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Wu-Tang Clan "A Better Tomorrow"

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  • KneeGro_DuperManKneeGro_DuperMan Even if you mute it, The curse is there. Posts: 3,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    As of right now I'm feeling 9 out of 15 joints. Pretty good album. I like this album better than Iron Flag & 8 Diagrams.
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  • nex ginnex gin Keep It Simple Stupid Posts: 10,698 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Can't wait to cop this. I hope it doesn't underwhelm like their last few albums.
    The person who controls your anger controls you.

    The conventional mind is passive. It consumes information and
    regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active
    transforming everything it digests into something new & original,
    creating instead of consuming.

    Excuses don't solve problems.

    Life is a series of serious choices
    Theories are formed from experience, never mysterious forces
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  • 5th Letter5th Letter Black Identified Extremist Posts: 37,068 Regulator
    production is on point, Wu boys did their thing lyrically. The hooks were weak though (no Shady)
    Fuck who's the baddest a persons status depends on salary
    That buck that bought that bottle could have struck the lotto
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  • onetoughmiracleonetoughmiracle NY Giants Fan...Always Keep the Strap On You! Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stew wrote: »
    RZA just did an interview with the New York Times magazine in which he discussed his film career, the mysterious Wu-Tang album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin and Capadonna’s other career as a cab driver.

    It’s a fascinating and relatively quick read, but there was one part of the the interview that really stuck out. According to RZA, he will personally lose about a $500,000 on A Better Tomorrow, which drops on Dec. 2.

    You’re paying for a lot of this record out of pocket, right? Studio time, musicians, everything? Everything. And I won’t recoup. I’m already overbudget. Maybe I’ll net out a half-million-dollar loss.

    Some people with half a million dollars, they buy themselves two fancy cars, or maybe a house. What did you buy yourself for half a million dollars? I invested in the album. Look, if I never did anything again in music, it wouldn’t affect my life materially. I live a very satisfying life. Not because I’ve made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think that’s the American dream: to be at peace at home.

    http://news.hiphopearly.com/rza-says-will-lose-half-million-better-tomorrow/

    Dope!
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    "I was told a long time ago, ghosts and spirits don't like the fumes from ether, and I just wanted to affect him with my weapon and get to his soul."


    I feel it's the only way. I don't feel a need to play the whole part in the entire movement. But, yo, if you just raise your family right, if I just live righteously, I be all right. Yo, my whole life is dedicated to change.
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  • bck145bck145 East CoastPosts: 4,997 ✭✭✭✭✭
    wait wu tang is still making music? these dudes weren't even good in their prime....i laughed so hard when i saw this thread
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    #unfukwitable
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  • jonojono Right fist = power, left fist = unity Posts: 30,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I didn't know this was even out, will check.
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  • awwwwwwwwwwwawwwwwwwwwww Posts: 863 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I listened to the first 9 tracks so far and it's doo doo grits except for Keep Watch.
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  • DNB1DNB1 Still nigga... Posts: 19,704 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like this album...
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  • The Lonious MonkThe Lonious Monk Man with No Fucks Given Posts: 26,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really like the album. As I figured, it's one of those things that has to grow on you. Basically, you have expectations of what you want and it probably won't fit those. But when you discard them and just listen to it for what it is, it's really dope. There are some aspects where Rza drops the ball, the biggest example being the hooks on several songs, but overall the beats are fresh and nice and the lyrics are on point for the most part. I'm sure there are people that simply won't like it, and that's understandable. I honestly think it's a strong album.
    Niggas think that they own things and man sits high upon thrones
    But when you die, tell me what the fuck you own.
    When your skin, flesh, and bones find a permanent home
    as food for worms or fossils trapped in stone. - Rza in "What's Going On?"

