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And a lot of the way that Rae think, is like I see it. How-To Tutorials Suggestions Machine Translation Editions Noahs Archive Project About Us. "It was the chemistry, like I seen his mind. "Is like me and Rae, for some reason, he from Park I'm from Stapleton, but when we came together on this music shit, it was like I don't know, it just fit right in," adds Ghostface. The album was loosely composed to play like a film with Raekwon as the 'star,' fellow Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah as the 'guest-star. This going to be a piece of work that the world is going to respect, coming from a young, normal, Staten Island ni**a, you know what I mean?" (commonly referred to as The Purple Tape) is the debut studio album by American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, released on August 1, 1995, by Loud Records and RCA Records. So when I had the opportunity to voice my opinion, and speak to the world from a creator position, I was like yo man, this going to be a piece of art. And I never was a person that was a flabbergaster like that. But at some point, you got to pay attention to what's in front of you. "Because I studied, I did my homework, I lived it. Perhaps the most telling line arrives on Broken Safety, when Jadakiss sagely declares “F*** saving hip hop / We bringing the streets back,” reminding us that nobody else, not even his Wu-Tang companions, relates street stories with Raekwon’s eloquence."When I made my solo album, I wanted to be one of the greats," explains Rae, speaking with Ebro Darden on Beats 1. And in continuing the multi-angle widescreen crime saga scope of OB4CL…, Raekwon’s true talent soars.
’Hood-examining highlight Sonny’s Missing is sufficiently vivid to render television’s greatest inner city dramatisation, The Wire, as a two-dimensional caricature, lighting up a Pete Rock beat that slinks through shadowy sonic alleyways. Ok, let’s get started, Beats, Rhymes & Lists presents the very first Song Battle in the the series: Ready to Die vs. For the most part, it’s the role Ghostface was born to play and when he trades bars with Raekwon on the ominous Penitentiary it’s a genuine pleasure to behold. Before we get started, Ready to Die has 17 tracks, with one intro and one interlude, the same structure as Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, so Big and Rae can literally go song-for-song without any omissions. As of late, both genres have found the ability to craft further extensions to an original story without killing the quality of what the. Generally Hip-Hop and movies had a rule that sequels sucked, with the exception of a name few. Dr Dre and the late J Dilla bring particular heat alongside, almost inevitably, RZA, despite Raekwon’s prior protestations that his crewmate wouldn’t feature, after bad blood between the two.Īlso in keeping with the OB4CL… spirit, fellow Wu mic assassin Ghostface Killah reprises his lead guest credit, distinctive urgent delivery snaking around Raekwon’s effortlessly flowing wordplay. Now we’re finally here, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 sequel to the certified classic of the same name, without the 2 of course. Broadening the original album’s cinematic production spectrum beyond backing from Wu comrade RZA, nigh on every beat calls on big guns without feeling like unit-shifting super producer box-ticking. It’s not only Raekwon’s A game that is resurrected, either. Evoking the claustrophobic atmospheres of OB4CL… to the extent it’s easy to forget Raekwon is rapping from a contemporary standpoint, he once again animates a drugs-running and violence-filled street life narrative with rare colour and attention to gritty detail. Just as well, then, that it more than lives up to the hype, rolling back that aforementioned decade and a half to recapture sizzling career-defining form. Treading in such lauded footsteps, half-baking Pt. Indeed, this sequel had been mooted so long its status in hip hop circles had become nearly as mythical as Dr Dre’s still-unreleased Detox. It’s taken the Wu-Tang Clan’s slang master Raekwon the thick end of 15 years of inferior albums and market-flooding mixtapes to craft a genuinely worthy follow-up to landmark solo debut Only Built 4 Cuban Linx….
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