The intro to Wu-Tang forever is an all time terrible start to a CD (goat albums with WOAT intros)

[mitter]

I remember putting this disc in like finally...there is no way this shyt is bad....no fukkin way

And that first track I was 13/14 like "" uhh...alright...

Album is a pure classic but I was like WTF is this dude talking about and the beat...was wtf is this shyt...and it NEVER ENDS

This is a woat intro on a goat album.

I began to appreciate it after a while, but it would have worked better if the intro was just the brief movie clip that leads into "Reunited"

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Put “imo” this is a ridiculous statement

In terms of straight bars, it is. But overall, nah.

 

[bigde09]

Wu forever overrated af and was the beginning of their end

 

[Tetris v2.0]

The beat on there was foreshadowing to RZA fully embracing that style and falling off smh

I still love the concept of what they're saying, but I always skip it lol

Thankfully the intro to Disc 2 is some of the illest shyt ever

 

[Plankton]

Album is a pure classic but I was like WTF is this dude talking about and the beat...was wtf is this shyt...and it NEVER ENDS

I'm going to explain to you why the intro actually makes sense. As someone who was seriously on his deen in 1997 (I don't subscribe to Islam now but I did in 97) that intro made perfect sense especially if you are familiar with the NGE and the meetings at the school in Mecca. That intro was like a meeting and Papa Wu represented an older God enlightening. When you hear dude in the intro asking questions and pleading like someone who is lost in the wiilderness that's a representation of how when you went to the school on any given day and you were a curious spectator there might be someone at the door ready to either answer any questions you have or they'd let you in and pass you off to someone else who can answer any questions you have. Like how in the intro to "Black Jesus" on Ironman, you hear Ghost asking questions and Papa Wu answering. The intro was like getting a peep into one of the meetings. It showed how the Wu were really attempting to drive home their 5% representation to the world. In all honesty, the intro is actually perfect as an opener to a Wu Tang album for the year 1997. Every 5% acknowledged the year 97 as the year Born God including Rakim that same year on his comeback album The 18th Letter so it only made sense that in the year Born God that a Wu Tang album have such an intro.

If you've never been to a meeting at Mecca I can understand why it might have gone over your head but to someone who was familiar it made perfect sense.

 

[King Sun]

Unless you date or married to white woman/man this shouldn't offend you

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I'm going to explain to you why the intro actually makes sense. As someone who was seriously on his deen in 1997 (I don't subscribe to Islam now but I did in 97) that intro made perfect sense especially if you are familiar with the NGE and the meetings at the school in Mecca. That intro was like a meeting and Papa Wu represented an older God enlightening. When you hear dude in the intro asking questions and pleading like someone who is lost in the wiilderness that's a representation of how when you went to the school on any given day and you were a curious spectator there might be someone at the door ready to either answer any questions you have or they'd let you in and pass you off to someone else who can answer any questions you have. Like how in the intro to "Black Jesus" on Ironman, you hear Ghost asking questions and Papa Wu answering. The intro was like getting a peep into one of the meetings. It showed how the Wu were really attempting to drive home their 5% representation to the world. In all honesty, the intro is actually perfect as an opener to a Wu Tang album for the year 1997. Every 5% acknowledged the year 97 as the year Born God including Rakim that same year on his comeback album The 18th Letter so it only made sense that in the year Born God that a Wu Tang album have such an intro.

If you've never been to a meeting at Mecca I can understand why it might have gone over your head but to someone who was familiar it made perfect sense.

I respect that fully

 

[Formerly known as...]

Put “imo” this is a ridiculous statement

I never picked up on the fact he said top 5 but you right

 

[Peter Parker]

Wu-Tang Forever is a top 5 rap album..

The thread starter is still correct.

The disc 2 intro should have been the proper intro!

I was gonna say wtf is OP talking about but then I remember I was definitely thinking of disc two

 

[Awesome Wells]

Put “imo” this is a ridiculous statement

They get a little too excited on here and just start saying crazy sh*t.

 

[boogers]

wu-tang forever imo is a lot like is was written. two albums that took a lot out of the artists, and took forever for me to get into

i consider them classics now but not at first listen. i had to mature more myself before i really appreciated it

i go back now to a lot of stuff i ignored when it was happening, and its a lot better than i remembered

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

wu-tang forever imo is a lot like is was written. two albums that took a lot out of the artists, and took forever for me to get into

i consider them classics now but not at first listen. i had to mature more myself before i really appreciated it

i go back now to a lot of stuff i ignored when it was happening, and its a lot better than i remembered

In both cases we had just lived thru 93, 94, 95, and (half of, for IW) 96. Our standards were real high. So, in the moment not being awed but them is understandable.

Completely different artist but same thing for me on the west, for "the hall of game" by E-40. Compared to 92-95 West Coast, it was cool in the moment. I play it back that shyt was fire, one of his best.

 

[Stuckinthe90s]

They get a little too excited on here and just start saying crazy sh*t.

Gimme your top 5.

 

[Stuckinthe90s]

Put “imo” this is a ridiculous statement

Gimme your top 5.

My entire post history is "imo"

 

[get these nets]

In both cases we had just lived thru 93, 94, 95, and (half of, for IW) 96. Our standards were real high. So, in the moment not being awed but them is understandable.

We heard Poppa Wu on the intro to Rae's Northstar and the outro to the greatest Wu song ever All That I Got Is You.

So this was an underwhelming appearance by comparison. Foreshadowing the underwhelming album