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

haha the first copy I got of 36 Chambers was also a clean version purchased by accident. Shame on a NUH!

the beginning of Rules on my copy just starts with the horns straight to the drop, no rza intro. much better that way.

iron flag has definitely aged well!

btw sorry i couldn't get a vote in but i'm trying to pop in here a lil

Surprised ODB was so low, he was my #1

yea he'd be higher up for me too

odb possibly has my favorite verse on any wu album "here i go / deep type flow..."

yeah his delivery is so great on that.

#14 Raekwon — Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
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5 votes 19 points

great album, much better as a whole than the sum of its parts

yeah this was better than it should have been for sure.

benefits from all the songs being fairly short imo, all killer no filler

also avoided sounding pastiche.

#13 Gravediggaz — 6 Feet Deep
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8 votes 23 points

never really liked this as much as I expected to, it's alternately too goofy and too gross

production is A++ though

never registered as gross to me. just straight up funny in the best way possible

#12 Method Man & Redman — Blackout!
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5 votes 28 points

^^ banger after banger

yeah pretty much perfect album.

This album needs to be polled separately

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

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 ;_;

Thanks for running this poll, Spottie! Unfortunately work kept me from being on ILX during the final half of the rollout, but it was really great to re-engage with the clan. Even though my ballot was all old favorites, the nomination process introduced me to some great tracks I wasn't familiar with