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jackhammer · 12-09-2008, 02:57 PM

Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords (1995)

I like a lot of Hip Hop. I also dislike a lot of Hip Hop and I am certainly no expert but every now and again I hear an album that reminds me how good the genre can be and how sadly corrupted it has become over the last 10 years.

Liquid Swords is one of those albums and perversely I much prefer this to GZA's regular band Wu Tang Clan. GZA is probably the most experienced member of the influential Wu Tang Clan and he has one of the best flows I have heard in Hip Hop and lyrically he is both incisive and enlightening. The production by fellow Wu Tang member RZA is faultless. It's clean and unfussy. Samples are kept to a minimum and the Samurai cinema samples that are used give the album a shape and flow and don't detract from the clean beats. This is'nt your usual bitch and ho gangster cliches. This is intelligent, street level urban Hip hop which is what the genre is ultimately all about.

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Genius/GZA - Liquid Swords (1995) I like a lot of Hip Hop. I also dislike a lot of Hip Hop and I am certainly no expert but every now and again I hear an album that reminds me how good the genre can be and how sadly corrupted it has become over the last 10 years. Liquid Swords is one of those albums and perversely I much prefer this to GZA's regular band Wu Tang Clan. GZA is probably the most experienced member of the influential Wu Tang Clan and he has one of the best flows I have heard in Hip Hop and lyrically he is both incisive and enlightening. The production by fellow Wu Tang member RZA is faultless. It's clean and unfussy. Samples are kept to a minimum and the Samurai cinema samples that are used give the album a shape and flow and don't detract from the clean beats. This is'nt your usual bitch and ho gangster cliches. This is intelligent, street level urban Hip hop which is what the genre is ultimately all about. Duel Of The Iron Mic: __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”