Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
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Artist: Wu-Tang ClanEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2007-12-11
Music Label: Motown / Universal
Soundtracks:
- Campfire
- Take it Back
- Get Them Out Ya Way Pa
- Face the Problems
- The Heart Gently Weeps
- SKIT
- Wolves
- Gun Will Go
- Sunlight
- SKIT (Robin Harris)
- Stick Me for My Riches
- Windmill
- Weak Spot
- Life Changes
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Free Music Review: Awesome - Would you expect anything less?
Hit: 5 Stars
Being a new fan to Wu-Tang I discovered Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) fairly recently and it instantly made my all time classics list. This prompted me to journey back through the history of the clan which I have enjoyed listening to, viewing and reading about. When I heard Wu-Tang was bringing out a new album I was keen to grab a copy and I did. I was hooked on the first listen. This album, by todays `hip hop' standards is an absolute masterpiece. It is different to most of what is out at the moment but different in that it is original and unique, just as `enter the Wu-Tang' was all those years ago.
It seems many people have taken to disliking this album as it is not typical Wu-Tang but it is this which I believe deserves RZA and the clan extra credit. They realize that their past is exactly that and each of the clan on this album has taken a massive step forward. More instruments, chorus' you can sing, martial arts snippets and samples and the same second-to-none delivery of their unique and hard-hitting lyrics makes this disc a superb listen. While some tracks are admittedly better than others, each is an interesting and impressive listen. If the clan had tried to reproduce their earlier successes, the outcome would have been terrible. For fans that have followed the Wu-Tang Clan journey (which I have loved discovering for myself) both as a united clan and as individual artists it seems that this release is exactly where they should be at this point in time. They have grown as MC's and individuals (as have their fans) and are at a point where they are making more mature and deeper tunes.
Again I draw reference to other releases at the moment. While I own and listen to many hip hop and rap albums almost everyone wears thin after a few rotations. I would argue that the Wu Tang Clan are one of very few hip hop acts whose releases can be listened to again and again without you losing interest. I felt this with Enter the `Wu-Tang' and although there have been some absolute corkers of tracks on various individual clan member releases, as well as 'Forever', 'The W' & 'Iron Flag', I honestly believe this is the closest they have come to producing something different in a market of repetitive, recycled and disposable garbage. A new sound on their first LP saw them reach their status and break new ground and it is this release that should see them maintain it. There really is nothing that comes close. Wu-Tang forever.
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This is the return of Wu-Tang! Their first studio release since the death of Dirty Ol Bastard; these superstars have returned...GZA, RZA, Method Man, Ghostface Killa, Raekwon, U-God, Inspecta Deck and Masta Killa, they're all here. "The Hear Gently Weeps" features Erykah Badu and is the first song to feature a Beatles sample! This is A MUST for true hip-hop fans. "The 8 Diagrams" comes with a bonus DVD!!On Wu-Tang Clan's sixth album, 8 Diagrams, producer RZA still knows how to drop the bottom out of listeners' expectations. A minute and a half into opener "Campfire," for example, he abruptly switches keys just as the accompanying vocal downshifts from a melodic Curtis Mayfield sample ("Gypsy Woman") into Method Man's merciless first verse. From then on, despite the contentious instrumentals (Raekwon practically disowned the final product), RZA's never lets his fun get in the way of the MCs' speaking largely for themselves. Unsurprisingly, they still have a lot to say, though much of it treads firmly in the most stereotypical of hip-hop posturing: self-adulation, rough-edged with a syncopated litany of more or less violent, casually sexist bravado. Of course, those who tend toward hip-hop with a heart of gold would never be listening to the Wu anyway. Erykah Badu, John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers), and George Harrison's own son Dhani can't resuscitate "The Heart Gently Weeps," but then "Take It Back," "Wolves" (with George Clinton), and especially he timpani-pummeled "Weak Spot" show that even at loggerheads, the Wu still rocks an eccentric, charismatic funk. In the end, it seems, a gaggle of irreverent rappers this talented and volatile ages well almost in spite of itself. Keep 'em coming. --Jason Kirk
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