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Ghostface Killah

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Rock The Bells NYC Lineup Updated; Erykah Badu To Perform Baduizm

    Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10 a.m. for the New York City stop of the Rock The Bells Festival, which will take place on September 3 at Governors Island. The lineup for the all-star hip-hop concert, during which a slew of heavyweights (Nas, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Raekwon & Ghostface) will revisit album ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    OMFG Ghostface Killah Has a Namesake Beer!

    WikipediaWord.​Donald Trump has his own vodka, but the best celebrity booze hybrid most certainly is the new Ghost Face Killah spicy beer!

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2011

    Is Snoop-Endorsed Blast By Colt 45 the New Four Loko?; Why Wódka Is Winning

    ​Love beer so much you want to lather with it? Brooklyn Brewery has teamed up with a Williamsburg soapsmith to make artisanal beer soap. [Brooklyn Paper] The Cuba Libre is more than just a "rum and Coke." Add bitters, a splash of gin, and Key lime juice or Meyer lemon juice to kick yours up a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2011

    Why I Won't Be Charlie Sheen's Intern

    ​I don't really like Charlie Sheen that much -- that's the first thing I have to admit. I applied to his internship because it was something funny to tweet about in the week that everybody seemed to go Sheen-crazy. Little did I know that I would make it to the second round of the competition t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Can A Professional Music Critic Name All Nine Members of the Wu-Tang Clan?

    ​If there's one common complaint we hear as rock critics, it's "I could totally do your job." First off--shhh, don't tell anyone! Secondly, "jobs" traditionally pay better than this, so we'll gladly go Parent Trap with you in a heartbeat. Either way, we decided to get some measurable data o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Sneaker Pimps Exhibition Hosting Ghostface Killah, Redman, The Lox and Friends in NYC

    ​There will no be shortage of New York City hip-hop at the local NBA Jam-sponsored 2010 stop of the Sneaker Pimps tour, which centers around "over 1,500 pairs of rare, limited edition, vintage, celebrity signed, artists collaborated sneakers and a collection of sneaker inspired artwork, fashio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Ghostface Killah Is Putting Out A New Album, The Apollo Kids, In December

    ​When we last heard from Ghostface Killah in the full-solo-album arena, he was thoroughly disquieting us with the lurid sex tales of Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City. His just-announced follow-up (via Twitter, of course) is less eccentrically named, at least: The Apollo Kids tak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    CMJ 2010 Announces 700 More Artists: Phoenix, GZA, Francis and the Lights, Screaming Females, Franz Nicolay, and More

    Our hero, Screaming Females frontlady Marissa Paternoster, at Siren. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​The second round of artists announcements is out, and it's the big one--count on newly installed acts Phoenix, GZA, Screaming Females, Extra Lens, Francis and the Lights, et al, to be your headliners, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    CMJ 2010 Initial Line-Up Announced: Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Ghostface Killah, the Blow, Salem, and More

    Surfer Blood play Cake Shop during last year's CMJ. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​Hey, remember last year, when we predicted that the stresses of Surfer Blood's twelve different CMJ shows would cause the band to self-destruct? Um, that's not at all what happened. Instead, the Florida band rode thei ... More >>

  • News

    May 25, 2010

    Summer Guide: Hit the Arts Road!

    Weekend trips to cultured places

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Week in Review: Born Free

    That's how you listen to Ghostface! Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week M.I.A. broke the internet in a tidal wave of blood and guts and red hair, we did our best to put it back together.

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Of Montreal and Ghostface Killah Played Columbia's $100k Spring Bacchanal

    All photos by Rebecca Smeyne If there's any metaphor for the price tag on elite higher education, just look to its student-run concerts. For Columbia's 250th anniversary a few years back, this alum remembers a blowout that included a no-show by Erykah Badu and one recently-hospitalized Wyclef Jean ... More >>

  • Music

    March 24, 2010

    Spring Guide: Shopping With Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos

    All photos by Rebecca Smeyne If there's any metaphor for the price tag on elite higher education, just look to its student-run concerts. For Columbia's 250th anniversary a few years back, this alum remembers a blowout that included a no-show by Erykah Badu and one recently-hospitalized Wyclef Jean ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 22, 2009

