For the last album he’s contractually obligated to do with Def Jam, Pretty Toney will release an all-R&B affair.

In speaking to Hip-Hip Connection, Starks explained, “[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 shit. 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. We in a fuckin’ recession, B! Ain’t nobody gettin’ no money, man!”

“We gotta stop lyin’ to ourselves and lyin’ to the fans,” Ghost added. “And the fans gotta stop bein’ so dumb and ignorant, and know it’s time to talk about grown-man situations. Shit that happen in the real life, inside your household, your love life, your personal life, that’s just like, ‘Damn, it’s hard for a nigga 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 getting’ money! Those are real situations, so I think it should start goin’ back to songs that mean shit. All that other shit outside is just gonna keep us dumb, deaf and blind, yo, and we ain’t never gonna get nowhere.”

Ghost in Ghost’s words. To get a taste of what the album may offer up, here’s a recent cut: his ode to Rihanna, “Message From Ghostface.”

-Devin Chanda