“My Whole Youth Was Sharper Than Cleats…”
ARTIST WEEKS By TSSCrew on December 8, 2007 at 3:46 pmWords By Patrick M.
It’s Ghostface week here at TSS, yet to this point, we haven’t really dealt with what I consider to be Ghost’s best album, and one of the best albums in hip-hop’s history, 1996’s Ironman.
Why? Because Ironman, like all of the mid-90s Wu projects, feels more like a group collaborative and less like a true solo joint. Wu members are guesting all over the place, RZA is fully locked in like Mozart on the production, Raekwon drops as many hot verses on the album as Ghost, and the album, specifically “Winter Warz,” also serves as Cappadonna’s coming out party.
Yet all the solo joints from this era have that one song where the featured artist took the reins by himself and made a track that still defines them to this day. Meth has “Bring the Pain”. ODB has “Brooklyn Zoo.” Rae has “Incarcerated Scarfaces.”
And Ghost?
Ghost has “All that I Got Is You.”
He only raps one verse that takes up less than half of the song, but in two minutes of rhyming, he puts onto wax a heart-wrenching description of the conditions of urban poverty. What makes it so poignant is the personalization, he’s not just talking about poverty, he’s talking about his childhood. It’s not just anyone’s Mom that struggled in this situation, it’s his mom. The verse has all the traits of great storytelling. The little details, from “roaches in the cereal box,” to “two at the foot, two at the head, I didn’t like to sleep with Jon-Jon he peed the bed.” And the emotions, specifically the shame he felt having to go to his neighbors to ask for food. No one wants to be poor, but poverty happens.
But in the end, Mom wipes his tears away and sends him off into the cold world. And when Mary J comes in to sing Ghost’s message of thanks over Rza’s violin strings…I may go call my Mom right now just to tell her I love her.
Ghostface Killah – All I Got Is You
J_Love-Ghostface_Killah-Hidden_Darts_2-2003
Ghostface_Killah-Hidden_Darts_3_(Hosted_By_J-Love)-(Bootleg)-2006
J-Love_And_Ghostface_Killah-Hidden_Darts_4-Bootleg-2007
DJ_Green_Lantern_And_Ghostface-Internet_Invasion-(Bootleg)-2006
Ghostface_Killah-Pretty_Toney_(The_Lost_Tracks)-2004
Mick_Boogie_and_Ghostface-The_Wallabee_Championship_Volume_1-2004
VA-Mick_Boogie_Tapemasters_Inc._Ghostface-The_Broiled_Salmon_Mixtape-(Bootleg)-2006
VA-Mick_Boogie-Fish_N_Chips_(Hosted_By_Ghostface_And_Trife_Da_God)-(Bootleg)-2006
Ghostface_Killah-The_Wally_Champ_Vol.2-(Bootleg)-2003
VA-DJ_Ayres_And_DJ_Soul-Ghostface_Chamber_Music-(Bootleg)-2006
Raekwon_and_Ghostface-Live_Unreleased_Classics-2005
Raekwon_And_Ghostface-R.A.G.U._(Rae_And_Ghost_United)-(Bootleg)-2006
Ghostface Ironman Instrumental Lp
Ghostface_Killah-Best_of_Presented_by_Streetsweepers-2003
Ghostface_Killah-Feat_The_Theodore_Unit-Exclusives-2006
Ghostface_Killah-Fried_Fish-(Promo)-2006
Ghostface_Killah-The_Pretty_Tony_Collection-2CD-2004
Ghostface_Killah – Supreme Clientele Instrumentals
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ill be here for awhile..GHOSTFACE!
http://rapidshare.com/files/53920291/Ghostface_Killah-The_Pretty_Toney_Album__Retail_-2004-RNS.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53913678/Ghostface_Killah-Ironman-1996-aPC_INT.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/53905501/Ghostface_Killah-Bulletproof_Wallets__Retail_-2001-EGO.rar/
http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=UC4AOVFX
Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientle
word is bond, when i hear that song the first time, i was like wow this nigga tellin my life fucking story, so many times i sparked blunts to this song, cracked open forties , and i still listen to it to remind me where i was ,growin up, wasnt till like a year ago that i found out it had a video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grSrmb70W1Q
0ne!!
Beanie Sigel & Styles P –
“You Ain’t Ready For Me” ! WHAT !!
