Phantom and the Ghost

by Styles P

Overview

Feeding off an LOX reunion and the two diverse solo albums released previously (2012's rangy The World's Most Hardest MC Project and 2013's stoner album Float with producer Scram Jones), rapper Styles P takes advantage of his recent roll and squanders none of that momentum on Phantom and the Ghost. Past the Basquiat-meets-Pac-Man artwork there's the usual Mobb Deep-styled coldness with "Never Safe" and "Creep City" combining for a one-two opening punch with some electro underneath, courtesy of producers Joe Milly and Black Saun, respectively. The beats remain diverse, even returning to the eerie piano-fueled boom-bap on the great "Don't Be Scared," but Styles travels far and wide with his writing pen as well, telling his son a "do as I say, not as I did" story on the key cut "Rude Boy Hip Hop" with Raheem DeVaughn. Put the poppy, Jadakiss-type cut "We Gettin" on the end and Phantom and the Ghost is the big home-run payoff after a string of interesting but B+ albums. ~ David Jeffries

Product Details

Release Date:	04/29/2014
Label:	Empire Distribution
UPC:	0848928091225
Rank:	94752

Tracks

1. Never Safe
2. Creep City
3. Deeper Self
4. World Tour
5. Don't Be Scared
6. Sour
7. Never Trust
8. Rude Boy Hip Hop
9. Other Side
10. For the Best
11. Smoke All Day
12. We Gettin

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Styles P   Primary Artist
Rocko   Featured Artist
Bullpen   Featured Artist
Chris Rivers   Featured Artist
Sheek Louch   Featured Artist
Jadakiss   Featured Artist
Raheem DeVaughn   Featured Artist
Vado   Featured Artist
Dyce Payne   Featured Artist
Shae Lawrence   Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Vinny Idol   Producer
Dayzel "The Machine" Fowler   Producer
Camilo Gonzalez   Graphic Design
Black Saun   Producer
Harry Fraud   Producer
Trevor Dean   Producer
Joe Milly   Producer
Buda Da Future   Producer
Knuclehead   Producer
Maxpayne Shawty   Producer
Tai Hing   Drawing,Art Direction