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Album Review by Bradley Christensen Wu-Tang Clan – Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Record Label: Loud / RCA Release Date: November 9 1993

Just in case you didn’t know, Wu-Tang Clan ain’t nothin’ to fuck with, but I’m sure you probably already knew that. I mean, Wu-Tang Clan is one of the most famous, popular, and influential groups of the 90s. Their debut LP, 1993’s Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is a classic album. Unlike certain albums that I’ve covered recently, this is a classic album that I love. I’ve loved this album for years, and I’ve reviewed this once, actually. That was in 2014, though, and looking back at that review, it’s honestly not a bad one. Not a great one at all, and I was still trying to improve my skills as a writer, but it was clear that I didn’t listen to hip-hop at all. Not a lot, anyway. That’s true, though; I didn’t listen to a lot of hip-hop at the time. In the last few years, I’ve began listening to a lot more, but around that time, I was very new to the genre. This is one of the first albums that I got into, and three years later (technically four, because I remember getting this in 2013, but I didn’t listen to the album much until 2014), I still love this album. Enter The Wu-Tang is such an awesome, amazing, wonderful, and influential album that holds up quite well today. Wu-Tang Clan is one of those groups that comes up when people talk about 90s hip-hop. Maybe not as much as Tupac or Biggie, but that’s kind of understandable. Wu-Tang Clan are very famous (hell, Method Man had a cameo in the Netflix show, Luke Cage, which was great), but they’re not quite the main act that people think of when they think of this time period. I can’t imagine a lot of people, especially more casual fans of music, would think of acts like Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, or Wu-Tang, because they’re not the most popular or recognizable. Anyway, Enter The Wu-Tang is still an influential album, even to this day. Not only is this LP one of the first albums that really got me into hip-hop, ultimately influencing my tastes in hip-hop, but it’s an influential album in the entire genre.

Released in 1993, this LP was one of many that helped to define hip-hop, especially East Coast hip-hop. With its innovative production techniques, funny and free-associative lyrics, and the myriad of rappers on the record, this album helped to influence a lot within hip-hop throughout the 90s. The group would never really get the same amount of critical acclaim with any of their other albums, but I can understand why. I’ve listened to their latest LP, 2015’s A Better Tomorrow, and yeah, it’s a good album, but it’s not great. It’s not quite as great as this one. I’m not one of those “older stuff” guys, either, but it’s very obvious that the group doesn’t quite have the same spark that they used to. I think that’s partially because of the passing of one of the founding members, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, who passed away in 2004, unfortunately. Speaking of which, this LP did give rise, well as an introduction, to a lot of very critically acclaimed, classic, and well-loved rappers. Ol’ Dirty Bastard is one of them, and I just covered his debut LP, 1995’s Return To The 36 Chambers. It’s a wonderful album, despite being very long, exhausting, overwhelming, and off the wall. ODB is the weirdest and strangest member of the group, and his verses on Enter The Wu-Tang are very entertaining, fun, and over the top. Not every member of this group is that off-putting, though. This album helped kickstart careers from RZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, and GZA, just to name a few. There are more rappers here, but in my first review of the album, that was a problem I listed. There were tons of rappers for me to pay attention to, even though I knew that going into the album, but it doesn’t bother me now. I love how many rappers there are, because it gives a unique flavor to the album. There are a lot of different styles, flows, and personalities to get into throughout the record.

That’s definitely one of the best things about it, but I can understand if someone might be kind of overwhelmed by that. As I said, I was when I first listened to this album, but that was because I wasn’t much of a hip-hop fan. One of my favorite things about the album back then were the lyrics, and I feel the same way now, too. The lyrics on this LP are awesome, but I’ll admit that they’re not the most introspective, deep, and meaningful. If you’re one of those people that hate hip-hop for how it only talks about cars, money, drugs, women, and stuff like that, well, you can kind of blame these guys. This group is one of the first groups to talk about this sort of thing in a funny, humorous, and over the top kind of way. I love their use of free-associative rhymes, which just means that they don’t quite stay on topic in their lyrics. Do you hate that, too? Well, you can blame Wu-Tang for that, but they make it work. I never mind that, just as long the lyrics are funny, interesting, or good, and they’re very good here. They’re a ton of fun to listen to, just as the lyrics are as a whole. Every rapper brings something interesting to the table, but even then, the lyrics are a good mix between funny, over the top, and interesting. There are some very interesting songs here, such as “Tearz,” which paints a very realistic portrait of what life was like at the time in New York City. People mostly know this group for songs like “Ain’t Nothin’ Ta Fuck Wit,” “C.R.E.A.M.,” or “Protect Ya Neck,” which was the first song I ever heard from them, and those are my favorite tracks from this record, among others, too. The production on this LP is what makes it all come together, though; its use of soul samples, clips from old martial arts movies, and its dark, menacing, and gritty atmosphere cements this LP as one of the best in history, as well as RZA being one of the best producers in history. The production complements each member perfectly, and the chemistry that these guys have is absolutely impeccable.

