Technically not passing on a beat, but I remember hearing since Ghost & Rae could make songs at a quicker pace than GZA they’d hop on some beats meant for LS that ended up on OB4CL…
I always tried to guess which beats those might’ve been…
I’m thinking:
Spot Rusherz (def sounds like a GZA beat, the piano, more simplistic)
Guillotine Swordz
Incarcerated Scarfaces (maaaaybe…another simplistic beat that I could hear GZA over)
RZA confirmed Spot Rusherz was made for GZA. He actually hated the beat and was gonna trash it, and that's how Rae got a hold of it. RZA said the gunshot at the end was because he thought the beat was so fukking monotonous he needed something to wake the listener back up
Incarcerated Scarfaces may have been another one, and I think so because the way the drums sound. The drums on Cuban Linx are mostly dusty sounding, but Liquid Swords has super crisp sounding drums a lot like the Infamous...and Incarcerated Scarfaces and Spot Rusherz have those crispy loud drums
Edit:
@Whips-n-Chains Yup, Incarcerated Scarfaces was made for GZA too:
"RAEKWON: The way RZA had it poppin' back thenn, we would come into his spot. It was like dudes would come in on their own time and create stuff. I remember I just came in, and the beat was just pumpin'. I wrote the hook - that was the first thing I did. I think one of my mans just got hit with some heavy time around that time. I had a lot of n*ggas up there, too. So it was like. Yo, this one gotta be for them n*ggas right here. This right here will be just fo them n*ggas in jail. It won't be for nobody else. I just wrote it out real quick. I did three verses on that, so Ghost didn't have to come in and really do anything to it.
RZA: I wasn't making that beat for Rae. I was finished with Rae. I like having 13 tracks. I don't like having 18. I was making it for GZA probably. He was next. But then Rae heard that beat, grabbed his pen and paper, and started writing. Two hours later, it was written."
