Comments on: Genius/GZA-”Alphabets”

By: Sach

Sach — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:56:46 +0000

I also second the “Beneath the Surface is underrated” motion. I remember hoping that Raekwon’s second album had a similar dusty-meets-digital sound after being kind of disapointed by Inspectah Deck and Meth’s last albums (dunno if that’s the order they came out, just the order I copped em back in the CD era). Sadly most (but not all!) of Immortability sucked production wise.

Never really liked “Legend of the Liquid Sword”. When the production and guest spots stayed in the Wu vein it worked but a lot of it felt compromised (The Allen Anthony, Santi White stuff) or a victim of post-Blueprint dramatic soul (as opposed to Wu-Tang minor key soul).

Anyways, Alphabet sounds dope as fuck.

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:08:40 +0000

Fair enough-Beneath is better than I remember it being. I think it threw me for a loop having to follow up like Liquid Swords.

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:36:40 +0000

Nah, Legend of the Liquid Sword is really good. For real. On your word, I’m going to go back and give Beneath the Surface another listen though. It’s been too long.

By: Ray Jackson

Ray Jackson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:25:59 +0000

“Granted, Beneath the Surface was merely okay, but Legend of the Liquid Sword and the Grandmasters joint with Muggs are sorely undervalued gems within the Wu discography.”

Totally disagree with that.

If anything, it’s the other way around. “Beneath The Surface” is a slept-on classic imo, that merely suffered from being the follow-up to “Liquid Swords.”

“Legend of the Liquid Sword” is a pretty vapid record if you axe me.

…which you didn’t.

By: J-Mass

J-Mass — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:04:17 +0000

new genius? nice. he set the standard for wu solo projects. true about beneath the surface, that one really hurt.

this sounds like vintage wu. fingers crossed on that new album.

By: GL

GL — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:32:57 +0000

“Legend of the Liquid Swords” was worth every bit of the 4 bucks I paid for it the other day at the CD Trader. Very underrated album.

By: Dan Love

Dan Love — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:26:12 +0000

Ooooh… this is very nice. Here’s hoping the LP is as good as this.

Hit me up on FB Jeff. Hope the work went well.

Cheers,

Dan

By: Tray

Tray — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:32:31 +0000

Solomon Childs would be pretty good if his flow was just a little bit better. This is surprisingly good. I didn’t like Grandmasters, thought it was too, I don’t know, faux-retro. And GZA sounded half-asleep the whole record.

By: Disco Vietnam

Disco Vietnam — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:35:01 +0000

Funny you mention that. Schwa and I smoked a blunt to Royal Fam’s Black Castle today. Shits pretty bangin’.

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:17:19 +0000

It is downloaded and I will give it a listen. He is good on Hellz Wind Staff, yes.

I’m waiting for you to start riding for Solomon Childs and American Cream Team.