What was your opinion of GZA and DJ Mugg's GrandMasters album?

[Take It In Blood]

i fukks with everything GZA does

 

[erker]

Absolute classic. Gza's best album after Liquid Swords. Loved the chess theme throughout. When you look at the tracknames in order, it's a chess match from beginning to end, also emphasized by the skits.

Yet, Gza never mentions chess in his verses, only street shyt. While metaphorically still matching the different chess themes.

Gza/Genius

 

[Deflatedhoopdreams]

Absolute classic. Gza's best album after Liquid Swords. Loved the chess theme throughout. When you look at the tracknames in order, it's a chess match from beginning to end, also emphasized by the skits.
Yet, Gza never mentions chess in his verses, only street shyt. While metaphorically still matching the different chess themes though.

Gza/Genius

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[NormanConnors]

Absolute classic. Gza's best album after Liquid Swords. Loved the chess theme throughout. When you look at the tracknames in order, it's a chess match from beginning to end, also emphasized by the skits.
Yet, Gza never mentions chess in his verses, only street shyt. While metaphorically still matching the different chess themes though.

Gza/Genius

Mentioned chess in Queens Gambit

Still right though

 

[Danie84]

Underrated gem of the early 00s

...the way GZA went HAM on Queen's Gambit with NFL's analogy

She date jolly green Giants that flew on Jets

 

[mbewane]

Great album. Wasn't this the first "Muggs and" album he did?

 

[hex]

Dope album and what Wu should've been doing the last 15 years. Let Muggs, Alc, etc. produce whole solo/group albums since RZA don't really produce like that any more.

Fred.

 

[DJ Mart-Kos]

I thought it was overrated compared to Legend Of The Liquid Swords.

 

[Pazzy]

Got it when it first came album. Dope like all his works.

 

[Corndog]

Very dope album. When it came out I liked it a lot, but felt like GZA had lost a bit of energy in his voice. Went back to it just the other week and this didn't bother me. The lyrics and flows are elite, and the beats are a great fit.

Great album, Gza discography is short but underrated.

You might say he made it brief, son, half short and twice strong.

 

[CHAIN]

Exploitation of Mistakes is still eerie.

 

[erker]

Exploitation of Mistakes is still eerie.

Horror movie vibes

Classic track still

 

[1986]

Very dope album. When it came out I liked it a lot, but felt like GZA had lost a bit of energy in his voice. Went back to it just the other week and this didn't bother me. The lyrics and flows are elite, and the beats are a great fit.



You might say he made it brief, son, half short and twice strong.

Yeah this is when he started to get lazy with his vocals, 3 years later Pro Tools comes out and he sounds like he's rapping from the bed half awake.

 

[Piff Perkins]

I didn't listen to it in full for a long. I don't think I listened in full until 2009 or 2010. Def fukk with it a lot more now than I did back then.

 

[erker]

Yeah this is when he started to get lazy with his vocals, 3 years later Pro Tools comes out and he sounds like he's rapping from the bed half awake.

... to not dropping an album since Pro Tools. The cover for Dark Matter dropped in 2012 already, but we're still waiting
It's hard being a Gza fan, man