and RZA ridin name printed in the tablet
under vets, we paid our debts for mad years
Hibernate the sound, and now we out like beers
and blunt power, born physically power speakin
The truth in the song be the pro-black teachin

It's VERY difficult for me to choose a favorite from this album, which is definitely Ghost's best.

Word to Moolah's point about "After The Smoke Clears."

"Fish" is probably my favorite as of today.

it alternates between

assassination day(masta killa merked that shit)
260
fish
iron maiden

but the whole albums classic, 'camay', 'all that i got is you', 'winter warz', 'daytona 500', 'motherless child', that album is a certified hip hop classic, ghost's best album in my opinon, lyric wise, beatwise, the whole shebang, classic shit, yes surr

Cappa is the master of the ham-fisted yet subtle gem.


Even little things like how he starts his Ice Water verse, "The first branch, the third leaf, whoever want it got beef" is pretty much brilliant.

Cappa's greatness vs cappa's laziness has always been the true yin vs the yang.

Yakub Shabazz wrote:I've NEVER understood why people dig Cappa on WW, EVER. His whole shit is corny and he sounds like a thug Kermit the Frog. Whenever I think of Cappa my mind instantly goes to "and got ran over/ by the Method Man jeep". Dumbest line ever.

he kills that verse in a weird way (as well as the verse on "iron maiden"). back then, cappa had that breathless , go on forever style that was just crazy. he sounded hungry and spit 70 bar verses with no punch-in's. that shit always stuck out to me. his lyrics may never have been amazing (or made much sense) but he's got that "rapping till is heart stop" vibe to him.