Remembering the Wu-Tang era

[QUOTE=Legend of Josh]Which Wu albums (solo or group) you like more? To me, Liquid Swords > 36 Chambers > Only Built > Bobby Digital > everything else.[/QUOTE]

Enter the Wu & Some GFK albums :pimp:

[QUOTE=i seen hippos]Protect Ya Neck is my second favorite rap beat of all time. Great song.[/QUOTE]

Production wise, IMO 36 Chambers is overrated. Don't get me wrong, still one of hip-hop's best and most influential albums as an ending product, just that RZA's best work is not on 36 Chambers (it would be found on Liquid Swords & Only Built).

While we're on the subject of 36 Chambers, Tearz IMO is the album's best instrumental. I'm sure that's against popular opinion, but no doubt that beat is one of the very few I can never seem to get out of my head.

RZA did his best work on Enter and Tical imo.

Although Liquid Swords was epic and 4th Chamber is a top 5 Wu Tang beat.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBKLl6jYT0o[/url]

One of my faves RZA beats, the intro is sick

[QUOTE=KoolKat]Enter the Wu & Some GFK albums :pimp:[/QUOTE]

Enter the Wu is the same as 36 Chambers (I guess some could confuse it with "Return" to the 36 Chambers which is ODB's debut album which is not that great IMO compared to other Wu debut releases).

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Perhaps the most enigmatic clan member of all is The Rebel INS. Inspectah Deck, you can't front on the guy's raw skills. One of the most ear-commanding rap artist, ever. When he spits on a fire track he's usually crowned the king. Unfortunately, his solo albums are sheer doo-doo, and Deck on his solo joints sounds very, very mediocre. It can be very perplexing at times. He's one of the rap game's more underrated "potentials" (or if there was a plural for the word?) out there.

Could never and still cant get into Rza. He is wack like U-God. And Masta Killa is ok but he is not someone I check for. I'm going to listen to some Wu Tang, start with thier double CD.

This song alone makes Tical #1.

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dumqStn1oQY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dumqStn1oQY[/URL]

Wu-Tang is one of the few rap artists that I can really get in to.

Inspectah Deck is my favorite. The only rapper who can sound like a thug and an intellectual at the same time.

[QUOTE=Legend of Josh]Enter the Wu is the same as 36 Chambers (I guess some could confuse it with "Return" to the 36 Chambers which is ODB's debut album which is not that great IMO compared to other Wu debut releases). [/QUOTE]

Yep, it's the reason i chose to type Enter The Wu instead of 36 Chambers.

36 chambers and liquid swords = both top 5-6 hip hop albums of all time

[QUOTE=i seen hippos]RZA did his best work on Enter and Tical imo.

Although Liquid Swords was epic and 4th Chamber is a top 5 Wu Tang beat.[/QUOTE]

I know I'm a Liquid Swords homer, but if we're talking about "best Wu beats" of all time, a handful would have to be pulled from Liquid Swords. Even some of the album's less popular tracks thump almost any other highly respected rap beats out there from any rapper, group, etc of any era.

Cold World - commonly accepted as one of hip-hop's GOAT tracks

Like you said, 4th Chamber & Shadowboxin' is watertight. It doesn't get much better than that.

I Gotcha Back is a sick sick sick beat. Listen to it again (find it on YouTube, I don't have access at work).

Living In The World Today sick. Gold, sick. Duel of the Iron Mic sick sick sick. The intro track Liquid Swords is sick.

The album just flows so... sick. Liquid Swords is sick. More ill than 36 Chambers.

[quote]Inspectah Deck is my favorite. The only rapper who can sound like a thug and an intellectual at the same time.[/quote]

You know, that's a good way of explaining his rap demeanor. Never thought of that before LOL.

Wu Tang is my favourite group of all time. We'll never see such a collection of lyrical talent again.

I was just listening to Heaterz the other day

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz_EQ6x8UFs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz_EQ6x8UFs[/URL]

I got the album on my computer luckily. Shadowboxing is dope. You got that right.

Cold War has been used so many times. I knew that beat long before I ever heard Cold War.


As far as the beats topping anything by other rappers/producers, I'll take early Havoc over RZA easily.

Infamous and Hell on Earth had better beats than Enter, Liquid Swords, Tical, etc. My opinion.

Yeah, Havoc was a beast on the boards way back when. It's just so damn shameful how those cats fell off so hard after Murda Musik. I thought Hell On Earth was decent, nothing ground-breaking or anything.

While Havoc's beat may have been more "grimy" I guess you could say, RZA's production on Liquid Swords was so damn clean and razor sharp it's just something that'll never be challenged, of course IMO.