Their numbers include geniuses, killers, masters, and bastards. This week we enter the 36 chambers and look at some of the most important albums in hip-hop history. Hi. I’m John. I do “ Own It or Disown It ” every Friday. “a list obligatory.” is usually Chris’s thing, but when I suggested that [...]

Having already released two classic solo albums, 2000's Supreme Clientele, and 2004's The Pretty Toney Album , Ghostface Killah released his fifth solo LP, Fishscale , on March 28, 2006. The album received universal acclaim ranging from Pitchfork, who recently named it the 75th best album of the 2000s, to famed critic Robert Christgau, who favorably compared it to Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back . The record featured some of the best singles of his career, including the Jay-Z sampling "Back Like That," and "Big Girl," which [...]