Wu-Tang_Clan-Enter_The_Wu-Tang_(36_Chambers)_(Deluxe_Version)-2007-WSS

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01- Bring Da Ruckus
02- Shame On A Nigga
03- Clan In Da Front
04- Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber
05- Can It Be All So Simple/Intermission
06- Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'
07- Wu-Tang Clan Aint Nuthing Ta F' Wit
08- C.R.E.A.M.
09- Method Man
10- Protect Ya Neck
11- Tearz
12- Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber - Part II (Conclusion)
13- Protect Ya Neck (Shao Lin Version)
14- Method Man (Home Grown Version)
15- C.R.E.A.M. (A Cappella)
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REUPLOAD: The music world had never heard anything like it. Eight MCs from New York with at least three personas each and an unmitigated passion for kung-fu movies release an album full of blood, passion, violence and Eastern mysticism coupled with eerie piano and string arrangements and pulsating basslines. Now, a decade after its release it is believed to be the second most essential hip hop album ever recorded (just behind Public Enemy's 'It Takes A Nation Of Millions').
The moment Ghostface Killah nails the first line on 'Bring Da Ruckus' the hip hop world would never be the same again. After an uncompromising verse and with no fuss or pause Ghostface passes the microphone to Raekwon who seamlessly continues. Hip hop groups of course were not unheard of, but where groups like Public Enemy and the Ultramagnetic MCs each had a main rapper, here there were eight equally visible rappers, each as talented as the last.

While eventually the group would collapse under the weight of kung-fu kitsch, ten years ago they were genuinely intimidating. Their description of what they do to journalists that serves as the introduction to 'Method Man' is grotesque. Earlier Gza had threatened to 'slit a n***er's back like a Dutch master killer" on 'Wu Tang: 7th Chamber'.

What makes the Wu Tang so entertaining is that each MC has their own personality well-crafted, even at this formative stage of their careers. Each MC brings an enthusiasm and character to the album. Surrounding the three master storytellers (Raekwon, Gza and Ghostface Killah) are U-God and Inspectah Deck who have never bettered their respective verses on this LP, the director Rza who also delivers most of his best verses here, witty prankster Method Man and resident lunatic ODB.
'C.R.E.A.M.' (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) remains the Wu's most perfectly recorded moment. Raekwon and Inspectah Deck fill the listener in on how hard it was for them growing up, "A man with a dream with plans to make CREAM / which failed; I went to jail at the age of fifteen / a young buck selling drugs and such who never had much / trying to get a clutch at what I could not.... could not...." 'Wu Tang: 7th Chamber' has the entire Clan (bar U-God) attempt to out-do each other in some short verses. The beat is almost skeletal and the track has no chorus, meaning that each MC merely passes the mic to his next compadre. The track also gives ODB the chance to say perhaps his best, and unquestionably his funniest, couplet to date, "Are you, uh, ah, uh, are you a warrior? Killer? Slicing s**t like a samurah (sic) / The Ol' Dirty Ba***rd. Wunderba!" It's the first and last time ODB would deal in the German language, which, on this evidence, is a crying shame. Meanwhile, the Wendy Rene-sampling 'Tearz' sounds like some demented carnival mixed with the subject matter of TLC's 'Waterfalls'. In fact it's hard to believe that TLC's track wasn't heavily inspired by this track, as the subject matter is essentially identical. Rza's first verse tells of the murder of his brother and Ghostface Killah's verse tells of his friend who catches HIV. And has any band ever recorded a mission statement as perfect as 'Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit'? This writer thinks not.


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