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  • 5th Letter5th Letter Black Identified Extremist Posts: 37,068 Regulator
    I like the fact that they made a grown man album. They weren't trying to fit into the mainstream box.
    Fuck who's the baddest a persons status depends on salary
    That buck that bought that bottle could have struck the lotto
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  • Built 4 cuban linxBuilt 4 cuban linx Only Christopher I acknowledge is Wallace At the 36th chamberPosts: 12,285 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2014
    bck145 wrote: »
    wait wu tang is still making music? these dudes weren't even good in their prime....i laughed so hard when i saw this thread

    yall didnt have to flag this clown, he also says dumb shit like








    bck145 wrote: »
    nope i dont'

    theres a few like t.i., outkast, scarface.....virginia is not south so clipse doesn't count, but they aren't good anyway
    bck145 wrote: »
    Stew wrote: »
    lol @ "Virginia is not South"

    look at a map my dude...how is the northern part of virginia considered south? it borders PA, borders maryland too...you can't tell me maryland is south, south is like georgia, flordia, mississippi, texas....basically below the virginia and kentucky border

    Pay him no mind, we dont pick on the retarded. we should be better than that
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  • The Lonious MonkThe Lonious Monk Man with No Fucks Given Posts: 26,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A lot of people don't consider Virginia and Maryland as the South even though technically they both are.
    Niggas think that they own things and man sits high upon thrones
    But when you die, tell me what the fuck you own.
    When your skin, flesh, and bones find a permanent home
    as food for worms or fossils trapped in stone. - Rza in "What's Going On?"

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  • StewStew Rap Music Is My Religion HTTRPosts: 52,210 Regulator
    Nothin about Baltimore and northern of it is remotely close to be southern. Certain parts of VA as well.
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  • The Lonious MonkThe Lonious Monk Man with No Fucks Given Posts: 26,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stew wrote: »
    Nothin about Baltimore and northern of it is remotely close to be southern. Certain parts of VA as well.

    Are you serious? My wife's family is from Hartford County which is just north of Baltimore. And the first time I took her down south to visit my family in the country, the first thing she said was "Wow, this reminds me of Hartford County." Baltimore is like the only area that is nothing like the South. Even the areas in MD right around DC aren't that much different that the Suburban areas you find around southern cities like ATL. And outside of NoVA, VA is most definitely a Southern state. I don't even know how people fix their face to argue anything otherwise.
    Niggas think that they own things and man sits high upon thrones
    But when you die, tell me what the fuck you own.
    When your skin, flesh, and bones find a permanent home
    as food for worms or fossils trapped in stone. - Rza in "What's Going On?"

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  • StewStew Rap Music Is My Religion HTTRPosts: 52,210 Regulator
    The Lonious Monk wrote: »
    Stew wrote: »
    Nothin about Baltimore and northern of it is remotely close to be southern. Certain parts of VA as well.

    Are you serious? My wife's family is from Hartford County which is just north of Baltimore. And the first time I took her down south to visit my family in the country, the first thing she said was "Wow, this reminds me of Hartford County." Baltimore is like the only area that is nothing like the South. Even the areas in MD right around DC aren't that much different that the Suburban areas you find around southern cities like ATL. And outside of NoVA, VA is most definitely a Southern state. I don't even know how people fix their face to argue anything otherwise.

    lol I grew up in Hartford Co and my mom still lives there. The only resemblance is the land, that's it. Moving from that part of the country to south GA was a culture shock to me.
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  • nex ginnex gin Keep It Simple Stupid Posts: 10,698 ✭✭✭✭✭
    nex gin wrote: »
    Can't wait to cop this. I hope it doesn't underwhelm like their last few albums.

    Copped.....listened........disappointed :(
    The person who controls your anger controls you.

    The conventional mind is passive. It consumes information and
    regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active
    transforming everything it digests into something new & original,
    creating instead of consuming.

    Excuses don't solve problems.

