RZA wild'n over his beats appreciation thread

[SirBiatch]

i realized listening to ice cubes the predator album a while ago that rza's sound is inspired heavily by that album and some of cubes other work during that era. a lot of the tracks on the predator sound like they were produced by rza... much of rza's earlier work is actually a replica copy of a lot of those beats on that album... before coming into his own and expanding on it later... those vocal samples rza was using and sometimes credited as originating were all over the predator album already in 1992.... those kung fu movie snippets... were all over those cube tracks but taken from blaxploitation movies instead of kung fu movies... the predator by cube... that album in particular.... sounds like an unofficial west coast wu tang album... i credit it as being the starting point of everything that wu tang would eventually become. it was the inspiration and genesis of that sound.



came out in 92.... and thats a rza beat.... in every single way.

cool post, but do you have any proof?

Besides, that track sounds more Muggs than anything. Which makes more sense given the locality

 

[Big Mel]

@SirBiatch i have no idea who you be. You're smart. You're brazen. I fux witchoo.


THAT IS DJ MUGGS nikkaAA


why you you think Cypress kilt that bytch ASS nikka CUBE. fukk ICE CUBE.

but yeah, i wanted to be Cube when he was werf a shyt.

 

[Big Mel]

And Predator has nothing at all in common with what Rza cooked.,



@cook get me the fukk outta here, B.

 

[SirBiatch]

@SirBiatch i have no idea who you be. You're smart. You're brazen. I fux witchoo.

Much respect, Sir Mel

 

[Yuzo]

on the wu tang mtv cribs episode rza is giving a tour of his room in the wu mansion in LA where he makes beats and got his equipment at and pointed out this old piece of equipment and said that he uses it to give his drums a really dusty and grimey sound to them. those dusty sounding drums are the backbone of a rza beat and those dusty grimey drums were all over ice cubes early work and is one of the things that characterized it. the chronology was that ice cube was the biggest rapper in hip hop prior to the 93 release of enter the 36 chambers.... which is to say that... the ice cube sound was the dominant sound in hip hop music at that time in the same way that trap beats and their inherent structure is the dominant sound right now. wu tang picked up right at the exact time when that influence would have been very strong throughout the entire culture. the vocal samples and film snippet influence is also something cube was doing pre wu on his albums in that era. the ice cream beat by rza... sounds like a beat cube theoretically could have rapped over on the predator, for example... down to the piano loop melody, the vocal sample, and the underlying funk layers, and the same dusty drums. the only missing element out of that formula... would be a film snippet... a signature of a rza produced piece of work.... which rza had all over all his production exactly similar to cube projects that came before him as well.

 

[PaperEnterprise]

The day i have a few million in the bank. I will sit down with the rza and offer him a million dollars to record and release "the cure"...better auction it off to me. Ill release it 36 years later.

No but for real, i want the cure lol

 

[Northern Son]

There was a minute when Rza was my 2nd after Ghost. Late 90's.


Rza is a diva. Son fronted on me over a Vibe magazine. I love Rza and recognize his genius but had he not fronted on that Vibe mag maybe this nikka wouldn't have lost his way. metaphorically speaking.

Wait aren't you white ?

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Good thread.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

There was a minute when Rza was my 2nd after Ghost. Late 90's.


Rza is a diva. Son fronted on me over a Vibe magazine. I love Rza and recognize his genius but had he not fronted on that Vibe mag maybe this nikka wouldn't have lost his way. metaphorically speaking.

Expand on that , my dude you know I share my tales with yal..

 

[Stone]

His verse on Assasination Day >>>>.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Wait aren't you white ?

Half Hawaiian with a slight tought of devilnese.

 

[VertigoKnight]

I remember when that BLACROC album came out, they did these really cool webisodes. Watching this one showed how RZA approaches a song production wise. Well worth five minutes of anyones time. In fact all the episodes are worth watching.

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

I can just imagine RZA in the studio

*Triumph comes on*
Deck: aite brehs imma write the first verse, shut the fukk up

U-God: YO I got a crazy 16 brehs lemme lace -
Everyone in the room: chill breh, nah....
U-God:

Raekwon: This shyt aite I guess...

Ghostface: I've heard better beats at the Country Music Awards my nikka...

Masta Killa: yo I'm going to actually rhyme words on this canvas, gentlemen

GZA: *nodding*

*RZA dances in the room, drunk off henny*

RZA: YO who made this beat
Meth: you know damn well you made this beat nikka
RZA: YO I never heard this shyt before! Imma go in HARD AS fukk

at the u-god part

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

His verse on Assasination Day >>>>.

yo..one of the most underrated and deadliest verses man. i rank this how cats rank deck's verse on triumph.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

the true story about triumph is known..and it's a good story too..lol