Meatwad.

[Art Sandusky 0]

[RZA] Wu-Tang Clan comin at ya, protect ya neck kid, so set it off

de Inspector Deck

[Meth] watch ya step kid (8X)

 

[inspector Deck]

I smoke on the mic like smokin Joe Frazier

The hell raiser, raisin hell with the flavor

Terrorize the jam like troops in Pakistan

Swingin through your town like your neighborhood Spiderman

So uhh, tic toc and keep tickin

While I get ya flippin off the shit I'm kickin

The Lone Ranger, code red, danger!

Deep in the dark with the art to rip charts apart

The vandal, too hot to handle

Ya battle, you're sayin Goodbye like Tevin Campbell

Roughneck, Inspector Deck's on the set

The rebel, I make more noise than heavy metal

 

[Raekwon]

The way I make the crowd go wild, sit back relax won't smile

Rae got it goin on pal, call me the rap assassinator

Rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger

And I'ma get mad deep like a threat, blow up your project

Then take all your assets

Cause I came to shake the frame in half

With the thoughts that bomb, shit like math!

So if ya wanna try to flip go flip on the next man

Cause I grab the clip and

Hit ya with sixteen shots and more I got

Goin to war with the meltin pot hot

 

[Method]

It's the Method Man for short Mr. Meth

Movin on your left, aah!

And set it off, get it off, let it off like a gat

I wanna break full, cock me back

Small change, they puttin shame in the game

I take aim and blow that nigga out the frame

And like Fame!!, my style'll live forever

Niggaz crossin over, but they don't know no better

But I do, true, can I get a "sue"

Nuff respect due to the one-six-ooh

I mean ohh, yo check out the flow

like the Hudson or PCP when I'm dustin

Niggaz off because I'm hot like sauce

The smoke from the lyrical blunt makes me *cough*

 

[u-God]

Ooh, what, grab my nut get screwed

Oww, here comes my Shaolin style

Sloop-B and my b-boy's U

to my crew with the "suuue"

 

[*interlude*]

watch ya step kid [8X]

[Ol Dirty Bastard] c'mon baby baby c'mon [4X]

[RZA] Yo, ya best protect ya neck

 

[Ol Dirty Bastard]

First things first man you're fuckin with the worst

I'll be stickin pins in your head like a fuckin nurse

I'll attack any nigga who's slack in his mack

Come fully packed with a fat rugged stack

Shame on you when you stepped through to

The Ol Dirty Bastard straight from the Brooklyn Zoo

And I'll be damned if I let any man

Come to my center, you enter, the winter

Straight up and down that shit packed jam

You can't slam, don't let me get fool on him man

The Ol Dirty Bastard is dirty and stinkin

Ason, Unique rollin with the night of the creeps

Niggaz be rollin with a stash

ain't sayin cash, bite my style I'll bite your motherfuckin ass!

 

[Ghostface Killah]

For cryin out loud my style is wild so book me

Not long is how long that this rhyme took me

Ejectin, styles from my lethal weapon

My pen that rocks from here to Oregon

Here's Mordigan, catch it like a psycho flashback

I love gats, if rap was a gun, you wouldn't bust back

I come with shit that's all types of shapes and sounds

And where I lounge is my stompin grounds

I give a order to my peeps across the water

To go and snatch up props all around the border

And get far like a shootin star

Cause who I are, is dim in the light of Pablo Escobar

Point blank as I kick the square biz

There it is you're fuckin with pros and there it goes

 

[RZA]

Yo chill with the feedback black we don't need that

It's ten o'clock hoe, where the fuck's your seed at

Feelin mad hostile, ran the apostle

Flowin like Christ when I speaks the gospel

Stroll with the holy roll then attack the globe with the buckus style

the ruckus, ten times ten men committin mad sin

Turn the other cheek and I'll break your fuckin chin

Slayin boom-bangs like African drums (we'll be)

Comin around the mountain when I come

Crazy flamboyant for the rap enjoyment

My clan increase like black unemployment

Yeah, another one dare, G-Gka-Genius

Take us the fuck outta here

 

[Genius]

The Wu is too slammin for these Cold Killin labels

Some ain't had hits since I seen Aunt Mabel

Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel

Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table

That's what ya get when ya misuse what I invent

Your empire falls and ya lose every cent

For tryin to blow up a scrub

Now that thought was just as bright as a 20-watt light bulb

Should of pumped it when I rocked it

Niggaz so stingy they got short arms and deep pockets

This goes on in some companies

With majors they're scared to death to pump these

First of all, who's your A&R

A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar

But he don't know the meaning of dope

When he's lookin for a suit and tie rap

that's cleaner than a bar of soap

And I'm the dirtiest thing in sight

Matter of fact bring out the girls and let's have a mud fight

 

[*sounds of fighting*]

 

[RZA] You best protect ya neck [4X]

[The Czech Republic 0]

is Metwad the new Hey Kotz?

[Art Sandusky 0]

No, this is addressed at him direcetly. Please refrain from breaking my flow.

[Ted the Poster 0]

Okay then. Word to your mother, Kotz.

[Art Sandusky 0]

You clearly don't get it. Does the Rza need to remind you?

[Ted the Poster 0]

Sorry, my Rap Translator 4000 must be on the fritz again. Can I use yours?

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

You clearly don't get it. Does the Rza need to remind you?

Maybe he just doesn't find it amusing?

[Ted the Poster 0]

^ Yes, Kotz truly is only amusing when he posts while high.

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

I think I missed that.

[Ted the Poster 0]

It's bound to happen again in at least a week, don't worry.

[Art Sandusky 0]

See? Attaboy, make me sound like a pothead. Now you're making progress. Keep going.

