![]() This skit probably didn't start the beef between Biggie and the Wu, but it didn't help matters, either.ġ0. CAN IT BE ALL SO SIMPLE (REMIX) (FEAT GHOSTFACE KILLAH)Ī skit where Ghost offers up his diatribe against rappers who bite from other rappers, be it lyrical styles, album covers, whatever. This shit sounds as fresh today as it did twelve years ago.Ĩ. Raekwon and friends (every Saturday morning on CBS!) rock over the beat that introduced Method Man's solo album Tical. ![]() ![]() GUILLOTINE ( SWORDZ) (FEAT GHOSTFACE KILLAH, INSPECTAH DECK, & THE GENIUS/ GZA) This song is the most cinematic effort Rza has produced to date (well, for a song that's not part of a score). Lots of samples from John Woo's The Killer here. RAINY DAYZ (FEAT GHOSTFACE KILLAH & BLUE RASPBERRY) Was it a gun? Drugs? Was she just not wearing anything underneath? My adolescent mind raced at the time now, I realize that she's obviously covering up her collection of Fraggles.Ħ. I remember watching the video for this song and noticing that the chick sitting on the couch is the same girl from the "Ice Cream" video, except she has a pillow on her lap as if she were hiding something. I highly doubt that Rae and Ghost were sniffing coke like that in the booth for real, but you never know.Įven though I'm the rare hip hop fan who thinks Scarface is fucking overrated, I'll concede that the sample from the movie used here is the fucking shit. KNUCKLEHEADZ (FEAT GHOSTFACE KILLAH & U-GOD) I give this album a pass, since it sounds so theatrical that I assume Raekwon meant this to be a concept album.Ģ. This movement lasted for exactly one song, after which the Wu abandoned the concept, but other artists soon ran it into the ground. Raekwon, for his part, recruited fellow Clan member Ghostface Killah to take part in his drug odyssey, which just so happened to introduce the Mafioso craze to New York-based hip hop. (I rank it as number 2 on the solo album list, right behind Gza's Liquid Swords.) The Rza, who produced the entire fucking album (I just wish he would do this again, soon!), refined his sonic textures to give Raekwon some cinematic beats to rhyme to, as opposed to the dusty drums of Tical, or the padded-cell craziness of Ol' Dirty's debut. is considered to be one of the best Wu-Tang solo albums, and one of the best rap albums ever made. Shocked that it existed, sure, but shocked as it actually sounded really fucking good, since Raekwon never really stood out to me on the group debut. ![]() So in 1995, when Raekwon's first single, "Criminology/Glaciers of Ice", dropped, I was shocked. ![]() Method Man had the charisma, Ol' Dirty Bastard had the crazy factor working for him, and The Genius/ Gza was the best lyricist. I don't think that anyone really expected Raekwon the Chef to be the third out of the Wu-Tang solo gate. ![]()
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