With how many times tr00 rawk or metal elitists talk about how awful hip-hop is, I feel like a handful of albums should automatically be given out to them, just so that way they can be immediately proven wrong, instead of spreading racist, hateful, and ignorant rhetoric. This is one of those albums that I want those people to listen to, because it might change their mind on hip-hop as a whole. Sure, it’s about 24 years old, but this album is awesome in every single way. I’ve only grown to love it more as the years have gone on. In the last few years since I covered this, I’ve loved it more, and I’m finally getting into some of the solo work of each member. Well, some of them, anyway. This LP is required and essential listening if you want to get into hip-hop, because it pays to listen to the classics. I know what I said about Nas’ Illmatic, and how that album is good, but not all that great, this is the album that I think of when I listen to that. It came out a year prior, but it’s not hard to see where Nas got some of his influences from. Wu-Tang Clan is a group that has a lot of respect, praise, and influence on the hip-hop genre as a whole. It’s amazing that this LP came out more than two decades ago, and it’s still a powerful, potent, and amazing record. If you plan on getting into hip-hop, especially doing a deep dive into it, this is an album worth listening to. This is one of the best albums in hip-hop history, and if anything, it ushered in a new era for hip-hop. Not that their brand of tough, intense, and menacing hardcore hip-hop / gangsta rap didn’t exist before (NWA is responsible for pioneering that), but they perfected it, especially because they included very funny, over the top, and humorous jokes and punchlines that gave their sound a bit more of an edge over other acts in the genre. Enter The Wu-Tang is an album that has gone down in hip-hop history, and if you haven’t listened to, well, you better get on that, because Wu-Tang Clan really ain’t nothin’ to fuck with.

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verses.

teikō verse.

this takes place before the events of the main series. kise is a bored model in his second year of middle school. he has a big talent that he can use in all sports, but fails to find any opponent that can actually compete with him, until he decides to join his school’s basketball team. there he met the generation of miracles & they are the only ones who he could not copy with his talent, so that is how basketball has become his biggest passion.

main verse.

kise is currently in the second semester of his freshmen year at kaijō high. he is a regular for his basketball team & their ace, with his main talent being perfect copy, which basically lets him copy any of his opponent’s moves. he also does modeling on the side.

adult verse. ( wip )

takes place after he had graduated from kaijō & plays for the national team. he has laid off modeling & only does it very rarely when it’s not basketball season.

gangsta. verse.

kise is the son of a former soldier in the war, a twilight, but surprisingly, the effect of the drug has been fought off by his body & so instead of inheriting the full dna plan, he has received the best of both sides ; the superhuman abilities of his father with the normal genes from his mother making him a superhuman normal, a twilight without a tag / a normal with extended physical abilities. kise also has two older half - sisters, but they had a normal father & shared his mother, so they were both normals & although he only rarely got to see them, he was always excited to see them because they were really nice & never scared of him because of what his father was.

though one day, there was a control through their neighbourhood & kise’s father had been hiding from the authorities because of being a twilight & not wanting to be thrown into ergastulum, but the authorities ended up killing him while kise got thrown into the city, because they saw him as being “at risk of becoming a twilight as well”. so he struggles in the city without any kind of relations & only able to keep off any kind of attackers on the streets because of his powers. what he didn’t know was, right at his end, when he had no food or energy left to go on, his sisters find him & bring him to the brothel ‘bastard’ run by the christiano familes, where they had been staying at while searching for him. once recovered & filled in about everything, while his sisters worked there as prosititues, kise takes up a job as distributer of celeber to pay for his stay at the brothel before they could come up with a solution on how to leave the city & search for their mother & his sisters’ father.