Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

[DMR]

propably my favourite album ever

 

[Curioser]

One word... ORIGINALITY

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

he was like the extension of Dolemite aka Rudy ray moore..

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

Anyone know why deck wasn't on this CD?

 

[feelosofer]

Still a classic as far as I'm concerned, I bump that shyt to this day. Some raw gutter hip-hop, after Dare iz a Darkside, maybe one of the grimiest albums ever, and thats saying something.











WU-TANG 4 EVER.

 

[feelosofer]

The Lil B of the 90s...exept less lyrical.

Lil B goes to sleep and wishes he was the gawd Ason Unique

 

[feelosofer]

This album is the quintessential Hip-Hop album, an undeniable and completely unique classic in the annals of not only Hip-Hop but all music and art.

From the introduction, we are told by Mr. Russel Jones that, "you're about to see something that you've never seen before, something that nobody in the history of rap ever set theyself to do", and gottdamn, the man was right

So, when ODB is finally introduced, he goes into a tales of being shot at and being burnt with gonorrhea, again showin his life is an open book to the audience. Whatever is in his life and on his mind goes unfiltered through the mic. "Yeah, the bytch died...I killed the bytch. But the p*ssy was gooooood, the p*ssy was goooooood."

What that just say? They created a new chamber? Yes, this is something new, something never concieved before, a brillant opus to pure performace, the skills of a showman.

"you can't even sing"/"I like the way you talk"...demented pianos and Dirt's incredible raw spit: "my producer slam, my flow is like, BAM, jump on stage, A-DA-DUN-DUN-DAAAAAA" then the verse is flipped BACKWARDS and run again...second takes on an album? yes, you need to be reintroduced to Dirt comin on stage because you don't get it. This is your performer for the evening, this is what he does: hip-hop off the dome and into the mic, from him to you, no composition, no overtly witty triple metaphors and imagery...this is straight hip-hop with it's jazz influence (Dirt scats and often plays his voice off as a horn), soul influence (Dirt croons), blues and rock (hear the guitars throughout) and more..."Shimmy Shimmy Ya, Shimmy Yam, Shimmy Yeah, gimme the mic so I can take ya away"

"Baby C'mon"...just quoting Dirt on anything won't have any true bearing on what he actually says as so much is in the inflection and the beat is incredible with the main loop which plays off the switch to the bass guitar and single scratch, broken glass thrown in, all played with and interwined with more shyt in the mix: one of RZA's best always overlooked

Brooklyn Zoo is well known & classic

a constant bassline and a mix of elements all used in what ccan be best described as insanely...the guitar comes in sparse twangs, piano loop is also used sparingly with a single high note bizzarely out of place in the loop, and much more mixed, and Dirty again providing another incredible performance: "I come old like toe fungus mold, then I ask my grandpop, pop duke gimme soul,then I came with that old Al Green shyt, SAAAADIE taught me the bullistic, I get your eye blurry with the high note now"

then Rawhide is a fukkin gutter ass Wu beast....
"I wanna see blood, whether it's period blood
or bustin your fukkin face, some blood!!
I'm goin out my fukkIN mind! Everytime I get around devils...
lemme calm down, you nikkaz better start runnin
cuz I'm comin, I'm dope like fukkin heroin
Wu-Tang blood kin, a goblin, who come tough like lambskin
imagine, gettin shot up with Ol Dirty insulin
you bound to catch AIDS or somethin
not sayin I got it, but nikka if I got it, you got it!!
WHAT!!!"

Damage- "Suntanama!!" and the beat on this just sounds...wrong...it sounds like 4th took some vintage Bomb Squad master reels, chopped em in a pile and then taped em back together at random

everyone knows Don't U Know is classick

Stomp is prolly the weakest on the album, but still a good cut, and then Goin' Down has one of the funniest moments on the album when ODB's girl gets into him when he talkin about pullin girls and duke belts out 'OVER THE RAINBOW'....CLASSIC

Sweet Suga Pie is a phenominal simultanious soul tribute and parody, and Snakes is just a raw ass posse cut with that crazy vocal sample

and then Dirt on Brooklyn Zoo 2 spittin Damage again (because why not spit GZAs lines again?) w/ Ghost, and then having a muthafukkin ALBUM RETROSPECTIVE not only in the middle of his album, but IN THE MIDDLE OF THE fukkIN SONG....crazy ass shyt...and then the skit after "see, the mic is like my bytch..."

then the everyone and they auntie posse cut, followed by the raw simple Cuttin Headz, then the spaced out cut w/ Meth and the amazing, amazing Harlem World

this album encapsulates everything Hip-Hop was born from, gave birth to and fukked while living...beautiful ass album

+rep

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

what did it get in the source?

man im surprised he didn't get crazy offers from mtv or film studios to do something??
then again, the rza did say he could have been the most successful wu tang member if his mind was right and knew where he was at etc..damn..drugs/alcohol destroyed him.

 

[feelosofer]

what did it get in the source?

man im surprised he didn't get crazy offers from mtv or film studios to do something??
then again, the rza did say he could have been the most successful wu tang member if his mind was right and knew where he was at etc..damn..drugs/alcohol destroyed him.

This is true. But dude is a cult hero. I put my cac friend in college on dude and he likes hip-hop now.

But yea, ODB, was arguably the most naturally talented member in the Wu, songs like Brookly Zoo and Snakes show flashes of great brilliance.

it got 4 Mics in the Source if I remember correctly.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

the ason unique album was sick too..

nikka please was my shyt when it dropped.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

the more i look back, the mor ei realize that odb is like the most overlooked legend in hip hop. these new drug rappers are alllll odb's sons. dude dropped jewels in cuts and was wild as fukk. check out that movie tua put up. LOL @ rza droppin 50k for a anti-spy kit for dirty with glasses with cameras in it and dirty askin cappadonna to monitor him from the apartment and gettin bagged with rzas bulletproof vest. cant make this shyt up. and as much as dmx gets locke dup, dirty was way wilder than x

and if i got a problem..

a problem GOT A PROBLEM til its gone

im the only unque ason...

odb man, ima go buy a 40 now

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

i remember when odb was on bet or some show..they wnated him to act all crazy etc then suddenly he started talking about.."yo kids study islam..be righteous and know that you can be righteous and live in peace"..hahahah.

 

[classicmaterial]

This is true. But dude is a cult hero. I put my cac friend in college on dude and he likes hip-hop now.

I knew these kids in college that listened to all this electronic music and emo shyt and basically a ton of crap I had zero interest in. One day they were driving me somewhere and they had Return to 36 in the whip, I was surprised, they all said they loved the album.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

wu tang attracted plenty of groups..the skaters, goths and comic heads..

 

[feelosofer]

wu tang attracted plenty of groups..the skaters, goths and comic heads..

Yea but my friend was a white republican.

Naw but yea, I'm bumping this shyt on my way home from the office.