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I own only one piece of art depicting a musician. It's a photograph of an m.c. known as Ghostface Killah. He is smoking a cigarette and singing into an old-fashioned ribbon microphone. In his knit cap and sunglasses, he looks a bit like Frank Sinatra crossed with a jewel thief. "Fishscale," Ghostface's new album, is his fifth, and it is the most exciting record I've heard recently. This is more than a little surprising, because Ghostface is thirty-five, and rappers seldom have long careers, let alone ones in which the quality of the work steadily improves.
Ghostface, who was born Dennis Coles, is one of the nine (or ten, depending whom you count) members of the ...