Fishscale is the fifth album by Cette année Ghostface Killah, released via Def Jam Recordings on March 28th 2006. It was supported by singles “Back Like That” (his most successful one) and “Be Easy”. The album’s title derives from a slang for high grade cocaine, in allusion to Ghost’s signature subject matter (he also abused it in the 1980s). Since its release, the term has become even more so popularised. Unlike Ghost’s previous work, Fishscale featured no production from RZA. Instead, he used instrumentals from J Dilla’s Donuts and worked with other renown producers like Just Blaze, MF DOOM and Pete Rock. The album also includes the only song other than “Triumph” to include every Wu Tang member, “9 Milli Bros”. Fishscale garnered unanimous acclaim from critics. XXL placed it in their Top 5 Albums of 2006, and Pitchfork ranked it #75 on their Top 200 Albums of the 2000s. On its 10th anniversary, Billboard published a track by track breakdown to commemorate it. Fishscale arrived midway through a decade in which a general broadening of listener tastes led many indie-rock kids to discover all the amazing non-mainstream hip-hop they’d been sleeping on. Due in part to a strong promo push from Def Jam, Fishscale generated lots of press coverage and landed on numerous critical best-of lists Ghost predicted this in an AskMen interview briefly before the album was released: The last couple of albums really had no buzz on them — on me or my album. You know, based on what I went through at Sony and what I just went through at Def Jam the first year in there [with the transition going on] this one seems like there is a lot more promotion: On the Internet, what I’m doing out there on the streets as far as shows and all that.