listening to “enter the wu-tang” and one think i like about this record — especially as i’ve gotten older — is how *charming* it is. it feels like a garage rock record and in a lot of ways that’s exactly what it is. it’s lo-fi, energetic and brimming with enthusiasm.
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I’ve been listening to “Tical” a lot the last week or 2, I had a similar thought about that.
I can listen to Meth vs chef on repeat, all day.
Favorite solo? Bobby Digital
No, bitch. You made bland, uninspired, post-trance electronica. It's not lo-fi and it's not hip-hop. Whatever that girl's stupid ass is constantly studying, it sure ain't music.
-Bring the noise
-Fight the power
-Don't believe the hype
I can't describe the pain I felt having to explain to the yoofs who Public Enemy are.
my first was a Whoop there is is single. i still know all the words. lmao.
I don’t think anything else Nas has done really comes close.
Wu-Tang is for the kids
But this was later, bc I was in kindergarten when Enter the Wu-Tang came out (loved it then too)
Me, a reader of comics “yeah thats where he got that”
Tarantino knew
s/o to da mystery of chessboxin. “homicide’s illegal and death is the penalty/what justifies the homicide, when he dies/in his own iniquity?” fire
https://youtu.be/ALUKDkOxVPo?feature=shared
makes me wonder if the (incredible) video is doing a lot of work in our minds to bring everyone "together"
Favorite wu solo overall is Supreme Clientele because it’s possibly the best/most unhinged Ghostface ideas on an album
Once in a dingy little club, the other in a theatre. Both hit hard but in different ways.
2. Retrun to 36 Chambers
3. Supreme Clientele
That said, I really wish Deck’s solo pieces had the same energy as his bars in the group. As a member he’s a contender.
Close 2nd: Ironman is literally banger after banger after banger. Daytona 500 might be the most underrated Wu joint of all time.
https://youtu.be/lPyZlcIHLgg?si=MNE3Mf2hPn8d050m
Digital Bullets.
Liquid Swords is my favorite, though.
I think my favorite currently *active* member is Inspectah Deck, who is doing fun stuff with Czarface. https://youtu.be/dqjJXe3kLUQ?si=Dz5Als8cT48MlICt
All of Raekwon on Enter the Wu is magic! True "1993 exoticness.."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee2NrhXEGWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiTWKHEqdgk&list=PLC80P4gsPr-YXebE41nYqhd4K_2kJaJSt
And while not solo... Czarface
I don't think I'm the only one, but RZA is my favorite emcee in the crew (if I was forced to chose)
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2. Cuban Linx 2
3. Fishscale
4. Tical
5. Ironman
I have no idea how that was the one I came across lol.
Cuban Linx for the summer
“Duel of the Iron Mic!”
“It's the 52 fatal strikes!”
I always wondered what Uncontrolled Substance would sounded like with the original beats. Reading the history, it sounds like someone Deck got in a beef got access to a time machine at some point.
Most disappointed by Bobby Digital, though I probably haven't listened to it since it came out.
_, Please
Obviously the guest appearances on the two Limp Bizkit albums
These are not highbrow choices and I'll own that
Rappers started whispering after that.
“Hey we can try to outdo Snakes or we could kinda mumble.”
“Time to mumble”
https://youtu.be/IzBeuWS4LhY?si=JWY30P9tTvdXkKkn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zXxKyTTxl8
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu-Tang:_Shaolin_Style
Evidence indicates that his stature”
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As for the garage aspects: spot on, and yes then clear to many of us listening to both Wu and current noisy indie-rock (Sonic Youth, Drag City) + old Stooges. NYC grime as answer to Dre's sleek.
What’s awful about my home neighborhood is our local high school, New Dorp High School, was full of white Italian trash from my beach getting into brawls with the Park Hill kids being bussed in because our schools lowkey remained segregated by the 80s.
https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/index.html
Wu were mid-20s. Same with PE and Jay-Z. They seemed more capable at marketing and understanding the business at that age.
Still get the same vibes now over over 30 years later. . .
they were all really bringing it on this one
the solo lps liquid swords, cuban links, tical …were amazing but more defined
My adult
GenZers
Saw them
Last summer…
And it was
Emotional
https://youtu.be/XP5oHL3zBDg
That, and getting turned on to The Roots from an NPR review of Phrenology, are probably the whitest entry points into hip hop that someone could dream up.
So be it.
“Again?!?”
“Oh yeah again and again!”
I love seeing how many of these reaction channels are Black men/women and I’d read the hell out of a book about comics history from a Black perspective
Fast forward to now, and they just released a generative AI video, which is the absolute antithesis of that: a weak, non-creative and entirely unethical exploitation of others' work.
That's a shameful trajectory.