Killer Mike has heaped lofty reward one of many Wu-Tang Clan‘s many solo albums, giving it an ideal rating.
Over the weekend, the Grammy-winning rap veteran responded to a put up circulating X (previously Twitter) asking customers for his or her opinions on GZA‘s Liquid Swords.
Making no bones about his love of the album, Mike merely replied: “10/10.”
The Run The Jewels rapper was removed from alone in his reward, with one particular person replying: “To me it’s the perfect Wu solo challenge. I really like OB4CL however that is only a contact higher.”
One other mentioned: “From intro until the final music. Basic.”
10/10 https://t.co/O20GY0kIfh
— Killer Mike (@KillerMike) April 7, 2024
Launched in 1995, Liquid Swords was GZA’s second solo album following his oft-forgotten Phrases from the Genius (which was launched in 1991 beneath his earlier stage identify The Genius).
It was additionally the fourth solo effort from the Wu-Tang Clan, forming the group’s preliminary wave of critically acclaimed albums alongside Methodology Man’s Tical, Raekwon’s Solely Constructed 4 Cuban Linx…, Ol’ Soiled Bastard’s Return to the 36 Chambers: The Soiled Model and Ghostface Killah’s Ironman.
House to fan-favorite tracks like “Liquid Swords,” “4th Chamber” and “Shadowboxin,’” Liquid Swords cracked the highest 10 of the Billboard 200 upon its launch and has since been licensed platinum by the RIAA (Recording Business Affiliation of America).
Reflecting on the album’s legacy in 2018 following Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize win for DAMN., Wu-Tang chief RZA argued that GZA additionally deserved the coveted award for his writing on Liquid Swords.
N.O.R.E. Needs To Give GZA His Flowers On ‘Drink Champs’
“I’m glad that in in the present day’s society Kendrick Lamar, who has acquired to be thought-about the most effective and most poignant lyricists on the market, can win that prize,” he informed TimeOut Miami.
“Once I return and see a few of the lyrics that GZA wrote on Liquid Swords, and Beneath the Floor, a few of the writing he did was well-deserving. Take a music like ‘Fame,’ the place each verse and each line is any person’s identify. All the pieces he did to me was at a genius degree of writing.”
The album’s chess-themed art work additionally stays certainly one of Hip Hop’s most iconic covers, which GZA himself broke down throughout a 2012 look on the Bishop Chronicles podcast.
“That [cover art] was one thing that I got here up with in 1992 — three years earlier than the album,” he defined. “I used to be really enjoying Masta Killa in a recreation of chess, and round that point, he used to beat up on me rather a lot ‘trigger I had simply began enjoying once more.
“We had been enjoying a recreation, and we could have performed like 30 video games that night time, and the sport was nonetheless in a checkmate place. I used to be smoking weed, and you know the way you smoke weed, you begin actually get[ting] all these ideas and also you begin analyzing shit?
“I began drawing the items how they had been on the board like in that place…then I simply began imagining, ‘What if this knight had a guillotine in his hand? What if this particular person had this sword swinging?’ And I simply considered this complete warfare scene on the chessboard.”
