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Ghostface & MF Doom - Angeles [from the still-untitled collab lp]

If you'd told me ten years ago that Ghostface would be the most relevant Wu-Tang MC in 2006, my 12-year-old ass would have been rather dubious. Though more credible than, say, Masta Killa or U-God, Ghostface was initially less prominent than Method Man, Raekwon, or the GZA, even when the Beez started dropping solo albums in the late 90s. However, between The Pretty Toney Album, his forthcoming Fish Scale, and many cameos over the past couple years, it looks as though Starks has come out on top of the Shaolin pile. Doom, apparently, has inspired this run of profligacy in our man, producing a couple of tracks on the aformentioned new LP and currently prepping this release, which should be out in the fall. Ghost's flow is always solid, and the Villain known as Dumile manages to drop one of his better verses here. The real treat of this track, however, is the beat. I don't know who produced it; it sounds like maybe Scott Storch, but its like something Bernard Hermann would have done if he was a hip hop producer. Very dramatic and serious, but more Hitchcock than kung fu.