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RZA says we pop

01:42 / 17.10.03

Anyone picked up the new RZA album? I saw it in the store for $14.99, and Rza's my favorite Wu guy, so I was wondering if anyone's heard the album yet. I have heard the first single from the album, "We Pop", featuring Dirt McGirt, who actually only does back-up chorus on the track and I like it. Below are some lyrics from that single.

Double barrel shotgun (blaow), pop son
I told nigga, just not run
I saw him on 205th in Fordham
This dog was frozen, so my high heat thawed him (Wu!)
I blown ya, you need a blood donor
My bitch ghetto, like Florida and Laronia (girl)
Laundry mat hoes, who want clothes?
I flow checks, one followed by six o's (six o's)
I got hoes, in codes, in different areas
Four ton whips that's sittin' on interiors
The bass shake in the club like it's earthquakin'
I cock arm, pass the bomb, like Troy Aikman (Aikman)
Play the basement like Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson
You miserable, you get kidnapped by Kathy Bason
Thrown to the dungeon, for your spongin'
Of Wu Killa Bee, what's your total malfunction?

10:10 / 17.10.03

Aiyyo, camouflage chameleon, ninja scalin' your buildin'
No time to grab the gun they already got your wife and children
A hit was sent, from the President, to raid your residence
Because you had secret evidence, and documents on how they raped the continents
And it's the prominent dominant Islamic, Asiatic black hebrew
The year two thousand and two, the battle's still filled with the Wu
Six million devils have died from the bubonic flu
Or the ebola virus, under the reign of King Osiris
You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris
Un-loyal snakes get thrown in boilin lakes of hot oil
It boils your skin, chickenheads gettin slim like Olive Oyl
Only plant the seed deep inside fertile soil
Fortified with essential, vitamin and minerals
Use the sky for a blanket, stuffin clouds inside my pillow
Rollin with the lambs
Twelve tribes a hundred and forty four thousand chosen
Protons Electrons Always Cause Explosions

Rakim

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:50 / 25.10.03

Wow, for some reason I was expecting it only to be okay but Birth Of A Prince is GREAT. 'We Pop' = best Wu club track since 'Uzi (Pinky Ring)' - makes me want to start fights on the dancefloor (but not really). The production on 'Cherry Range' = sick. Best last four tracks on a hip-hop album in a while, too. In fact after the first couple of tracks, this is a really consistent album, which makes a nice change (I mean shit, even Speakerboxxx has a couple of skits I have to skip...).

Matthew Fluxington

17:31 / 25.10.03

Wait, are you saying that you don't like "Bob N I"?

That's my favorite song on the record.

23:57 / 25.10.03

Ah, seth. That was the exact moment that I realised The Rza was a 'Genius'.

'Digital Bullet' is kinda iffy compared to 'Bobby Digital in Stereo'; they never did make that film did they? Back in 9-7 it was pretty much all I could think about.

Regrettable Juvenilia

19:57 / 27.10.03

I wouldn't say I actively dislike 'Bob N I', but it strikes me as being quite unrepresentative of the rest of the album, as well as probably the least accessible track (and I'm SURE that's why it is the first track - why RZA, you tricksy blighter...). It does have that great bit "It's like John Lennon said: 'Help, I need somebody'... dead!" I dunno, it just seems a little too abrasive and off-kilter for my ears, which probably sounds really conservative, but I mean it in respect to the rest of the album - most of this record is quite slow and reflective, and I really like that.

Favourite track at this stage might be 'You'll Never Know', just for that percussion (can't describe it but you know the sound I mean). And he mentions Daryl Hannah! Kill Bill shout out?

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:19 / 12.11.03

"Play the basement like Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson"

God, I love that line.

This is probably the best Wu album since Supreme Clientele, you know.

But does anyone else who's heard 'Wherever I Go' think it's both brilliant AND hilarious when RZA talks about giving a the badge number of a cop who frisked him to the police chief so he "got his ass directing traffic in the heat for a week"? It's just such a civilised and law-abiding way of dealing with shit - the Prince Rakeem response, becasue Bobby Digital would have, I dunno, shot the cop in the face with a laser cannon or something. The Bob Digi/RZA dichotomy on this record is fascinating...