    Life is a series of serious choices
    Theories are formed from experience, never mysterious forces
    Stew
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  • grumpy_new_yorkergrumpy_new_yorker Use your head for more than a hat rack Posts: 5,962 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2014
    not really feeling it. the album was way over produced. shit felt like a broadway play album at times.

    maybe it will grow on me like 8 diagrams.
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  • satyronesatyrone Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2014
    5th Letter wrote: »
    I like the fact that they made a grown man album. They weren't trying to fit into the mainstream box.

    man i felt the same way when i listen to this album today..shit just felt grown. really good album. i think U-God did his thing on this album and cappadona came thru with some good shit on this album as well.
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  • The Lonious MonkThe Lonious Monk Man with No Fucks Given Posts: 26,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2014
    This album is like 8D in the sense that I think that most of the criticisms are true. Like when people say it's overproduced, I can absolutely see where they are coming from, and in some cases agree. This is one of those albums where it really just depends on your tastes. I listened to the whole group catalog today, and I have to say it's a really nice transition. Of course the earlier work is better, but I like the way they grew and changed. I like this album, but only because I accepted going in that it wouldn't be anything like what I was hoping it would be. If I hadn't done that, I'd probably be disappointed too.
    Stew wrote: »
    The Lonious Monk wrote: »
    Stew wrote: »
    Nothin about Baltimore and northern of it is remotely close to be southern. Certain parts of VA as well.

    Are you serious? My wife's family is from Hartford County which is just north of Baltimore. And the first time I took her down south to visit my family in the country, the first thing she said was "Wow, this reminds me of Hartford County." Baltimore is like the only area that is nothing like the South. Even the areas in MD right around DC aren't that much different that the Suburban areas you find around southern cities like ATL. And outside of NoVA, VA is most definitely a Southern state. I don't even know how people fix their face to argue anything otherwise.

    lol I grew up in Hartford Co and my mom still lives there. The only resemblance is the land, that's it. Moving from that part of the country to south GA was a culture shock to me.

    lol My friend from ATL had to go to Macon for a while. He had a culture shock when he went there, but it didn't change the fact that he was still in GA.
    Niggas think that they own things and man sits high upon thrones
    But when you die, tell me what the fuck you own.
    When your skin, flesh, and bones find a permanent home
    as food for worms or fossils trapped in stone. - Rza in "What's Going On?"

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  • Kwan DaiKwan Dai Posts: 6,929 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I really like the album. I like older artists transitioning to live instruments and injecting substance into their music. Rehashing the same sounds and subject matter is a no no for me when it comes to seasoned artists.

    Wu has so much material available if, I want to hear grimey, wild out Wu it's nothing but a fingertip away.

    On another note. I like how RZA is setting up Wu to able to tour for years to come. I can see their stage show being either DJ driven or backed by a live band.

    Oh yeah. Cappadonna is ILL!!!!
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  • rip.dillarip.dilla ... push up the fader... bust the meter... shake the tweeter Posts: 17,412 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RZA with his middle age production on this joint, LOL. I'm actually listening as I post




    WU can hardly go wrong



    We all pray for a better tomorrow..
    obnoxiouslyfresh wrote: »
    ... always immediately go for my boobs ... She feelin me up like "are those your nipples?" I'm like "don't touch there. my money is there." So she's running my hips and thighs ...

    Westie wrote: »
    Lol what is cunting?

    Lol i like it. I am cunting.





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  • qawshunqawshun Posts: 9,138 ✭✭✭✭✭
    smh damn smh why can't i get that wu forever sounding lp meth did him on every joint he on as expected but these beats are trash man wth granted i've heard worse but man this not how i wanted to hear them make a comeback. might just edit everyone out and keep meth rae and ghost verses
    "lose money or lose sleep"
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  • Bcotton5Bcotton5 Posts: 51,851 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jono wrote: »
    I didn't know this was even out, will check.

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  • onetoughmiracleonetoughmiracle NY Giants Fan...Always Keep the Strap On You! Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just bought it and I like what I'm hearing so far
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    "I was told a long time ago, ghosts and spirits don't like the fumes from ether, and I just wanted to affect him with my weapon and get to his soul."


    I feel it's the only way. I don't feel a need to play the whole part in the entire movement. But, yo, if you just raise your family right, if I just live righteously, I be all right. Yo, my whole life is dedicated to change.
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