    'Hip-Hop Legends Concert Series IV'

    All photos by Rebecca Smeyne If there's any metaphor for the price tag on elite higher education, just look to its student-run concerts. For Columbia's 250th anniversary a few years back, this alum remembers a blowout that included a no-show by Erykah Badu and one recently-hospitalized Wyclef Jean ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Tonight! The xx, Ghostface Killah, Sharon Van Etten, And A Coupla Those Nice Travis Boys

    ​Oooh, lookit, it's the XX, fresh from beguiling long lines of CMJ patrons and subsequently canceling shows due to exhaustion. That's all sorted out, apparently, and thus will pleasantly gloomy goth-pop elegies fill the air at Bowery Ballroom tonight. We're still all into this band, right, Int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Week in Review: Those Guys Could Bring the Funk

    Alison, one of many CMJ street fashion stars shot by Sam Horine. Find the rest here.​In the week Jay-Z made it all about him, we made it all about Jay-Z, from the first deplorable word that he'd be attempting to demoralize the Phillies at Yankee Stadium all the way though his overshare-y and u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Ghostface Killah Is Checking For the New Vampire Weekend

    ​There must be a lot of celebrating going down in the old VW compound right about now. From yesterday's Q A in the Times, with Ghost and his manager Mike Caruso, an interview which took place inside a "parked S.U.V. around midnight recently": Q: Vampire Weekend is a group you said you liked. ... More >>

  • Music

    September 8, 2009

    Fall Guide: The Pains of Pure at Heart Will Pervert Your Indie Cliché

    ​There must be a lot of celebrating going down in the old VW compound right about now. From yesterday's Q A in the Times, with Ghost and his manager Mike Caruso, an interview which took place inside a "parked S.U.V. around midnight recently": Q: Vampire Weekend is a group you said you liked. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    News Roundup: Ryan Adams, Raekwon, The-Dream

    ​--The onetime musician Ryan Adams, whose next new book of poetry, Hello Sunshine, just landed on top of his last one, Infinity Blues, at SOTC HQ, is taking his act to the Awl, where he'll be reviewing video games. Ahem: "Playing Gorf is like getting wasted, or what I remember about getting wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Interview: Raekwon on Only Built for Cuban Linx II, Auto-Tune, J Dilla, and the Future of Rap

    "You've got some fans that wanna stick up for me and say, 'Rae's still got it!' And you got some that say, 'Nah he'll never beat that album!'" ​ In the 5000 or so days since Raekwon released Only Built for Cuban Linx, long considered one of the greatest of all solo Wu-Tang albums, the Chef h ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 28, 2009

    2Gethr 4evr

    Rap’s BFFs kick off APW

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Say Hey to Brooklyn's Own Revelations, Stars of the New Sorta-Wu-Tang Disc

    Today, as we struggle mightily to readjust from Long Weekend Mode to Back at Work Mode, seems like a good day to just play Wu-Tang Chamber Music on infinite repeat: As Mr. Breihan notes, it's neither a great album nor, technically a Wu-Tang album (no Method Man/GZA, no RZA production, etc.), but a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2008

    The Quarterly Report: Winter's Best Singles

    Today, as we struggle mightily to readjust from Long Weekend Mode to Back at Work Mode, seems like a good day to just play Wu-Tang Chamber Music on infinite repeat: As Mr. Breihan notes, it's neither a great album nor, technically a Wu-Tang album (no Method Man/GZA, no RZA production, etc.), but a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 2, 2008

    The Quarterly Report: Winter's Best Albums

    Today, as we struggle mightily to readjust from Long Weekend Mode to Back at Work Mode, seems like a good day to just play Wu-Tang Chamber Music on infinite repeat: As Mr. Breihan notes, it's neither a great album nor, technically a Wu-Tang album (no Method Man/GZA, no RZA production, etc.), but a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2007

    Status Ain't Hood Podcasts 15 & 16

    Today, as we struggle mightily to readjust from Long Weekend Mode to Back at Work Mode, seems like a good day to just play Wu-Tang Chamber Music on infinite repeat: As Mr. Breihan notes, it's neither a great album nor, technically a Wu-Tang album (no Method Man/GZA, no RZA production, etc.), but a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2007

