Ghost gets his R. Kelly on with some lewd, crude R&B.
Forget about the weak-ass wordplay of the album title, Oz-meets-airbrushed-van cover art and the fact that Houdini wasn’t actually a wizard — that’s all just the icing on the crazy cake. Ghostface Killah has rapped over plenty of slow jams with syrupy R&B choruses over the years, but a whole album of them still comes as a surprise, especially when the lyrics range from Usher-style confessionals to a song like “Stapleton Sex” that would make even Millie Jackson say “That’s nasty….”
Musically, it’s all glitzy pianos (“Paragraphes of Love”), Dre guitars (“Do Over,” “Goner”) and Minnie Mouse soul samples (“Stay”), but of course there’s an AutoTuned track, too (the barf-worthy “Baby”). Hook vocalists like John Legend, Raheem DeVaughn, Estelle, Shareefa and M.J. wannabe Lloyd are all given a spotlight track or two, but in the end, nothing bangs like opener “Not Your Average Girl” and the Destiny’s Child-inspired “I’ll Be That.”
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