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=yYFG0MRJhmc
Please, No dizrespect, but a review or something for ‘The Solution and Super G, Extra G’ ; it’s a good idea… nahg?
because B.Mack and S.P are good dudes, very complementary ..
and its good to make an idea of the :
two performances ! thx in ad.
Joe Budden – 5th Gear
http://www.zshare.net/audio/5475334711a77f/
brand new song.
Goo’dnigh-T
Gruemsy…
Both coming very soon. Be patient
No probs homie,
i’m going to sleep !!!
NOWW! so good morning to u
peace TC – True Clientele
lol
ps: it’s because my mind is to hot, hot stuff greumsmind !
I remember many a time checking myself on this song.. making sure no one saw me almost break and shed a tear.
I miss my fam that aint here.
Must download my sorrows away now.
TC = True Clientele
LMAO
… and just if one person have this mixtape,
“S.Carter : The Re-Mix.”
i think, it’s, this tracklisting :
Flow [prod Just Blaze]
PSA Remix [prod Just Blaze]
Dec 4th Remix [prod 9th Wonder]
P.Diddy Interlude [prod Lenny S.]
Warm It Up Jay Freestyle [prod Just Blaze]
Michael Jordan-MSG Interlude [prod Lenny S.]
Encore remix [prod Charlemagne]
Hell Yeah (remix) (ft. Dead Prez [prod Dead Prez]
Lookin @ My S Dots [prod Sean 'S Dot' Francis]
Moment Of Clarity (remix) [prod Big Jack]
99 Problems (remix) [prod Just Blaze]
Where I’m From (ft. Sigel) [prod DJ Green Lantern]
D. Washington Interlude [produced by Lenny S.]
Allure (remix) [prod Just Blaze]
Get By (remix) (ft. Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Kanye West & B. Rhymes) [prod Kanye West]
Threat (Remix Interlude) [prod Madlib]
Reebok Interlude (ft. 50 Cent) [prod Just Blaze]
My 1st Song (remix) [prod 9th Wonder]
thx…
Yo, somebody bless me with Silk’s “Tonight” album. I can’t find that joint anywhere. Thanks in advance.
http://plugindustries.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/s-carter-the-remix/
just ffourr tracks …but i want a total link if you have …
really goodnight.
True Clientele
Supreme Greums
TSS-IS-MAJOR
peace
Yo Gotty when is GhostFace week officially finished? I need to know man, I’m running out of hard-drive space! Good-lookin’ on those CDS/VLS’s, been searching for those beatz.
For my StonesThrow headz:
Turn That Shit Up mixtape: Oh No, Roc-C & DJ Rhettmatic
http://rapidshare.com/files/74962640/oh_no__roc_c___rhettmatic_-_turn_that_shit_up__bootleg___2006_.rar
$tu Bangaz mixtape: Hosted by Statik Selektah:
(Lots of dope artists on this mixtape!)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/s5mppo
SpitKicker Presents the Next Spit hosted by WordsWorth:
http://rapidshare.com/files/7231909/va-spitkicker_presents-the_next_spit_vol._7__hosted_by_wordsworth_-_bootleg_-2006-HHB.rar
Scarface: Made bonus tracks
http://sharebee.com/ddf9174f
yo Gotty or other,
can you explain to me, that metaphore, to talk of different drugz, by Pimp C (RIP)
“got Bobby by the pound, Whitney by the key, DJ Screw by the gallon ” for marijuana, cocaine or encore codéine for the last …
it’s Bobby and Whitney Houston, and UgK dj’s Screw … but why “Pound, key, gallon”
it’s a mesure of drugs ? like Kilo ? or What …
thx !
This is ill day, my boy brought me some blueberry weed, I just watch an episode of 227, and now I get to try on the many suits of Iron Man……..hell yeah.
yo greums, pound and gallon are imperial (american) units of measure and key is short for kilogram.
http://rapidshare.com/files/53909473/Ghostface_Killah-Fishscale-2006-RNS.rar
Funny, I was just listening to All That I Got is You off of DJ Elevens Winter Sadness in the ride on my way home tonight. Great song, from a great album.
Sorce-1
Bobby is the weed
Whitney is the coke
DJ Screw is the sizzurp…get it
anyone one have the remix to All That I Got Is You?… or was that just an unofficial remix…