Ik zit weer effe in een Wu-Tang verslavingsperiode en zette deze nog maar eens ff op. En het is gewoon smullen! RZA zorgt hier voor de beste productie ooit na Enter The Wu-Tang. GZA en de gastartiesten rappen hier echt als bezeten freaks, nooit gezien. Enkele kippenvelvoorbeelden:
Op de titeltrack:
"I flow like the blood on a murder scene"(Prachtig verwoord)
"I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible
But when I swing my swords they all choppable"
Enja, de onvermijdelijke Rebel INS op Cold World:
"You witness the saga, casualties and drama
Life is a script, I'm not a actor but the author
of a modern day opera, where the main character
is presidential paper, the dominant, factor"
(Alleen Inspectah Deck kan zo'n dingen droppen, iedereen mag het proberen, maar het zal jullie spijtig genoeg niet lukken om dit soort dingen te overtreffen)
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Heel die verse is gewoon geniaal, hij geeft ze allemaal lik op stuk!
GZA zelf en Killah Priest op 4th Chamber:
"Disciplinary action was a fraction of strength
that made me truncate the length one tenth
with the stump, treat his hips like air pumps
RZA shaved the track, niggaz caught razor bumps
Scarred tryin to figure who invented
this unprecented, opium-scented, dark-tinted
Now watch me blow him out his shoes without clues
Cuz I won't hesitate to detonate my short fuse"
"I judge wisely, as if nothin ever surprise me
Loungin, between two pillars of ivory
I'm lively, my dome piece, is like buildin stones in Greece
my poems are deep from ancient thrones I speak
(Decktoestanden gebracht door Priest, dus zijn er toch mensen die zijn genialiteit benaderen"

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Op Shadowboxin':
"Johnny Blazing, nightmares like Wes Craven
Niggaz gunnin, my third eye seen it coming
Before it happened"(Typisch Meth)
"Check these non visual niggaz, with tapes and a portrait
Flood the seminar, tryin to orbit this corporate
indsutry, but what them niggaz can't see
must break through like the Wu, unexpectedly"(Typisch GZA)
Op Hell's Windstaff/Killah Hills 10304
"So order the food to take out
Chaos, outside a spark steakhouse
Maintain the power, I feel the deal's gone sour
Nigga Mr. Wedding, late a fuckin half hour
And his man who bought land from Tony Starks
While he was contractin bricklayin jobs in city parks
he's a loan shark, bitches raise a grand to a finger
In a garment that's stretched, got it sewn like Singer
Cause all that talk blasphemy this kid after me
for the heist, in a Burlington Coat Factory
Fuck it, he turned snake so my nigga Cash stole his copilot
who used to drive like sacks of blow on this remote
area, we label Dead Man's Island
Two hundred miles South from Thailand
Right off the docks, I got the various custom made yachts
Burial plots, for my niggaz hit with fatal shots
There's no need for us to spray up the scene
I use less men, more powerful shit for my team
Like my man Muhammad from Afghanistan
Grew up in Iran, the nigga runs a neighborhood newsstand
A wild Middle Eastern, bomb specialist
Intiated, at eleven to be a terrorist"
(Dat noem ik nou eens een staaltje storrytelling)
De afsluitende line van Ghostface op Investigative Reports:
"They use guns, while we angrily shot arrows
You better keep your eye on the sparrow!"
Op Swordsman:
"I'm not caught up in politics
I'm no black activist on a so-called scholar's dick
I come through with the Wu and drop math
And versatile freestyles bombs and phonographs
and deliver, all things and other in weight
searched to death, on how living things relate
Cause at a young age, I was molded in a religion I relied on and got caught up in superstition"
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"I suffered brutal pains, from whips and chains
Punishments that were set to wash the brain"
Op I Gotcha Back:
"Kids are slingin in my lobby
Little steve and bobby
Gettin paid but its a life-threatening hobby"
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Then I realized the plan
Im trapped in a deadly video game, with just one man
Enja B.I.B.L.E. tot slot, is ook fantastisch, maar GZA doet er niet op mee, er komen ook wel kippenvelmomenten in voor, maar die deel ik wel eens mee op de pagina van Heavy Mental.
Dit zijn misschien ook wel dingen die twijfelaars kunnen overtuigen om deze klassieker zeker eens te beluisteren
