Artist Ghostface Killah

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Ghostface Killah

When you become a man, you put away childish things—and when you’re Ghostface Killah, that means not rapping about guns, coke, and running from the cops anymore. On his new Ghostdini: The Wizard Of Poetry, the man who’s occasionally known as Pretty Toney lets his loverman side shine for an entire album, proving that past come-ons like “Camay” and “Beauty Jackson” weren’t the only chinks in his tough-guy armor. Fortunately, Ghostface isn’t pulling a Kanye here: The hooks come solely from R&B singers like John Legend, while Ghost sticks to using his unparalleled storytelling skills to set the mood—and occasionally destroy it, as when he squares off in a suspenseful love triangle with Fabolous in “Guest House.” Ghostface just announced three new records with the first one, The Apollo Kids, set to hit stores in December.

Updated 10/19/2010