Not that it’s stopped some others (cough, Ross, cough), but Ghostface seems to think that it’s not right to rap about what he’s not actually doing.  In an interview with Hip Hop Connection, Ghostface explains why he’s going the R&B route for his next album.  “Soul music describes me, before hip-hop and everything. If you go back to the early 70’s and late 60’s, that music is the essence of me.”  Fair enough, Toney, but please don’t overuse the vocorder.  PLEASE, in the name of every trend that’s died in the past decade!

We are always putting out rock foot forward on the Tripwire, but sometimes we got to let the world know we have soul too. Like contemporaries Ralph “Soul” Jackson and Charles Walker, Lee Fields released a series of rare singles in the 70s that have been rediscovered by crate diggers and brought out of obscurity by a new generation of soul labels. And his forthcoming LP (June 2) on Stones Throw imprint Truth & Soul, My World, hasn’t left our stereo since it landed on our desk.
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