Perfect delivery, stupendous production, hit after hit, tune after tune, the list goes on, Ghostface Killah brings you a modern hip hop classic. The tracks flow like crazy, you won't believe how good it keeps on sounding. So rediscover all that you loved about hip hop in the first place: fantastic samples, crazy street poetry and sounds that will blow your mind...

Ghostface's 2006 release Fishscale has received ultimately positive reviews, and with good reason. It was one of the best albums in 2006, and further cememted Ghost as the most consistent member in Wu-Tang. I really anticipated this release after The Pretty Toney Album, because I was waiting for Ghost to release another album, and to bring about an album that was better than Pretty Toney.

Rating System
***** Awesome material, worthy of repeated listenings
**** Pure excellence
*** Decent
** Ok, but nothing special
* Poor, no redeeming qualities

Fishscale's rankings are:

Shakey Dog ****
Kilo ****
The Champ *****
9 Milli Bros *****
Crack Spot ***
R.A.G.U. ****
Whip You With A Strap *****
Back Like That **
Be Easy ****
Clipse Of Doom ****
Jellyfish ***
Dogs Of War *****
Big Girl ****
Underwater ***
Momma *****
Three Bricks ***

There was no RZA on this album, but J.Dilla, MF Doom, the legendary Pete Rock, Just Blaze did a tremendous job with the production. Major points for the production on this album. Ghostface returned with a vengeance w/ this album, as he delivered a borderline masterpiece (that may changed in time). No flaws to speak of, other than there being more skits that aren't really adding anything relevant to this album. Overall, tremendous album here, one I would strongly recommend.

i have NOTHING to add to this cd ontop of the already awesome featured reviews, but to add my stars... this is BLOODY great, 9/10ths as good as more fish... (i'm sorry, but I like more fish more)...
it's a bloody classic that everyone should have, who like the underground, wu-tang, or your trying to become more educated in the more-excellent rap...

bloody great...!

This album is wack. Everyone is falling all over it so I got curious and downloaded it. A complete disappointment. I'm not someone who can turn a blind eye to really stupid crap on a record. The artist gave final approval on all this, so if he included the purposefully idiotic skits, I completely lose faith in his entire judgement.

Hip Hop today is so completely wack, that when an artist releases an album with a few decent tracks people can't believe it and think he's the next coming of Christ. If Ghost had released ONLY the decent tracks I'd be reppin him now too. But this album is dragged down by so much BS, and even the well constructed songs present a woefully self-pitying artist who is trapped in the ghetto pursuits of drug slanging and materialism. He doesn't necessarily endorse this perspective, but he doesn't discourage it, either. You can't be neutral on these issues. You're either pro-black or you're contributing to your own people's genocide.

GFK's guest work on other albums is much more enjoyable and sometimes worthy of true praise. This album is a waste of money.

No way in the world can you listen to this album and say that this isn't hot. I think that Ghostface makes music and the problem with today's hip hop is that nobody wants to make music anymore, not quality music. They want to make a CD that makes them money, not really caring about carrying hip hops torch, respecting it, and having others respect it. This album has it all; I love every sample that is used from old school groups like "The Stylistics" and once again "The Delfonics". It takes those songs mixes them just a little with a new beat and Ghostface just kills it. His flow is unstoppable; I mean his lyrics will have you laughing, thinking, and even admiring the quality. The skits are some of the best I've ever heard like "Heart Street Directions" which I can't even explain what it's about and my favorite "Bad Mouth Kid", I think you can imagine what that ones about. The skits are so funny and they never bother me, I just let them play through. I love the song "Momma" with Megan Rochell and I think everything he says in it is true. The song was a song that was needed to show love to all mothers. He talks about real stuff, things that anybody could relate to like the "Babershop' skit. If you see the tracklist don't worry about all the tracks that say skit because some of them are really songs with a quick skit in the beginning. To sum this entire album up I think the best word to use is perfect, it's a must have.