Ghostface Not Co-Signing New Wu-Tang CD, "It Ain't Come Out Right"

[Elano]

Veteran rhyme slinger Ghostface Killah has once again re-emerged and is ready to drop more jewels with his latest effort, The Big Doe Rehab. In his usually colorful form, Tony Starks chopped it up with SOHH about how Wu-Tang Clan's comeback disc almost came out the same day as his new album, the Clan's beef with Rza and taking his family to rehab.

After dropping More Fish last December, Ghost went back to the lab and cooked up his 7th solo disc, The Big Doe Rehab, an album that he says took it's own turn and detoured a bit from his original vision.

"It was supposed to be, more or less, it's me again," Ghost explained to SOHH. "I was gonna do the album by myself but as time went on, I started to hear Raekwon on a few of the tracks and @#*$%s wanted to get on. They wanted to be a part of it. Then I started to go back and see where I could fit everybody in. I started to think, like, where I could put Method Man, where I could put U-God. I already knew where I wanted Rae to be so, it just kinda worked like that."

In addition to his Wu brethren making guest appearances on the set, Ghostdini also linked up with New York staple, DJ Kid Capri, on the disc's lead single, "Celebrate." The single has been gaining momentum leading up to the CD's December 4 release date, the same date that Wu-Tang's album 8 Diagrams was originally slated to hit shelves, before moving to the following Tuesday (December 11). Seeming to be a conflict of interest, Ghost explained that he was not budging on the date, no matter who was dropping.

"I've had that date since like last June and the Clan album was supposed to been came out," Ghost said of the possible showdown. "It was supposed to drop in August, then October and I guess it wasn't making the deadlines or whatever, and it was like, what the @#*$ are ya'll doing? I kinda felt like I was being sabotaged."

"Rza and Divine didn't want me to drop this year," Ghost added. "They wanted it to be all about the Wu and it seemed like a lot of funny @#!* was going on. They were trying to act like it was going to hurt me [to drop on the same day.] I'm like, c'mon man, I'm comfortable with my project. I don't give a @#*$ when my album drops. Whenever it drops, it's going to be solid."

The Wally Champ also took time to shed some light on the Clan's seemingly ongoing beef with crew leader RZA.

"Rza ain't listening," Ghost revealed. "He wanted to make [8 Diagrams] how he wanted it and it ain't come out right. He wanna always do the whole thing himself, produce the whole album. We're like, let's bring in some other producers too. Bring in Kanye, bring in Pharell. You ain't gotta do the whole thing yourself. He wanna make his own instruments and s**t and it sounded real horrible."

"So now it's like when fans come up to me like, 'Ghost, why you let them put that out,' it's like nah, we ain't taking the blame for that," Ghost continued. "That's what Rae was saying. We ain't co-signing that. It's like, the game is different. It's not how it was 10 years ago. We're trying to tell him, you can't just put a Wu-Tang album out and just think it's gonna sell just because. We been gone for what, six years? It's hard to win new @#*$%s. A lot of the fans now was in @#*$ing diapers when we first started doing this. That's why a @#*$% like me drop every year. I stay relevant."

[R1ZE]

We're trying to tell him, you can't just put a Wu-Tang album out and just think it's gonna sell just because. We been gone for what, six years? It's hard to win new @#*$%s.

looks like ghost wanted more mainstream appeal - so is he saying the album is wack as a piece of art, or its wack as a product to sell?

[Elano]

Even raekwon is not happy with this record,i don't know about method man and the others......but it looks like there's more than one member of the clan not down with this new album.
I don't know if they will tour this record...

[boycriedwolf619]

Damn what they tripping about,i think overall the album is smashing man smh

[RZARECTA]

can't understand ghost right now u hear big doe rehab?its a bit soft even on his story gritty songs, now the wu album is pretty damn good .. heart gently weeps he had that song already tony's guitar and he wasn't on much but his complains seem to be hypocritical when u hear big doe rehab .... i think there's alot of shit going on behind the scenes about Chef and Ghost and there just saying its the album when its something else

[NobodyButMe]

can't understand ghost right now u hear big doe rehab?its a bit soft even on his story gritty songs, now the wu album is pretty damn good .. heart gently weeps he had that song already tony's guitar and he wasn't on much but his complains seem to be hypocritical when u hear big doe rehab .... i think there's alot of shit going on behind the scenes about Chef and Ghost and there just saying its the album when its something else

would agree. and would like to add that 8 diagrams shits all over big doe rehab.

[Chamillitary Click]

the wu album was appealing to the masses! if every1 hated it i would understand ghost, but the album is fuckin goooood!

[AndrE16686]

Bring in Kanye, bring in Pharell.
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LOL. Fuck that.

[NotoriousTDA]

ghost is trippin. He needs stop being a bitch and respect  Rza as the leader of the Wu

[KURUPTION-81]

Bring in Kanye, bring in Pharell.
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LOL. Fuck that.

imo theres no place for them on a wu tang album.

[Chamillitary Click]

Bring in Kanye, bring in Pharell.
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LOL. Fuck that.

imo theres no place for them on a wu tang album.

LOL! co-sign.

[d-nice]

Yeah the shit sounded dope to me. Sounded better then most rappers that swear up and down they got that hot fiyah like Dylan.

[AndrE16686]

 

"So now it's like when fans come up to me like, 'Ghost, why you let them put that out,'
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LOL. I felt that way when Iron Flag came out

There were only like two tracks on Iron Flag that I could bare to listen to, the weakest Wu group album IMO. 

I aint heard 8 Diagrams yet.

Big Doe Rehab was okay, but Ghost had alot of tracks on there that were on a kinda "listen to once and not care about anymore" tip. Dont get me wrong, I love Ghost. I loved "We Celebrate", "Walk Around", "Yolanda's House"  and "Tony Sigel", but the rest of album just didnt stick to me.