Ghostface is infamous for his interviews, but it’s the best kind of infamy. His colorful use of language  spawned Big Ghost Chronicles, a blog devoted to his bizarre lyrical stylings and eviscerating Drake. Sample sentence: “Ayo whattup you now in the presence of the mighty Hands Of Zeus aka the grand imperial Cocaine Biceps.”

Ghost’s unique brand of stream of consciousness spills over from his rhymes into his rhetoric, spinning looping threads of “nah means” and “yah heards” through which he drops jewels. It’s pretzel logic at its flyest. In that way, he’s like Wu Tang’s mystic.

On Thursday, he’s coming to the Wilbur in support of his latest project, 12 Reasons To Die. A collaboration with the soulful producer Adrian Younge, the tour features a live band to help flesh out the album’s lush sound. Below, Ghost talks DOOM collaborations, freaking beats, the Wu tour and more. Shit is off the meat rack.

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Yesterday, the part of the Internet that cares about what happens with Wu-Tang was all abuzz about this tweet from the official Wu acct

Apparently things are now all good (until they’re not again). One person I can guarantee isn’t holding things up on his end is the mighty Cappadonna a/k/a the Cab Driver. For no apparent reason other than he’s just nice like that, Cappa has been putting in work with a couple of scene-stealing cameos on recent projects. Now I should preface this: if you need a primer on Cappa’s style, just stop right here because you won’t get the rest of the post. Yes, it doesn’t always rhyme (like his entire verse from “Triumph”). Yes, he’s an unrepentant shit talker for a guy who was once a gypsy cab driver in Baltimore. But there’s an art to his darts. And he’s been twistin them shits from the heart recently.

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10th grade high school drop out, GZA, has been hired by NYC Public Schools to teach science.

With Blacks and Latino’s statistically at the bottom of public school Science performance, they decided to use rap music as a tool to engage brown students.

This is a double edged sword.

It’s a fantastic idea in the name of engaging students and getting them excited about science. Regardless of the approach, the key to educating a child is figuring out how to reach and speak to them.

It’s a horrible idea because as a parent, I don’t want someone who believes he bombs atomically teaching my child science. Especially when he quit school at age 16.

Achievement is now based on standardized tests. How will my child achieve on a test, when none of the questions include spitting a hot 16 about molecular structure?

Happy for GZA for landing that paycheck tho.

GZA does drop science.

Over the past week, there’s been buzz building about the half-secret 20th anniversary Wu-Tang album: after Meth dropped a few hints during a performance in LA, Cappadonna confirmed things were coming together in a recent interview: “It’s all being done in the secret Wu-Tang Bat chamber. RZA has all the tracks lined up. There are recordings taking place in New York, L.A. and perhaps at the Wu mansion in New Jersey.”

That’s big news…not necessarily the album itself, but that a Wu mansion still exists in New Jersey. Cappa also commented on going back to back to the “original formula” of 36 Chambers, but that seems rather hard to accomplish if they are recording tracks in three different places, no?

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Ghost is back. His 10th album drops April 16th, titled “12 Reasons To Die.”

Here is the first single.

Here’s Tony Starks discussing his long rumored collab album with MF DOOM.

The Abbott never sleeps: after a couple years spent producing and then pushing his directorial debut The Man With the Iron Fists, which I still haven’t seen, RZA is back again with his sorta-new project with Stax Records. Seeing as he’s already made a small fortune based on their catalogue alone, there’s nothing wrong with making a little more.

The Shaolin Soul Selection Vol. I (2CD/3LP) features 24 classic tracks from the Stax vaults hand-selected by Mr. Robert Diggs himself. As RZA and Wu-Tang have enjoyed a modest resurgence via their influence on artists like The Black Keys and others (yes, even Beiber counts), it’s nice to see the boss giving a nod back to his own influences. And while offering nothing new (especially to those who’ve already consumed volumes 1-4 of Shaolin Soul), this one should still find some space in your expanded Wu-Tang library. You can order the deluxe 2CD or 3LP package w/ t-shirt from RZA’s new Soul Temple label + download a nine-minute preview mix from DJ 7L here, or watch via YouTube below.

tracklisting after the jump

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And it’s incredible..

I see this post sitting in the queue for like 3 days – “CZARFACE NEW ARTWORK REVEALED“.. I assume Marty is making a post about it, so I decide not to. A day goes by, then two, now on the third and Marty hasn’t done shit for it. I open it to see his rough draft — FUCKING BLANK POST –.

Marty step yo game up bruh.

You from Boston you know.. and you are getting scooped on hometown shit.

Don’t make me call Faraone.

This site is starting to look like UGHH.com circa 2008. We need Van $tylez on here to replace you and JayCeeOh to make a mixtape about our posts. Fuckouttahere.

And fix the blog aids for domain name JTTS.com

and bring back the thumbs up / thumbs down feature for I smash the server!

(I miss you bro).

Must be a barrel o’ laughs over at the Lochte house. Shit is painful to watch.

We’re dropping the GZA chessbox reissue on Get On Down..

For those that don’t know already, we had Chris Faraone do the liner notes.

For more info: facebook.com/getondown or click the banner ad to the right.

AND FUCK U I CAN BRAG ABOUT IT..

RZZZZARECTAHHH!!!

Amazing dude.. down to earth and intelligent. Exactly how I thought he would be.

Personal rap hero of mine.

#wutang

She’s Chinese/Vietnamese. Tatted up. Raps. Takes foot long L’s to the face. Blessed with the dicksuckinnest lips this side of Super 88, I give you, Cachet Tuyet Lu.

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