FishScale

Fishscale is the fifth studio album by American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah, released March 28, 2006, on Starks Enterprises and Def Jam in the United States. The album features guest appearances from every member of the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as Ghostface Killah's Theodore Unit. It also features producers such as MF Doom, Pete Rock, J Dilla, and Just Blaze, among others. The album follows an organized crime theme, and is named after a term for uncut cocaine. Fishscale sold nearly 110,000 units in its first week of release, and debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, making it the highest charting Ghostface Killah album since his 1996 debut, Ironman. The singles "Back Like That," and "Be Easy" entered the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, with the former peaking at the 14th position. Upon its release, Fishscale received universal acclaim, with critics praising the album's cohesiveness, lyricism, and production. , the album had sold 332,000 copies. The song "The Champ" appeared in an ad of Amazon Prime, the film Drillbit Taylor and in the video games WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 and Def Jam Icon (Although the former is an edited version and the latter is a remix version).

Fishscale is the fifth studio album by American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member Ghostface Killah, released March 28, 2006, on Starks Enterprises and Def Jam in the United States. The album features guest appearances from every member of the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as Ghostface Killah's Theodore Unit. It also features producers such as MF Doom, Pete Rock, J Dilla, and Just Blaze, among others. The album follows an organized crime theme, and is named after a term for uncut cocaine. Fishscale sold nearly 110,000 units in its first week of release, and debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, making it the highest charting Ghostface Killah album since his 1996 debut, Ironman. The singles "Back Like That," and "Be Easy" entered the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, with the former peaking at the 14th position. Upon its release, Fishscale received universal acclaim, with critics praising the album's cohesiveness, lyricism, and production. , the album had sold 332,000 copies. The song "The Champ" appeared in an ad of Amazon Prime, the film Drillbit Taylor and in the video games WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2007 and Def Jam Icon (Although the former is an edited version and the latter is a remix version). ==Background== In January 2006, a sampler was released containing full versions of "Be Easy," "Back Like That," and "Kilo," as well as shortened versions of "Big Girl" and "Charlie Brown". It also included an alternate version of "The Champ". "Charlie Brown," which was produced by MF Doom, contained a sample from Caetano Veloso's "Alfomega" that did not ultimately receive clearance, and the song did not appear on the final album. Similarly, "The Champ" was not cleared and an altered version found its way on to the album. J Dilla created his two productions for Ghostface, but also used them on his instrumental album Donuts; MF Doom's productions are taken from his Special Herbs series of albums. ===Accolades=== Fishscale was ranked as one of the best albums of the year. It also appeared on several lists for best albums of the decade, with Stylus Magazine ranking it number eleven. Uncut ranked it number 62 on their 150 Best Albums of the 2000s, while Pitchfork ranked it number 75 on their Top 200 Albums of the 2000s, stating "History will remember Fishscale as Ghostface's Magical Mystery Tour: an artist convinced of his own genius empties every chamber on a batshit, pseudo-conceptual headtrip." In 2009, Rhapsody ranked the album at number nine on its "Hip-Hop’s Best Albums of the Decade" list. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2022, the album was ranked 131st on Rolling Stone s list of the 200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time. ==Personnel== Ghostface Killah – performer, producer, executive producer Raekwon – performer Trife – performer Sun God – performer Cappadonna – performer Shawn Wigs – performer RZA – performer GZA – performer Method Man – performer Inspectah Deck – performer U-God – performer Masta Killa – performer Ol' Dirty Bastard – performer The Notorious B.I.G. – performer Ne-Yo – vocals Megan Rochell – vocals Candice Wilson – vocals Jonathan Doyle – vocals Rob Mathes – bass, guitar, horn arrangements Tom Timko – alto sax Jeff Kievit – trumpet Birch Johnson – trombone Ken Lewis – multi instruments, producer MF Doom – producer Pete Rock – producer J Dilla – producer Just Blaze – producer, engineer MoSS – producer Sean Cane & LV – producer Cool & Dre – producer Sean Combs – producer Lewis Parker – producer Crack Val – producer Xtreme – producer Studio Steve – producer Mario "Big O" Caruso – producer, executive producer, management Scutch Robinson – executive producer Shawn Carter – executive producer Christos Tsantilis – engineer, editing David Brown – engineer, mixing assistant Morgan Garcia – engineer Stephen Glicken – engineer Mike Tocci – engineer Andrew Wright – engineer Jason Goldstein – mixing Gimel Keaton – mixing Nikos Teneketzis – mixing Joe Stewart – engineer, mixing Tony Dawsey – mastering Terese Joseph – A&R Patrick "Plain Pat" Reynolds – A&R Ashaunna Ayars – marketing Tai Linzie – photography, art coordinator F. Scott Schafer – photography Alli Truch – creative director Dawud West – design, logo Lyani Powers – set design ==Charts== ===Weekly charts=== ===Year-end charts=== ==References== ==External links== Fishscale Reviews at Metacritic XXL article

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