Word around the Wally campfire is that hip-hop's e.e. cummings, Ghostface Killah, is dropping his second album of the year on Dec. 12, following up the early-2006 media darling Fishscale with a project titled (I pull your terry-cloth robe not)... More Fish. Let's forget for the moment that "fishscale" is coke, so calling it More Fish effectively literalizes the metaphor beyond comprehension (Ghost as coke-slinger --> Ghost as Cod-monger?)
Normally, I don't give the Jiggaman much credit as a record executive, but "chea"ing two albums in one year seems like a counterintuitively good move. Anyone who's familiar with the ever-growing Ghost apocrypha knows that for every great jawn included on an official Ghost release, another three were cut out for sample-clearance/angel-dust considerations. The best cuts on Bulletproof Wallets didn't actually make the album ("The Watch," "The Sun," the original "Flowers"); and Ghost's 718 album with the Theodore Unit pretty much sonned The Pretty Toney Album with a single little cut known as "Gorilla Hood" (Yo, they got that work -- check the "Media" section). Despite its horrendous title, the production line-up looks strong -- Madlib, Pete Rock, MF Doom, and Hi-Tek -- and the tracklist looks typically wacky.
Will the final product just be cutting-room scraps? Probably -- in fact, I hope so. Will it be better than the Game's latest (for real, it's alright not to like him)? Will it receive significantly less promotion than Kingdom Come? Most definitely. Will it be "mad flavorful"? How could it not? Word to my Wonderwoman Bracelet.
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