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In a wasteland of electronic voices and cocaine-driven ignorance, RZA and GZA continue to plant the seeds of truth. It’s up to the kids to eat the fruit and not the candy.

I am a big Wu-tang fan and have all of GZA’s solo albums to date. This album is fairly decent overall. GZA’s lyricism is still top shelf. His flow has gotten more laid back and slower in delivery over the last few albums, but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. A lot of times I think it sounds smooth when he is dropping some knowledge and rapping in this way. It has kind of a laid back confidence to it and emanates his seasonedness in the game. The beats on this album are not spectacular in my opinion. As most Wu followers I preferred RZA beats for the main Wu members to rap to as tey have a gritty and signature sound to them. I felt that even as GZA began to use other produce on his other albums they still kept in this vein of gritty signature sounding Wu beats. However, with each new album his beats begin to sound a little more polished and in some cases generic. Sure they are in no way mainstream striving for radio play, but they lack the feel that has you continously coming back for more and putting the song on repeat. While the GZA’s flows and metaphors will have you listening repeatedly having a great soundscape to go with great lyrics is always better. As sometimes I’ll admit I wanna hear the rhymes kicked over a beat, but the beat gets so repetitive and uninspiring I just can’t make it through the whole song. Anyway, true fans pick this up if you haven’t already if you don’t know about the GZA I suggest Liquid Swords or Beneath The Surface over this album.