Ghostface Killah "Shakey Dog"
Ghostface Killah occupies a corner of rap all to himself. His stream-of-conscious flow and ability to conjure imagery from his lyrics are unmatched.
"Shakey Dog" is about a drug deal gone wrong, going from the stakeout ("Whip smelling like fish from 125th/Throwing ketchup on my fries, hitting baseball spliffs") to the approach ("Straight ahead is the doorway, see that lady that lady with the shopping cart/She keep a shotty cocked in the hallway") to the action ("I'm on the floor like holy shit! Watching my man Frank get busy/He zoned out, finished off my man's wiz").
Like many Ghostface records, the entire song is a single, nonstop verse that ends as soon as the final lyric. He simply doesn't have time for outros.
Ghostface also holds a special place in comic-book history. His first album was titled Ironman, and he began calling himself "Tony Stark" on that and early Wu-Tang Clan albums.
With that in mind, Jon Favreau, a noted Wu-Tang Clan fan, shot a scene with Ghostface Killah for the first Iron Man movie, but it was cut for pacing.
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