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Triumph. This word alone might suffice to describe the long-, long-awaited arrival of “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx?? Pt. II,” by Chef Raekwon. The album—the sequel to Raekwon’s 1995 game-changer “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx??”—was initially announced in 2005, but production and label issues left the work dangling in limbo, its public release put on a hitherto apparently interminable hold.But the day for Wu-heads has finally come, and Raekwon doesn?...
...pedigree to Harvard, boasting several multiplatinum records, including Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, which makes Rolling Stone’s list of the top 500 albums ever produced. Its members have also individually released hits to critical and popular acclaim: Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx?? and GZA’s Liquid Swords are counted among hip-hop’s all-time classics...
...read on your Web site that you think “Cuban Linx?? is the “Scarface” of hip-hop albums, which is a pretty bold claim. Do you ever have moments of doubt or are you always that confident? R: Nah, I’m always confident. But you know, I’m human, it be times when I panic, it could be a big game and you start sweatin’. That don’t mean you don’t feel like you gon’ win, it?...
...Fishscale,” Ghostface Killah’s fifth solo album, is the best of his career, an all-time rap classic on par with other great Wu-Tang solo efforts like Raekwon’s “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx?? and GZA’s “Liquid Swords...
...album’s title alludes to a search for the explosive in weird combinations of tracks: sounding like they always belonged together, they add up to more than the sum of their parts. Missing Linx??s mundane battle rhymes sound positively apocalyptic over an ominous Mentol Nomad track, while Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly” is like an aural sedative after a string of abrasive breakcore vitriol. When /rupture blends a slowed-down instrumental of Aaliyah’s “Are You That Somebody?” into...
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