When they are in concert, do you have any idea if they use a live band in the guitar/bass/drums tradition? Because......

Rap groups w/ live bands=Crap

NC

Bump. The only album I have by wu tang or any of its members is 36 chambers. Which album should I get next? A friend reccomended Iron Flag.

holy crap, these guys write some of the best lyrics in ALL of music.

I only have knowledge of:

first wu tang

first GZA

first Raekwon

one of the best music videos ever: Daytona 500.

great film soundtrack: RZA ghostdog.

Peripatetic wrote:Not Crap.
The only rap music worth talking about.
Except for the Fat Boys...they had it figured out, too.

sw

Isn't you forgetting somebody?

Rotten Tanx wrote:Bump. The only album I have by wu tang or any of its members is 36 chambers. Which album should I get next? A friend reccomended Iron Flag.

My favourite album of their's (that I've heard) is Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. The subject matter is Scarface-inspired fantasies circling round his own drug-dealing life, but over the top and skewed enough to be interesting and illusory rather than hectoring, obnoxious and objectionable. This is matched by some truly tripped out music.

I think that I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the song Glaciers of Ice is a psychedelic soul monster masterpiece. The moments when the female vocal kicks in, peaks and loops are briliantly incongruous. I was bedridden and had a high fever when I heard this song for the first time, which added to my appreciation. It used to give me shivers; writing this I want to listen to it again to see if it still works.

There's reason to call bullshit on the gangster fantasist side, I think. But it is done exceedingly well - like a Loony Tunes version of NWA.

For me, the record marks when the rawness of the early work mixed perfectly with the slicker strings and soul stylings of the later records. I didn't like Wu-Tang Forever as much because it was too slick, but the balance on Only Built... is perfect to my taste.

There are few things on the planet less crap than the Wu.

Not Crap.

WF for 80% of their post-millenial sh!t.

WF for faking like they all got along.

Rotten Tanx wrote:Bump. The only album I have by wu tang or any of its members is 36 chambers. Which album should I get next? A friend reccomended Iron Flag.

Wu-Tang are phenomenal.

36 Chambers is the best.

Buried in the double album that is Wu-Tang Forever is a single album equal to 36 Chambers.

GZA's Liquid Swords is a perfect album -- same class as At Action Park by Shellac and Sound in Time by Lungfish.

Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is a must-own, too.

Ghostface's solo stuff is all pretty good -- he is probably the most consistent Wu member from one solo album to the next.

Method Man Tical would be next if you're still curious.

inspectah deck is forever underrated

inspectah deck wrote:i rip it hardcore like porno flick bitches
i roll with groups of ghetto bastards with biscuits
check it, my method on the microphone's bangin'
my wu-tang slang will leave your headpiece hangin'

also, check out his verse on triumph (the first, after odb's intro), his verse on cream, his verse on a better tomorrow, etc.