Introducing the Ghost. Face. Killaaaaaaaaaah!

If I had the best sing-song introduction by one of the best rappers ever (Ol’ Dirty Bastard), I’d hire someone to play it on a boom box any time I walked into a room. But hey, I’ll settle for hearing it once during a Ghostface set.

MP3: Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta F’ Wit

Ghost and Raekwon were a good duo with one of the most fanatic crowds of the festival. They got moved to the smaller, third stage. All that meant is that the same few thousand fans had to cram into about a quarter the space. Wu fans were spilling out into the food area, climbing fences and falling over one another to see a rapper who may or may not have thrown 50 Cent down a flight of stairs (my money’s on ‘may have’).

Let me get my one complaint out there first so that I can finish up with a big compliment. Granted, I’ve not been to too many hip hop shows and the ones I’ve seen have only been in the past three years or so. However it seems like this year has been the year of acts only doing chorus-verse-chorus and then cutting the song there. Ghost jumped into the familiar riff of “Be Easy” only to cut it after the second time through the chorus. Strange.

However, that had the ability to allow the duo to throw in pretty much every Wu-related song you could want to hear. We got 36 Chamber hits like “C.R.E.A.M.” and “Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nothing to Fuck Wit,” loads of Ghost’s solo material and even a treat of Ol’ Dirty’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya.” I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the Wu-Tang guys are class acts. Any time I’ve seen one of their ranks live, they always take at least a second to pay respects to ODB. In fact, some times they do more than pay respect. But they really do seem like some honorable, good guys. I’d credit a lot of their success to that simple fact.

Plus the fact that they’ve collectively written some of the best hip hop ever doesn’t hurt either.

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