Wu Tang Forever is 20 years old
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Its hard to describe how big of stars old dirty b*stard and method man were in 97. They were GLOBAL SUPERSTARS. Living, nobody compared in rap. They were fukkin huge, wu was doing stadiums across the world and they were monstrous. Only 98 dmx would eclipse them really
Grand Eeezus Maxwell
"Time is when, God....lounge!!"
'Silent Weapons' and 'The Pick, The Sickle & The Shovel' turns 20 this year, also.
"Wu-Tang Forever", indeed.
"Wu-Tang Forever", indeed.
Yeah breh. shyt was crazy back then
randoms from Forever:
"Nuff said, dikk in your mouth like Tempest Bled"
RZA's original plan for Forever was going to be a story album, which is where "The Chase" came from:
& was going to be followed by Meth rescuing him on the next track & so on but the rest of the group didn't buy into the concept
another b-side from Forever:
Reunited demo:
"I maintain this paradise on this Earth with the 'shut the fukk up' style, for what the shyt is worth"- RIP Dirt
I love how on Projects they left in where the drums stop at the beginning & Rae goes "The fukk?!?" Also the randomness of Rae & Meth dropping normal verses and then Ghost coming out of absolutely nowhere w/ "suck my dikk, it's the kid with the fat knob..." That & "it's talkin' to ya daddy" make me laugh every time.
"Don't know the time? Check the hour on your sundial; watch me shine."- underrated Meth line
This is the album where each member dug into their own styles where they were all pretty similar on 36. I think it hurt the most for Masta Killa b/c his internal rhyme structure wasn't as polished as it was even a year later. He still has some great verses & good performances but a couple times he's a change up on a track w/ all fastballs & it throws some tracks off. Also I think Tekitha's voice got better after this album. Otherwise everyone is at their peak on here.
Cappa begins his steep plunge into wackness on this album though. He was so bad on Triumph RZA had to take a second & start the beat over again.
Deadly Melody's meandering drunken piano really needed a Dirt verse, but that's always an underrated cut to me. Love how they are all just trading odd chunks of bars back & forth.
Why does Ghost open his HWS verse by telling someone to tell RZA that U-God's jacket is in his truck?
"shyt is so real; inside you distilled"- underrated MK line
some of the lines off Severe Punishment are lifted from GZA's pre-Wu "Words From A Genius" track:
which had a Prince Rakeem remix:
"how can I put it? Life is like video footage, hard to edit, directors, they never understood it"- might be my favorite RZA line
"Nuff said, dikk in your mouth like Tempest Bled"
RZA's original plan for Forever was going to be a story album, which is where "The Chase" came from:
& was going to be followed by Meth rescuing him on the next track & so on but the rest of the group didn't buy into the concept
another b-side from Forever:
Reunited demo:
"I maintain this paradise on this Earth with the 'shut the fukk up' style, for what the shyt is worth"- RIP Dirt
I love how on Projects they left in where the drums stop at the beginning & Rae goes "The fukk?!?" Also the randomness of Rae & Meth dropping normal verses and then Ghost coming out of absolutely nowhere w/ "suck my dikk, it's the kid with the fat knob..." That & "it's talkin' to ya daddy" make me laugh every time.
"Don't know the time? Check the hour on your sundial; watch me shine."- underrated Meth line
This is the album where each member dug into their own styles where they were all pretty similar on 36. I think it hurt the most for Masta Killa b/c his internal rhyme structure wasn't as polished as it was even a year later. He still has some great verses & good performances but a couple times he's a change up on a track w/ all fastballs & it throws some tracks off. Also I think Tekitha's voice got better after this album. Otherwise everyone is at their peak on here.
Cappa begins his steep plunge into wackness on this album though. He was so bad on Triumph RZA had to take a second & start the beat over again.
Deadly Melody's meandering drunken piano really needed a Dirt verse, but that's always an underrated cut to me. Love how they are all just trading odd chunks of bars back & forth.
Why does Ghost open his HWS verse by telling someone to tell RZA that U-God's jacket is in his truck?
"shyt is so real; inside you distilled"- underrated MK line
some of the lines off Severe Punishment are lifted from GZA's pre-Wu "Words From A Genius" track:
which had a Prince Rakeem remix:
"how can I put it? Life is like video footage, hard to edit, directors, they never understood it"- might be my favorite RZA line
Burger King
Beefin
Oztradamus
Hold G's, Guns, and Grams...
Easily the greatest double-LP album of all-time. The Rza at his production peak. A culmination of all the previous Wu solo albums all conjured up into one double disc album. I still remember being blown away with the Reunited violin outro, and then the transition to "For Heaven's Sake" had a nicca like 
Aside from Cappadonna.....Streetlife was the only non wu member on the album.
That and him being on T2 hyped him up for no reason cuz he did nothing with the hype.
That and him being on T2 hyped him up for no reason cuz he did nothing with the hype.
jwonder
Superstar
This album was extremely disappointing. Enter the Wu Tang 36 Chambers was a million times better. I guess that's what happens when you make some original unique classic music.
jwonder
Superstar
I thought it was trash. Many other of the members were doing solo joints and I think the chemistry wasn't there.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
I think you could not only argue it's the GOAT rap double album, it's one of the best double albums in music period. There are only like a couple tracks I don't like, which is RARE for a double album.
RZA setting the stage for Kanye, Just Blaze, and the sped up soul sample
RZA mastering live instrumentation, specifically strings
First single having like 8 bars and no hook
Ghost n Rae blessing us with a GOAT tier storytelling track
Deck bombing atomically with one of the most ICONIC rap verses of all time
RZA flipping The Ghetto better than Dre.
RZA setting the stage for Kanye, Just Blaze, and the sped up soul sample
RZA mastering live instrumentation, specifically strings
First single having like 8 bars and no hook
Ghost n Rae blessing us with a GOAT tier storytelling track
Deck bombing atomically with one of the most ICONIC rap verses of all time
RZA flipping The Ghetto better than Dre.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
"half the east coast sounding like Rae" - Cappa
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how dafuq was that early middle school 
Roxx the King
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Wu Tang forever