Wu Tang Forever is 20 years old

[smokeurobinson]

am i the only that thinks black shampoo is DOPE ?

I like it


The girls voice in the intro will always remind me of the chick I was fukking with summer 97.

but I'm not really trying to hear U-God and Tekitha solos, even on a Wu double album. Should've replaced with Sunshower or one of them joints that ended up on The Swarm, like '97 Mentality.

Its funny u say that because in April 07 Hot 97 was playing 97 mentality heavy....we all thought it was the first single for Wu Tang Forever. I remember wondering why they played that song so heavy and it wasnt on the album only for them to put it on a Wu compilation a year later all out of date. I remember debating if Tragedy was going to be on the album and that wasn't either...I felt a Tragedy remix with other wu memembers or Sunshower coulda replaced the tekitha song

 

[ZEB WALTON]

I love the tekitha solo. To me it fit perfectly. Im not a huge fan of black shampoo but i like the beat

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

rza and gza on the intro

That shyt stuck with me man...I had a bootleg in 97 with like 16 songs on it so when the "Its Yourz" video came out I was confused lmao

 

[vdfebduderocks]

The Reunited Video with young Angela Yee....

Hey Yee, don't hide yo' age. We know you 40 plus

 

[$lim]

chillin lettin this ride on YouTube on my tv right now

 

[$lim]

i crystalize the rhyme so you can sniff it

 

[fdsfa]

i bomb atomically

The word ATOMically, is from Ancient Greece, where philosophers like Socrates tried to understand and discover what the smallest building block of matter in the world was (atoms), leading into the next line. Atomically could be heard as “automatically”, playing on the speed of Deck’s flow.

The adverb “atomically” paired with the verb “bomb” also obviously reminds the Atomic Bomb, a type of nuclear weapon which generates elevate destructive power from nuclear fission or a combination of fission and fusion. ID bombs (raps) atomically (with the destructive force of a nuclear weapon).

 

[fdsfa]

In some sense, the opening bars of "Triumph" seem completely ridiculous: After Dirty's ranting—including two new memorable substitutions for "boys and girls"—in comes Deck with an avalanche of syllables, an overload, a victory of technical wizardry over meaning, and yet, the meaning's still there for you if you wanted it (though you had to go a line further to find it, assuming you were familiar with Socrates).

But more to the point, if you ever wanted to be a rapper, you knew these words by heart, the ultimate fetishizing of lyrical density and intensity. Whether or not you knew why the song was called "Triumph" before you heard it—or if any rap song you'd heard ever merited that title before then—it's not hard to have a good idea by the time Deck delivers these seven words.

 

[BuddahMAC]

We came to punish the glutton with a substance that can't be contained: Wu-Tang.

 

[semicko82]

It's weird after this album they kinda dumbed down the music, and made more radio friendly stuff.

 

[O.Red]

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.

I feel like this is one of life's best experiences.

It doesn't even have to be the first time I've heard some old shyt with high ears and heard shyt I didn't hear before like

 

[newworldafro]

I didn't even need to go to summer school that year

What an album.....I could say more...but just to be able to say I experienced so many decades of hip hop and this being one of the crowning achievements that I purchased..

 

[O.Red]

I prob would've made a thread about this eventually but anyway:

I'm not a big ODB fan bu Dog shyt is a top 5 song on that album. Both discs included

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

The GOAT double-album. I always said RZA was the MVP of it, with Deck/Ghost as a close runner-ups. One thing I didn't really notice until a few years ago, is that Meth took a back seat like a MF...he was only on 8 joints(out of 28). That's crazy, considering that he was the 'star' at the time.

Beats-wise, RZA's/4th/True's production fathered a LOT of styles/producers in the following decade. The only thing I didn't really didn't like is how it ends. IMO "The Closing" should've been the intro to "Heaterz", which should've closed the album out.




EDIT: Oh, and the last 47 seconds of "Little Ghetto Boys" is pure greatness.

 

[Sunalmighty]

I cut school to pick up this album.