Not a particularly obscure or rare track, I’ve just been obsessing over it for the past 24hrs after randomly coming across it on an old hard drive. It’s a strong posse cut as a whole (in a ’4 random unrelated verses thrown on the same beat’ kind of way), but RZA’s turn in particular is just ridiculous (#Wu-bias). It plays out like a checklist of everything that makes his best rapping moments so entertaining – nonsensical stream of consciousness non sequiturs, angel dust, very nerdy very specific kung fu movie references, third person braggadocio, vague spiritualism in service of creating self aggrandizing mythology, etc. Peach cobbler rap indeed… it may actually be his strongest guest feature, at least outside of the explicit Wu continuum. FYI, turns out Siberian Panex is some kind of ginseng.
New Burk(e)/(s)/Lil Chuuch, dropped via RZA’s #WuWednesday series. Clearly a work in progress (the beat switch at 30 sec is rough), but I like where this is going. I still maintain the theory that a Burk album properly produced (ie not phoned in) by RZA could be the best Wu-related piece of music in ages.
What do you know, second interesting #WuWednesday entry in a row.
I was never a fan of the Achozen thing, even though I’ve seen Shavo back Wu at live shows to great effect. Supergroups sound nice in theory but rarely work well in practice, and considering previous shitty history of rap-rock crossovers this one didn’t really look too good on paper either. The shreds of material they released officially didn’t do much to inspire my confidence.
This song is solid though, even in very rough demo form. Powers of rock are harnessed for good here, used to create a strong but not overpowering backdrop instead of some sub-KORNian numetal nonsense. RZA raps his ass off too, in that wordy lyrical miracle style he doesn’t pull off too often anymore. The whole thing kinda reminds me of Rae’s ‘Get Off The Flowers’, the strongest standout from the underwhelming Blakroc project that could’ve made a welcome addition to OBFCL2.
HERE’S A CLASSIC HIP HOP SONG FROM DEEP IN THE ARCHIVES FEATURING RZA AND REV. WILLIAM BURKS DONE A FEW YEARS AGO AND BORN TO REMIND PEOPLE OF GENUINE VINTAGE HIP HOP IN CELEBRATION OF BLACK MUSIC MONTH….
RZA’s #WuWednesday series has been very hit or miss, but I’m diggin this one. Burke(s? still don’t know how to spell it right) is the shit as usual, RZA does a pretty good job too. It’s a shame this seems completely unmastered, that beat probably sounds much worse than it could/should.
So blah blah Game mixtape blah getting sued blah blah RZA whatever… I don’t really care about the Game one way or the other, nor this lawsuit nonsense. What drove me to post this song is the following:
1. This might be the best new RZA beat I’ve heard in some time. If he chooses to pursue the hiphop hippy route, this is the way to do it. Incidentally, I got nothing against Grand Funk (the original G.Funk if you wanna get dumb-clever), but there are buttloads of phenomenal obscure heavy blues and blues-rock records he could draw on without getting into sticky copyright beefs. For the hell of it, video for a duly bong-rattling live version of the problematic sample is embedded at the top of the post.
THIS IS A SONG TALKING ABOUT HOW PEOPLE TRY TO TELL WHAT TO DO AND WHAT TO BE… THE SONG CAN RELATE TO A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN AND WOMAN OR CITIZENS AND AUTHORITY…OR JUST ANY CONFRONTATION SUCH AS A BOUNCER AT A CLUB WITH THE GUEST LIST… PEACE, RZA
New swashbuckler featuring B.O.B.B.Y. from Harlem 6′s recently released Wu-Tang tribute project, The New Breed (which is quite strong if you are into Wu-Filliation). Mixtape Conquer was my shit when Harlem 6 first came out as RZA’s pet project and I maintain that Black Jesus is underrated as fuck. Bong.
Back in 1998, The RZA released the soundtrack to a movie that would never come to fruition: “Bobby Digital In Stereo.” This short video is what I imagine the opening title sequence for that unfinished film would look like.
Much of the footage is sampled from other talented photographers and artist on Vimeo. All graphic elements and film effects where created by myself.
This was strictly created for artistic purposes.
- Travis Hopkins
Travis is wrong about the movie itself since much like Santa and talking M&Ms it does exist. But he’s got everything else right. This is a really well done, obviously influenced by classic 70s b-movies but not achingly retro. It’s especially timely now, in the age when the art of the title sequence has all but stagnated (aside from a few notable exceptions like Catch Me If You Can) It’s cool but kinda sad too that we live in an age where dyi fan made productions are sometimes more impressive than those made by paid professionals.
Burke (apparently now aka Lil Chuuch) has a ton of potential, unfortunately he has yet to realize it. This ‘freestyle’ is a vague sliver of a premonition of how things could be. Imagine RZA and Burke taking the minimalistic aesthetic here as a foundation and building on it to create a full album, kind like a Wu-themed companion piece to Marcberg. Burk would need to get a bit more focused in the verses and RZA would need to make the backdrops a shade darker and weirder (and dustier) … maybe a just touch of tasteful distortion. Throw in some GZA (if he’s awake) and Killah Priest (if he is currently occupying a reachable quadrant of the space time continuum.) It could work.
