Ghostface Killah

"It's my last album [for Def Jam]
so I wanted to do the album I always wanted to do," Ghost explained in
an interview. "You gotta tell the fans that you not gettin' no younger
here, we gettin' older! And everybody don't sell crack no more, man. I
don't sell crack, yo. I ain't movin' no bricks or none of that other
sh*t. I ain't shoot nobody in like since the early 90's, man. How long
you gonna be 40 years-old and actin' like you still sellin' cracks and
you on the block and you doin' this and you doin' that when times is
more serious, man...And the fans gotta stop bein' so dumb and ignorant,
and know it's time to talk about grown-man situations. Sh*t that happen
in the real life, inside your household, your love life, your personal
life, that's just like, 'D*mn, it's hard for a n*gga to get some
money!' It might be so hard to get some money that your girl might
wanna leave you someday because you ain't get no money like you like
you used to be gettin' money! Those are real situations, so I think it
should start goin' back to songs that mean sh*t. All that other sh*t
outside is just gonna keep us dumb, deaf and blind, yo, and we ain't
never gonna get nowhere."