GZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, RZA, Method Man - Reunited, Wu-Tang Clan feat. Wu-Tang Forever easily would have made a brilliant single CD RZA's production is more polished than the debut, thanks to a bigger budget and better equipment, and leans heavily on soundtrack-style strings to underscore the album's cinematic scope. Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, Cappadonna - For Heavens Sake, Wu-Tang Clan feat. The second disc is far too long, diluting the impact of its better songs (the terrific single "Triumph") with an excess of lackluster material. Once you get past the rambling Five Percenter introduction, the first disc is pretty tight, partly because it was kept short to leave room for enhanced CD content. Wu-Tang Clan’s 1997 album Wu-Tang Forever has been remastered for a new 20th anniversary reissue, this September via Get On Down.
In other words, the group is starting to go off in more individual directions here, making it harder to maintain an overall focus. Wu-Tang made music videos for the three A-sides, and the B-side songs including, 'Method Man', 'Da Mystery of Chessboxin', and 'Wu-Tang Clan Aint Nuthing ta Fuck Wit'. On the other hand, you also get some of the group's most explicit sex raps yet ("Maria," "The Projects," the utterly bizarre ODB solo track "Dog Shit"). On the one hand, there's more social consciousness on Wu-Tang Forever, taking hard looks at ghetto life while finding pathos and offering encouragement and uplift ("A Better Tomorrow," "Impossible"). With their classic debut album 'Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers', they instantly became the crew to watch in hip hop. While the result, Wu-Tang Forever, is frequently brilliant, it's also sprawling and unfocused, losing its handle on the carefully controlled chaos of Enter the Wu-Tang. Retrospective: Wu-Tang Clans 36 Chambers vs Wu-Tang Forever Wu-Tang arrived on the scene officially in 1992-1993 with their brash and aggressive demeanor, kicking down the doors of the industry. So why not give it a shot? With a main crew of nine MCs (plus new protégé Cappadonna), the Wu wouldn't have to depend heavily on guest appearances to flesh out two whole discs of material, as Biggie and 2Pac had. By the time the Wu-Tang Clan finished their first round of solo projects and reconvened for their second album as a group, the double-disc album had become the hip-hop fad of the moment.
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