What was your reaction the first time you heard Wu-tang's Enter The 36 Chambers album?

[b33lz]

My older cousin rhymed, so he put me on to protect ya neck and method man before the album released so the buzz was already there. When the album dropped, Mom dukes picked me up from school in 6th grade and drove me to the record store. I got the cassette tape, threw it in my walkman and pressed play and my mind was blown. From the skits, intricate lyricism, chess, karate and dirty production. Next day at school everyone was talking about it. I still own my og cassette tape. Then a few weeks later I went back to the same record store to pick up doggystyle.

 

[mson]

 

[~Styles~]

One of them most instant albums youll ever hear...i doubt any hip hop fan has ever called it a "grower". Classic.

 

[chunky_mcdaniels]

13 smoking weed in early 94.

Someone had a dubbed tape.

Thought the shyt was tough as hell.

Spent the next 5 years listening to everything they released thereafter.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

What was your reaction the first time you heard the album?

This

 

[Sauce Dab]

It sounded dusty and completely different than everything else. They were the complete opposite of west coast because the west coast sound usually had a way more clear mix

 

[Apollo Kid]

As a shorty in 7th grade

 

[Ghost Utmost]

Me and the crew proceeded to listen to it back to back to back for about three months straight.

I remember the moment when one dude was like

"Can we play something else?"

 

[Ku$h Parker]

I was heavy into G-Funk at the time. This was the album that had me back at New York.

Ill definitely say it made me tuck Doggystyle,Chronic,Above The Rim and Regulate in for a min

 

[Complexion]

I had a bootleg about 3 months before it dropped and was stunned by everything as it was so different yet coherent.

You could tell there was an immense intelligence behind this project as it took so many strings then wove an immense tapestry to tell a tale. The moment you hit play you felt like you were being transported to the land of Shaolin as the RZA, the GZA, Ol Dirty B, Inspectah Deck and rest were tour guiding.

Everyone was geeked and asking "What the hell is this?" and I couldn't wait for the retail because (for some odd reason) my connect that usually supplied totally clear and crisp leaks from studio sessions or white label 12s had sent this tape that sounded like it had been dubbed times 10 then washed and rinsed but was still muddy as hell with an overdose of NY compression thrown in.

You can imagine my face when I copped the retail.

 

[Shakeydog]

Honestly I wasn’t ready …But in short time I caught up