Rapid Adapter Another release that is awesome on it's own, but gets about three times more awesome once you read the liner notes.
Nathan Loud Getting gifted a ticket to see Wu-Tang this summer, so I've been listening to them for the first time in a long while. This one Certifiably Slaps. RIP ODB. If anyone can school me on Wu-Tang and their side projects, that would be cool.
Mystery_Ship Nathan Loud Big fan of the Wu over here. Best stuff besides the first album for me would be GZA “Liquid Swords”, Raekwan “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx”, Gravediggaz “Six Feet Deep”, Ghostface Killah “Supreme Clientele”. For me the only one who had much longevity outside the first run of solo albums is Ghostface. Second Wu album has some great stuff, but for sure could be trimmed drastically. Here’s some choice cuts- [ [ [ [ [
Sid_Delicious Agree with Mystery Ship here. Pretty much all the first solo albums are certified classics and so is that first Gravediggaz album. All up there with 36 chambers. My favs being GZA - Liquid Swords Gravediggaz - 6 Feet Deep Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx
Namenlos Nathan Loud For sure. Danny Brown may be the most punk rapper still doing new shit on the reg though. Everything he’s done on his own starting with The Atrocity Exhibition has been straight fire. That record with JPEG Mafia didn’t hit right though.
Mystery_Ship Absolutely a punk spirit in the gritty execution of the first album and the following solo LPs. It’s truly a shame that there was supposed to be a Inspectah Deck LP among those but the tapes were lost in a flood of RZA’s basement studio. Kinda the lowkey best member of the group.
The Touch The Feel There's no need to quibble amongst patrons of the finer arts, but I was more of an Ab-Soul bruv than Danny Brown man when they both sort of kicked off, but DB's verse at the end of their collab is good.
The Touch The Feel Not far from the tree I always want to push Happy Mondays First song on the first album. Jesus is a cunt and never helped you, is a great lyric
Al Dorado Boyracer covering the Primitives. Making a gd Psychocandy-esque racket on Crash (Noisey Mix)
Rapid Adapter This is, as the kids say, a total vibe. French language Ugandan act, half traditional, half futuristic.
Allez Al The Czarface (that's Inspectah Deck plus 7L & Esoteric) stuff fills a very specific niche, kinda MF DOOM-y (they did two albums together) superhero related albums. REALLY consistent run if you like that kind of thing, which in the instance I do.
Mystery_Ship Allez Al Hard agree, especially the first couple LP’s. Lots of killer guest verses, and Inspectah Deck in great form.
