Albums

The Big Doe Rehab (Expanded Edition)

Ghostface reaches back to his roots and brings some of his Wu-Tang cohort along for this ride: Method Man, U-God, Masta Killa, and Raekwon all make appearances. He sticks with the formula that works: Over soul samples, Ghostface presents himself as a detailed narrator of the street, an eye-level storyteller whose unvarnished flow spares nothing. This shines through most clearly on cuts like “Yapp City,” a first-person account of a stickup, and “Yolanda’s House,” which opens with Ghost vividly describing an escape from police. More