He uses his storytelling abilities to build an extreme hyper-reality.

He flexes his unique slang and off-kilter, almost stream-of-consciousness rhymes to create a wild and weird listening experience. Supreme Clientele surges with life, re-harnessing all of Ghost’s energy and detonating it with the force of a nuclear bomb. With Supreme Clientele, he plays things to the hilt, becoming a swirling whirlwind of lyrical energy and slang. It’s an approach he first began to embrace on “Cobra Clutch,” a track on Wu-Tang’s 1998 compilation The Swarm. Ghostface earned his stature as one of the titans by being as wild and odd as possible. With Supreme Clientele, he elevated himself to the stratosphere of elite emcees. Ghostface Killah had been progressing as an artist since his early appearances on the Wu-Tang Clan’s breakthrough 1993 debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), really coming into his own as Raekwon’s partner in rhyme on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… (1995) and then on his own debut solo release Iron Man (1996). It arguably belongs among the greatest albums of all time. It’s better than every album released since. As soon as Dennis “Ghostface Killah” Coles’ Supreme Clientele hit the shelves, the competition was effectively over.

The race for the title of the best album of the 2000s was finished a little over a month into its first year. Happy 20th Anniversary to Ghostface Killah’s second studio album Supreme Clientele, originally released February 8, 2000.

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