RZA Production Appreciation Thread

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Listening to Ironman and Liquid Swords alot recently ,one thing I found absolutely amazing was the skill it took for him to blend so many samples into one song and yet you would think that the whole track was original built. I listen to the tracks real carefully and I cant tell between the samples and what he produced himself, the fact that so many samples went undetected even 20 years later makes you wonder if RZA actually even sampled them, its mind blowing.

Someone made a thread recently about who you would most want to see in a studio session, to be seeing RZA build beats like Duel of Iron Mic, 4th Chamber or Assassination Day would be priceless to me, it kind of even upsets me knowing that we will never see the process of these beats being built. The basslines, drums and synths blended together so well that it would make you think that there is no way he could of sampled the whole thing. Obviously when he started doing the Bobby Digital shyt you could tell it was all originally made, it sounded like a futuristic orchestra ...but sometimes I just wished he stuck to his original style because I feel nobody would have been able to detect his samples anyway.

Even if he did sample every sound, every layer of the track, its not like youll ever be able to find out where he got that shyt from, for example these guitar strums right here



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the piano, sample or original? the sound the comes directly after the piano ... where he get that shyt from? :ohhh:

On another note, how ill was Masta Killas verse on Assassination Day? The way he described the situation of an MC getting hyped by an instrumental only to step to a real MC and get slayed :francis:
 

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Rza and havoc the goat producers to me, they approached beat making from a whole different perspective than any other producers..a testimony to Rza's production during those few years is how well the music has aged and how good it still sounds today
 

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Rza and havoc the goat producers to me, they approached beat making from a whole different perspective than any other producers..a testimony to Rza's production during those few years is how well the music has aged and how good it still sounds today
Cosign, Havoc is another one in that tier .... the only thing that fukked up Havocs legacy was that after Hell on Earth that style of production changed for the worst. He needed more material produced in that Infamous mode



heres another classic im bumping right now .... that flute? is it a sample or what??!!
 

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its like you hear listen to a rza beat (those old ones), you will notice a sound or a change up that you didnt hear before. That shows how detailed and ill he is. To also think that he did all of that programming on an old machine like the asr 10 makes it even more amazing. Also, its ill how rza can either straight loop a sample like liquid swords, or build from entirely random sounds like in swordsman. The way he can also reuse the same sample and flip them into different beats is mindblowing :banderas:
 

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Rza and havoc the goat producers to me, they approached beat making from a whole different perspective than any other producers..a testimony to Rza's production during those few years is how well the music has aged and how good it still sounds today

Rza my goat, Dre my second and Hav third.
 

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One of the goats 🐐
 

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Thats how you flip a sample.

Not just the tune but the mood as well. :wow:
 

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Rzas true peak is 99/00/01 to me. Tho its hard to beat dec 94 - nov 95

Run 4 cover red/meth /Ghost dog / 1112 for gza / nikka please / supreme clientele / the w / bulletproof wallets

Well into the 2000s hed pull the rabbit out the hat.
 

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93-98 Rza... He was pretty much untouchable during that stretch with the two Wu albums and all of the solo albums. Soon after that the Digital stuff would come and he would really start to fall off. I get it he changed styles up and experimented a lot but most of the time it came out ehhhhhhhhh IMO.
He still had some beats here and there I liked but he stopped producing most of the albums and the Digital sound just did not hit me like his earlier classic work.
The W had some nice beats on it though I admit, just not on the level of the first two albums.
 

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DJ Premier is my GOAT but it is undeniable that RZA may have had the very highest peak of any Producer ever, right there with Dr. Dre. RZA fully producing ODB first album, OB4CL & Liquid Swords in the same year is fukking absurd :gladbron:
 
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