honorable mention for FISHSCALE though, which in addition to being an amazing record was also given to me as a gift from a very good friend back in college, and so i have a soft spot for it
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Dirk McGirt aka Big Baby Jesus aka old dirty bastard is the member whose music has aged the best. He had avoided unc status and still sounds more like 2025 than anyone else rapping in 2025. I am ready to die on this hill even though liquid swords is imho the best solo album.
Wu-tang Meets the Indie Culture- Rza's line, "Tempted by the sins of life, the pleasures of lust, with wild imaginings that you can't discuss.." in Biochemical Equation. Brilliant.
All of Raekwon on Enter the Wu is magic! True "1993 exoticness.."
One year I listend to THE CHAMP before heading into every one of my exams and I'm pretty sure it's responsible for improving my marks by a full letter grade.
The best song to get yourself hyped, ever. Still can't believe Ghostface dropped the line "Want me dead, but they scared to step to me/Ripped they guts out like a hysterectomy"
That is ALSO right up there. One of my personal favorites, and right alongside The Champ on my old morning playlist for when I was taking mass transit to class when I was in college.
re: LIQUID SWORDS, i like that the closest thing to a single on that record, “Living in the World Today,” is still the most sinister thing you’ll ever hear. and it’s the sinister vibe of LIQUID SWORDS that i love. the whole record feels like headlights in your rearview mirror on a foggy night
As a metal guy, Liquid Swords is as close as a multi platinum hip hop album comes to a lot of metal vibes wise. There is a theatricality and escapism as well as that darkness.
4th Chamber is one of my favorite tracks as well, I saw them once where they brought out the guitarist from System of a Down to play the chords and the crowd got so hyped
I remember back in high school a dude on the back of my bus played the cassingle for Liquid Swords every morning for a month straight. Absolute classic.
Amazing description of liquid swords. I always felt like it was the moment right before a storm at twilight, when the clouds roll in to shut off the last lingering light of the day and make the air thick enough to choke on.
Liquid Swords is absolutely my fave Wu solo project too, but spare a moment for the late great ODB’s classic Return to the 36 Chambers. So many unhinged classics on that one.
i have the same story with fishscale. one of my best friends burned it for me and told me it was a cinematic experience and it is. i wore it out and i still love it, and partly because it's tied to my friend
When I got my first car in 06 I put Fishscale in the CD player first to hear the songs blending into each other because my iPod mini couldn’t do that yet
White nerd here! I agree with basically everything you’ve said. Also my best friend (Japanese nerd) and I got a FISHSCALE poster personally autographed, and it remains a prized possession we pass back and forth.
Inspectah Deck is my favorite and I'm bummed out that he never pursued much in the way of a solo career, and that his few solo records aren't that memorable
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All of Raekwon on Enter the Wu is magic! True "1993 exoticness.."
When it comes to songs that get me hyped up, I can't ignore Ante Up. It makes me want to run through a fucking brick wall.
“Why is water wet?”
“Why did Judas rat to Romans while Jesus slept?”
Every verse is almost perfection.
RZA and GZA amazing
Still great.
So...come boy...choose life or death...