Best verse on "Enter The Wu Tang"

hardest poll ever

voted for deck on 7th chamber

a cursory scan reveals that I am far more fond of Inspectah Deck than I would've guessed

although it is still hard for me not to allow my love of all things ODB to cloud my judgment

hey, you, get off my dick / you dont know me but i must know yo bitch

raw, im a give it to ya, with no trivia, but hey you get off my cloud came close

I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side

GZA - The Wu is too slammin for these Cold Killin' labels

Ugod on Chessboxin'.

voted for deck on 7th chamber

-- and what, Monday, 28 May 2007 13:12 (55 minutes ago) Link

what, no "mega trife, and i killed you in a past life"?

i pick Protect Ya Neck: RZA - "Yo chill with the feedback black, we don't need that" but maybe because it breaks my brane to pick between one of the last four on 7th chamber or ODB and Ghost on Chessboxin'.

Hard decision between GZA on "7th Chamber" & "Protect Ya Neck", but I think the Lucky Charms take the cake.

And now I want to take that back and vote for Masta Killa.

voted for hit me with the major bcauz it was memorable

This is one of the best polls ever because it serves such a useful purpose! In one page there you have an index of lines that immediately bring to mind the entire rest of the verse - I can "hear" the entirety of this album in twenty-four seconds. "First things first man you're fuckin with the worst" probably pops into my head more often than any of the others, but for consistent unbelievable greatness in the entire verse, just genius from one word to the next it has to be either one of Deck's verses or GZA on Protect Ya Neck (<i>A mountain climber, who plays an electric guitar?</i>).

Yeah....gotta give to "I leave the mic in body bags."

Yeah "first things first" pops into my head all the time.

catch the blast of hype verse

"raw, im a give it to ya, with no trivia,"

Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia! Just barely over ODB on the same track.

Barely a day goes by when I don't find something suddenly setting off a line from this album in my head... And yeah, I find myself with more Deck respect, though I'm now wondering if I should track down U-God solo stuff... (And is there any ODB out there that's consistently good? He seems amazingly hit and miss on everything I've heard, but I love his voice). It's weird now that I kinda feel like Ghostface has done the most post-wu, but I'm just not as impressed with his voice.

(And is there any ODB out there that's consistently good? He seems amazingly hit and miss on everything I've heard, but I love his voice).

ODB's first album is one of the very best Wu-Tang albums.

Started off on the island, AK Shaolin
Niggaz whylin, gun shots thrown the phone dialin
Back in the days of eight now, makin a tape now
Rae gotta get a plate now
Ignorant and mad young, wanted to be the one
Till I got (BAM! BAM!) thrown one
Yeah, my pops was a fiend since sixteen
Shootin' that (that's that shit!) in his blood stream
That's the life of a crimey, real live crimey
If niggas know the half is behind me
Day one, yo, growin all up in the ghetto
Now I'm a weed fiend, jettin the Palmetto
In Medina, yo no doubt the God got crazy clout
Pushin the big joint from down South
So if you're filthy stacked up
Betta watch ya back and duck
Cause these fiends they got it cracked up
Now my man from up north, now he got the law
It's solid as a rock and crazy salt
No jokes, I'm not playin, get his folks
Desert Eagle his dick and put 'em in a yolk (AAH!)
And to know for sure, I got reck and rip shop
I pointed a gat at his mother's knot
(Yo, Rae, don't do that shit, man! Don't do that shit! )
Fuck that

peace to mankind ghostface carry a black nine

the one that popped into my head when I saw the thread title turned out to be on cuban linx (poisonous paragraph smash the phonograph in half I be the inspektah dek on the warpath)

"What's that in your pants? Ah, human feces. Throw your shitty drawers in the hamper, next time come strapped with a fuckin' pamper" is a favorite of mine for no good reason.

stickin' pins in your head like a fuckin' nurse

GZA/Ruckus

This is one of the best polls ever because it serves such a useful purpose! In one page there you have an index of lines that immediately bring to mind the entire rest of the verse - I can "hear" the entirety of this album in twenty-four seconds.

or, alternately...

