RR’s ’09 Underrated Albums: #1 Ghostface Killah “Ghostdini Wizard Of Poetry In Emerald City”
January 7, 2010 @ 5:28 PM EST
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Ghostface Killah’s Wizard Of Poetry In Emerald City should’ve came with a mattress for the way it was slept on. Where was the support?! From top to bottom, the LP had something from everyone. For the pervs there was “Stapleton Sex”; the scorned (“Do Over”); and purists (“Guest House”). Beautifully unconventional, Ghost showed his sensitive side with “Baby” and vulnerability on “Paragraphs of Love”. Then with the help of John Legend, Starks laid his game down flat on “Let’s Stop Playing”. Salute Mr. Coles, you deserve it.
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Sadly in a recession so theirs gona be a lot more underated albums especially going to be tuff when a new artist unless your mentor is Jay-Z or Eminem you probably have a better chance of success
Not a fan of dude.His shit just sound all over the place when he raps
CO-SIGN!!!! album was mad slept on i actually went out and copped it
Not a fan of dude.His shit just sound all over the place when he raps
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Ghostdini is Dat Dude! LP was hot for the most part, few hit and misses but sounded real grown (not that manufactured Jay Z grown) but a pure, unadulterated grown 🙂
Great album was deffinately slept on…glad yall rhink so too
Ghost a thoro-bred mc, he just doesn’t know how to make a hit record.For success,you gotta have tracks that work for radio play.
ghost is my fav in this day and age. i can understand the all over the place comment. but this album well put and well themed it had everything to do with the relationship field. as a true fan i put my money in on ALL his albums. Im surpised RR put this at number one… cuz i thought it was number one slept on. go get this album or at least give it a ear. as gangsta as ghost is… he put up the crack dealing gun bussn usual and came with it hard. best album and concept album that was not pushed the way it should have been shame on that batty boy la reid
Not a single bad track. I’ve never once skipped over any track when listening to this GEM.
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uh,oh RR forgot about slaughterhouse
@ the dude who said he’s not a fan,
you’re in luck, this is the MOST coherent ghostface album he may has EVER done
but it’s still in tune enough to keep his core fans happy.
this album is a def jam crime……and one of the few THAT HAS PRODUCT TO ACTUALLY PUSH…for radio too!
shame shame
ok… B.doT the war is over. The best pick out of all of these lists. This really should have been best of 2009!!
I thought rr was gonna front on this album.. This album is definitely most underrated of 2009.. Ghost killed it as always!!
for real i cant get over how this was swept under the rug.. these radio stations need to wake the fuck up
Absolutely in the top 5 of the best albums released last year.
THIS ALBUM WAS DOPE!!!! SHIT WAS SLEPT ON!!!! GHOST ALWAYS COME THRU WIT THAT HOT SHIT!!!!! THAT STAPLEYON SEX TRACK WAS ILL!!!!
DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!!
@ B.Dot
I gotta give credit where credit is due, when you’re right, you’re fucking right!! I fucking love this album and I’m still not over the fact that not many people bought it. I still bump it today and I’ma keep on pumping that shit. It’s definitely in my top 5 favorite albums of 2009.
BUT. I think you forgot Q-Tip and the “Renaissance” album, a lot of niggas slept on that shit but it was dope. Definitely jazzy and eclectic but a great album nonetheless.
This was one of my top 20 albums of the year. “Renaissance” was 2008 homie.
Why is boy meets world not on this list… This album is like the 2009 illmatic … Word. & the crazy shit is this kids from Cali. As 4 ghostface he’s always been underated. Shit’s fucked up son. Fuck it at least he was the co- star on the best album of the year OBCL2.
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I cosign this blog! Ghostface did his thang on this LP, and just as expected… He didnt get the credit he deserved. This album was a work of art. Ghostface was tellin stories about love, sex, relationships, and emotions. GFK’s Lyrics painted vivid pictures, over smooth & soulful productions. Quiet as kept, woman were really feeling this 1.
FIRE HIS A&R HE’S TOO BUSY BEING A DOWN LOW HOMO! SHIT GHOST PUTS INHARD WORK, AND WITH THOSE FAGS AT DEF JAM THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS…. FOR THE LAST THREE ALBUMS!
lp was dope…def jam dropped the ball on this one.
I know n!99@$ r gonna 2 get @ my neck 4 this, but I feel that the Ghost lp is better than the Rae joint. Str8 up & n down that Ghost lp was on some grown n sexy vibe. Both the wifey n i bumpped it…n that is very rare.
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r going 2….my bad.
yea this shit was ill……very different, but tight as fuck. You could relate to the emotions
Ghostface is my favourite rapper in the world, so you know I didn’t sleep on this. I blame the people who pretend they are fans and then can’t part with the cash.
Yeah, I went and copped this shit when it 1st came out that morning and bumped it all the way to work and errwhere else. My joint was “Stapleton Sex” and that joint with Estelle. That shit was smooth as hell1! The joint with Fab and ol’ girl from DTP was hilarious as hell. He did a better job than Ross on his own beat. Smooth album all the way.
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But really, aren’t all his joints slept on? I mean, Supreme/Bulletproof got a lil love, but nowhere near the attention they should have garnered. The dopest out the Wu, but Meth diversified his bonds and got hella notoriety. Any album Starks drops is gonna make this list, and that’s weak.
Thunderkush: I don’t know what’s worse: your opinions, or your blog. Please stop punishing us. Everything is subjective, unless it’s your embarrassing proclamations. Look up the word HUBRIS.
Ghostdini’s Wizard of Poetry …..This was definitely the most slept on album of the year!!! Why ?? What’s really good Def Jam? What happened to the promotion..why you guys do Ghost like that?? No one appreciates real music anymore. I feel just his others this one is a classic. Toney Starks forerver! I’m still bumping it in January and bought in September!! Ghost killed it!!! OBFCL2 I love you guys… Wu fan forever!! Stop hating on Ghost!!!!