Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
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Rolling Stone Rating: 3.5
A whole lotta Wu and a big, long Bone -- it's hip-hop double-CD madness. Wu-Tang don RZA needs at least a double album to give the whole nine-man Clan, not to mention guest stars CappaDonna and Tekitha, room to rhyme. Since 1993's "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)," RZA has stripped his already bone-hard mix of ghost-walk rhythms, minimalist instrumental hooks and B-movie playlets down to something even more raw and rude. The whole of "Wu-Tang Forever" crackles with a shootout-at-midnight electricity that more than justifies the double-disc indulgence, while the back-and-forth wordfire of Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, et al., confirms the Clan's singular zing at the mike and their ghetto-wise might as storytellers. The exchanges often get so...
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