the wu

[pigmaker]

im a little disappointed theres not already a thread for the wu tang clan

this is hardly the best example of their collective work; it just happens to be what im jammin on lately

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHkRHiEjt8I[/youtube]




as far as straight MCin, and production, this is one of the ones i would put up

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OM3YMaiZY0[/youtube]




i dont always listen to hip hop, but when i do....

[pigmaker]

One of my facespace friends posted this earlier today...brand new wu track..it's a throwback. i dig it.

http://nahright.com/news/2013/05/17/wu- ... in-autumn/

[D.o.S.]

Big fan here. Liquid Swords is my ish.

[DarkAxel]

love me some Wu... favourite songs are kinda scattered across all the albums

[pigmaker]

Big fan here. Liquid Swords is my ish.

liquid swords is my favorite hip hop album of all time. it has been for many years.

used to have a big poster of the album cover but it got all fucked up moving years back. love the chessboard n shit

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUBZ1E8FZ_o[/youtube]



i also really was into the bobby digital album, i got it the day it was released and was like WHOA.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkY39tQ7LU[/youtube]

the album was released in 1998. obviously pre-911, there's a lot of islamic extremist type stuff towards the end of the album. which you would obvouslynot hear on a mainstream record today.

theres some of that on wu tang forever as well

[D.o.S.]

They just released a deluxe edition of LS that came with a chessboard for record store day. I MUST HAVE IT!

[Big Mon]

Ol' Dirty Bastard is the only MC who matters to me. My givashit-o-meter as far as hiphop goes, died with him. That said, I had the pleasure of seeing the full Wu ensemble (I feel like I should have my ass beat for referrring to Wutang as an ensemble). Dirty came out with a 40 bottle in each hand, late, called the audience a "bunch of programmed muthafuckaz" and mostly sat back down. That alone was worth the tix price.

[pigmaker]

Ol' Dirty Bastard is the only MC who matters to me. My givashit-o-meter as far as hiphop goes, died with him. That said, I had the pleasure of seeing the full Wu ensemble (I feel like I should have my ass beat for referrring to Wutang as an ensemble). Dirty came out with a 40 bottle in each hand, late, called the audience a "bunch of programmed muthafuckaz" and mostly sat back down. That alone was worth the tix price.

man, that's a pretty rad story. i dont have a cool wutang story, other than driving around in my car blasting wu and getting stoned as a teenager.



@d.o.s. - yeah that sounds pretty dope. i have a one-off ceramic chessboard already though.

gza was in chicago (iirc) last summer at some festival thing, they put on the poster that liquid swords would be played in its entirety. im still pissed i didnt manage a way to get there for that.

[pigmaker]

RIP

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdNHS8b9C7I[/youtube]

[Chankgeez]

I love Wu-Tang Clan, especially ODB, but I thought this was gonna be a thread about this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yky0elCSeGg[/youtube]

[Achtane]

I love Wu-Tang Clan, especially ODB, but I thought this was gonna be a thread about this:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yky0elCSeGg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uj2JNt6KBc[/youtube]

[oldangelmidnight]

I've got to listen to Liquid Swords again. Most of my social experience during high school was getting fucked up and listening to that album while playing Goldeneye or Cool Boarders.

[pigmaker]

We did the same thing, played the fuck outta some Goldeneye.

[rustywire]

...with a shot that was hyper than your average JFK sniper."



Enter The Wu-Tang(36 Chambers)
Tical
Return To The 36 Chambers (The Dirty Version)
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Liquid Swords
Ironman
Forever

Some of the best late night/rainy day records ever cut.

For a solid 4 years there in the mid 90s, Wu-Tang clan ruled the hip hop world.
They were just pumping out instant classic after game changer.

Seminal, prolific shit that no other rap group can touch in terms of breadth, where solid project after solid project just dominated the airwaves.
And you have to remember, this was before rap was tailor made with female appeal/for women. These weren't club bangers and bubblegum records charting, it was grimy underground headbob shit that found mass appeal. Not exactly the stuff you can dance too...

It's like they were a bball team loaded with #1 overall picks and a couple top 3s. [and maybe a top 10 in u-god's case, on those early records...]
Just completely stacked with different, distinct styles and everyone had their own thing going on, but there was still that rare cohesion and their gimmick was backed with substance.
There are some real deep concepts and just.....stockpiles of wordplay and metaphors...with fluid flows.

When I first heard Enter The Wu-Tang, it was fresh, even though I had already been familiarized with a decent amount of nyc boom-bap from the previous couple of years.
I split a record club deal with the old man, fall '93; "8 CDs for the price of 1 with nothing more to buy" and we each picked 4 albums.
I chose Nevermind, Siamese Dream, The Chronic, Enter The Wu-Tang.
No doubt it changed my life in numerous ways.
That Nevermind CD introduced me to hidden track easter eggs...but I digress.

RZA made simple lofi arrangements into complex soundscapes with intoxicating atmosphere that played out like a late night movie.
It sounded like nothing else I had heard at the time, in spite of being full of familiar braggadocio, the way it was executed was just next level.

What I'm trying to say is them boys can rap.


It spent 6 straight months in my Discman, no hyperbole. I drew Wu-Tang logos all over everything, somewhere I still have a boogie board with one on the bottom

I miss that feeling so much...the glow you get from pure joy and the wonder of discovery in music, and the culture shock that accompanies it.

And for the past decade, every couple of years I revisit the material for a month or so, where I listen to a "best of" playlist (which is over 100 songs deep )


And it still gives me chills.

[pigmaker]

around 97, 98, 99, i didnt even listen to rock. mainstream rock was fucking horrible at the time, of course, all i listened to was hip hop and some random stuff. classical. fiona apple.

back in 06 ish, i made a best of type mix, from all wu tang satellites and solo albums etc. it took 4 cds to fit all the tracks.