Wu-Tang is for the children

although i tear when ODB starts thanking the "teachers, the childrens, the munchkins playing hopscotch" at the end of "I Can't Wait".

http://i.imgur.com/cT0v3.jpg

that's like the 4th time someone has revived a random wu thread with that!

ah, I checked six other wu-threads first, but there were too many!

I figured pizza was for the children.

ILX! IMPORTANT POST!

I am going to do a blog in which I track down and review every Wu song (as well as discuss major Wu talking points such as kung fu, 5% mathematics, drugs etc.) My Wu-Tang list is complete, I think. You should be able to see it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13EqG3Lzg19OAqfo-ZLqbLm9Ts9fFm5VLYfePE_vIpiQ/edit?hl=en&authkey=CPLcwlU

Notice anything big missing?
Notice anything wrong?
Anyone want to help me find it all? Especially the super rare stuff (All In Together Now seems like the biggest mystery)?

Peace Godz.

i only skimmed but i think you're missing

u-god "rumble"
la the darkman & rza "wu world order"
tekitha "back to 36"
masta killa "shaolin temple"

from the taste the pain soundtrack

looks like you missed the Wu Syndicates album as well, unless i skimmed too fast

:) thank you

Cappadonna has a guest verse on Genaside II's album New Life 4 the Hunted, on the track "Basic Killer Instinct". It also features Otherized F.A.M., who I think were Wu affiliates. I can share this with you if you want.

There was a 1997 movie soundtrack with a couple of Wu tracks, but I can't remember the movie title nor the track names, so I'm not sure if they're already on your list. I can check it out once I get home, I have that album somewhere.

updated

cheers tuomas

Also, GZA, RZA and Dreddy Kruger have short guest spots on this Finnish rap album, tracks 2 and 12.

God knows how I am going to get hold of half of this. Thank god for spotify and youtube for the other half I guess.

are they called Star Warz or Rockin Da North?

Rockin Da North. "Star Warz" is the album title.

ty

Ah yeah, this is the 1997 soundtrack I mentioned before. It has one Wu track, "Dirty the Moocher", a version of Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher". It's credited to the whole Clan, but IIRC only ODB is on the vocals.

http://shaolin-directory.tumblr.com/

Sounds cool, I'll definitely be following your blog.

there's this too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c2grFBKkgw

Sam - my mate put this night on last week http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=175141165840651 - iirc he said he cribbed it from over 200 Wu or related albums. Uh, just fyi

http://shaolin-directory.tumblr.com/ First real WU entry, feel free to dig in.

Great blog, but you had to expect this to kick up a little dust:

The time between A Low End Theory released in September ‘91 and Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers) is a barren waste land with only a handful of records worth checking (Whut? Thee Album and Business Never Personal stand out as the obvious contenders from 1992 and the debut record from Onyx hit in early ‘93).

1992 was the year of Mecca & the Soul Brother, Daily Operation Dead Serious & several DITC releases (Runaway Slave, Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hip & Return of the Funky Man).

Isn't that directly followed with a list of records disproving that idea?

Also it is more to show the change in hip-hop brewing up. I know gangsta rap had been floating around for a half decade but '92 was really the year NY rap started to get angry imo, which isn't really reflected in Showbiz and AG records.

Sam, I just wanted to say that obviously you've put a lot of effort to this project, and your writing is a pleasure to read, so keep up the good work!

:)

Dunno if you are right though. Listening to Wu-Tang is basically a daily operation, with or without a blog.

My effort so far has p much come down to 'stick a bunch of kung fu flicks on my lovefilm list, find out my copy of the how high soundtrack, order the tao of wu, read the wiki page on the 5% nation'. all of which were done in about 15 minutes.

If you've never seen The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, start there.

Ha :) Seems like an important one! Is that where you got your name from? The pace I go through the films I get in the post, I think kung-fu flicks will have an article on the blog just about the time I get around to Cuban Linx 2 and Apollo Kids

r u gonna do like hidden darts & blood on the chef's apron and all? id even k what tapes shit like "used to be" came out on first

worried abt u tbh

@ahoyhoy - yup, took my name from Gordon Liu's character.

Went thru a phase last year where I spent my days watching 2-3 kung fu movies a day!

worried about me?

i am going to try and do everything! with hidden darts and comps like that i haven't yet decided whether to do things on a basis of when they actually became public or when they got official releases? i am thinking obvious stuff on the time line (all that ghost&cappa post-9/11 stuff shouldn't wait until like 2007 comes to mind) and then leave the rest for official releases

i used to bump into these ppl online that seemingly only listened to wu & wu affiliated & wu producers, they always struck me as strange in the extreme so i hope u come back safe. la the darkman has like five mixtapes u know? :D

Ha. I listened to them as part of swag cru gangsta grillz, not as a wu-tang thing!

