Wu-tang were so ahead of their time with their Wu-Tang Forever album

[I love Latina women]

That beat alone on the intro is 2030 shyt

Facts!!!!!!!!!

The beat sort of sounds like a Western score from outer space

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Maybe not wack but that album had bunch of filler and Wu aint have the cohesiveness they did on they classics. And no Forever aint a classic solid record but

Black Shampoo
Maria
Dog shyt
Second Coming
Wu Revolution

You fukking wylin or got 100 Wu merch in your closet if you fukking with those tracks....and there a few others that while not as weak were just

Black shampoo is the only one you got a point with.

You gotta be kidding bout the rest.

 

[nieman]

Black Shampoo actually came out dope. Uey's strength is that he can ride any beat, and it never sound forced or soft

 

[Icewatermetallik]

I agree with this.....I'm one of the few that actually likes Wu-Forever better than 36 Chambers. The beats are more polished, the rhymes are better, it's Wu at their peak. I kinda think of it in this analogy.......36 was like the original Nintendo system back in the 80's.....raw, primitive, unpolished, but unprecedented for it's time.
When Wu-Forever hit that shyt sounded like PS4 to me......wayyyy ahead of it's time.

Reunited, For Heaven's Sake, It's Yourz, Older Godz, Severe Punishment, Triumph, Hellz Wind Staff, Impossible, Cash Still Rules, The City, MGM, A Better Tomorrow.....there's so many bangers on Forever.

It gets a lot of hate but to me it's better than 36 and I go back to it more than 36.

And that album was mixed and mastered to perfection, put it in the whip on a good system it sounds like it came out yesterday.

 

[mbz]

If they made it a single disc album of the best songs with all the fat trimmed out, it woulda been one of the GOATs.

People would be putting it neck and neck with 36 Chambers the same way they do it with ATLiens/Aquemini or Midnight Marauders/Low End Theory.

Life After Death was a missed opportunity too in the same way.

 

[mbewane]

Sidenote but I never understood why Deck had "Fifth Brother" as an alias on here, I don't recall him ever calling himself like that, or maybe I missed something

 

[Alvin]

Maybe not wack but that album had bunch of filler and Wu aint have the cohesiveness they did on they classics. And no Forever aint a classic solid record but

Black Shampoo
Maria
Dog shyt
Second Coming
Wu Revolution

You fukking wylin or got 100 Wu merch in your closet if you fukking with those tracks....and there a few others that while not as weak were just

Black Shampoo is horrible, most people know this, maria is cool, I skip dog shyt, second coming was a cool way to end the album, wu revolution is just mathematics

 

[noodles]

Sidenote but I never understood why Deck had "Fifth Brother" as an alias on here, I don't recall him ever calling himself like that, or maybe I missed something

aka Rollie Fingers..

 

[I love Latina women]

Sidenote but I never understood why Deck had "Fifth Brother" as an alias on here, I don't recall him ever calling himself like that, or maybe I missed something

I’m not sure either

 

[Threnody]

I hate wu-forever

I didn't like 80% of the production on this album

Most late 90s hip-hop production in generalstrings

lyrically its 9/10 tho if only they mad a cohesive project shyt sounds like a compilation

People wanted Wu-Forever to be liquid swords/ob4cl combined

Compared to the hype the retail album was almost MID Wu lost damn near the whole black community after this shyt

Even if you think it was dope it wasn't what people wanted/expected

WU was on top, shyt was clean TOO CLEAN, ZERO hunger, certain verses while dope sounded phoned in with no heart behind it like they was reading off a piece of paper and pasted together on a beat

it reminds me of modern RAP (thats not a complement)
it was ahead of its time in a lot of ways but I don't think thats a good thing

Hip-Hop hasn't gotten better Wu Forever was far removed from most of the reasons people liked WU in the first place

 

[Zero]

Maybe not wack but that album had bunch of filler and Wu aint have the cohesiveness they did on they classics. And no Forever aint a classic solid record but

Black Shampoo
Maria
Dog shyt
Second Coming
Wu Revolution

You fukking wylin or got 100 Wu merch in your closet if you fukking with those tracks....and there a few others that while not as weak were just

You shytting on Maria and Dog shyt but let Deadly Melody and The City slide?

 

[I love Latina women]

I didn't like 80% of the production on this album

Most late 90s hip-hop production in generalstrings

lyrically its 9/10 tho if only they mad a cohesive project shyt sounds like a compilation

People wanted Wu-Forever to be liquid swords/ob4cl combined

Compared to the hype the retail album was almost MID Wu lost damn near the whole black community after this shyt

Even if you think it was dope it wasn't what people wanted/expected

WU was on top, shyt was clean TOO CLEAN, ZERO hunger, certain verses while dope sounded phoned in with no heart behind it like they was reading off a piece of paper and pasted together on a beat

it reminds me of modern RAP (thats not a complement)
it was ahead of its time in a lot of ways but I don't think thats a good thing

Hip-Hop hasn't gotten better Wu Forever was far removed from most of the reasons people liked WU in the first place

Interesting perspective but I understand what you're saying.

36 Chambers has the iconic songs obviously

But on Forever, I think they all sound at their peaks as emcees and RZA sounded like he had reached his artistic peak as a producer too.

I love the orchestra style of producing he went for on this album, all the strings but it was still soulful. Album sounds like a score to a film from the 70's.

It was like he added to his already soulful and dusty style of production and just evolved with it.

 

[Ciggavelli]

It’s my favorite Wu-Tang album

 

[Threnody]

Interesting perspective but I understand what you're saying.

36 Chambers has the iconic songs obviously

But on Forever, I think they all sound at their peaks as emcees and RZA sounded like he had reached his artistic peak as a producer too.

I love the orchestra style of producing he went for on this album, all the strings but it was still soulful. Album sounds like a score to a film from the 70's.

It was like he added to his already soulful and dusty style of production and just evolved with it.

I hear you

to sum up how I felt about the album its like getting served a dope plate of fish but you wanted chicken lol

 

[I love Latina women]

I hear you

to sum up how I felt about the album its like getting served a dope plate of fish but you wanted chicken lol

Word, bro.

Yeah, I understand exactly what you're saying, bro.