Ghostface Killah Gives New Rappers A Chance To Spit 16

Music veteran Ghostface Killah has launched a new mobile application called Spit 16 geared toward helping aspiring hip-hop artists gain global attention.

According to Ghostface, users will be able to rely on the app to showcase their own music videos.

“A ‘good’ video now, I guess, is a banging crib, girls with their asses out and cars. That’s what you see,” the musician, born Dennis Coles, said sarcastically. “But (to make) a good video, you hardly need any of that s—.” Ghostface says music video directors should study a much-loved Brooklyn rapper who, like Wu-Tang, was peaking in the mid-90s. “Remember, when Busta Rhymes did ‘Woo-Hah.’ He was in a box,” he recalled of that 1996 work. “That was colorful — it was different.” (NY Daily News)

Check out what Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon said about the group’s fate on the next page…

Although open to the idea of doing a follow-up to last year’s A Better Tomorrow LP, Wu-Tang member Raekwon recently said timing and schedules had delayed more group projects.

“I never close the door on what we’re capable of doing. Being that everybody wasn’t so fully happy about this last project, yeah, it’s a possibility that you’ll get another one real soon, hopefully. I think we just gotta wait and see,” Rae said in an interview. “We’ve been doing it for a long time, too, as a crew. So, everybody’s mind is in a different place. When we come together, I always want it to be 100 percent dedication and time within that album. That’s always been a problem because there’s so many of us.” (MTV)

Earlier this year, Rae talked about the mix-received A Better Tomorrow‘s reception.

“That album felt kinda bored. And that’s not just my opinion. The music was just too soft. Too humble. I felt like the album could have been better. I voiced my opinion, like, ‘Yo, let’s give them some real sh*t!’ The album was driven more to [producer and fellow founding member] RZA’s expectations. He was coming from one way, we was wanting to try something new.” (NME)

Back in December, Wu head RZA talked to SOHH about the project’s album sales.

“Look, people like to sell a lot of records. It’s an ego-booster. It’s a lot of things. It is what it is. But for me, there were two reasons to do an album. The first was to celebrate and commemorate 20 years in the business, still being healthy, still being capable and able to show these minds that were great were made to be great. It wasn’t a fluke.” (SOHH)