Hulu's....Wu Tang: An American Saga Official Thread 9/8

[Atsym Sknyfs]

The Roots used to do that in the early days...start of as jam sessions, then tweak, add interpolations of other songs for the recording

Thats how i used to write most of songs back in the day...
i would just record freestyle sessions and find lines i liked and write around it. Unless i had a specific topic in mind then i wrote to the topic

 

[King Sun]

I respect RZA for trying to evolve his sound like Dr. Dre did so many times, but you're lying if you say any era of RZA other than 93-95 was his best. We all just want that dusty, grimy RZA Wu shyt.

Nah 97-02 rza>>>

 

[GOAT]

Dope finale. Season could've been GOATed if they didn't waste three episodes

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Links are gone but...

Wu-Tang Clan “Triumph” (1997)
DIRECTOR’S COMMENTARY: “It was the first million dollar rap video. When Steve Rifkind asked me, I said, ‘Are you sure about this record? There’s no chorus!’ He says “Trust me, its gonna be the biggest record of the year. Only Wu-Tang could pull this off.’ So, I set up the video—Joseph Kahn was my cinematographer. I hear that they want eleven Suburbans—they each want their own. They each also want $50,000 worth of gear, and they told me all their designers. So first day, these guys are walking in one at a time, and each guy walks into the dressing room, and walks out with plastic bags filled with all the clothes. I called Steve like, ‘They’re stealing all the clothes!’ He’s like, ‘Don’t worry, let them have it.’”
“It’s a five day shoot, and it’s crazy. The greatest fukkin’ experience, they’re eating mushrooms the whole time. Ol’ Dirty never shows up. I was like, Oh my god, this is fukking insane! The most fun I ever had. After shooting ends, they all leave to go on tour in Europe, but Ghost never would travel, because he had diabetes. So he checks into a hotel, and they said, ‘Yo Ghost, you watch Brett, and watch over that edit, man. White devil could fukk it up!” So, we’re in the edit room, and we call the group on speakerphone. And it’s the funniest thing, this is embedded in my memory. They’re all on the phone like, ‘White muthafukkin’ devil, man, tryin’ to rob us motherfukker!’ And Ghost is looking at me while on speakerphone, just winking at me like, I love you man! [laughs].”
“So three days into the edit, I get a call that Ghost had had been kicked out of like eleven hotels, and I’m like, ‘Why were you kicked out?’ He’s like, ‘I don’t know man, I got fukked up, and I just start breaking shyt. Can you come get me? I got no place to stay.’ So I let him stay at my house. Suddenly my phone rings, and it’s Steve Rifkind, ‘Whats going on?’ I go, ‘Nothing, I’m just bringing Ghost over my house ’cause he got kicked out of the hotel.’ Then there’s silence on the other end of the phone. I say, ‘Whats wrong?’ He goes, ‘I gotta call you back.’ Five days later, he calls me up and goes, ‘Are you okay? Oh my God, you scared the shyt outta me, man. How can you let this guy stay at your house? I don’t even let these guys know where I live!’ I go, ‘What do you mean? He’s the nicest guy in the world.’ He goes, ‘You don’t know what Ghostface has? He hallucinates, he hears voices like kill your mom, kill your mom. He has to be medicated because he has homicidal thoughts.’ So a month goes by, and I would edit all day, and Ghost would just chill at my house until we finished. A month later, I’m with my girlfriend in the backyard, and the cat starts going fukking crazy and starts digging into the dirt. We dig up a bucket of fried chicken. Ghost buried a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken in the backyard. How fukkin’ freaky is that?”

I nearly yell laughed at work when I got to the end

 

[FunkDoc1112]

I think Dave East did a good job.

WZA was terrible. He captured none of RZA’s charisma. Don’t know what RZA was thinking when he made that choice.

I think the WZA casting goes to show how differently people can perceive themselves compared to how everyone else does. RZA's probably always seen himself as an awkward silent dude.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

I know Scary Hours, Little Ghetto Boys, For Heavens Sake contain vocal samples, but there seems to be very little recognized musical samples - if any. I'm probably gonna visit Whosampled today, to see what's listed. Either way, that is still amazing.

Triumph had a sample. A lot of the songs did. Rza is just trying to protect himself from future cases that may arrive due to samples that were never cleared.

 

[scorpino]

I didn’t watch the last episode yet but I would’ve loved to have seen an episode where Ghost is crafting the Impossible rhyme

 

[GOAT]

 

[L68]

This ODB episode on season 3 is fukkin wack

 

[KingsOfKings]

RZA on the Final Season of Wu-Tang: An American Saga: "We Pioneered the Hip-Hop Series"

“How do we tell the story of the friendship?” as RZA says, was the question An American Saga faced over its three-season run.

consequence.net

 

[Digital Omen]

 

[BuddahMAC]

 

[mbz]

Kinda sad the show has ended. It was a good run. I didn't expect much, but it exceeded my expectations.

Also, I find it funny how among dedicated episodes of the main four solo albums...Ironman turned out the best one. If I were to make a prediction before the season started, I def woulda ranked that last.

 

[The War Report]

Kinda sad the show has ended. It was a good run. I didn't expect much, but it exceeded my expectations.

Also, I find it funny how among dedicated episodes of the main four solo albums...Ironman turned out the best one. If I were to make a prediction before the season started, I def woulda ranked that last.

Iron Man is a dope album. One of my favorites.

 

[mbz]

Iron Man is a dope album. One of my favorites.

Yeah, I'm also in the "Ironman is better than Supreme Clientele" camp.

I meant in term of the episodes. I would've predicted the Ironman episode as the least exciting one