In the beginning of his career Action Bronson couldn’t seem to get away from comparisons to Ghostface Killah. The chatter about Bronson’s delivery sounding like Ghost’s slowly thinned out but in a new interview the Wu-Tang Clan rapper addresses his initial reaction to hearing a voice so similar to his own on a track.
“I thought he was me one day, you know what I mean?” Ghost said in a new interview with VladTV. “When I heard some shit that I never even fucking—when I first got put on and shit. I’m asking myself, ‘When the fuck I do that verse?’ They pulled up on the YouTube, I’m like, ‘When the fuck I do [that]?’ It was him. So when I seen him he was like, ‘Yo, everybody saying I sound like you. I’m not trying sound like you man, this how my voice is.’ He was a good dude, humbled and shit.”
Ghost added on, “If that’s not the tone of your voice, then it’s like, ‘Yo bro, you a great actor.’ Only Jamie Foxx and them niggas could do that shit. I don’t know.”
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Ghost ain’t lost a step!
The Outro part on “Last Night Skit” off the Pretty Toney album always had me laughing.
Girl- Damn, nigga, stop fuckin’ touchin’ me
Ghost- Come on, ma, I thought you had an ant on your leg
Girl- Man, you know I ain’t have no fuckin’ ant on me
Theodore Unit member- This nigga Starks got ants in his car!
Ghost- Muthafucka!… You got ants in your mouth, bitch!
lmao this is my shit too
It’s one thing to have a similar voice as someone else, but Action Bronson tries to sound like Ghost. His voice inflections, the way he says shit, his style…he’s just bitin’ off Ghost’s whole shit, let’s be honest. He is to Ghost what Droog is to Nas. Granted, they can both rap, especially Droog…but they are biters, there’s no way around it.
like when AB says ” it’s me “… i always go back to Supreme Clientele where GFK screams ” it’s me ya’ll “. granted it’s a small thing but still. also trip out how dude surely knew he sounded like GFK and made no effort to change up.
I agree. It’s not just his voice, it definitely sounds like Bronson is trying to imitate Ghostface’s abstract sort of sound. It’s like a watered down version of Ghost or something. I think Bronson was one of those white kids who was really into Wu as a kid and tried to copy them when he started rapping. There are a lot of underground white rappers who imitate 90’s rappers.
Whenever the subconscious goes unguarded, & we’re honestly expressing ourselves, we are bound to imitate whatever is influencing & inspiring us the most… And it can happen any time a rapper free-styles, for sure… no free passes for writers tho. But at the end of the day, who knows? I see it all the time with these young, lil’ rapper-guys tho
they dont even aound the same u guys r corny as fuck for thinking that
Maybe Action sounds more like early Ghostface. But yes, recently, the two don’t even sound alike. Ghost’s voice is deeper than Action’s.