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Ghostface Killah

Fish

Release date: 29th October 1996

From Ironman
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About This Track

Ghostface Killah, Cappadonna and Raekwon trade verses over a sample of Otis Redding's 'Change Is Gonna Come', the production handled by Tru Master. The track opens with a monologue about organised crime and the dangers of drugs, a framing device that sits uneasily against the boastful rap that follows. Ghostface moves through vivid, almost hallucinatory imagery: slot machines in Queens, Playboy spreads, dashikis and afro picks, his vocal cords described as laser beams. The writing is dense and allusive, piling detail upon detail without pause for breath. Cappadonna and Raekwon follow with their own verses, the former adopting a harder edge, the latter settling into the familiar Wu-Tang posture of street credibility and material ambition. The song never quite reconciles its opening warning with the celebration of excess that dominates the verses, but that tension is part of its appeal. The production sits back, letting the three voices dominate; the sample provides texture rather than thrust.

"Fish" is a track by Ghostface Killah, from the album Ironman, released 29th October 1996. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Ghostface Killah

Ghostface Killah

Lyrics

Fish

[Intro]

Ayo

You know, they're killers themselves

Hey, hey, hey, forty-six hundred in there, duke

How you want it? How you want it?

How you want it? Stop that, stop that

These are the men who lead the crime families of America

I control 26,000 men

Except for dope, we operate in all aspects of organized crime

And if there's one thing I'm sure of

It's that drugs destroy your mind and destroy your home

In the end, it'll only lead our country into ruin

[Verse 1: Ghostface Killah]

We eat fish, toss salads and make rap ballads

The biochemical slanglord'll throw the arrows

In the dope fiend, vocal cords switch laser beams

My triple sevens broke the slot machines out in Queens

Grey Poupon is Revlon rap, smack pawns, swing like batons

Most my niggas smoke like Hillshire Farms

Check the gummy sole, underneath my shoe lies the tap

That attract bow-legged bitches with wide horse gaps

In steel mills I inhale smoke to blow on duns

You run errands, Primatene Mist is afraid of my lungs

Turn my channel, it'll blow your whole bench off the panel

Like eighty roman candles that backfired then slammed you

Every day is like a video shoot, check this shit

I take it back to Playboy, stash guns in whips

Picture afro picks, shish kabobs and dashikis

Thousands civil marched, raised their fists in early sixties

[Verse 2: Cappadonna]

Now check this one, you must have been stupid to miss this one

Donna shogun and flip a ton of fashion

Destination be the cash one, I step past one

Don't make me blast one, I'm cold like Eskimo floe

Cappa-villain stay chillin', take shots of penicillin

Clean out and let the steam out, she fiend to blow out

But I'm equipped with mad white, Morris The Rat got nine lives

I'll take a few hundred thousand dollar dives

And then I still never go down, until the last round I shine

When RZA do his thing motherfucker, I'ma do mine

[Verse 3: Raekwon]

Now, where I come from cats be carrying

Marrying drug money, fuck up your wife, get four to life

Cream we handling, Midtown niggas scrambling

Move and examine the fly shit, plus quick to buy shit

Chef, yeah, you know the whole god's astral

Fidel Castro suits, plus depositing cash rule

Big time, play it like Canadian wine

RZA's divine now, the sacredness of one's true mind

Now let's get colorful like money-green

High roller coaster, Sosa, million dollar nigga roaster

Yeah, god, be having my whole steez laced

Now let's rap a taste, connect dots, aim Glocks, train stop

Figaro fly jewelin', tri-color Cubans

Swerving with power Germans and Suburbans

Twenty-four niggas with vests on, my own restaurant

Dons sending my sons membership forms

And still getting this paper scraper

Fake gators from Jamaica, wizzes be passing like Lakers

And it be coming from Lex Louis Rich Liberace

Fetus style and block ya goals like hockey

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Track details

From Ironman

1996
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Album
Ironman
Ironman
Ghostface Killah
29th October 1996
Release year
1996
  1. 1Iron Maiden
    4:47
  2. 2Wildflower
    3:27
  3. 3Fasta Blade (feat. Raekwon)
    2:28
  4. 4260 (feat. Raekwon)
    2:47
  5. 5Assassination Day
    4:17
  6. 6Poisonous Darts
    2:16
  7. 7Winter Warz
  8. 8Box in Hand (feat. Method Man & Street)
    3:15
  9. 9Fish (feat. Raekwon & Cappadonna)
    3:50
  10. 10Camay (feat. Raekwon & Cappadonna)
    4:32
  11. 11Daytona 500 (feat. Raekwon & Cappadonna)
    4:40
  12. 12Motherless Child (feat. Raekwon)
    3:45
  13. 13Black Jesus
    4:37
  14. 14After the Smoke Is Clear
    3:18
  15. 15All That I Got Is You (feat. Mary J. Blige)
    5:21
  16. 16Marvel
    5:10
  17. —Wu Will Survive
  18. —260
  19. —Camay
  20. —Fish
  21. —Motherless Child
  22. —The Soul Controller
  23. —The Faster Blade
  24. —Camay (feat. Raekwon & Cappadonna)
    4:32
  25. —After The Smoke Is Clear
    3:18
  26. —Box In Hand (feat. Method Man & Street)
    3:15
  27. —The Faster Blade (feat. Raekwon)
    2:28

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