Liquid Swords 30th Anniversary

[get these nets]

Facts.

I think about this, all the time. It was a ridiculous amount of output, but the work itself was flawless every damn project. From '93-'96, RZA ain't miss once! Bro was dropping classic after classic, like clockwork. That run needs to be studied. He was out of his damn mind! LOL!!

Yeah, when you think of great hip hop producers, they are usually associated with one act, or with a "hot" sound.
The ones attached to an act might have a good year riding a hot album or two.*
The ones attached to a sound might have a good stretch doing remixes or producing lead singles for top acts.#

*The EPMD Hit Squad run was great(epmd,das,red,solo)
# Pete Rock and Swizz Beats had great runs

But that RZA run had him custom tailoring entire albums to perfectly fit the debut group and solos. None of the albums sound alike, and they were each perfectly sequenced.
Alltime great peak run.

 

[summwunn]

I once read - it's the run from 36 Chambers - including Gravediggaz debut - up to Supreme Clientele.

Do you agree?

What do others think?

The first wave was envisioned to be 36 Chambers and then a solo LP from each core member.. . . no need to reiterate what happened to the original projects from Deck, U-God, and The Cure. . . . . 1993 - 1996

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Method Man - Tical
ODB - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
GZA - Liquid Swords
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Inspectah Deck - Unreleased
U-God - Unreleased
RZA - Unreleased

 

[patscorpio]

GZA def caught lightning in the bottle with this one...dropped in the right era..pure classic with classic remixes

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

GZA def caught lightning in the bottle with this one...dropped in the right era..pure classic with classic remixes

I know the alternate version of Labels, and the 2 other versions of Cold World, are there any other remixes I'm sleeping on?

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

Debating on the Liquid Swords concert in Chicago...GA is $80

 

[BuddahMAC]

I know the alternate version of Labels, and the 2 other versions of Cold World, are there any other remixes I'm sleeping on?

only other related thing would be the BIBLE OG version

 

[Pazzy]

Gotta keep it real. It was the right time because 1995 was the perfect storm for this album especially in 1995 new york. That was a dark time. That album is perfect. Same with 36 chambers and ob4cl. That was a different energy we are talking altogether. They need to do a whole documentary about this album. fukk it, I might do a documentary about this.

 

[patscorpio]

Gotta keep it real. It was the right time because 1995 was the perfect storm for this album especially in 1995 new york. That was a dark time. That album is perfect. Same with 36 chambers and ob4cl. That was a different energy we are talking altogether. They need to do a whole documentary about this album. fukk it, I might do a documentary about this.

thats what i meant by perfect timing in my post..if gza releases LS like 2 years before or 2 years after...that album prolly wont hit like that

 

[nieman]

let me make a correction to this statement. I was wrong. I forgot about the Roots Things Fall Apart album. I've bought that album more than anything else because I own 7 copies due to the 5 different covers I collected. I finally got the last cover I had been searching for during the 25 years since it's release last year. I remember the day I went in the store and saw all of the covers and the first one I bought was the girl running from the police because that's the picture I was familar with. Turns out that was the easiest cover to get and the one they always show when pertaining to the album. So yeah, I have 7 copies of Things Fall apart due to the different covers.

I think the big chains had the girl/cops, but I think the mom & pop shops all got the others at random. I bought mine from The Wall in the middle of Nowhere PA, since I was at school at the time, so that's the cover I got. But my brother got his from one of our local spots and had a different cover. When I bought again from one of the smaller spots, I got a different cover.

The first wave was envisioned to be 36 Chambers and then a solo LP from each core member.. . . no need to reiterate what happened to the original projects from Deck, U-God, and The Cure. . . . . 1993 - 1996

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Method Man - Tical
ODB - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
GZA - Liquid Swords
Ghostface Killah - Ironman
Inspectah Deck - Unreleased
U-God - Unreleased
RZA - Unreleased

I actually would put RZA's run through '98. They weren't at the top anymore, but what he did on The Swarm was still up there with his best.