>I give him credit for it being good, it had every reason not
>to be
>considering how long it's taken for him to see it get a
>release.
>
>I'm sure he's had to make some changes it to it over the
>years
>and some songs on this final edition sound dated.
>
>But he got Kendrick on Mona Lisa.
>Open Letter is eye opening.
>Dope Niggaz is cool as well as Uproar considering they're both
>playing off old joints.
>He's rhyming on Let It Fly.
>Hittas is real dope.
>
>Famous and Dark Side of the Moon do what they're supposed to
>do.
>
>Let It All Work Out is a good closer.
>
>It's a good Wayne album.
>There are songs where he's showing you he can still rhyme when
>he wants.
>
>But -- the issue with Wayne now is this imo...
>He doesn't have the same vibrancy and joy in his voice that he
>used to have.
>I imagine it's due to a number of factors, some as simple as
>age
>and rapping for 25 years...
>Some more complicated like mass amounts of drugs.
>Shit I mean he said himself on the album that he's died a
>couple times.
>
>Now the autotune use on a lot of songs doesn't help either.
>
>But go back and listen to The Prefix, Suffix, No Ceilings 1,
>Dedication 2, Drought 3... he sounded so ALIVE!
>HE WAS UNTOUCHABLE there for A WHILE!
>
>But I guess it happens to the best of them.
>There's a new Ghostface Killah album coming out produced
>entirely
>by Big Ghost LTD who is on a fucking RUN himself.
>He's got incredible albums with Vic Spencer, ANKHLEJOHN,
>CRIMEAPPLE, and Hus Kingpin. I was incredibly hype for the
>Ghost x Ghost album.
>
>But there's multiple features on every song and Ghost just
>doesn't sound like he used to man... and it kills me to say
>that cause Ghost is my favorite emcee of all time.
>
>

I wonder if it is as simple as the whole pitch thing that RZA was talking about way back when. He said he had special settings for every Wu emcee that the thought made them all sound their best.

I can't shake the 'it sounds like he's reading from the paper' thing that folks pointed out a few albums ago.

Like you, I love Ghost so I will keep listening.