Some hailed Wu-Tang Forever as the best double-disc hip-hop album yet released, but others regarded it as a disappointment despite its many high points, it's the first time the Wu didn't quite fulfill their ambitions. 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. The second disc is far too long, diluting the impact of its better songs (the terrific single "Triumph") with an excess of lackluster material. But in the three years between their debut was a string of. Arising from the smoke of their East-coast Hip Hop classic, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), with a soul-based, poetic double disc album might seem like a risky stretch. 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. In fact the only double hip hop album that totally exceeded my expectations, is the Wu-Tang clan's Wu-Tang Forever. In other words, the group is starting to go off in more individual directions here, making it harder to maintain an overall focus. 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"). The album debuted at number one on the charts, selling over 600,000 copies in its first week alone, and rapidly produced the smash single Triumph.
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. In June of 1997, the Wu-Tang Clan reformed and released their second album, Wu-Tang Forever, a double CD. 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. Like their forebears in Public Enemy, Wu-Tang are musical revolutionaries, unafraid to bring the noise along with their trunk of funk." - Rating: A, 7 (out of 10) - ".Creating a style with no definite precedent, playing major lables against each other-and winning-Wu-Tang Clan are basically selling avant-garde music as pop to the world.The RZA burns the rule book between your headphones.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. And what it contains is The Knowledge.WU-TANG FOREVER is.unforgettably huge.", ".FOREVER continues the group's artistic grand slam.
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I think, in time, it could be my favourite album ever.", 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - ".a self-contained universe that mixes hip-hop culture with adolescent-pop flotsam.hauntingly descriptive tales of ghetto hustlers and victims.", 3 stars out of 5 - ".Highlights a once-hungry outfit now simply too full of individual stars to function coherently.albeit flashes of brilliance.", Ranked #19 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Bands Of The Year.", Ranked #28 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year.", Ranked #26 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., Ranked #18 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll., ".If albums by Method Man, Genius, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and Ol' Dirty Bastard were the Gospels, then this is meant to be the Good Book.
It didn't have to be this good.Every single track is a detonation of every single pop rule you thought sacrosanct.FOREVER is one of the greatest hip hop LPs of all time. High quality Wu Tang inspired duvet covers by independent artists and designers from around the world.
".The MCs are in strong form.", ".It had to be this big. I’m sure this has been asked on here countless times but I just copped an Uncontrolled Substance cd and have been on an Inspectah Deck kick. Wu-Tang Forever is the second studio album of American hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, released Jon Loud/RCA Records in the United States.