My takeaways after finishing Raekwon's new book, From Staircase to Stage.
- Thread starter Barney Rubble
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Imagine thinking RZA fell off after 96 and choosing to rhyme over beats like these instead
Come the fukk on man
The first one sounding like a mediocre Swizz Beatz beat from 1998 constantly playing from a car a block away
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
You just have to watch 10 seconds of any U-God interview and you'll come to this conclusion.If y’all think Rae doesn’t take accountability for his fukk ups and failures, wait until you read U God’s.
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Actually it kinda should because you got exactly what you asked for in higher quality.
without label politics or consumer capitalism.
Plus in higher volume of output in a classic bside only based style format. Or shelved for admin reason based release.
you never would have ever gotten.
With those sales spike era sellout records. Which only occur because of a fire and flood. Changing the entire course of rap music.
leaving no coffer or salvo.
for the culture based groups to stick to your guns.
Once rza and tip lost their coffer of materials from disaster. It created a ripple effect to degradation and erosion. No major label regime of culture based artist could recover from after jiggy and the sales spike era were running concurrent to in another. On time there was a bit of air for culture based artist to breathe.
was after the world woke up from grief to usher puff out on pe200p.
Yet it was not long and no get back. Till viacom stepped in and reprocessed puff. In their pr piece takeover for birthday of hiphop. Leading into a milestone age for hiphop culture. To then be fully misappropriated wrongly. To then eventually windup right back where we are now. After 2013 and the industry reset to relive 1983 and 1993 over again.
If not for the mixtape era ushered in by fiddy. To finally get the coffers of admin shelved or bside we would never see releases. We would have had no quality rap records.
From the dawn of jiggy till now.
to even hear on a main stream or underground level in overall General Sweepjng scope.
Art Barr
mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
Yeah I was surprised by that too tbh, album is really good
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
The part where rza and them are bogus is.
The clan member should administratively been given his royalties to that artist. Then he paid out his debts to the other responsible. That shyt with ghostface and divine told all that needed to be said.
Agent tsking executive precedent over artist who are not artist and not the act. No admin should be lording over the act in any way. Admin work for the artist. Not the other way around.
Wu tang divine rza and power by proxy were guilty of procurement fraud and lacking good faith. Disguised as some fake hiphop culture for the love bullshyt. Which is bogus because rza only got there because he tried to alter.
the course of the mca gay way. based production company contract. That created a false split.
that crippled music since its inception as a business.
Rza talked all that shyt and let nonbboys with no skills in admin.
jux the culture based skilled emcees and producers of the wu which is bogus.
That is why we are where we are.
Simply because in simple procurement.
The wu tang clan administrative sector. Stopped honoring the administrative evolution that they previously revolutionized the entire business of music with wholehartedly. They forgot what brought them to the dance.
Especially after the flood ruined all their work.
Art Barr
After you get bread and make an in home studio.
Never put it in the basement.
Art Barr
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
The first one sounding like a mediocre Swizz Beatz beat from 1998 constantly playing from a car a block away
Song was only good for mindlessly banging in the whip. So you did not feel left out as a bboy all together with a vehicle. After the post jiggy death of puff on pe2000. Yet this shyt is only a pop consultation prize. Of mediocrity when compared to what we should have been getting. Instead of rae flirting with jiggy meets sales spike era sellout style production choices.
Rae culturally onky relvent becauee of his mixtape run. Rae was outta dere.
If there is no fiddy and no busta mixtapes frfr.
No bullshyt no cap.
Rae was done. Wu was done if not for rae mixtapes.
If not for rae mixtapes. I doubt there would have been receptive ears culturally to give meth a album of the year chance and nod on 421.
Art Barr
I love Latina women
Veteran
This shoulda been OB4CLII
Yeah; I remember the first time I heard that song, I was so excited for Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt II
then when the album finally was released and it wasn't on the album, it was a huge let down to me.
A lot of these could be old beats from RZA's prime. Rae mentions all the beats on Cuban Linx 2 were old RZA beats. He said the clan is always trying to get to his old beats. When he went to RZA with the idea for CL2, he insisted they had to be old RZA beats and RZA agreed.
flick
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
Rza lost his catalog.
Which is why this occurred.
Plus why this upcoming season of their tv show will be the best one content wise.
As we get to see after this flood what happened. Even if the story is embellished.
As that occurrence chsnged everything in the world. Plus allowed culture base people no way to defend ourselves effectively from attack.
The systemic rampup to get resource. After purposefully being kept from basic resources In this country.
put wu in this position and ultimately created the setback. That was a major weapon against this systemic oppression.
Art Barr
And he's always said RZA or Divine never robbed him, and paid him everything he was owed.