[Ted the Poster 0]

I never said pothead. I know that you're primarily a pill popper.

 

Or am I wrong in my assumption that you do some sort of recreational drug at least once per week?

[IllustriousOne 0]

What the fuck is going on.

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

Meatwad Is INTENSE*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*I've now fullfilled El DANDY'S request of bringing back that catchphrase. It can now return to storage until the next time Anglesault returns.

[Ted the Poster 0]

What the fuck is going on.

I'm not sure. I think Patrick is upset because I insulted him over the internet from across state lines.

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

Wouldn't you be?

[Ted the Poster 0]

Oh I would be OUTRAGED.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Great song.

[godthedog 0]

this might not be the worst feud in the board's history, but i'd certainly say it's the most boring.

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

It's one sided really.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Great song because, really, every verse kinda personifies what things every guy in the Wu-Tang Clan does or doesn't do well. How about that GZA.

[Ted the Poster 0]

this might not be the worst feud in the board's history, but i'd certainly say it's the most boring.

Not a feud at all. Kotz just got all touchy when I was joking on him. I got nothing against the guy.

[godthedog 0]

Great song because, really, every verse kinda personifies what things every guy in the Wu-Tang Clan does or doesn't do well. How about that GZA.

i'd like a breakdown of this, actually. i'm not terribly familiar with their individual styles and/or strengths.

[Guest cosbywasmurdered]

this might not be the worst feud in the board's history, but i'd certainly say it's the most boring.

Not a feud at all. Kotz just got all touchy when I was joking on him. I got nothing against the guy.

You're breaking the fourth wall.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Great song because, really, every verse kinda personifies what things every guy in the Wu-Tang Clan does or doesn't do well.  How about that GZA.

i'd like a breakdown of this, actually. i'm not terribly familiar with their individual styles and/or strengths.

Sure. My humblest opinions.

 

Inspectah Deck's gifts really come through in his delivery moreso than his lyrics--the vocal flourishes he adopts for the "neighborhood Spiderman" and "sayin' goodbye like Tevin Campbell" lines are great. More than other Wu guys, he seems to rely on a lot of pop culture references that are outside of the typical martial arts motif the others use, which is sometimes good, sometimes bad.

 

Raekwon is just fantastic. I guess the "flaws" thing doesn't really apply to him because he's probably the most consistent emcee in the group. You want some fun, take this verse and lay out the scansion for it. Motherfucker uses trochaic substitution and the occasional spondee like an expert, whether he knows it or not. I also like the way he uses turns of phrase like "meltin' pot hot," which plays on obv. the idea of the melting pot and the fact that pots get, well, hot. He does this a lot and it's rarely lame.

 

Method Man is all about 40s and blunts and he really gets his husky thing going on this one. Probably the least lyrically varied Wu-Tang guy, but definitely good at getting a reaction. His first two lines here, as delivered in the song, are a great change of pace. As you can see in the second half of his verse, he's a little more disconnected in his thoughts than the other guys, not really making even thematic connections and kinda going with whatever rhymes.

 

U-God kinda sucks and has a weird-ass gravelly voice. He only gets 4 lines here, but they're the only lines of his I ever remember. So he's doing something right, and his gravelly-ass delivery isn't overexposed. His verse on "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'," the only other one on this album, shows what happens if you let that go on too long.

 

ODB is (was) crazy as hell, but his taunts are pretty coherent for what they are. He uses his common vocal tics here, especially on "niggas be rollin'," and pops another Brooklyn Zoo reference, and something really out there ("bite your motherfuckin' ass"). In moderation this stuff is great; sometimes it can get excessive if there's too much of it.

 

Ghostface's delivery is really intense and sharp, but his verses rarely make sense. Rarely does one couplet here connect to the subsequent couplet, but he keeps the delivery fun and always sounds like he really knows what he's talking about, even if we don't. This is really charming on his Ironman album, but gets a little tiresome and one-trick-ponyish on his later stuff.

 

RZA really can't hold a rhythm, but he always sounds incredibly aggressive. "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' To Fuck Wit" is probably the only track on this album where he sounds more pissed off and more likely to eat your throat or something. Still, he usually comes up with one so-cheesy-it's-great line, and I think "Flowin' like Christ when I speaks the Gospel" is one of those. I enjoy him on Wu-Tang albums despite my better judgment, kind of like Flava Flav.

 

And then there's the GZA, who just has an incredibly liquid flow, to the point that you almost don't notice the line breaks or breaths he takes throughout this whole verse. He's also the best at keeping a narrative thru-line through his extended metaphors--note how he moves from the story of stingy companies to record labels with greazy A&R guys to those guys needing a bar of soap to the fact that, well, he's pretty dirty too. He brings it all together. I guess the biggest problem he has is that he rarely taps into the aggression that guys like RZA and Ghostface seem to access pretty effortlessly, which sometimes lends to a pretty downtempo experience in his appearances.

 

Man, I like the Wu-Tang.

[godthedog 0]

there so needs to be a feature of you deconstructing every '36 chambers' track on the main page.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

According to Google, I may be the first person in the history of the internet to ever use "Raekwon" and "trochaic" on the same page.

[Art Sandusky 0]

What the fuck is going on.

I'm not sure. I think Patrick is upset because I insulted him over the internet from across state lines.

You know what you did.

 

And this "feud" which I guess in Canadian means "one-sided gorefest," is far from the most boring. Look at that lovely Wu-Tang breakdown we got.

[Ted the Poster 0]

No, I still don't know. But if it makes your ego feel bigger, I'll try to insult you anonymously over the internet less.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Let's rumble.