A grisly, retro-fitted, blood-spattered, cinematic Tarantino pastiche for music nerds and hip-hop heads everywhere, Ghostface Killah’s enthralling Twelve Reasons to Die isn’t merely the emcee’s finest hour since 2006’s career-high Fishscale; it’s also, assuming it gets the respect it deserves, poised to be hip-hop’s most prominent excursion into the grindhouse, and the true breakthrough of producer Adrian Younge. Or perhaps “composer” is the better word. Twelve Reasons to Die is the result of a miraculous and rare synergy between sound […]
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Meth, Ghost & Rae Return with a “Wu-Massacre”
Let’s face it. If there are nine guys in your group, it’s gonna be hard for you to keep people’s attention. Just too much going on. Add in a plethora of solo projects, and you have the way I’ve felt about the Wu-Tang Clan since the mid nineties. After a smokin’ hot 1993 debut and that first salvo of excellent solo albums (“Only Built 4 Cuban Linx”, “Return to the 36 Chambers”, “Ironman”, “Liquid Swords”, “Tical”), it just became way […]