The spiritual nucleus of Supreme Clientele spawns from that pilgrimage. RZA had brought Kung Fu flicks-specifically Blade of Fury-which they watched alone as honored guests, the tribe’s children looking on in awe of them and the village’s only TV. When the RZA showed up to meet Ghostface, he saw his bandmate materialize in a dashiki, full beard, and unkempt hair puffed out. The inhabitants lived in mud huts and slept on the floor. Wary of Western medicine, Ghostface flew to Benin to be treated by a bush doctor in a remote village several hours outside of Cotonou, the nation’s most populous city.
When medical professionals finally tested his blood sugar it was 500 mg/dl. He hadn’t quit drinking, which didn’t help nor did the joints laced with angel dust he still smoked from time to time.Įven before the diagnosis, he convinced himself of his impending demise, fearing cancer, though more likely AIDS. His diabetes had become cataclysmic: dizziness, blurred vision, bloodshot eyes, and concussive headaches.
_In the fall of 1997, Ghostface Killah decamped to West Africa.
