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After dropping "More Fish" last December, Ghost went back to the lab and cooked up his 7th solo disc, "The Big Doe Payback" an album that he says took it's own turn and detoured a bit from his original vision.
"It was supposed to be, more or less, it's me again," Ghost explained to WDKX.com. "I was gonna do the album by myself but as time went on, I started to hear Raekwon on a few of the tracks and @#*$%s wanted to get on. They wanted to be a part of it. Then I started to go back and see where I could fit everybody in. I started to think, like, where I could put Method Man , where I could put U God. I already knew where I wanted Rae to be so, it just kinda worked like that."
In addition to his Wu brethren making guest appearances on the set, Ghostdini also linked up with New York staple, DJ Kid Capri, on the disc's lead single, "Celebrate." The single has been gaining momentum leading up to the CD's December 4 release date, the same date that Wu-Tang's album " 8 Diagrams "was originally slated to hit shelves, before moving to the following Tuesday (December 11). Seeming to be a conflict of interest, Ghost explained that he was not budging on the date, no matter who was dropping.
"I've had that date since like last June and the Clan album was supposed to been came out," Ghost said of the possible showdown. "It was supposed to drop in August, then October and I guess it wasn't making the deadlines or whatever, and it was like, what the @#*$ are ya'll doing? I kinda felt like I was being sabotaged."
"Rza and Divine didn't want me to drop this year," Ghost added. "They wanted it to be all about the Wu and it seemed like a lot of funny @#!* was going on. They were trying to act like it was going to hurt me [to drop on the same day.] I'm like, c'mon man, I'm comfortable with my project. I don't give a @#*$ when my album drops. Whenever it drops, it's going to be solid."
"RZA ain't listening," Ghost revealed. "He wanted to make [8 Diagrams] how he wanted it and it ain't come out right. He wanna always do the whole thing himself, produce the whole album. We're like, let's bring in some other producers too. Bring in Kanye, bring in Pharrell. You ain't gotta do the whole thing yourself. He wanna make his own instruments and s**t and it sounded real horrible."
"So now it's like when fans come up to me like, 'Ghost, why you let them put that out,' it's like nah, we ain't taking the blame for that," Ghost continued. "That's what Rae was saying. We ain't co-signing that. It's like, hip hop is different. It's not how it was 10 years ago. We're trying to tell him, you can't just put a Wu-Tang album out and just think it's gonna sell just because. We been gone for what, six years? It's hard to win new @#*$%s. A lot of the fans now was in @#*$ing diapers when we first started doing this. That's why a @#*$% like me drop every year. I stay relevant."
Ghostface's album hits shelves on December 4 courtesy of Def Jam Recordings.
In related news, Method Man has released his concert DVD, "Method Man: Live On Sunset Strip", where he performs his and some of the Wu's greatest hits
