Comments on: Chef Raekwon, Method Man, Ghostface-”Back From the Slums”

By: wu ooh | GORILLA VS. BEAR

wu ooh | GORILLA VS. BEAR — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:36:36 +0000

[...] and it’s the best Wu-related thing I’ve heard in years, Ghostface solo joints excluded (Weiss seems to agree). Method Man sounds like he’s back on his Tical-era game, and more importantly, that beat is [...]

By: Drewski

Drewski — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:58:01 +0000

Hell of a beat. If that’s not the RZA, he’s at least done his homework.

By: Dart_Adams

Dart_Adams — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:38:32 +0000

This is a banger in every sense of the word. THIS is the aesthetic that Wu fans crave, This is the kinda shit we wanna hear from Rae, Ghost & Meth. This reminds me of the old days of Amazon.com: More like this!

April 7th it drops. Mid to late March I’ll hear it. LOL.

One.

By: Disco Vietnam

Disco Vietnam — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:17:10 +0000

Your negative expectations are based on weak assumptions, Tray. That’s not a healthy way to approach new music. You can call it cynicism or realism or cautious optimism: you’re missing the point. It’s simply not interesting to base your opinions on your expectations because then it’s about you and not the song. Frankly, the song never seems to stand much of a chance. Fix that.

By: douglas martin

douglas martin — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:13:39 +0000

daniel: as a baby-faced noise nerd (i stole that from jeff, but i don’t think it’s bitin’), i naturally and wholeheartedly agree with you.

tray: “realistic” and “noone is expecting anything from cuban linx II” should never be placed in the same sentence. i understand that you’ve barely (if even) been listening to hip-hop for seven years, so you probably don’t understand the magnitude that the original had when it first dropped, and– if you haven’t noticed– the nearly fifteen years after.

whether it turns out to be another classic or not, cuban linx II is a big deal to those of us who’ve been listening to hip-hop before dipset’s heyday. which is to say, everyone except you.

By: Deen

Deen — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:12:45 +0000

Ban him. This ain’t no democracy!

By: Sach

Sach — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:26:50 +0000

Is there a script that can make it so whenever Tray posts, it comes out under the name “Buzz Killington”?

By: Tray

Tray — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:18:55 +0000

I’m just realistic. When you put out back to back albums like Immobilarity and the Lex Diamond Story, it’s a little hard to believe that you’re magically going to put out a great album just because you’re calling it the sequel to one. Especially when you hook up with Dre, whose latest big contributions were on albums like Curtis, Kingdom Come, and Buck The World, and they weren’t exactly standouts either (though I have a weakness for ‘Fire’). But see, my cynicism was proven wrong!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:40:01 +0000

That song is fire! I swear the crappy rip almost makes it sound better, like it’s a dubbed cassette playing on an old boombox.

By: douglas martin

douglas martin — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:34:34 +0000

goddammit, tray. you sure know how to kill a party you weren’t even invited to.