Double Dose of Danger

Poach the Poacher

In God We Trust

Allah U Akbar (Remastered)

Boot Camp Clik member and one half of Smif N Wessun, General Steele joins Buckshot & P-Money for this cut off of 'BackPack Travels', out now. 

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Buckshot & P-Money - 'This Is My World' feat. Steele Of Smif N Wessun

Inspectah Deck, while not the most famous, might be the Wu-Tang Clan’s most reliable swordsman.

Next month it's exact 30 years ago, their debut album was released and Deck was all over it: he that dude, that ‘smoked on the Mic, like Smokin’ Joe Frazier’ ("Protect Ya Neck"), the one whose ‘method on the microphone was bangin’ ("Bring Da Ruckus"), while settin' that same "microphone on fire" with "rap styles vary and carry like Mariah" ("Da Mystery Of Chessboxin"), while his verse in “C.R.E.A.M.” is endlessly quotable.

But, skilled as the man is, with so many insanely talented & charismatic rappers all together in one group, it’s easy to get overshadowed: Method Man was the Clan’s break-out star from the get-go, Ol’ Dirty's crazy antics and huge presence were also hard to beat, Rae & Ghost quickly established themselves as the Wu’s criminologists, GZA that towering figure dissecting the (rap) landscape with sharp observations & witty wordplay, with RZA as the Abbott keepin' it all together, while at the same time developing another persona, Bobby Digital.

Together, these clan members made wall-to-wall classics between '93 & '97, and it’s been reported, Deck was about to drop his own too within that time frame; exact details remain a bit sketchy though, but I’d say either ’96 or maybe early ’97.

But tragedy struck, cause right in the middle of that winning streak, late '95, a flood in RZA's Staten Island basement studio wiped out nearly all recorded material, beats, as well as destroying equipment, such as vocal compressors (RZA reportedly gave every Clan member his own compressor, tweaked its frequencies to his liking, to never change it afterwards).

As a result of that flood, the recording sessions for Ghost’s "Iron Man" album were done in another studio, and that -according to RZA-, made his voice sound different than before, while Deck reportedly recorded solo songs as early as ’93, but those were all but destroyed in that catastrophe.

However, Deck carefully kept on constructing deadly verses, on every of his brother’s albums, and then THAT verse, on “Triumph”, the lead-off single of the Clan’s sophomore album “Forever”.

Considered one of the most iconic (opening) verses of all time, it raised Deck's stock immensely, resulting in a series of high profile cameo’s on albums by Gang Starr (“Above The Clouds”), Big Pun (“Tres Leches”) & Pete Rock (“Tru Master”).

Deck finally secured a release for his own “Uncontrolled Substance” album in the last quarter of 1999, but some label shuffling, behind-the-scenes things, as well as the Clan’s fractured focus, made for a flawed product.

The question will always remain how that project would've sound, had it been released in ’96/’97. The Rebel INS himself stated it was a totally different album than what came out, with a completely different tracklist.

This here is a round-up of a lot of personal Deck faves of mine, which weren't included on released studio albums, sequenced in a manner I hope The Abbott would do ca. 1995 :)

Tracklist:

1. Ain't Nobody Scared
2. Let Me At 'Em
3. The American Way
4. Sound Of The Slums (ft. Masta Killa)
5. Night Shift
6. Speaking Real Words (ft. Czarface 1.0)
7. S.O.S. (ft. Street Life)
8. The Rebel
9. Tru Masters (ft. Pete Rock & Ghostface Killah)
10. East Side Of Town
11. Settlement
12. Wu-Tang Cream Team (ft. Harlem Hoodz, Raekwon, Method Man & Killa Sin)
13. A Lil' Story
14. Fame pt. II
15. Semi-Automatic: Full Rap Metal Jacket (ft. U-God & Street Life)
16. The Eyes

17. Bonus: Rap Burglars (ft. Raekwon)

Producers:

