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Track List
01) Campfire
02) Take It Back
03) Get Them Out Ya Way Pa
04) Rushing Elephants
05) Unpredictable (feat. Dexter Wiggle)
06) The Heart Gently Weeps (feat. Erykah Badu, D
07) Wolves (feat. George Clinton)
08) Gun Will Go (feat. Sunny Valentine)
09) Sunlight
10) Stick Me for My Riches (feat. Gerald Austin)
11) Starter (feat. Sunny Valentine & Tash Mahoga
12) Windmill
13) Weak Spot
14) Life Changes
15) Tar Pit
16) 16th Chamber (O.D.B. Special)
01) Campfire
02) Take It Back
03) Get Them Out Ya Way Pa
04) Rushing Elephants
05) Unpredictable (feat. Dexter Wiggle)
06) The Heart Gently Weeps (feat. Erykah Badu, D
07) Wolves (feat. George Clinton)
08) Gun Will Go (feat. Sunny Valentine)
09) Sunlight
10) Stick Me for My Riches (feat. Gerald Austin)
11) Starter (feat. Sunny Valentine & Tash Mahoga
12) Windmill
13) Weak Spot
14) Life Changes
15) Tar Pit
16) 16th Chamber (O.D.B. Special)
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First Released
2007
Hip-Hop
Happy
Urban/R&B
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8 Diagrams is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, released December 11, 2007 on SRC/Universal Motown Records. The album was released three years after the death of Ol' Dirty Bastard, and six years after the group's previous LP Iron Flag, for which many group members further embarked on solo recording, and acting careers between the two albums.
Upon its release, 8 Diagrams debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200, and number 9 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with 68,000 copies sold in the first week The album received generally favorable reviews from most music critics, and earned greater acclaim than the group's previous album Iron Flag, based on an aggregate score of 73/100 from Metacritic.
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Formed in 1993 the Wu-Tang Clan were rap pioneers, with their inspired combination of Taoist philosophy, marshal arts battle-sequences lifted from badly dubbed chinese kung-fu films, smoked-out philosophical mumbo-jumbo and a myriad of pseudonyms. Strange, understated, hypnotically addictive beats and basslines, added to vocal talents helped render Staten Island gangland attitude into a fictional modern-day Shaolin. They smashed the game on arrival.
However, other than their classic debut, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) their material has been extremely patchy. Bar the odd hit single, a couple of their solo albums have certainly been better bets. But here on their fifth album the legendary RZA's back in production, and they seem to be keen to make a fuller and more consistent statement. Lyrically, they're still refreshingly way out there, fashioning material that's more cerebral and philosophical than anything else in the hip hop mainstream.
"Campfire" opens with a trademark whining Chinese strings lifted straight from an old Shaolin Kung Fu flick, into some pocket Taoism: ‘Practice honesty - keep your temper, a good friend holds his drink, bad company makes bad wine’ - perhaps reflecting the fact that the whole crew is bit older now and the mood more subdued.
"Take It Back" is instant vintage Wu-Tang, atmospheric, understated film soundtrack funk, punctuated with head-nodding scratches, with probably the fastest flow on the album: The Wu can still spit.
Elsewhere “Unpredictable”, “Sunlight’’ and “Windmill” are the Wu at their banging and occasionally baffling, best. But despite the overall improvements, this is still a fairly inconsistent effort. There are flashes of the old brilliance here, but, true to most rap albums of the last twenty years, it's too long.
Also, clearly they've been listening to the people who've made it big partly by being inspired by their work 15-odd years ago with some nods to the recent work of Danger Mouse and Sa-Ra Creative Partners. This is a shame, as the Clan were always leaders; not only in their sound, but also in their ability to turn a band brand into an ever-expanding franchise. In the end, 8 Diagrams sounds more suited to the back seat of cinema than the front seat of an Escalade.
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8 Diagrams is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, released December 11, 2007 on SRC/Universal Motown Records. The album was released three years after the death of Ol' Dirty Bastard, and six years after the group's previous LP Iron Flag, for which many group members further embarked on solo recording, and acting careers between the two albums.
Upon its release, 8 Diagrams debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200, and number 9 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with 68,000 copies sold in the first week The album received generally favorable reviews from most music critics, and earned greater acclaim than the group's previous album Iron Flag, based on an aggregate score of 73/100 from Metacritic.
User Album Review
Formed in 1993 the Wu-Tang Clan were rap pioneers, with their inspired combination of Taoist philosophy, marshal arts battle-sequences lifted from badly dubbed chinese kung-fu films, smoked-out philosophical mumbo-jumbo and a myriad of pseudonyms. Strange, understated, hypnotically addictive beats and basslines, added to vocal talents helped render Staten Island gangland attitude into a fictional modern-day Shaolin. They smashed the game on arrival.
However, other than their classic debut, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) their material has been extremely patchy. Bar the odd hit single, a couple of their solo albums have certainly been better bets. But here on their fifth album the legendary RZA's back in production, and they seem to be keen to make a fuller and more consistent statement. Lyrically, they're still refreshingly way out there, fashioning material that's more cerebral and philosophical than anything else in the hip hop mainstream.
"Campfire" opens with a trademark whining Chinese strings lifted straight from an old Shaolin Kung Fu flick, into some pocket Taoism: ‘Practice honesty - keep your temper, a good friend holds his drink, bad company makes bad wine’ - perhaps reflecting the fact that the whole crew is bit older now and the mood more subdued.
"Take It Back" is instant vintage Wu-Tang, atmospheric, understated film soundtrack funk, punctuated with head-nodding scratches, with probably the fastest flow on the album: The Wu can still spit.
Elsewhere “Unpredictable”, “Sunlight’’ and “Windmill” are the Wu at their banging and occasionally baffling, best. But despite the overall improvements, this is still a fairly inconsistent effort. There are flashes of the old brilliance here, but, true to most rap albums of the last twenty years, it's too long.
Also, clearly they've been listening to the people who've made it big partly by being inspired by their work 15-odd years ago with some nods to the recent work of Danger Mouse and Sa-Ra Creative Partners. This is a shame, as the Clan were always leaders; not only in their sound, but also in their ability to turn a band brand into an ever-expanding franchise. In the end, 8 Diagrams sounds more suited to the back seat of cinema than the front seat of an Escalade.
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