Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
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Artist: RaekwonEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown)
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Import
CD Release Date: 1995-08-01
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Striving for Perfection
- Knuckleheadz
- Knowledge God
- Criminology
- Incarcerated Scarfaces
- Rainy Dayz
- Guillotine (Swordz)
- Can It Be All So Simple [Remix]
- Shark Niggas (Biters)
- Ice Water
- Glaciers of Ice
- Verbal Intercourse
- Wisdom Body
- Spot Rusherz
- Ice Cream
- Wu-Gambinos - Method Man, Raekwon
- Heaven & Hell
- North Star (Jewels) [*]
Music reviews of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Music Review: An undisputed classic
Rating: 5 Stars
There have been a few great Wu Tang solo albums but none of them got the drop on OB4CL. This is unquestionably one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. And what makes it so unique is the street slang that is distinctively created by Raekwon and Ghostface, making them one of the most potent duos in the hip hop game. They go together like peanut butter and chocolate.
This album boasts no less than 8 bangers in my opinion (in no particular order)
Verbal Intercourse
Rainy Dayz
Can It Be All So Simple (remix)
Criminology
Guillotine (Swordz)
Ice Cream
Glaciers of Ice
Incarcerated Scarfaces
The rest of the album is so solid too you will find it difficult to skip a track, of which there is 18 to tickle your eardrums.
Ratings:
Lyrics - 9.4/10
Production - 9.7/10
Only Built for Cuban Linx II is supposedly coming out later this year, 14 years after its predecessor. If its half as good it will be the 2009 hip hop album of the year.
Description of Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
2008 release containing the instrumental version of this album from the Wu Tang member, originally released in 1995. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx's portraits of big-money drug deals and black underworld kingpins living in luxury had an enormous influence on the new New York hardcore scene, cinematic soundscapes support the album's tone; the appropriately dark or melancholy, shifting moods layer like different scenes in a film. 17 tracks. Altered Ego.Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is arguably the best quasi-solo Wu-Tang album (Ghostface Killah literally gets equal billing). Most of contemporary hip-hop's Mafioso-inspired themes and MC street aliases are inspired by the "Wu-Gambinos" motif introduced on this 18-cut LP. As the Wu's preeminent storyteller, Raekwon (a.k.a. "The Chef") paints Technicolor Kool G Rap-style pictures of high-stakes drug trafficking on "Criminology," and then mixes his street sensibility with 5% Nation of Islam reasoning on "Knowledge God." This album is loaded with RZA's finest production moments, as he samples a barrage of kung-fu flick sound bites, plays discordant keyboards on "Incarcerated Scarfaces," and utilizes some eerie female vocals on "Rainy Dayz." Rae's timeless duet with Nas on "Verbal Intercourse" further cements the album's status as one of the best of all time. --Dalton Higgins
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