RZA (5, 11 & 15), The Rebel INS (2, 3 & 7), Havoc (1), Concrete Beats (4),
Vinyl Reanimators (6), Salaam Remi (8), Pete Rock (9),
Roc Marciano (10), DJ Scratch (12), Cilvaringz (13), Charli Brown (14),
Bronze Nazareth (16) & DJ Mathematics (17)

Wu Chronicles - Episode V: Inspectah Deck - "The Rebel Of Shaolin"

Ricky Dubs is back with the 4th and final single from his upcoming album, The Señor Dubs Ep. This time he enlists New York’s Roc Marciano and his right hand man, Knowledge The Pirate, for Shot A Man.

Roc and Knowledge trade bars with that classic New York slick talk over a choppy blues guitar and muffled piano loops. Although their voices never seem to raise higher than a casual conversation, their point is clear. Respect the shooter. 

The Señor Dubs Ep releases next Wednesday, September 3rd. 
   
Mixed And Mastered by Papi Beatz at LPZ Studios


Shot A Man - Knowledge The Pirate x Roc Marciano (prod. Ricky Dubs)

Witness My Growth

Days and Nights

They gave us Obama like
It was going to stop the fight
Like It was going to stop the cause
Folk still scraping trying to find them some socks and drawers
And something to eat
The IRS is coming
So I'm back on these beats
Barack pushed hope
Regan pushed dope
Clinton pushed something down a young gal's throat
And since we talking about throats
White folks - what do you know about ropes - yeah
What do know about trees
And men swinging from them that look like me
how do you say that don't effect us
Tuskegee how'd you let them
Infect us
It's Fear of the black semen
putting sage on the page
 to eradicate these demons
This is for Tulsa Oklahoma this is for Rosewood
This is for philly (Move) when the cops bombed the whole hood
This is for Harlem when the pigs
Stop and frisk
All my folks from the Congo tell Belgium suck a - suck a
boy wonder nope I meant
Dick Grason
I'm essential like
The Moors were to Masons
The kush the black push
Aborigines I love you take back the bush
Oh - we back on the presidents George - was so irrelevant
But He did send the country to Hell
And a lot of black folks to jail
If we are blind that's fine I'll mime then I'll spit it in Braille
Drop a F bomb in cursive
Put that hoe in the mail - oh P.O.s (Post Offices)
they are about to shut down
I was on my way to heaven
Then I stopped and turned around
 The government yes it did shut down
I was on my to heaven but I stopped and turned around for my people  - I will try to never leave you.
This is a war against Evil

Knievil

A Lifetime of pain, you can't wash away these stains
You can't soak me in a tub full of bleach and brighten the shadows you left on my past or whiten those dark stones you placed on my path.
Where is the love? Mentally institutionalized by a nation plotting our demise. Sicknesses is created for our numbers to be cut. Love it's like you're staring at us with your eyes wide shut. Love where are you? Love where are you...


Evil Knievil

Hus Kingpin and Killer Ben aka The Writers combine again to bring you part two of the self titled track "The Writers Pt. II" and the B-side article "Star Wars" on a feature series of digital vinyl that include instrumentals and acapellas.

HUS KINGPIN + KILLER BEN - STAR WARS (Prod. Twiz The Beatpro)

So this song is  loosely dedicated to The Roots, inspired by their joint "Clones". As all 3 of us have Freestyle'd with them Live on Radio (all on separate occasions). And later we toured Europe (Denmark, Sweden and Norway etc) with them collectively.

droNEs

A QUICK NEWPORT.

PRODUCED, RECORDED, MIXED AND MASTERED BY MR. ROSE AT THE MINI MANSION FOR 23 INCREDIBLE INDUSTRIES.

TRAGICALLIES2018

ESTEE NACK - SPR1NGCOLL3CTION PROD. MR. ROSE

Pimpnast… it is what it is. No questions, no excuses.

"What's In a Name" - Jay-Z

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