Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber, Pt. 2
The first time you listen to Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), besides the fact that it is a life changing experience for just about every teenager in the world since 1993, you’re almost unsure why there are two versions of the same song. With further listens, & the more you keep the damn thing on constant repeat, you start to learn that the album should have 2 or more slightly altered versions of every track, & it’s this that makes the record something special: that gritty eye for detail the RZA kept at all times, & the insistence on constant glitches & buzzes & slight bass-tune changes – it’s the art of guerrilla warfare turned towards the turntable. Innovation in hip hop never seemed as easy or as unstable, & the genre hasn’t looked back since. “7th Chamber, Pt. 2″ is simply the nastiest hip hop posse track recorded, tumbling Tribe’s “Scenario” out of my top spot only recently; every rhyme is perfectly grimy, every tooth covered in dirt.
