Few experiences in music fandom equal giving a great album a second chance and realizing its greatness, and I consider myself quite lucky to have had it with GZA’s debut solo album, one of the 3 or 4 best Wu solo albums and one of the best albums of 1995.Įvery Wu solo album, in one way or another, feels more like a Wu-Tang Clan album with one guy getting more verses than everybody else. Then, one day, I gave Liquid Swords a proper listen – and I completely, utterly got it.
I’ve always been more of a Ghostface fan, anyway, and Supreme Clientele runs more along my tastes. I mean, I’m as much a fan of Wu-Tang as anybody of my generation, and I’ve heard most of the solo albums (sorry, U-God), but I remember hearing Liquid Swords as a teenager and being underwhelmed. Well, it’s still got a long ways until it’s even bordering actual Chinese Democracy levels of absurdityĪs always, stay tuned for more updates as they’re announced.I came in late on the Liquid Swords bandwagon. Potentially adding more delays to the album, fellow Wu-Tang Clan member RZA, who GZA tapped as producer for Liquid Swords 2, is off in Shanghai making his directorial debut with Man With The Iron Fist, starring Russell Crowe. In a series of tweets, GZA revealed that the as-yet-untitled sixth LP would feature both audio and visual elements to and would be in “a league of its own”. This time, though, it’s not all bad: while The Genius is shelving the sequel for now, he’s still hard at work on another new album (via ).
As you’re also probably aware of, when we here at CoS lead any news story with such background info, the news is never pretty.
As you’re undoubtedly already aware, the wait for GZA‘s follow-up to 1995’s Liquid Swords, the aptly titled Liquid Swords 2: The Return of the Shadowboxer, has gotten ridiculously bad.
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