in praise of ... wu-tang clan, enter the wu-tang (36 chambers)

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i think the tape noise/buzz that cuts out the swearing in Protect Ya Neck is actually one of the most badass sounds ever created. I love it!

― pete b. (pete b.), Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I SMOKE ON THE MIC LIKE SMOKIN JOE FRAZIER THE HELL RAISER, RAISIN HELL WITH THE FLAVOR! TERRORIZE THE JAM LIKE TROOPS IN PAKISTAN! SWINGIN THRU YA TOWN LIKE YA NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDERMAN! TICK TOCK KEEP TICKIN, I GETS YA FLIPPIN OFF THE SHIT IM KICKIN, THE LONE RANGER, CODE RED, DANGER! DEEP IN THE ART TO RIP THE CHARTS APART THE VANDAL, TOO HOT TO HANDLE, yoU BATTLE, YOU SAYING GOODBYE LIKE TEVIN CAMPBELL

― xc, Sunday, 23 October 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link

So what's up, man? Chillin' chillin? You know why I had to post, right? Wu-Tang again? Again and again!

Pete B. OTM. "I'll be stickin' pins in ya head like a BRRRNN nurse!" It's just perfect. Also love the stupid bee sounds on the radio/video edit of "Triumph."

I fucking love this record despite its horrible missteps, which include the bad, dumb remix of "7th Chamber" would have been okay as a b-side but I'm at a loss as to why it CLOSES THE ALBUM... also, the ballad/message songs kind of drag on me after a while, although the Clan do acquit themselves well as straight-ahead storytellers.

Incidentally, what if anything does the so-called Master (Masta?) Killer do on this LP? He remains the big mystery of the Clan to me, I guess due to the fact that he seemed to be in jail or otherwise unavailable for most of their significant recording, but never got the same infamy as ODB. Somebody hit me with some of his best moments, I just can't seem to pick his voice out of the group if he even shows up at all...

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 October 2005 05:15 (eighteen years ago) link

There is a non edited version of Protect Ya Neck called '(Bloody Version)'. I only have it in m4a format though.

― splates (splates), Monday, 24 October 2005 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I've come to like the 'buzz' sound on the original

― splates (splates), Monday, 24 October 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Master Killer isn't exactly great, but he does have the odd brilliant moment, such "Raw I'm a give it to ya/ with no trivia/ raw like cocaine straight from bolivia..." etc.
There's also the cool bit in the Triumph video where they all raise their fists during his verse.

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 24 October 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I always thought the "raw I'm'a give it to ya" section was RZA for some reason, but the Internet is telling me it's U-God, which I definitely hear. Master Killa's verse on that track is the "Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty..." finale, which is actually pretty great ("..with the speed of a centipede"). I think maybe sometimes I think Masta Killer's stuff is the GZA for some reason...

― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 October 2005 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

"raw i'mma give it to ya" is u-god, and it IS pretty great.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 24 October 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

U-God: Dud or Greatest One-Verse MC of All Time?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 24 October 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh wait, that turns out to be a trick question: the Greatest One-Verse MC Of All Time is Deck.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 24 October 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Both U-God and Inspectah Deck have acquited themselves nicely as one-verse wonders on countless Wu-cuts, but since I've never actually heard any of their solo stuff I hesitate to take sides. They've certainly never produced albums anyone's recommended to me...but in any case, both have totalled up some great stuff on Wu group cuts. I think Deck does win, though, for the "I bomb atomically" verse in "Triumph."

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Bollocks, you're completely right - Master Killer does the "evidence indicates that his stature/ merciless like a terrorist/ hard to capture' verse. How shameful.
If U-God were to be a one-verse MC, it should be for his verse on Ghostface's Black Jesus. Now that really is incredible.

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

lol jjj lemonade salesman had u backsteppin

― zero content albums (darraghmac), Monday, 22 September 2014 23:55 (nine years ago) link

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