    New Ghostface Album: Not Better Than New Wu-Tang, Still Great

    Today, as we struggle mightily to readjust from Long Weekend Mode to Back at Work Mode, seems like a good day to just play Wu-Tang Chamber Music on infinite repeat: As Mr. Breihan notes, it's neither a great album nor, technically a Wu-Tang album (no Method Man/GZA, no RZA production, etc.), but a r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    Ghostface on Wu Tang Situation: "It's Serious"

    Today, as we struggle mightily to readjust from Long Weekend Mode to Back at Work Mode, seems like a good day to just play Wu-Tang Chamber Music on infinite repeat: As Mr. Breihan notes, it's neither a great album nor, technically a Wu-Tang album (no Method Man/GZA, no RZA production, etc.), but a r ... More >>

  • Music

    December 4, 2007

    Enter the 37th Chamber

    The new Wu isn't nearly as bad (or bizarre) as some of its rappers would have you believe

  • Music

    November 27, 2007

    The Inescapable Allure of Grown-Man Shit

    Ghostface Killah on the perils of your fans—or your co-stars—not wanting you to grow up

  • Film

    October 30, 2007

    Things to Do in Rabat When You're Dead

    The CinemaEast Film Festival reels in the latest crop of Middle East movie makers

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2007

    Status Ain't Hood Podcast 10

    The CinemaEast Film Festival reels in the latest crop of Middle East movie makers

  • Music

    February 27, 2007

    SXSW Preview Hoedown

    The CinemaEast Film Festival reels in the latest crop of Middle East movie makers

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2007

    Spankin' Pop? No, It's Pazz & Jop!

    The CinemaEast Film Festival reels in the latest crop of Middle East movie makers

  • pazzandjop

    January 30, 2007

    Living With War

    The CinemaEast Film Festival reels in the latest crop of Middle East movie makers

  • pazzandjop

    January 30, 2007

    Insanity and Other Mutations

    Hiphop's future is cloudier, but not necessarily darker

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2006

    Preview: Ghostface Killah's New Album More Fish

    Hiphop's future is cloudier, but not necessarily darker

  • Music

    September 12, 2006

    Tical 2006: The Falling-Off

    Wu royalty gets a bit too defensive with self-prophetic comeback/never-left campaign

  • Music

    April 25, 2006

    Loving the Ironman

    The last Clansman standing delivers working man's Wu

  • Music

    April 18, 2006

    Dear Mr. President

    Baby let's have a ficus leaf and a cranberry Snapple before Bush do something crazy

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2006

    The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Albums

    Baby let's have a ficus leaf and a cranberry Snapple before Bush do something crazy

  • Music

    November 2, 2004

    Pull Your Socks Up

    Long Island's original native tongues serve the grown-ups

  • NYC Life

    April 9, 2002

    NY Mirror

    Long Island's original native tongues serve the grown-ups

  • Music

    January 1, 2002

    Music

    Long Island's original native tongues serve the grown-ups

  • Music

    December 25, 2001

    Music

    Long Island's original native tongues serve the grown-ups

  • News

    January 2, 2001

    Daddy Under the Gun

    Publicly, Rap Mogul Won’t Beg; Quietly, He Pleads

  • Music

    December 19, 2000

    Sobs, Static, and Sweat

    Publicly, Rap Mogul Won’t Beg; Quietly, He Pleads

  • News

    May 23, 2000

    Wu-Tang Clan is Sumthing ta Fuck Wit

    The World-Famous Staten Island Hip-Hop Collective Has a Government Informer Working Within Its Ranks; at the Same Time, the Group Is Being Investigated by the Feds for Gunrunning. Coincidence?

  • Music

    February 15, 2000

    Wuclear Fission

    A Nutcase and a Point Guard Rise Above Wu-Tang’s Solo Overkill

  • Music

    August 24, 1999

    Scrambling On Eggshells

    A Nutcase and a Point Guard Rise Above Wu-Tang’s Solo Overkill

  • Music

    July 20, 1999

    Consumer Guide

    A Nutcase and a Point Guard Rise Above Wu-Tang’s Solo Overkill

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