my first score after the 1st week listenin 2 them

I dig both.

And anyway…why you so surprised? hahaha

That “Venus vs. Mars” is pretty good.

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Empire State of Mind and Thank You are my fav joints of BP3, that third verse on Thank You is vintage Jay. As for OB4CL2, there are a ridiculous amount of highlights, which is bananas as the LP is 24 tracks long (2 bonus tracks for us brits). On a side note, i think About Me is even better than catalina; the beats culmination is something sinister, plus Busta puts in a better performance than on his entire album.

Onto the albums. Rae has the better joint. Rae is 4/5. Rae and the clan took it back to the old way they made re ords…going hard on them joints and only the hottest verses were included. Still trying to figure out what song I would take off. What’s missing are those hard as nails drums. Even RZA’s joints don’t have that knock that his production normally has. Also the multiple layered tracks aren’t evident. I was expecting that from RZA…cause that’s what he does. Now I’m being picky to 10th power. Overall, very dope album. As much as I Stan for Jay I’ve been a Wu fan. Salute the Chef. This album is for hoodies, gore-teks/timbs, and skull caps. This won’t get played in the club/radio. It shouldn’t be.

Jay’s album. I knew people were overreacting to the album. Not the best in Jay’s discography. But it’s not terrible like I was expecting based on comments. The album compared to Rae’s it’s not better. With that said it’s 3.5/5. Jay’s album is for dress jeans, hard bottoms, button up shirt with a fitted or skull cap going to the club. I can see reminder and Venus and mars having the club going crazy. V/m has so many layers/sounds to and I’m not into beats like that. Empire of the state is that ish.

Again I copped both. I’m bout to upload my pics.

If you want that Mayer Hawthorne grab it on best buy for $6.99.

Peace.

Warning HEAVY WU STAN SHIT ABOUT TO GO DOWN RIGHT NOW. ( whut up Thomas )

My thoughts on the album is like this. I’m not even gonna compare it to the first one this shit is it’s own monster.

One time on Wutangcorp this one cat spoke about how there already was a Cuban Linx sequel in 96. Reading the various reasons he stated i was like, He’s right IRONMAN is the true sequel to Cuban Linx. RZA was on deck for the whole thing ( shout out True master for the magnificent “fish” joint though ), both movies had the same characters, heavy cinematic references/movie quotes, skits and a lot of the themes on IROMAN were continuations of Cuban Linx. Ice cream is about baggin young ladies Camay is about bagging older women. Spot rusherz built up to 260. Ice water built up to Fish etc I know it’s not officially meant to be a sequel but for what fans of the original want, you cant get it better than that.

Funny enough i think this album is more of a sequel to Supreme Clientele but manages to equally match it IMO. From seeing reactions to it’s funny. Cats were mentioning the re used beats/samples and Supreme had joints that Puff ( nutmeg ), Diamond D ( buck 50 ) Deck ( stay true ) had used. It’s the Wu they do shit like that cause at the end of the day when they rap on it THEY OWN IT. Both albums were executive produced by RZA who they both brought in at the end to oversee the projects. Both had outside producers that still manged to make a cohesive sound. Ghostface bodied both albums. Raekwon bodied both albums. But CL2 to me almost takes it cause, Jada outspit Redman, CL2 is darker and meaner with a lot more ambiance ( sound effects, detailed skits that formed into songs etc ), production is more hardbody. “Ason Jones” is one of the deepest tribute tracks EVER ( having words from Dirty for the hook really makes me miss him more ) There were a couple of tracks i did’nt like ( “About me” should have been replaced by “walk with me” and “Have mercy” is a case of sick rhymes over an aight beat ) everything else. FIREWATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Supreme was shorter, more potent and had brilliant shit like Child’s play and one that insures it’s classic status till today easily but despite the few ( very few ) flaws CL2 has it matches that album beat for beat, abstract dart for abstract dart.

Chef did it big with this joint. Even my peoples that live to shit on me for being so into wu have told me that they were blown away by the album. As a die hard fan it feels great to see Rae gettin this much love for the joint.