The Cool Kids feat. Ghostface Killah-Penny Hardaway

MySpace was recently sold for a fraction of the price that Murdoch bought it for, which, coupled with the News of the World scandal, has quickly made this a helluva bad month for the Murdoch clan. Wear it.

As good as dead as a social service, we have to take a look back at what MySpace has given to us, the music loving public. Other than being a decent site to check out the tour schedule of your favorite artist/band, the biggest achievement of MySpace was bringing Michael Rocks and Chuck English together, forming one of the dopest duos in rap right now. From their jaw dropping mixtape "The Bake Sale" to finally dropping their debut album When Fish Ride Bicycles, The Cool Kids have always done things their own way. While their new music has an added layer of complexity compared to their earlier stripped down lyrics and vocals, they continue to make jams that simply bang. Though not the dopest lyricists around, the two make have come on a recipe which  just works. On "Penny Hardaway" the duo bring along the Ghost himself and the three take turns doing what they've all been doing for years: their thing, Penny Hardaway.

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The Cool Kids Penny Hardaway (feat. Ghostface Killah)

Ghostface Killah-Purified Thoughts feat. GZA & Killah Priest

Ghostface Killah is like a wily old guy playing pickup bball at your nearest gym. He rarely strays away from the same few moves, but for some reason they always seem to work. After his lackluster r&b attempt with Ghostdini, Ghost comes back and continues in the hard-hitting lineage of Big Doe Rehab, Fishscale, and the Pretty Toney Album. A showman like few others in the rap game, Ghostface has an eternal flame hunger, it never goes out. After decades of putting out albums with Wu, and a solo career which has been arguably stronger than any other Wu member, Ghost brings his friends along for this newest album, Apollo Kids, and this jamandahalf.

Ghost's verse is all over the place: Benin, Coachella, licorice, and an imam are all thrown into his minestrone soup of a verse. Each line is delivered like its his last on earth, with one running into another to not give the Grim Reaper a chance to keep up. Long time contributers GZA and Killah Priest finish the song off, each dropping knowledge, and all three master the beat in three unique ways. The beat in itself is a monster: part motown, part chant, it's the perfect introduction song to an album full of hard hitting rhymes and great storytelling.

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Ghostface Killah-All That I Got Is You

In one of the most vivid and painful songs in hip-hop history, Ghostface Killah blatantly defies the stereotype that rap is just about guns, women, and flash. Ghostface, always my favorite Wu member, gets a serious hand from the incomparable Mary J Blige, and the two find a perfect balance on this track-Ghost recounting stories of growing up hard while Mary's chorus is almost like a helping hand on the shoulder of his verse, guiding it along through his memories. Ghostface is nothing if not brutally honest on this song, rapping about his dad leaving, roaches in the cereal box, sleeping four to a bed, two brothers with muscular dystrophy. There is no false swagger here, no bravado, nothing bling about having to go to your neighbors to bed for leftover bread. But Ghost's spirit remains unbroken, there is no bitterness in his flow, he just tells it like it is. Like the Poppa Wu skit at the end of the track discusses, the song is about the reality of himself. The reality of who he is. Off of his debut album Ironman, "All That I Got Is You" is Ghostface taking a stroll through his mind while never losing sight of his much brighter future.

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