Supreme Clientele's 17th Anniversary :wow:

[dennis roadman]

Im pretty sure that Kay Slay sh*t was from "Holla" feat. Allah Real, not "Wise". I had the same version of "Holla" with Kay talking on it. The song that didnt make the US version of SC with Ghost rhyming over The Dramatics is "Wise", dedicated to his man General Wise God Allah. He was Killarmy's manager before he got killed out in Steubenville.

shyt you're right!

I always confuse those two

 

[DaRealness]

I remember not feeling it as much as Ironman when it came out, but shortly after it grew on me.

Mighty Healthy is my favorite track on there.

 

[Yehuda]

Straight up, yo that nikka 50 Cent?
That's yo, I don't even know why he try to do that little dumb ass shyt
Right there
But I'm a tell you somethin
You could say all them other nikkas name
But nikkas, nikkas gon see them based on that big daddy
I know why they ain't bark on you
Cuz they ain't try to let your new broke ass trying to come out in the game
And act like they lettin you live off they scruff
Ok, you ain't even that big, dig?
And if I see you up in here
I'm a have about 500 wolves on you
And that's *kiss* that's gonna get everything, duke
You just fukked up, you fukked up bad
I don't even know man
Matter fact, I'm a kick you in ya ass and all that shyt
Gon take ya little watch and all that
You know?
But yo like I said 50, you a bird and nikkas gonna see you
fakkit ass nikka

Straight up. AND ya haircut game is fukked up. :carmelo:

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Classic album..I remember my older female cousin's boyfriend playing this on the stereo while I was playing him on NBA 2K on Sega Dreamcast
Nutmeg

Yep. Once folks elevated from the genre like the shyt is beneath them, then the damage came into play. I remember Timbaland being one of the first to ride that pop wave and look where he's at now...making sitcom tracks for Empire. No knock but I could go for some of those funky drum patterns over that Yamaha piano.

Yea i remember a few yrs ago he said he was done working with rappers..Said something to the effect of "If you ain't Jay Z, Kanye or Drake i'm not working with you" I thought that was real wack

 

[NasirJr]

nikka RZA's production was fire around this time. That Child's Play beat is straight up and down art.

My fave Ghost album hands down, Ironman is a classic too but SC production was even better and Ghost was spitting nicer.

 

[TBdaGhost]

Just in case she wanna play
Get up in that bytch face
And tell her ghost said take your clothes off

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

60 Second Assassin, as usual, killed that hook on "Stay True."

The streets is rough out here

The crack game came and had it's years

What is a maaan to doooooo...?


"Brother, Stay True. Stay True."

 

[UserNameless]

"When the face got revealed game got real."

 

[Manuel Hot Pepper Lopez]

This album is prolly my favorite album to hit the gym and lift with, so it stays in constant rotation. Had no idea the anniversary was this week.

I was in D.C. last week in the hood and rolled up to a 7-11 with "Deck's Beat" blaring out the window at like 2AM and some cat standing outside was like "That's that old Ghostface sh*t, right?". Actually felt good that cats recognized and still appreciate real hip-hop when they hear it.

I was still in college when this album dropped. I wish I could find the video, but whatever video channel my old school used to play used to run interview promos of upcoming albums, and they had one of Ghost talking about recording SC and the direction he was taking with it, with playing bits and pieces of the tracks in the background during the interview, and I remember me and one of my people's bugging out when I seen him down at the bus stop the next time talkin about, "Yo, you hear the Nutmeg sh*t!!". This was about maybe a month or two before the album dropped, so there werent any snippets out yet, but just being able to hear the opening of Nutmeg for the first time had us anticipating the whole song like

This was also one of the last true Wu collective solo albums. Had contributions from just about the entire clan on there, plus affialiates like Sunz of Man.

That was a Boxtalk segment on the Box you're referring to. Ghost was on there saying how Wu was gonna "get the belt back" with the album. I remember Beatnuts JuJu on Rap City saying the album was gonna blow people away.

I painstakingly downloaded it one track at a time on the 56k modem. It was bad enough each song took 30 minutes to d/l, but with nikkas calling the house or parents needing to make calls, or tracks being incomplete or named wrong....it took me a good week to get the complete album
But when I finally played it through

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

if Im not mistaken tho didn't RZA take a step back after Forever and they were mad at him for not working with them as much?

It's a mix of things.

Rza gave them all the freedom to break way from Wu and pursue their own contracts, which most of them did. He also said he had a plan for all of them.

First wave was Dirty, Gza, Mef, Rae and Ghost.

Then after Forever it was supposed to be Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cap and Rza. That's why they have a lot of verses and their own songs on Forever.

Problem is none of the first wave niccaz wanted to wait so they all planned their own releases at which point everyone started tugging at the Rza and whoever he helped he would piss off 8 other dudes. It also meant that the Wu dudes were competing with each other for album releases now.

Couple that with these niccaz not showing up for tours that Rza/his brothers would then have to compensate etc and that's why they initially all split.

 

[mobbinfms]

Guess what I'm playing right now?
Copped the vinyl a while back
Got it home and found out it was the clean version
But now I can play it in front of my kids

 

[mobbinfms]

And I'm wearing a robe right now

 

[MidnightMercenary]

I fukking love this album

What a masterpiece

Ironman has always been my favorite Ghost album but now these two are pretty equal for me after relistening to it sometime this week.

I love damn near every song on here. One of the most produced hip-hop albums of the 2000's. One of the best lyrical performances of all time.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

My tapes start at the beginning cuz that's how they rewind

 

[BmoreGorilla]

It's a mix of things.

Rza gave them all the freedom to break way from Wu and pursue their own contracts, which most of them did. He also said he had a plan for all of them.

First wave was Dirty, Gza, Mef, Rae and Ghost.

Then after Forever it was supposed to be Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cap and Rza. That's why they have a lot of verses and their own songs on Forever.

Problem is none of the first wave niccaz wanted to wait so they all planned their own releases at which point everyone started tugging at the Rza and whoever he helped he would piss off 8 other dudes. It also meant that the Wu dudes were competing with each other for album releases now.

Couple that with these niccaz not showing up for tours that Rza/his brothers would then have to compensate etc and that's why they initially all split.

I always knew about the 5 year plan. I used to have a copy of the Wu Manual that someone stole so a lot of details after Forever dropped are hazy to me