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Outside of their own collective releases, The Genius’s (aka GZA) solo LP Liquid Swords is arguably the Wu-Tang Clan’s best work. ‘4th Chambers’ is one of the album’s choice tracks and it helps that it features Wu-Tang members Ghostface Killah and RZA, and regular affiliate Killah Priest.
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Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man asserted that Cash Rules Everything Around Me in 1993. It is probably the standout track from their standout debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). The song was produced by RZA and brilliantly samples the fragile piano melody off The Charmels’ song ‘As Long As I’ve Got You’. Have a great week.
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I noticed that Wu-Tang Clan had used Bob James’s bell and drum break on 2007’s 8 Diagrams. When the Wu-Tang hit my consciousness in mid 1990s, I was already familiar (and done) with the early gangsta sound of BDP and Schoolly D and the controversy of Ice-T and NWA. But Wu-Tang were something else altogether. Listening to their debut single ‘Protect Ya Neck’, all the interplay and rhyme of RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God and Ol’ Dirty Bastard detracts nothing from the intended darkness. This was a new dusk that would spread far beyond Shaolin Island.
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