There are storytellers, and there’s Ghostface Killah: a voracious writer laying every composition thick with dense detail, an unmistakable performance, and a penchant for the tragicomic. There’s no one like Pretty Toney, and there’s no mid-aughts album like Fishscale: the work of a war-scarred Wu general peering into every corner of his imagination to remain present and persistent. These are the musings of a man who’s like a myth on your block: the powder residue still lodged in nostril, the hairline pristine, and the belt welts still burning in memory. Backed by an assemblage of everyone from Just Blaze to DOOM to Dilla, Fishscale is a crown jewel in a line of Wu-based blockbuster rap albums, leaving Ghostface as a legend who never shriveled up outside the era of his inceptio...