Wu Tang Forever is 20 years old

[pimpineasy]

I remember asking my cousin to steal this album for me and he ended up coming back with the clean version

Your cousin was giving you life lessons son and ueono it

 

[oO J Smooth Oo]

This classic album sold 600k first week? Wow

 

[Guess Who]

Haha the Wu Mansion disc was the shyt fam..:I loved that shyt.

It's crazy how accurately RZA predicted that nikkas wouldn't truly understand what he and the Wu was on until the future. When I go back I realize that every Wu album up until this one was actually a movie expressed in musical form and Wu-Tang Forever was the final in the series that pulled together all the themes from the previous albums/films. When I figured this out my mind was blown. RZA was on some genius shyt. The whole time he was trying to get the world to raise their consciousness about how individuals, the hood, and politics intersect and determine how people live their lives, for better or worse, depending on the environment they were born into. True genius shyt.

 

[mobbinfms]

Who else had the advanced CD Rom thing on disc 1 where u could go thru the Wu mansion??




Remember how annoying it was when u just wanted to hear the music but the clip for the wu mansion would pop up instead and u had to adjust to to get to the music part?

I didn't have a computer in 97 so never got to check this out

 

[semicko82]

Haha the Wu Mansion disc was the shyt fam..:I loved that shyt.

It's crazy how accurately RZA predicted that nikkas wouldn't truly understand what he and the Wu was on until the future. When I go back I realize that every Wu album up until this one was actually a movie expressed in musical form and Wu-Tang Forever was the final in the series that pulled together all the themes from the previous albums/films. When I figured this out my mind was blown. RZA was on some genius shyt. The whole time he was trying to get the world to raise their consciousness about how individuals, the hood, and politics intersect and determine how people live their lives, for better or worse, depending on the environment they were born into. True genius shyt.

You'll have to break down how each album is like a movie

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

what an anticipated album!!
96 to 97 was intense, explosive, sad then uplifting!!

 

[DaveyDave]

How to Cut 'Wu-Tang Forever' Down to 12 Tracks

I can't believe it's been 20 years since I first heard this album.

 

[Peak]

15 years old listening to Duck Season, Hellz Wind Staff and Heaterz back to back on the Walkman

 

[DeuceZ]

older Gods


Triumph


Ghosts "separate the English from the Dutch" always had me like

 

[Sir Brehsington]

1 week before the album was suppose to drop me and my cousin saw the bootleg at the African Square Market in Harlem. We both went in our pockets and copped. I thought it was gonna be some bullshyt when I got home but it was the official release. I sat in the staircase of my cousins projects and listened to the whole album while smoking weed alone. For me, That was always the best way to digest an album for the first time.

the memories of being a teen in the 90s...

 

[T.H.E. Goat]

i know rza used speeded up soul samples on odbs album but this song was the first that made me stop and list and be like ... dam this shyt sounds insane

kanye, just etc owes a lot to rza and this song imo

Rza was so ahead of his time on this album, 20 years later and I haven't heard a project like it

 

[fdsfa]

up in the M.G.M. coked up}, psych
Six nikkas walked in flashing they gems peace (Aight
One dark skinned nikka fifty-six inch rope wrapped around twice
Smash the Gilligan boat with ice
(They threw sign language, ordered hot coffee
{wit a danish}
Relax, whispered they, "Rap entertainers"
(Had Lizzy on, two Japanese birds with furs look good kid)
Laid back handling hors d'ourves
(It's like round three) We too black for BET
You memorize the 1 to 40 (I'm at the 19th degree
If a civilized person doesn't perform his duty, what shall be done?
Pardon me God, that nikka got a gun
Bulging out his sweatpants, check out his stance
See the side of his grill? (Look like my cousin Lance
Left hand, rocky Guess watch) Yo I think I did his Clarks
He wanted crush bone leather with the strings dark
(Now I remember) He from Bear Mountain
He and Mitch Greene shot the fair one (Near the water fountain)
Seventh round, Chavez bleeding from his right ear
Yo keep your eye on that same nikka from right here
Popcorn spilling all on Liz Claiborne
(Ghost had the fly Gucci mocks wit no socks on
Seen Deion Sanders in the back with the phat fur on)
Working them hoes with the fly Wu shirts on
Mixed drink session Dun (Pour me some more)
Chef leathered down blinking at Chanté Moore
Tenth round Chavez tearing 'em down) Sweet Pea get ya shyt off
(It's like blacks against the Germans) Getting hit off
(Smooth and them walked in) Brownsville representing
(They sent a bottle over, autograph blessing)
Chef, pull out the doo-doo, twist the dank - pink noodles
(Yo I'm bout to roll one) Matter fact twist two of those
(Yo they wound up stopping the fight
Steels took a point away from Chavez) Rematch scheduled on October Ninth
Rematch scheduled on October Ninth




A fantastic duet with Rae and Ghost trading verses back and forth about attending the star-studded boxing match between Julio Caesar Chavez and Pernell “Sweet Pea” Whitaker on Sept. 10 1994 at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. They talk about the fight and just people watching in general (often just as interesting as the fight itself).

imagine they did a video for this

 

[fdsfa]

true master on the beat , those strings

make a breh feel like he ina kung fu movie

 

[Oran "Juice" Jones]

Classic

I remember watching the Triumph video back in 97 and hating that song, but I eventually loved it after a few listens. They was playing it on the radio today in commemoration.

 

[fdsfa]