What? Wu-tang has a new album with the same name as their debut? Is it a remake or their final departing project? No, this is just their debut album. It just happens to be one of the best albums of all time. I hadn't listened to this album in a couple of years, but pick it up every so often and just relive how hot this album was. It surprises me every time that they were able to come up with this album in '93! Talk about being ahead of your time, Wu-tang revolutionized the game with an unstoppable team that put up hot numbers like nobody has done it before. Every track bumps and sets the scene for the way the Wu-tang saga unfolded. C'mon peep that album and tell me that Mef wasn't destined for super stardom. Then try to tell me ODB was not a foreseeable casualty. This crew from Brooklyn and Staten brought the gritty, NY rhymes at street level that others seemed too scared to bring. At the time, people seemed caught between old school party raps and hardcore gangsta personas. Wu-tang merged the two with their grimy, drug using, heart-felt, real, hardcore, and rhyme-skilled style of tag team onslaughts. This album tells the story of where hip hop came from and where it was going at the time. It shined a light on the fake, corny rap groups that were capitalizing on the genre at the time and took it back to the realness of the slums and communities that gave birth to the genre. "Wu-tang again?" "Aww yeah. Again and again!"
10/10
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