Tag Archives: Wu-Tang Clan

“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day One)

Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose twenty of them as my favorites.  I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.  Here are the first five… In 1988 poet, teacher, philosopher and metaphysician Lawrence Krisna Parker described Hip-Hop’s talent pool as “a lot of suckers with colorful names.” He […]

Records at Random, Vol. 75: Genius/GZA Liquid Swords

Back in August I marked the dog days of Summer–and the 13th anniversary of the album’s release date–by dedicating a Records at Random post to Wu-Tang Clan swordsman Chef Raekwon’s mafioso-Rap epic Only Built 4 Cuban Linx. In that post I went to great lengths to outline just some of the myriad reasons that […]

Cool’s NOT Defined By Blog Updates?

It wasn’t billed as a mixtape like those profiled yesterday but Columbus, Ohio-based emcee/producer Blueprint’s Blueprint vs. Funkadelic project from earlier this Summer might as well have been one. Its underlying concept, building tracks on samples from Funkadelic songs, bordered on the sort of mashup-style shenanigans mixtapes are often made of these days. […]