The Inevitable LIQUID SWORDS poll

Tbf that one’s a CD-only bonus track and it’s 100% Killah Priest.

I heard that acronym at a Fundamentalist church convention long before Liquid Swords

xp its backstory is more complicated than I thought:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVy1QEulhDc

https://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/the-making-of-liquid-swords-gza/

I am utterly baffled as to how Duel Of The Iron Mic got zero votes. It might be the best track on this album.

This is not a eighty-five affair, made clear
When the gods get on to perform storms blew up
Wu's up, causin the crowd to self-destruct
Killer bees are stingin somethin while I reveal
Science, that's heavily guarded by the culprit
Bombin your barracks, with aerodynamic
Swordplay, poison darts by the doorway
Minds that's laced with explosive doses
Damagin lyrical launcher
Lunge at the youthful offender then injure
Any contender, testin the murderous master
Could lead to disaster, dynamite thoughts
Explode through your barrier, rips the retina
Who can withstand the astonishing punishing
Stings to the sternum, shocked in the hip-hop livestock
Seekin for a serum, to cure em

And who the hell voted for BIBLE?? Because that should not have been on the CD. Should have just ended after 'to have it happen to my own neck is... ridiculous'

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lol

Cold World - Gold - Living in the World Today is the part of the album I don't really replay, it's dark and atmospheric and doesn't hit clear like the first two or 4th Chamber.
Shadowboxin' / Hell's Will / Investigative Reports (my potential vote) is the part I treasure, so inventive and fresh.
I'd say the album is stronger with BIBLE, it's welcome to have a bright track top it off, nice endless loop.

oh wow "Cold World" gets me every time. Took me years to trace the Stevie Wonder sample.

and "Shadowboxin'" is Method Man's finest moment anywhere.

There's no shame in voting for "B.I.B.L.E."

Also FWIW, I think it was meant as a "bonus track." Like GZA left it to RZA to figure out where to put it, and he didn't know where it would really fit within the album, so he just tagged it on to the end.

(I didn't vote for "B.I.B.L.E." though)

a true gem, very dark, very enjoyable

title track, duel of the iron mic, 4th chamber, shadowboxin, swordsman
^^can't choose

bible does seem tacked on

happy 28th birthday to this timeless masterpiece, released 7 november 1995

gotta read the labels

Happy birthday indeed! That really is a stacked track list when you see it laid out in poll form. Surprised that 4th Chamber did not win at the time, considering it is THE GREATEST SONG IN THE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC

Best album in history.

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