I got Wu-Tang Clan's the 8 Diagrams as my Secret Santa gift. I'll admit. I added it to my Elfster.com Wish List so it wasn't as big of a surprise as the two giant papayas they came with... but I digress.
There isn't a musically invested soul out there who can't admit that Triumph is by far one of the best rap songs ever created in the history of the genre. It's clever. It has a good beat. And that's when I thought, hmm, maybe I should check their other shit out. I now own every single Wu-Tang album including the Killa Beez series and the Wu-Chronicles.
And I have yet to be disappointed.
In the last published Rolling Stones, they list The Heart Gently Weeps off the 8 Diagrams album as one of the top songs of 2007. The Wu rendition of George Harrison's masterpiece is great, especially with Erykah Badu singing the chorus. But to say it's the best song on the album is premature. I'd give that honor to Life Changes.
Most of the album shows respect to Ol' Dirty... since he's dead. And even though most of the members hold a grudge against Rza for holding too much producing power, since his own album (Bobby Digital) is awesome on its own, I'd have to say that keeping him as the ring leader and executive producer might be a good idea.
By the way, why the fuck is Cappadonna not part of the Clan yet?
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i'm still not all up on this album but ya know...even wu tang forever, which definitely hit me way hard upon first listen than 8, sounds better today than it did 10 years ago... so i think it's gonna be one of those deals with this one... hopefully.
also, cap is officially part of the wu line up on this album though it looks like it might be the last wu album...
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