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The W has some great tracks:
Chamber Music
Careful
Hollow Bones
I can't Get To Sleep
Protect Ya Neck The Jump Off
Gravel Pit

Appear from a cloud of smoke, your voter's on choke
If surrounded, seven men drop with one stroke
Even if my feet was shackled down to one handcuff
To defeat me, ten demon's wouldn't be enough

Don't fuck with her HellToupee

they'll cut his eyelids off and feed him nuthin but sleeping pills

poisonous paragraphs smash ya phonograph in half
it be the inspectah deck on the warpath

Inspectah Deck verse on Triumph = greatest in rap history

Ghost has always been pretty heavy into R&B/soul samples so this doesn't necesarily mean the album will be shit. BUT - if he goes all 808 & Heartbreaks on us, and starts singing and shit - then Mr Starks, we're going to have words.

Iron Flag (album) is massively underated. I think it suffered from being released just a year after The W, but its actually a better album IMO. Y'All Been Warned, Radioactive (Four Assassins) and especially Back In The Game and Iron Flag (track) are top notch. Check out the GZA's verse on Back In The Game - "a spade

but nothing beats Ol Dirty for romanticism:

thought the Cold Six Thousand was a fantastic book, maybe not as good as American Tabloid, but certainly better than most of the shit out there.
hard to read at times, certainly the plot confused the hell out of me at times, but the style and swagger made it cool as fuck.
I always thought American Tabloid would make a

edit* witty unpredictable talent and natural game

witty unpredictable slang and natural game

I'll cut your eyelids off and feed you nuthin but sleeping pills

theres a bit at the start of "Penitentiary" where Ghostface is talking to some dude about some bad shit going down in the jail, and the bad dude in response says something like "you want one of these donuts?" and Ghost says "nah, I'm good" and that for some reason just fuckin cracks me up.

Liquid Swords = best Wu album cover

Guns N Razors is awesome

pockets dug from everything except check stubs

Clan in da front, let ya feet stomp

depends if they're identical twins or not