This album is definately off the chain. Ghostface Killah comes perfect and complete on this album. His first solo album, and its good in everyway. Good production and great lyrics. This album came out one year after "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx" and "Liquid Swords" so its in their with those 2 classics. This album has alot of different styles in it production wise, all produced by RZA and he did a great job here on this album. Known as the best Ghostface Killah album and I can agree here with that. Great cd. Support Ghostface and buy this album!!!

My Top 5
1.Iron Maiden
2.Assassination Day
3.Winter Warz
4.Poisonous Darts
5.Daytona 500

I have to speak out against Matthew Wilson's review for the sake of all hip hop heads who may be discouraged from copping later Wu releases based on Wilson's unflattering description of albums post-Ironman. Firstly, Ghost's sophmore release, Supreme Clientele, is easily one of the most inventive and seminal hip hop albums of all time. While Ill admit it lacks the richness in production and stylistic consistency of Ironman, due to cast of rotating producers (featuring RZA, JuJu of the Beatnuts, and Inspectah, mind you), the album is a milestone due to Ghost's reinvention of his lyrical attack. In various interviews he has stated that, after the gangster style Ghost flipped on Ironman and the Purple Tape (Cuban Linx) was so blatantly bitten by MCs on the east coast (ex: Cristal, Clarks, Mafia themes, etc), he felt the need to flip a new style. The result are some of the most creative darts written, "Scientific, my hand kissed it, robotic, let's think optimistic, you probably missed it, watch me dolly dick it..." An album like 36 chambers or Ironman is blessed with consistency in quality and sound because RZA holds creative control of the project, while later Wu albums suffer from sheisty record company intereference, whack production, and whack guest MCs. However the value of growth which occurs from album to album for an MC like Ghost is impossible to ignore; these MCs elevate in skill overtime, so why would you opt to pass up hearing how they've sharpened their darts? Ultimately, you put in a Ghost abum to hear Ghost, and he's gonna be kickin you that same ill style, whether its on a RZA beat or a beat that sucks. In my opinion, any fan of Ghost will enjoy his latest Pretty Tony release, or the widely sh*t on Bulletproof Wallets, which happens to be ILL. I can agree with the idea that later Wu releases lack the atmosphere and consistency of that original Wu material, however an album like INS's Uncontrolled Substance or RZA's Digital Bullet is still more compelling and enriching that 90 percent of the other hip hop out there. By the way, cop the version of the album with Sole Controller on it.

If you had to categorize Ghostface's abstract style of rap it would have to be impressionistic. Ghost's in your face style rarely comes forth in a conventional manner, instead he splashes the canvas with an array of vivid colors and images creating an aural kaleidescope of soul, funk, dry-wit, and braggadocio unmatched by any other. Sadly far too many men have had to come up in America's ever-sprawling projects and ghettoes but few have ever told their story as well as Ghost. This is a masterpiece.