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 n stage and on record, Ghostface Killah sings unabashedly off-key. But when he raps he has perfect pitch. Calculated mumbles and strains ground his surrealist verses and wrench indelible nostalgia, vulnerability, lust and panic out of more prosaic lines. So when he gasps, "I'm on the floor like 'holy shit!'" on this spring's Fishscale, dive-rolling under the nearest table seems like a perfectly reasonable reflex.If a Ghostface line fails to evoke a three-dimensional image, the song's characters are likely the animated sort: "SpongeBob in the Bentley coupe." Animated is certainly the word for his recent performance at the Intonation Music Festival in Chicago: during The Pretty Toney Album's "Run," he ran frantically around the stage, playing a sort of figure-eight duck-duck-goose with his hype men. Inevitably, he asked for company and was joined by a BBC America cheerleading squad — previously seen spraying squirt guns, dispensing Benny Hill fans — and female audience members, whom he serenaded with the Ol' Dirty Bastard refrain "I want pussy for free."
On [Ironman's] "Wildflower," the woman you meet has seen your face on a magazine. On [Fishscale's] "Beauty Jackson," there's the line "her face froze when I dropped the chrome." How does your persona affect women? There's different ways. They might see you and be amazed by you, or they might listen to what you've said and not like you for that, think that you're too disrespectful. It depends. What about the more violent lyrics? How do they affect the women? They respond to me like a regular person. They know this is just music. On "Beauty Jackson," you're flirting with a woman at a bus stop. Is that where you meet women? At the bus stop? Nah. I mean, if she's looking good and you feel like stoppin' for a female and they wanna holler, then that's good. It's just that my imagination is crazy. I like to say what I think. I visualize a lot of stuff, and if I hear a certain type of beat, it makes me say what I see. I could probably write a bunch of movies. Speaking of movies, what do you think about Lil' Jon directing porn, or Eminem and Snoop Dogg doing Girls Gone Wild? That's them. If that's what they desire to do, then that's what it is. You know, I'm a righteous man. Not saying them brothers is not righteous. Me and the Father's kinda close, even though I slip here and there. I'll feel guilty if I film a porn thing, and I'm watching the girls playin' with themselves, 'cause it'll feel like somebody's watchin' me. It ain't like back in the days. I used to be on that bullshit. Now I'm a man, man. Things change sometimes. You've said you stopped smoking weed. Did that affect you sexually? [Eyebrow raised] Sexually? Sometimes it affects people's sex drive. No. My sex drive is a strong sex drive. Weed or no weed. I don't need weed to fuck. If I like something I see, my mind always goes there. I don't need the weed. Shit, I was fuckin' before weed. On [Supreme Clientele's] "Child's Play" you talk about wanting to go back when things were still fresh. When I was comin' up, when I was like, you know, ten years old, eleven, it was much better than it is right now, so to go back and to get that feelin' again, that's a blessing. You did [Bulletproof Wallets'] "The Forest" tonight, and on the new record there's "Underwater." In both, you mention a lot of cartoons. When you were younger, who did you think was the sexiest character? Oh, I don't even know. I never really saw a sexy cartoon character when I was younger. Unless Tom and Jerry were at the beach and a fly cat walked by. Or you know how they be doin' shit — like Droopy might be doin' somethin', and a bad bitch would come across the street, and they'd go ahead and try to go after the girl or somethin' like that. But I never really saw any sexy cartoon characters. You had Josie and the Pussycats and them, but they weren't like . . . that to me. MF Doom produced "Underwater." Both you and he rap about food a lot — what's the weirdest food you've incorporated into sex? I never did shit like that. It's cool, though. I always tell my girls, "Yo, that's what I'm going to do." But at the spur of the moment, I 'm just too ready to fuck. That's it — just get it over with. What about food before sex? You don't need a meal before sex. Fuck with an empty stomach. Pussy before food any time. You often sing along with the hooks, like the Delphonics' samples. Do you sing when you're making love? Yeah, if I got the CD player. If the radio's on and they playin' a lot of old joints, of course. You gotta. Especially if it's to one you love. You can't do that with everybody. What song's the most special to you? I can't even tell you. There's so many songs that's so good. I might hear somethin' on the radio and be, like, "Oh shit, that's my shit!" then they play another one: "Oh shit!" On the intro to [Bulletproof Wallets'] "Strawberry," the RZA's listening to you get head. Did you do that a lot, have him narrate? You know, on the road we did a lot of shit when we was younger. Brothers might be listening through the door while you're in the room doin' shit, or whatever-whatever-whatever. Right then and there, though, that was just a skit. On [The Pretty Toney Album's] "Beat the Clock," you said something about an "iced-out Trojan." [Raps] "Iced-out Trojan." Hell, yeah. "For pussies that's golden." Wouldn't that be painful? The iced-out Trojan? It's how you use your imagination. They might have one of those for the women that make that shit feel fuckin' nice. You know how they got studs on them and shit, like little fake fuckin' studs. That's just my slickness. Don't ever think about, "Ooh, it's painful." Don't say that. I'm a slick nigga — I say a lot of shit you wouldn't even think about. n° 
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