*steps into phone booth
You pay attention and remember who i am and what i say because i speaks FACTS from the lord and ya brain is telling you “LISTEN TO HIM” but you fight god at every turn. Thats why all you got to retort is “i follow your posts like a stan”. Go “follow” men on twitter.
The best of the best wu of 98/99 > any rap crews output at same time. Ill go track for track with anyone.
Maybe its after 7 albums, the shine wore off and you got used to it. Because even when it dropped, people called disk 1 a classic off rip. Its disk 2 that people always have a problem with.
But yall judging wu forever based on traditional commercial RAP BULLshyt. When its really a CULTURAL MILESTONE FOR THE ENTIRE GENRE. Ok so it has like 5-6 songs that get redundant after 1.5 hours of onslaught. Ya talking about an album with highs like reunited, troumph, abt, its yours, for heavens sake, impossible etc. you wont find highs like that on 85% rap albums. Did it lack some energy and need some hooks to carry disk 2 yea… for a pop album… which we established its not.
WORLD WIDE #1 album. Not amerixan #1. Wu was big across the globe. Went number 1 in dozens of countries who dont wven soeak english. And yall conparing it to 36 and the traditional rap community and rap albums based on that limited matrix. The album is bigger than reg rap music. This was going into public enemy territory. It transcended CULTURE. And people judge it cause it dont have bops for bytches.
it literally went against every rule in music making. It was a serious album with serious topics; deeper lyrically, spiritually, whatever the fukk ally over 36. 36 is nursery rhymes conpared. 36 was a lifes work vs the book end of a defining era. It was NEVER gonna be like the OG and its some of yall who will never get over that fact even if it hits ya in the face with every artist that ever existed. You expected too much. I was content in what i got. Both nas and wu pulled 180s. Look who from their era still here… nas and wu.
Yall all talking about hype and what people was saying on the block when it reached the GLOBE. an against the grain album meant to solidify the fanbase. It made lifetime fans and made the casuals bounce. Yet while wu was selling less and less, they eere still getting deals because it STAMPED them in a way few rappers been stamped before. Ghost and meth were on majors 10 years after forever dropping big projects. All while “wu fell off”.
That is why wus still around. I knew that at TEN YEARS OLD theyd be the only rappers of the era still going in 20 years based on the art of the albums. Wu shyt transcended popular music. People were tatting themselves with it. Its a cultural thing. Its biblical. Their albums were tooo strong and meant too much ti people compared to other 3 mic typical rap shyt that comes and go and has NO staying power. Yall stan flavor of the motnhs regularly here. Wu is something worth stanning. Every year they existed you can squeeze out a 60 min GEM
Brilliant move by rza in reality. He can be swayed by people 30 years after the fact. But the final tour isnt about 36. Its FOREVER.
“They wont figure it out til the year 2g” = rza already knew all this. Proving my point. What you think he thought the popa wu intro was gon get people to dance? He refused to make the cure be ause he knew he had to live it and was super serious about all of this. he used wu to drop an album about 5% talk in maknstream and risked his career and guys wanna talk about hooks and singles.
And while i do look for good in wu shyt vs bad, i do it because yall shyt on any wu album less than 4.5 mics. you cant name 3 artists with better catalog so ya goddamn right i will defend wu from these weak agendas. Thats why ugod and cap can show up to big shows and promote whatever they want in 2025 while other 90s acts who were plat gotta beg to get on.
People wanna listen to rap music and crash out. Not get a goddamn lesson. It was NEVER gon translate on a POP level, the fact it did in some way is amazing.
But yall went to summer school and i did not. Find somwthing to complaon about. Its cool. i ate my vegatables. But ill POPEYE JAMMY anyone bemsirching wu forever over the dumb bs yall do.
It went as well as it could have. To make high end hip hop AND be popular AND be the draw of draws/original/trendsetting/etc. it was never gonna last FOREVER….
Do i see tical shyttalk now? Maybe i should bring out my “TICAL > ILLMATIC” in real time” thread.
*puts wu cape on
*flys away
