I see what you're saying but I really don't agree.
Bronson's album was great. People expected some typical rappity-rap-rap shyt and ended up butthurt. Leave that shyt to some Def Jux artist to drop on Soundcloud. Nobody wants to hear that. I found it light years ahead of what Ghost is doing. Bronson ain't deep but he's entertaining as hell and that's way more than I can say for Ghost and that extra whack 12 Reasons To Sleep 1 & 2 and Badbadnotgoodbutterrible garbage he's putting out. EVERYTHING he's doing is better than what Ghost is doing right now.
I wouldn't doubt for a second that Bronson might have respected and studied Ghostface. But apart from some vocal inflection and a gift for the abstract, they're vastly different artists right now. Bronson is funny comical music. Ghostface isn't remotely a funny rapper.
Bronson went the wrong direction going at Ghost, but he wasn't lying unfortunately.
Well thought out post. I agree with parts of it for sure.
I think my issue with it was that I thought the best joints on Bronson's album came out ahead of time, and that's unusual. So I was excited and then joints like Terry and Easy Rider ended up being better than a lot of what was on the album. IMHO at least. I just thought Bronson overexposed his music before the album a bit. He put out so many mixtapes in such a short time. Plus a lot of his mixtapes were more like albums, with original production and hooks, etc. So I almost didn't even consider Mr. Wonderful his first album. It's always hard to deliver on an album when you've done that, and he's hardly the first person to drop a "debut" album where people prefer the preceding mixtapes.
I do think he's an entertaining personality and I think he's different than Ghost in a lot of ways. I don't even think his flow is that similar. Some of Action's stuff makes me laugh and some of it seems a little try-hard to me. It find Ghost funny too. I don't think he really tries to be, but he's got a lot of unintentionally funny bars/skits/interviews and what not.
I never have passionately disliked Bronson but watching Ghost check him is enteratining and I can see why Ghost would do it. Action making those comments on TV was dumb.