- The Big Doe Rehab
Infobox Album
Name = The Big Doe Rehab
Type = album
Artist =Ghostface Killah
Released = flagicon|UKDecember 3 ,2007 flagicon|USADecember 4 ,2007
Recorded = 2007
Genre = Hip hop
Length = 47:55
Label = Def Jam
Producer = Ant-Live Anthony Acid Baby Grand Davey Chegwidden Frequency Ghostface LV & Sean C Scram Jones Syience
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://wc09.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:dvftxzehldke 2007]
*"Entertainment Weekly " (B+) [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20162409,00.html 2007]
*Pitchfork (8.0/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/47462-the-big-doe-rehab 2007]
*RapReviews.com rating-10|8 [http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2007_12_bigdoerehab.html 2007]
*"Rolling Stone " Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/17395639/review/17437162/the_big_doe_rehab 2007]
*"Okayplayer " Rating|4|5 [http://www.okayplayer.com/reviews/index.php/weblog/more/the_big_doe_rehab/ 2007]
*PopMatters rating-10|8 [http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/51744/ghostface-killah-the-big-doe-rehab/ 2007]
Last album = "More Fish "
(2006)
This album = "The Big Doe Rehab"
(2007)
Next album = "The Wallabee Champ " (2008)"The Big Doe Rehab" is the seventh album by American rapper and
Wu-Tang Clan memberGhostface Killah . Ghostface first announced the album's release in a video on hisMySpace page onOctober 9 2007 .The album was released on
December 4 ,2007 . This initially conflicted with the release date of Wu-Tang Clan's fifth group album "8 Diagrams ", a fact Ghostface was reported to be unhappy with, according to an interview with MTV.com [ [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/46416-ghostface-upset-about-wu-tang-release-date Pitchfork: Ghostface Upset About Wu-Tang Release Date ] ] In response to this,RZA subsequently announced the delay of "8 Diagrams" by a further week so as not to clash with the release of "The Big Doe Rehab". [ [http://www.mtv.com/bands/m/mixtape_monday/102207/ Mixtape Monday: Nas Talks About 'Crazy Joint' With Jay-Z; Wu-Tang Delay LP For Ghostface's Sake | MTV NEWS ] ]Album Title
Yeah, the Big Doe Rehab. Y'all already know what it do, yanahmean? ...This one is based on... I had a vision one night, it came to me, yanahmean? I dreamt I was in
rehab , yanahmean? But for having mad money yanahmean? Like like like, me and a bunch of old white dudes yanahmean? You know, dreams is funny, you can't really remember the dreams — but I was someplace, I don't even know if was rehab, but it was mad money in there yanawhmean? So when I woke up, the first thing that came to my mind was The Big Doe Rehab. I take a list of titles and write them in my book, my rhyme book, yanawmean? which I might use in the future, yanawhmean? So when I got up and I caught thatvision , this one, for some reason, this one just stayed in my head, and I said, "Imma run with that" Imma make my album cover line along with that...Now, in the rehab, you could have the old, old, old... ..you know the kid that
[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1575697/20071204/ghostface_killah.jhtml]Anna Nicole Smith was banging, yanawhmean? That type of old dude that just... ..money since the '30s, yanahmean? A Chinese man could have got rich from the Chinese restaurant, in the rehab with you... this little kid could been born in the yanawmean? ...pictures with a baby in a carriage... ..a baby, he got rich frominheritance , too much money.... ...I wanted to go in the era, in that realm and starting painting a few pictures... That's what The Big Doe Rehab is based on, someone that got showered with mad cream, yanawmean? ...cash rules everything around me, but it don't rule me, you feel me? It don't rule me cause, I'm the sole controller of all this. So the The Big Doe Rehab is just like is, yo man, is how you say it. The first thing that come to your mind, that's what it is."Ghostface explaining the reason for the album title in an interview for MTV.com
It should be noted that frequent Wu collaborator,
Cappadonna can be heard using the album title in a verse for the song "Careful (Click, Click)" from the Wu Tang Clan album "The W ", released in 2000 ("...catch me at the big doe rehab/trynna re-up...").Album Information
The album features guest appearances from fellow Wu-Tang members
Raekwon ,Method Man ,U-God , andMasta Killa as well as fromKid Capri ,Cappadonna and members of Ghostface'sTheodore Unit crew. It also features production from LV & Sean C. fromSean "Diddy" Combs ' production team, The Hitmen.December 4 will also see the release of a book based on a previous series of Ghostface
MTV2 appearances, and entitled "The World According to Pretty Toney".Full audio of a clean-edit version of "The Big Doe Rehab" is currently streaming on Def Jam's web site.
Album Results and GFK's lament
"The Big Doe Rehab" debuted at number 41 on the U.S.
Billboard 200 chart and sold about 36,000 units in its debut week, [Katie Hasty, [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003684294 "Groban Ties Elvis With Third Week At No. 1"] , Billboard.com, December 12, 2007.] similar to the numbers of "More Fish " last year.Fact|date=December 2007Unhappy with the album sales, Ghostface has since posted a video on his MySpace page [http://youtube.com/watch?v=rnKGLVAKkXs&feature=related expressing disappointment in most of his fans for downloading the album.]Reception
Rolling Stone (p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Ghost's bouncy, more direct approach on cuts like 'Walk Around' shows off his ability to turn crack-slinging narratives into big, hooky pleasures."Entertainment Weekly (p.130) - " [W] ith Rehab, Ghostface proves his tried-and-true technique has plenty of juice left in it."Q magazine (p.95) - 3 stars out of 5 -- " [I] t's packed with big numbers showcasing his maniacal rhyme style..."Track listing
Charts
References
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