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...Ghostface has had a Midas’ touch lately, but he can’t turn this lackluster RZA track into gold; the ghost of ODB just can’t keep up with him. “Intoxicated,” featuring Raekwon, and Method Man is also flat. Parts of ODB’s verse here have already appeared on Ghostface’s “9 Milli Bros,” suggesting that all the original Dirty material in existence has already been stretched thin. This may be to blame for the abundance and low quality...
...Kilo” nails a successful drug dealer’s paranoia, and the guns-n-drugs romp “R.A.G.U.” turns ugly when Raekwon breaks his wrist (he says, wonderfully, “I fucked up my writin’ hand”) and an accomplice shoots himself in the groin...
When Method Man, whose experiences with Crimson-tinted hypocrisy were well-chronicled in 2001’s How High, was prompted to scream for ice cream on Raekwon the Chef’s stunning solo debut seven years earlier, did he bounce to Brain Break? Of course not. The Shaolin soldier wasted no time before warning the world’s cool confectioners that “French vanilla, butter pecan, chocolate deluxe—even caramel sundaes—is getting touched and scooped in my ice cream trucks,” and the world is a better place...
...focused. It's an unusual place for it to be. Wu-Tang revels in its own unpredictability, its own inscrutability and its own ungainly nature. Wu-Tang is a conglomeration of rappers that includes RZA (the mastermind and main producer), Method Man (the star M.C.), Masta Killa, U-God, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Ol' Dirty Bastard. A 10th rapper, Cappadonna, is regarded as an honorary member. While other groups rage and split and fall apart when members look to release solo work, Wu-Tang's boundaries are loose. All the members have authored solo albums...
...focused. It's an unusual place for them to be. Wu-Tang revels in its own unpredictability, its own inscrutability and its own ungainly nature. Wu-Tang is a conglomeration of rappers that includes RZA (the mastermind and main producer), Method Man (the star MC), Masta Killa, U-God, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Ol' Dirty Bastard. A tenth rapper, Cappadonna, is regarded as an honorary member. While other groups rage and split and fall apart when members look to release solo work, Wu-Tang's boundaries are loose. All of the members have authored solo albums...