Bulletproof Wallets

1	Intro 1:20
2	Maxine 3:47
3	Flowers / Method Man 3:25
4	Never Be the Same Again / Raekwon 4:26
5	Teddy Skit 1:04
6	Theodore / Trife 3:09
7	Ghost Showers 4:11
8	Strawberry 3:06
9	The Forest 3:10
10	The Juks / Superb 4:09
11	Walking Through the Darkness 3:21
12	Jealousy 0:55
13	The Hilton / Raekwon 4:00
14	Interlude 1:00
15	Love Session / Ruff Endz 3:40
16	Street Chemistry 1:55

All Music Guide

Sprucing up the scratchy soul samples of his sophomore Supreme Clientele into a relatively pristine mainstream gloss, Ghostface Killah also, unfortunately, removed much of the flair from the most distinctive sound in the Wu-Tang camp. And fans looking for the genuine pain and emotion of his standout, "Hollow Bones" (from Wu-Tang's The W), won't be rewarded, either. Bulletproof Wallets is basically a party album, at least compared to the usual Wu-Tang gloom and doom, featuring smooth, romantic R&B tracks like the single "Never Be the Same Again" (with Carl Thomas & Raekwon) and "Love Session." One of the few highlights is the opener, "Maxine," an inner-city nightmare given heavy menace by Ghostface's tight rapping and an excellent one-note-horns production. From there, Bulletproof Wallets heads south, with a few oddball interludes (usually nursery rhymes substituting weed references) and smooth or stale productions from Wu associates RZA (five songs total), Alchemist, Allah Mathematics, and Ghostface himself. (Listeners should also beware of the back-cover track listing, which is completely wrong.) John Bush

Rolling Stone

On his third solo album, the rapper stays true to the Wu school of classic soul samples, ultraviolence and rugged surrealism. Pat Blashill

Vibe

On his latest solo album, Ghostface has no choice but to admonish his rap peers. It's not necessarily what he says but how he says it that strikingly underscores the limitations of every other rapper today. Joseph Patel