What was the hardest beat on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx?

[Ty-Fife]

It was a single with a classic video. Song is just aight

We talking bout the beat though...

 

[patscorpio]

ice water

 

[get these nets]

I love how the tempo/intensity of the album kind of builds up and then comes back down (over and over) like an epic movie with several climaxes.


It starts off slow with "Knuckleheadz," picks up a bit with "Knowledge God," then climaxes with "Criminology". Things calm down a bit with "Incarcerated Scarfaces" and "Rainy Dayz", picks up slightly with "Guillotine", slows down a bit with "Can It Be All So Simple (remix)". Then things really start to pick up again with "Ice Water" and reach a climax with "Glaciers of Ice". "Verbal Intercourse" allows for a bit of a cool down, and it continues with "Wisdom Body" and "Spot Rusherz". Then things pick up again with "Ice Cream" and reach another climax with "Wu-Gaminos". And then it slows down again.

The sequencing of Wu projects gets overlooked. Not just a collection of songs...but a fully cohesive album.

When we were younger the shuffle/random button on cd players was a feature that people used a lot. Never on Wu albums, though. Gotta listen to it the way it was made. That's why my answer to the thread was track 4. I wore that cd out playing and repeating the album.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

We talking bout the beat though...

I know, I'm not surprised that a song that was a single had X amount of freestyles over the beat

 

[Ty-Fife]

I know, I'm not surprised that a song that was a single had X amount of freestyles over the beat

Then you could say the same about Criminology and Incarcerated Scarfaces...

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Guillotine swords that was a whole Kung fu flick in 64 bars

 

[TheDarceKnight]

aw shyt, i forgot that there was an instrumental lp for this album... i upped it here for those of you brehs who've never heard it before 88.81 MB file on MEGA

Daps and rep!!!

 

[Ohene]

incarcerated scarfaces

 

[TheDarceKnight]

The sequencing of Wu projects gets overlooked. Not just a collection of songs...but a fully cohesive album.

When we were younger the shuffle/random button on cd players was a feature that people used a lot. Never on Wu albums, though. Gotta listen to it the way it was made. That's why my answer to the thread was track 4. I wore that cd out playing and repeating the album.

This. Those early albums were perfectly sequenced.

Even on albums with one producer, sequencing them is a lost art.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Then you could say the same about Criminology and Incarcerated Scarfaces...

Link me to those videos. I don't remember them well

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Link me to those videos. I don't remember them well

fat joe is all uppin them

 

[TheDarceKnight]

fat joe is all uppin them

? Not sure I follow but I'm tired

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

? Not sure I follow but I'm tired

he cameos in few vids..
incarcerated scxafaces and heaven and hell

 

[Ty-Fife]

Link me to those videos. I don't remember them well

 

[TripleAgent]

ice water, i fukk with the scratches, the rhodes piano, the iron butterfly loop, the drums, all of it