XXcLusive: Ghostface Killah Blames Rza for Bulletproof Wallets Mix Up [With Video]
Ghost tells XXLMag.com why “The Sun” didn’t make it on Bulletproof Wallets…
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Kids, don’t do drugs. In a recent interview with XXLMag.com Ghostface Killah revealed why “The Sun”—the famed collaboration between him, Slick Rick and Raekwon—was not included on his third solo album, 2001’s Bulletpoof Wallets.
According to Tony, the song would have been included on the disc, but Rza misplaced the record that he sampled to create the beat. “Rza got high and couldn’t find the fucking loop,” Ghost explained to XXL. “He couldn’t find where he got the sample from. That’s why it wasn’t on there.” [Watch Below]
As die-hard Wu-Tang fans already know, “The Sun” wasn’t the only track that didn’t make Bulletproof‘s final cut. “The Watch”—another classic Starks song that listeners were only able to hear on underground mixtapes—wasn’t added to track listing because Barry White didn’t approve the sampling of his, “I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby.” In addition, the original beat for “Flowers,” the collaboration between Ghost, Rae and Method Man on the album, also had to be changed due to sample clearance issues.
If everything would have gone as planned, production issues aside, the Shaolin wordsmith believes the album would have been able to stand up next to his most critically-acclaimed LP, 2000’s Supreme Clientele, as one of his best works.
Ghost has a new disc that hit shelves earlier this week. Ghostdini The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City, his eighth solo disc, finds the versatile rapper rhyming in R&B mode. –Jesse Gissen
[Editor's note: Peep Pretty Toney's entire video interview with XXLMag.com here]
Ghostface’s bullet proof wallet was still the bomb even without all e’m tracks that could’nt make it into the album. I’m still bumping it up to this day and it is smashing. Cant wait to cop his l8est offering.
I thought Bullet Proof Wallets was good without those. I don’t feel like the lack those songs hurt the project, but they would have just served as an enhancement.
i always thoght bulletproof wallets was ghost’s weakest effort. that joint “never be the same” was hot though.
My favorite Ghosts albums are “Ironman” & “Supreme Clientele” even when i bump my “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx” album, to me Ghostface dominated that album although it was Rae’s album for real…those rhymes were murderous.
Ghost explained the bulletproof wallets mix up a couple months back XXl lol. So idk if yall was really gettin an exclusive right there
am i the only one that wasn’t really felling The Pretty Tony Album? i’d say Ghost has 2 duds in his catalog. i agree 3 more songs wouldn’t have saved B.W. i’m not hearing too many good things about this new album either, sadly. usually Ghost is a monster on those r&b type songs.
Negative. That Pretty Toney Album knocks.
Kunta Fly Sh*t, Beat the Clock, Save Me Dear, It’s Over, Last Night, Holla, Ghostface, Be This Way, Run: all those joints are killa. Nowadays you would be lucky to get an album with nine bangin’ tracks. If Ghost has a dud it’s More Fish which he himself acknowledges as a compilation of Fishscale throwaways.
Wallets was that sh*t too. See Kin Camell’s commments below. Don’t sleep on the new Ghostdini either. That’s some grown man romance rap. Give it some time to sink in.
am i the only one that thought More Fish was hot? i know it was throwaways but that shit was bangin to me.
More Fish might be my second favorite Ghost album. The cuts on there are hard – Gunz & Razors, Street Opera and Blue Armor are some of the toughest songs I’ve heard. There’s also some great storytelling songs – Out of Town Shit, Poker Face and Alex (Stolen Script.) Plus fewer skits that break up the flow of the songs.
yeah i co-sign ya latino, i always forget about that album. that cd has been sitting on my shelf probaly since the day it came out…lol.