Bring Da Ruckus: Ghostface - "Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse"
Brick Da Ruckus: Raekwon - "I watch my back like I'm locked down, hardcore"
Brick Da Ruckus: Inspectah Deck - "I rip it hardcore, like porno-flick bitches"
Bring Da Ruckus: GZA - "Yo, I'm more rugged than slaveman boots"
Shame On A Nigga: ODB - "Ol' Dirty Bastard, live and uncut"
Shame On A Nigga: Method Man - "Yo RZA, yo razor, hit me with the major"
Shame On A Nigga: Raekwon - "I react so thick, I'm phat"
Clan In Da Front: GZA - "The Wu is comin thru, the outcome is critical"
Clan In Da Front: GZA - "The response while I bomb that ass, "You ain't shit""
Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber: Raekwon - "Champion gear that I rock, you get your boots knocked"
Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber: Method Man - "I be that insane nigga from the psycho ward"
Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber: Inspectah Deck - "I leave the mic in body bags"
Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber: Ghostface - "Slammin a hype-ass verse til ya head burst"
Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber: RZA - "Ya gettin stripped from ya garments, boy, run ya jewels"
Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber: ODB - "Are you a warrior? Killer? Slicin shit like a samurai"
Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber: GZA - "My Clan is thick like plaster"
Can It Be All So Simple: Raekwon - "Started off on the island, ak Shaolin"
Can It Be All So Simple: Ghostface - "Doin duets with Rae and A, happens to make my day"
Da Mystery of Chessboxin': U-God - "Raw I'ma give it to ya, with no trivia"
Da Mystery of Chessboxin': Inspectah Deck - "Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire"
Da Mystery of Chessboxin': Raekwon - "Ruff like Timberland wear"
Da Mystery of Chessboxin': ODB - "Here I go, deep type flow"
Da Mystery of Chessboxin': Ghostface - "Speakin of the devil, psych, no it's the God, get the shit right"
Da Mystery of Chessboxin': Masta Killa - "Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty"
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit: RZA - "I be tossin, enforcin, my style is awesome"
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit: Inspectah Deck - "I puts the needle to the groove, I gets rude"
Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit: Method Man - "The Meth will come out tomorrow"
C.R.E.A.M.: Raekwon - "I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side"
C.R.E.A.M.: Inspectah Deck - "It's been twenty-two long hard years of still strugglin"
Method Man: Method Man - "Hey, you, get off my cloud"
Method Man: Method Man - "H-U-F-F huff and I puff"
Protect Ya Neck: Inspectah Deck - "I smoke on the mic like "Smokin'" Joe Frazier"
Protect Ya Neck: Raekwon - "The way I make the crowd go wild, sit back relax won't smile"
Protect Ya Neck: Method Man - "It's the Method Man for short Mr. Meth"
Protect Ya Neck: ODB - "First things first man you're fuckin with the worst"
Protect Ya Neck: Ghostface - "For cryin out loud my style is wild so book me"
Protect Ya Neck: RZA - "Yo chill with the feedback black, we don't need that"
Protect Ya Neck: GZA - "The Wu is too slammin for these Cold Killin' labels"
Tearz: RZA - "Yo check yo yo, check the script"
Tearz: Ghostface - "Me and my man, my ace big Moe from the shelter"

there, that oughta do it

Live and uncut!

CREAM, raekwon

A YOUNG YOUTH
ROCKIN A GOLD TOOTH

God this album is so fucking incredible, though.

rebel ins on "wu tang clan ain't nuthin to f wit"

that shit was mad hard though.

CHARGED BY THE SYSTEM FOR MURDERING THE RHYTHM

CREAM, raekwon

-- deej, Monday, May 28, 2007 3:53 PM (2 hours ago)

"Rap styles vary and carry like Mariah"

'young youth' always seemed lazy

this poll is so hard ... ;__;

i chose "I rip it hardcore, like porno-flick bitches" -- i blame "family guy"

"chessboxin" is so damn tight.

Though if I recall their translation doesn't make any sense after like the second line.

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tell the truth -- who would've voted for the "torture, motherfucker" @ the beginning of "method man" had that choice been available?!?

'young youth' always seemed lazy

-- and what, Monday, 28 May 2007 23:50 (Yesterday) Link

lyrically it basically is but i thought it was one of the most affecting verses on the album

Method Man: Method Man - "Hey, you, get off my cloud"

The Geir option?

