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hier ein Ghost Interview von HipHopDx
Ghostface Killah recorded Fishscale while battling a broken leg, but up-and-coming MCs, don’t get any ideas—crafting classic hip-hop albums is routine activity for Dennis Coles. From his contributions as a member of the Wu-Tang Clan and sidekick tasks with Raekwon for Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, to solo opuses like Ironman and Supreme Clientele, Ghost has already made history. He has also displayed mentoring and team leader skills by helming his Theodore Unit collective to releasing 718, one of the best indie releases of 2004, and giving the group’s standout Trife Da God shine with album cameos and last year’s Put It On The Line mixtape. This year, he continued his legacy, but with a few new ingredients in his gumbo: a major label push from Def Jam, beats from underground hip-hop’s best, and a rejuvenated concentration on conceptual gems. In this interview with HipHopDX, Ghostface talks about employing producers like Pete Rock and MF DOOM, balancing the streets with the boardrooms, and how the sight of a random breezy fucked up his fibula.
HipHopDX: You’ve really stayed busy since The Pretty Toney Album, working on both the DOOM project and the Put It On The Line mixtape with your protégé Trife Da God. How difficult was it to find time between these other projects to work on your own album?
Ghostface: It was crazy as shit, nahmean. I fucked my leg up, I broke my ankle doing this shit, so I wrote the shit on a broke ankle inside the crib, inside the bed, really. That was it. I finished a lot earlier than I what I usually do, because I don’t be puffin’ no more weed, but it was just a crazy task.
HipHopDX: How’d you break your leg?
Ghostface: Fuckin’ with my niggas I ain’t seen in like eight years and shit. You know how shit be. Mothafuckas badden up on you and shit, same night and shit, fucking around outside in the snow. It was my ankle, my fibula. We’re just on ice, step out the car, I’m standing on ice. My nigga called me, I turned around and checked this bitch ass out, and just fucked around and slipped a little bit. I ain’t go all the way down, I held on to him and shit, but my leg just snapped back. And that’s what it was, I just broke the shit. I sat around for like three and a half or four months, just trying to get my shit back together. Just fucked up with pain and shit, that’s all.
HipHopDX: You have a whole lot of production from some of the game’s premier underground producers, like DOOM, Madlib, J. Dilla, and Pete Rock. What made you take that route this time around, even though you’ve established a trademark before from your own producers?
Ghostface: I didn’t use the Madlib one. I had too many songs on there, I had to fuck around and take it off. (As far as getting other producers) It was just a sound that I wanted a little bit, I wanted to change the sound around and go back to the old sound a little bit, that’s all. It wasn’t nothin’ too big, it was just exactly what they had at that time.
HipHopDX: Fishscale is a lot grittier and more street than The Pretty Toney Album. What’s with the change?
Ghostface: I don’t know, man. Just the beats. When I was on Pretty Toney, I was looking for certain beats that I couldn’t really find, so I had to deal with what I could deal with. The beats and the era, you know what I mean? That’s all that it really was. This one, you may have a few cocaine raps on the shit, but that’s just what it is.
HipHopDX: This album is really heavy on concept songs as well, and that isn’t as strong on your last albums. What made you take this approach?
Ghostface: Really, the beats are what makes me do the shit. I’m good at stories, I’m starting to really know that that’s really my element, so I know on the next album…I might have a mixture of shit, because every time I listen to an album, I get thoughts of where I want to go for the next one. Now I know that stories are really my technique, I know what to do now. As opposed to just getting a freestyle, (but) I’ma have freestyle shit up there too, like regular abstract shit that people up there love me for, on some real “Mighty Healthy” shit. I know how to mix it up. I learn from a lot of shit; sometimes when you’re in the mix of just doing shit, you’re just in the mix and you don’t understand it until you complete the shit. I’m good now, I’ve got the shit down to a science, and I’m just ready to move on.
HipHopDX: You’re one of the few artists who’s able to be with a major label like Def Jam, but still keep your street credibility intact. How difficult is it to balance the two?
Ghostface: I don’t know, man. I just do what I do, G. I know not to play myself, man. I just do what I do, make sure I do it right, let niggas know, “You’re still fuckin’ with a real cat, G.” I’m just one of them niggas. You’ve got to be that dude, unless you’re going to fuck around and play yourself. Niggas will have you in a suit and tie, niggas will have you doing all types of shit, G. I just know, I could be that “Back Like That” cat, I could be that street nigga, ‘cuz that’s just me. A lot of mothafuckas can’t do that.
HipHopDX: What happened with the album cover?
Ghostface: I never changed the album cover, everybody keeps saying that. That’s just the poster with the fish, that was only for the sampler, that wasn’t the album cover.
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