The new single is available now
Wu-Tang veteran Ghostface Killah joins forces with Grammy Award-winning rap icon Nas for an epic collaboration. Shouldering three generations of hip-hop excellence, the consummate artists float atop a sinister beat with surgical precision on “Scar Tissue.”
Earlier this week, Ghostface broke the news on Twitter that he’s gearing to release his first album on Mass Appeal, titled Set The Tone. The viral tweet gained traction online, introducing “Scar Tissue” as the album’s lead single. Fans huddled in the comment section in excitement. And rightfully so – because when legends link up, the end result is genre-defying.
Over the years, Ghostface has maintained his position as one of the most culturally relevant artists for entire generations. Candidly, he has nothing left to prove. And yet, the legendary rapper continues to set the bar high for hip-hop whenever he decides to spit a verse.
A masterful storyteller whose range extends from graphic crime fantasies to stirring autobiographical recollections, the rapper first appeared with his Staten Island group’s trail-blazing Enter the Wu-Tang in 1993 and started building a vast solo discography with Ironman in 1996. His platinum-certified debut strengthened a partnership with Rza, whose bracing mutations of the dusty soul have either soundtracked or influenced much of his best output. After an occasional commercial early period with Epic that yielded a second classic, Supreme Clientele in 2000, Ghost moved to Def Jam, where he released six additional solo LPs highlighted by his fourth top ten pop album, Fishscale in 2006. Throughout the following decade, Ghost added to his legacy with a series of creatively unrestricted works, many of which were whole-album collaborations, conceived with the likes of the Rza-inspired Adrian Younge, BadBadNotGood, and Czarface. These included the two-volume Twelve Reasons to Die in 2013 and 2015, Sour Soul in 2015, and Ghostface Killahs in 2019. A smattering of featured appearances and other one-off collaborations have followed in the 2020s.
