THE POLL IS COMIN THROUGH, THE OUTCOME IS CRITICAL — WU-TANG CLAN — Artist Poll — Results

pretty big point jump for the next one. the next six were all really tightly scored.

#11 Method Man — Tical
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10 votes 51 points

this album is a subwoofer murderer

Release Yo Delf has been a staple on my workout/pump-up playlists for like 20 years.

might be sacrilege but it may be my favorite from both artists

― Spottie, Wednesday, November 15, 2017 3:59 PM (forty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's definitely my favorite by Meth. Blackout! 2 was unfairly overlooked, imo, even though it doesn't have the hit-to-miss ratio of the original, it has some jams,

yeah BO2 was pretty good!

#10 Ol' Dirty Bastard — Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
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10 votes 59 points

this next one is TOO LOW

#9 Wu-Tang Clan — Wu-Tang Forever
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10 votes 60 points

waaaaaaht that is def too low

It's acutally tied with the next one but the next one had a first place vote and more voters(!). this run are all within a handful of points.

i def waited in a long line at Sam Goody for the midnight release of that one.

feel like thats a common story for that album tho

#8 Wu-Tang Clan — The W
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12 votes 60 points 1 first

Didn't expect that!

who put that as no. 1 lol

yeah that first place vote propelled it

#7 Ghostface Killah — Fishscale
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9 votes 61 points 1 first

last two are too high for me

yeah

otm, i never understood the amount of acclaim that fishscale gets. It has good moments for sure, but a good chunk of the rapping on it feels kind of enervated and lifeless to me, at least compared to the ghost albums that preceded it

it's good but yeah the preceding ones are all better imo (ok maybe not Wallets)

#6 Ghostface Killah — The Pretty Toney Album
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7 votes 64 points

not a lot of votes but those that did ranked this high (myself included).

Fishscale was very high on my ballot, propelled by the Dilla and DOOM beats, plus Shakey Dog, Kilo, The Chanp to start it off

the w over wutang forever is nuts

your vote would've saved it lol

:(

fuuuck... guys I’m the #1 for The W but only bc I assumed it would be unfairly overlooked. If I’d known there would only be 17 ballots I would have voted Forever easy.

I broke the Wu poll ;_;

Both of the last 2 woulda been higher if I’d voted

haha it's more fun this way. unpredictable

I prefer “The W” to “36 chambers” even though the latter is more consistent

that's crazy talk

it's easily my least fav of their first 4

it's so disjointed. four standouts (gravel pit, cant go to sleep, hollow bones, jump off and I like the monument too) and the rest is just... ok

put pretty toney in my top 5 iirc, i love that whole damn sloppy emotional album

I don’t think it’s *better* than 36 Chambers

I'm interested in why you prefer it.

Oh by “last 2” I meant W and Fishscale, never really got into Pretty Toney the way other people seemed to. Felt like it was a step down both lyrically and beatwise. I realize this is not a popular take.

W is just so grimy and weird, I dunno. A lot of it has to do with timing, too; between the time I first thought I was going to buy 36 Chambers and when I actually did was about 5 years, by which point it had accrued such mythos that it could never live up to what I had imagined it to be.

that makes sense

#5 Ghostface Killah — Ironman
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14 votes 108 points

^^ amazing album, RZA's masterpiece

yeah front to back

#3 GZA — Liquid Swords
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15 votes 151 points

lol whoops skipped one

HERE is #4

#4 Ghostface Killah — Supreme Clientele
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11 votes 114 points 3 firsts

4 ghost albums in a row

Supreme clientele is my number one. Gloriously soulful word salad

man for a few months there Liquid Swords just owned me