Can Somebody Explain why GZA Liquid Swords is considered a classic :lupe

[H@LLOW]

Is in my personal top 3.

1. Man on the moon 1
2. Blueprint
3. This thread titled

 

[Remote]

There ain’t an album dropped in the last 15 years that’s on Liquid Swords level.

 

[bigde09]

The slander in this thread is outrageous Liquid Swords is one of the goats

 

[Mr. Negative]

I was saying the same thing about a week or 2 ago.

The video from Fresh and the Liquid Swords videos dropped and dude seemed too.... basic.

Then like my third time seeing the Swords video, shyt just clicked. How perfect dude was rhyming, for lack of better description.

Don't know how many folks in here are up on the Hajime no Ippo boxing anime, but it's like how all the other boxers were talking up Ricardo Martinez' jab, going on about how perfectly flawless it was and how he had practiced just that jab so much that even though it was the most basic boxing punch, he made it into a deadly weapon.

You don't really get how deadly just his jab is.... until he obliterates Ippo using just the jab.... including smacking him out of the dempsey roll with it.



And that's GZA's style in a nutshell. He doesn't need to do all of the ultra fancy rhyme patterns or double timing or crazy slang or any of that. All he does is jab. And his jab is fukking perfect.

That on top of RZA's production.... flawless album

 

[Buckeye Fever]

GZA dope as hell, but everytime I hear a mad rapper skit, I usually think of him

 

[MurderToCassette]

Since this thread, somebody found the Swordsmen sample and I lost my fukking mind

https://www.whosampled.com/sample/1125339/GZA-Swordsman-Popol-Vuh-Venus-Principle/

 

[Remote]

GZA dope as hell, but everytime I hear a mad rapper skit, I usually think of him

I got John Blaze shyt. But they not recognizing

 

[Buckeye Fever]

1. Man on the moon 1
2. Blueprint
3. This thread titled

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I got John Blaze shyt. But they not recognizing

Maaaaan


At the beginning of disc 2, him and RZA was on some mad rapper shít. You could hear the disgust in GZA's voice.

"All that playa bullshít"

 

[Conan]

How is this thread a thing?

One of the greatest hip-hop albums ever.

I will not be explaining why.

 

[Redwood]

I hold this album in high regard, but it pales in comparison to Ironman & OB4CL.

 

[ManBearPig]

Top tier beats and rhymes.

Going by lyrics, one could argue that the album displays the finest caliber of lyricism in the history of hip hop.

 

[No Homo]

2nd best Wu solo album and a classic...nothing else needs to be said

 

[Buckeye Fever]

Top tier beats and rhymes.

Going by lyrics, one could argue that the album displays the finest caliber of lyricism in the history of hip hop.

And one of the dopest album covers of all time

 

[No Homo]

Then he goes right into this verse on Gold…


Snake got smoked on the set like Brandon Lee
Blown out the frame like Pan Am Flight 103
He got swung on, his lungs was torn
A kingpin just castled with his rook and lost a pawn
A regular on the block that played lookout
For preying predator with a Glock, he should have took out

Whole verse is crazy but this part here.


The story telling on this album