And yeah, I am definitely just going to do wu-affiliates when they were still with the clan. shyheim has released like 12 records but i'm only gonna do the first two etc.

Also today I have only listened to best coast, sleater-kinney and busta rhymes. oh and i watched the protect ya neck video.

And yeah, I am definitely just going to do wu-affiliates when they were still with the clan

oh rite idk the chronologies like this, i was just thinking wow everything

it's all in the detailed history of a wikipedia page hopper.

oh shit shawn wigs doesn't have a wikipedia page, dunno how i am going to cope.

92 was really the year NY rap started to get angry imo, which isn't really reflected in Showbiz and AG records.

― travel by railchoad (a hoy hoy), Monday, January 24, 2011 6:22 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

the title track off 'runaway slave' is p angry iirc!

Livin in the slums with the bums, the rats and the stray cats / dogs with the rabies lil babies is havin babies

wow yeah maybe should listen again, has been years tbh

92 was really the year NY rap started to get angry imo

Tim Dog called, said I Ain't Havin' It

tim dog was angry since he was a sperm

5% != Islam!

love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JEbnHHYDao

http://66.media.tumblr.com/3581dee801896799dfe9c7b323cf07f4/tumblr_oeyoiqAhzm1r707vso1_500h.jpg

omg

jings

XD

Thought this revive was gonna be about Azealia Banks getting in a fight with Russell Crowe and when I wondered out loud "what dummy got those two together" it turned out to be the RZA.

https://harpers.org/archive/2017/09/public-enemy/

i just wanna say i've been listening to wu tang forever in my car this week and it still bangs

its aged well imo

if anything it sounds better to me than when i first heard it because i've unhooked it from the expectations i had after hearing 36 chambers

yeah it's a little slack towards the end maybe but that's about it

lots of outstanding stuff on wu-tang forever

are yall gonna join in on my wu poll? im thinking about starting it soon.

oooh i will!

wait waht did we not already do that?

of course I will vote in a tracks poll but jesus christ contemplating the list of eligible tracks is kind of nightmarish

yeah ive been mulling over what to do for the parameters for a couple years lol

def want a side poll for albums

even though I don't expect a lot of Shyheim voters you kinda have to let in any of the "affiliates" imo

lol i can't even imagine trying to pull together a list of tracks

def. was gonna allow just about anything wu affiliated

could almost do a track nom's thread haha

you should!

i generally never do ballot polls but hell yes i'm into a wu tang ballot poll

it's hard to suss out who's an "affiliate" though...cuz like some could consider Cappadonna an affiliate but others would consider him fully vested in in Killa Bee 401k

or like Killah Priest? that's a tough call...Shyheim is an affiliate though

actually I would limit it to KP, Cap and then only proper Wu or official Wu members solo albums? otherwise shit am i gonna hafta sift through all the shit RZA has done?

ums otm

isn't cappadona on the cover of wu tang forever?

at least in one interview i saw is that he was supposed to be on 36 chambers but was locked down at the time

otherwise shit am i gonna hafta sift through all the shit RZA has done?

I would say all that shit is eligible but that doesn't mean I'm going to listen to it. If someone wants to throw all their votes to a Sunz of Man track that's on them.

honestly imo the bigger question is do guest spots count

all my points to rza / kp remix of jon spencer + beck

Greyhound pt 2 is remixed by the GZA w Killah Priest rapping on it. Beck and the RZA are not on it

(it is good tho)

oh yeah that's right, beck is on pt 1

oh wait no he's on flavor

shit i need to listen to experimental remixes again, so good but i've got it all jumbled up in my head

it's hard to suss out who's an "affiliate" though...cuz like some could consider Cappadonna an affiliate but others would consider him fully vested in in Killa Bee 401k

or like Killah Priest? that's a tough call...Shyheim is an affiliate though

actually I would limit it to KP, Cap and then only proper Wu or official Wu members solo albums? otherwise shit am i gonna hafta sift through all the shit RZA has done?

― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, August 17, 2017 11:48 AM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is about where ive landed. I def include killah priest and Cap and probably sunz of man too. Ima get this rolled out probably tonight or tomorrow then. I'll do noms first so start thinking about that, I'll preload some classic tracks. pumped to have some of my fav posters in on this.

how do you feel about votes for Mariah Carey's Fantasy remix or the Method Man/Redman collab albums

do we include gravediggaz?

or my number 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okpp83_RIcE

how do you feel about votes for Mariah Carey's Fantasy remix or the Method Man/Redman collab albums

― Οὖτις, Thursday, August 17, 2017 12:36 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do we include gravediggaz?

― nomar, Thursday, August 17, 2017 12:37 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes and probably yes

meth and red colabs for sure imo

WU-TANG CLAN — Artist Poll — Nominations, Discussions, Parameters (noms close Sept 17)

All satellites should be allowed, shout out to La The Darkman "spring water"