“Girl I’m Ghost,” Tanuke’s collaboration with hip hop legend and savant Styles P of the LOX, evokes a soulful sound of unique melodies: in tandem with a smooth cadence.


Tanuke’s skills as a writer on this song (where he talks about meeting a beautiful woman, while visiting Ghana, at the Ramada, but can’t get involved with her because she’s married) displays his gift, as a lyricist, to accurately paint a portrait of a scene in which the listener is actually there experiencing the story first hand.
Styles P cleverly piggybacks off of Tanuke’s first verse, and he skillfully writes flawlessly about avoiding temptation, by not going to her hotel room alone, because he has “a wife at home.”
“Girl I’m Ghost” is epically written, sang, produced, mixed and mastered, in such a way that it is impracticable to listen to it once; it’s infectious and addictive. It will have you coming back for more.

John “Tanuke” Johnson was born and raised in Jersey City, NJ. He began singing at the age of five, when his mother taught him how to sing his first song, “Sandy,” from the movie Grease. She told him that the first few words he sings are paramount (including his pitch) because it will determine his chances to capture the audience’s attention and win them over.

Tanuke would later hone his skills in church, singing in the choir, and at the age of seven, after watching his older brothers write rhymes, Tanuke started to rap, and he wrote his first two bars:

“I’m Tanukee-D
I wanna go to school Beat up the people and eat their food.”
The people loved it; and still remember it,” Tanuke says. As a teenager, Tanuke would write songs and sing as an escape mechanism from the harsh realities of existential crime, marginalization, poverty, and racism that pervaded the inner city.

Tanuke loves writing lyrics and singing, and after losing his mother to COVID in 2020, he wanted to honor her for her encouragement and support, so he dropped “Girl I’m Ghost.”