Wu-Tang Forever (The Album)... your thoughts?

[ZEB WALTON]

how many original tracks are on the ghost dog soundtrack? I thought he just tossed a couple beats.. maybe Im mixing it up with kill bill?

whole album is origianl tracks. its basically like a swarm album. royal fam, sunz of man, brooklyn zu, wu, rza solo. jeru and afu ra/kool g rap are only non wu guests. a sick r n b track that turned into walking in the darkness on bulletproof wallets and a ill raggae track with suga bang from cuban linx 2. a wu fan will love it, very liquid swords like. the score is dope too.

dances wit wolves by killarmy was cut from it to be on the sting fun fact

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Basically. Best double album of all time. Waaay ahead of it's time. The rhymes and beats still sound fresh. The album definitely was orchestrated to be listened to in linear order but random sampling is good as well. Basically entire sub-genres of Hip-Hop birthed from this. The storytelling, getting a VIOLINIST to compose an original tune, progressive yet gritty lyrics, I can go on...The album is a forward look piece. 20 years from now this album is still be studied.

This is album is in my top 3 albums of any genre. RZA and the Wu made it easy for me to argue how this album is better that your favorite rapper's album. Test me.

the violinist was that ari bin blah blah girl whos pretty famous now. was the rza the first to put her on?

 

[DeuceZ]

Intro transition to Triumph

around 10 yrs ago I was at my homie's place in rural NY (just outside Erie) and we went to hang out with his boys (all white or cacs as yall say )....dudes in the basement chilling smoking playing pool and then one of his boys put in this album homie knew all the words n shyt not on some "let me impress the only brotha in the room" tip....I think it was a real fan's album



random story eh

 

[Joe Chink]

the violinist was that ari bin blah blah girl whos pretty famous now. was the rza the first to put her on?

No it wasn't. I believe it was an Asian woman. Check the liner notes

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

We gotta say (The Album) now.... @ drake

 

[ZEB WALTON]

No it wasn't. I believe it was an Asian woman. Check the liner notes

hmm, im goling off what i heard on innanets for years. ill check that out

edit: its listed on her wiki..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miri_Ben-Ari

???

 

[Joe Chink]

Hmm, I'm pretty suspicious of that. I'll have too look at my physical copy.

 

[Hair Jordan]

When I first heard Inspectah Deck's incomparable verse on Triumph my brain melted and I went retarded for a week.

 

[Joker]

still stands as one of my favorite albums of all-time, probably second only to liquid swords hiphop-wise. for heaven's sake, deadly melody, hellz wind staff, duck seazon, impossible and of course triumph.. easily the best double album of all-time, that shyt ain't even opinion. this was rza at his absolute prime.

i remember there were motherfukkers lined up to buy this album, and playing the wu-tang game on playstation 1 while bumping this. they really ran shyt for a while.

could never catch me rocking wu wear though.

 

[Hair Jordan]

Here's a true Stanley story for the ages... The day this album dropped I was in highshcool and had NO money. I made arrangements with a homie at a different school to borrow the money at lunch time. So I skipped out on the period before lunch and walked to his school, met the homie, dapped him, took the cash and started making my way to the mall. Waited in a line up to cop the shyt, and got my copy. Popped that bytch in my fresh as fukk Panasonic shockwave discman lol, and made my way back to class. By the time I got to school EVERYONE was talking about which tracks they fukked with the most already. Triumph and It's Yours seemed to be coming out of a lot of mouths... Them was the days y'all.

 

[I-Hate-You]

Forever is my favorite hiphop album.

That polished Wu sound + the Clan being so sharp lyrically.

 

[doublenegative]

Mind arson my squadron surround the sound garden

 

[ZEB WALTON]

Here's a true Stanley story for the ages... The day this album dropped I was in highshcool and had NO money. I made arrangements with a homie at a different school to borrow the money at lunch time. So I skipped out on the period before lunch and walked to his school, met the homie, dapped him, took the cash and started making my way to the mall. Waited in a line up to cop the shyt, and got my copy. Popped that bytch in my fresh as fukk Panasonic shockwave discman lol, and made my way back to class. By the time I got to school EVERYONE was talking about which tracks they fukked with the most already. Triumph and It's Yours seemed to be coming out of a lot of mouths... Them was the days y'all.

nice story. i was living in south jersey at the time forever dropped. them being the biggest thing of the moment from staten island and me being from there too helped the lil 4th grade girls i was flirting in my class wanna play doctor wit the kid on the playground, haha. rae and ghost had teh dudes askin me if i ever seen anyone get shot. as if the island was compton. loved wuforever yo

rocked the shirt at my first school dance 9the one drake kanye and them rocking now). i convicned my friends to ditch summer school many a day that year to chill wit me.. shyt put a battery in my back, 2 fights that year. musta been heaterz!

my love of that album really spread me out into hip hop even more. thats basically how everyone in the area knew me. they know im hip hop but half the people if you asked them about the old me, the first thing theyd say was wu tang

 

[up in here]

i never understood the hate this album gets. to me, i like this more than 36 chambers. first album was more raw and had more bump but this album was just on a whole other level. it was like an elevated state of hip hop. i still play it.

i even remember the enhaced disc with the wu mansion shyt and the wu wear advertisements in the cd sleeve. shyt was dope.

 

[BUSINESS AS USUAL]

BEST DOUBLE ALBUM EVER!!!!