I voted "My clan is thick like plaster...", teh cadence makes it mathematically perfect

"JACQUES COUSTEAU COULD NEVER GET THIS LOW"......

"Introducin, the Ghost...face...Killaaaaaah!! No one could get illa"

ODB on chessboxin, with U-God on the same as a close second.

When I look at this list, I feel like Meth's verses are among the worst. Does this seem so to anyone else?

Yea I think Meth's best stuff is elsewhere. I actually heard "Wu-Tang Forever" before "36 chambers" and despite thinking "36" was much better, I was a little disappointed in Meth's verses here.

Protect Ya Neck: GZA - "The Wu is too slammin for these Cold Killin' labels"

it's the champagne of the album

i voted for "champion gear that i rock" rae verse

CREAM, raekwon

-- deej, Monday, May 28, 2007 3:53 PM (2 hours ago)

-- am0n, Monday, May 28, 2007 9:55 PM (23 hours ago)

'young youth' always seemed lazy

-- and what, Monday, 28 May 2007 23:50 (Yesterday) Link

also see 'drunk driver driving'.

C.R.E.A.M. is still the G.O.A.T.

7 and a half hours left to MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Not enough love for "The response while I bomb that ass, "You ain't shit""

I hit the mic like BOOM

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

YOUR WINNER:

I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side
Staying alive was no jive
At second hands, moms bounced on old men
So then we moved to Shaolin land
A young youth, yo rockin the gold tooth, 'Lo goose
Only way, I begin to gee off was drug loot
And let's start it like this son, rollin with this one
And that one, pullin out gats for fun
But it was just a dream for the teen, who was a fiend
Started smokin woolies at sixteen
And running up in gates, and doing hits for high stakes
Making my way on fire escapes
No question I would speed, for cracks and weed
The combination made my eyes bleed
No question I would flow off, and try to get the dough all
Sticking up white boys in ball courts
My life got no better, same damn 'Lo sweater
Times is ruff and tuff like leather
Figured out I went the wrong route
So I got with a sick ass click and went all out
Catchin keys from across seas
Rollin in MPV's, every week we made forty G's
Yo nigga respect mine, or anger the tech nine
Ch-chick-POW! Move from the gate now

Wow....didn't see that coming, honestly. This is one verse that never made a huge impression on me, a few moments notwithstanding.

yeah i always thought deck's verse was better

Wow....didn't see that coming, honestly. This is one verse that never made a huge impression on me, a few moments notwithstanding.

-- Doctor Casino, Friday, 1 June 2007 03:59 (2 days ago) Link

if I had remembered to vote I probably woulda picked ODB on "Chessboxin'", so I'm glad to see that one did well. but wtf at no votes for "I be that insane nigga from the psycho ward"! one of the first verses that pops into my head whenever I think of this album.

I've never been that big on "Cream", or for that matter, either of the other two ballads on the album.

No votes for Masta Killa on "Chessboxin'"
(which I totally fucked up by not voting for, as did you) = DESTROY ILM

seriously... I feel like this must be some kinda projected Cuban Linx love or something.

no. that verse isn't anything like his verses on ob4cl

its just that some ppl are moved by the raw emotive power of it vs. 'raw i'ma give it to ya / with no trivia' or something

^^^

I was gonna say, it's an emotional and very personal chronicle. I didn't vote for it, but I might've predicted the win.

Plus:

http://www.ohword.com/images/385.jpg

this poll was amazing btw but needs more votes

My-my-my-my clan is thick like plaster
Bust ya,
slash ya
Slit a n***a back like a Dutch Masta Killer
Style jumped off and Killa, Hill-er
I was the thriller in the Ali-Frazier, Manila!
I came down with phat tracks that combine and interlock
Like getting smashed by a cinder block
Pow! Now it's all over
N****z seeing pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars and green clovers

^^^ was robbed, but so was absolutely every single choice in this poll, amazing how this album refuses to get old. Nineteen years ago this month! Crazy.

I would have gone for Deck's verse on CREAM because it's just so sad

smh at the FOUR people who wrote "Cold Killin' labels" in this thread. Guess we need RapGenius after all.

No wait, I'm dumb. I take that back.

GZA puns are deep like a baby seal :(