This felt like an appropriate time capsule to dust off in light of today’s post-OFWGKTA-on-Fallon-appearance mania.

Happy birthday ODB. This song wins again, this time in video form, for presenting Dirty as a compelling but troubled artist and not just a drunk-stumbling collection hilarious one liners and outlandish behavior.

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.

“Bobby & The Harlem 6″

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.

DOWNLOAD: Rev. William Burke – Freestyle (prod by RZA)

Saw somebody post this on the Wutang-corp board, had a high school flashback, couldn’t resist the urge to post it here. I can’t fucking wait till 2012 so I can finally fulfill my destiny of being a post-apocalyptic head hunter/philosopher roaming the wasteland in search of fertile tri-breasted mutant women to mate with.

Newest Deck single by Beverly Hill’s finest producer. Peep the t-list for Manifesto below. –Philaflava

The Champion (prod. Alchemist)
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INSPECTAH DECK – MANIFESTO
IN STORES MARCH 23rd

TRACKLISTING:

1. Tombstone Intro (Prod. by J.Glaze)
2. The Champion (Prod. by Alchemist)
3. Born Survivor ft Cormega (Prod. by Moss)
4. This Is It (Prod. by Dtox)
5. Luv Letter ft Ms. Whitney (Prod. by INS)
6. P.S.A (Prod. by Lee Bannon)
7. T.R.U.E ft. MeShel (Prod. by INS)
8. We Get Down (Prod. by INS)
9. The Big Game ft Raekwon & AC (Prod. by Mental Instruments)
10. Tombstone Interlude (Prod. by J.Glaze)
11. 9th Chamber (Prod. by INS and Khino)
12. Really Real ft. Carlton Fisk & Fes Taylor (Prod. by INS)
13. Serious Rappin ft Termanology & Planet Asia (Prod. by Mike Cash)
14. Do What U Gotta (Prod. by Flip)
15. Crazy (Prod. by J.Glaze)
16. Gotta Bang ft Kurupt and Billy Danze (Prod. by Shorty 140)
17. The Bad Apple (Prod. by K.Slack)
18. Brothaz Respect ft Cappadonna and Fes Taylor (Prod. by Cee the Architech)
19. 5 Star G (Prod. by Moss)
20. The Neverending Story ft Pleasant (Prod. by Agallah)

Or if in passing I said “torture muthafucker torture” you might inform me that you would indeed “stab my tongue with a rusty screwdriver”

Let’s say you were hungry and wanted to get some food that was best described as “some marvelous shit to get your mouth watering” you would know who to see.

How is it that we would all know this?

Well from our number four album Enter the 36 Chambers by The Wu Tang Clan.

Released in 1993 it revolutionized production and offered up a bevy of styles from GZA’s traditional rhythms and cadence to ODB’s madman with a mic style, it was unlike anything that any of us have heard at the time and since then artists have been trying to replicate it with expectedly boring and lackluster results….I’m looking at you white people.

My first experience with the Wu was at the Wiz on Central Avenue in Yonkers. I spent my summers working on a Coors truck and every Tuesday I would go to the Wiz and by all the new releases whether I heard them or not. Towards the end of that summer I bought the cassette single for Protect Ya Neck b/w Method Man. The art work could best be described as non-descript, basically plain white cover with a logo. I never heard them, but I read about them and people suggested I check them out. I went back to my car, at the time a Colt Vista Wagon, aka a piece of American shit that Detroit has become famous for, and played the single for a good 45 minutes before pulling out of the parking lot. It was that good and different. Even U-God came off, which is usually the case when he limited to 8 bars or less.

Needless to say I was stuck. I waited and waited until the album came out that fall. The wait was worth every second. The album dropped and it felt like everything changed, at least it did for me. Production now had to be moody and cinematic, lyrics had to be strong and layered and flows had to be insane. The album feature 3 of the greatest songs in the history of rap (Protect Ya Neck, CREAM, and Can It Be All So Simple) and I guess you can argue for a fourth with Method Man, which for my money was a great song for the 90s but not all time.

Everything about the album (with the exception of the song Tearz) is perfect, even the skits are enjoyable to this day. What other album has had skits that spawned hours of conversations and inside jokery, t-shirts, Youtube clips, etc. There are none.

I can’t believe I considered leaving this album off the list.

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