Obviously Forever is a whole lot longer but I don't think you can really argue quantity over quality with music or any other artform. Rolling Stone even names it amongst the greatest 500 albums of all time (out of any genre and this the biggest rock magazine in the world) I'll be shocked if you can find even one or two that list Forever higher.Įven though the vinyl copy of Enter is wackly quiet and the release of Forever is nicely spaced out on 4 discs, guess which album DJs take out more? If there's no Wu, then you know the list is wack but where there is Wu, Enter is there and Forever ain't. Take a look at any list of "The Greatest Hip Hop Albums Of All Time" or some such.
This was a self-produced album that gained enough buzz on the street to allow these 9 young men to effectively hold the record industry to ransom, securing a historical deal that allowed them all to collaborate on each other's solo projects across five major record labels. The Dr Dre inspired sounds of G-Funk had taken over the commercial hip hop industry and the East had gone back underground.ģ6 Chambers was at the forefront of bringing the focus of the global hip hop community right back to New York. In 1993 the West Coast was dominating the East in terms of sales. Forever is Vegas era Elvis singing show tunes. Wu-Tang Forever is a sloppy bloated saga that sounded just how everyone expected it to.Įnter is The Beatles storming America. Hopefully it won't get too nasty and I won't have to bust out my metal flying guillotine on his the subject of this debate is a mere matter of opinion with no real objective truth value but we both have a responsibility to back up our opinions with evidence and logic.Įnter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is a better album than Wu-Tang Forever.Įnter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is a monumental sparse masterpiece that flipped the script on hip hop at the time. This will be a light-hearted debate on a niche musical topic that we both have strong opinions on. He's the only person I've successfully persuaded to join the site and after more than six months he's agreed to debate me. Now, I present to you my personal tribute to these legendary groups: A Clan Called Wu “Enter The Marauders”.It's a great pleasure to welcome my long term delinquent associate Lukas to his first debate here on DDO. The contrast of Wu’s gritty street raps over Tribe’s jazzy production works in a pleasantly unexpected way. Rather, it was about orchestrating a fun concept, and putting a totally new spin on these well-worn classics. The intent was not to improve on the originals in any way….that would be impossible, as I consider them both to be perfect bodies of work. A couple of hours later, I managed to pair up every single Wu-Tang vocal with a suitable beat from MM. I wasn’t sure it would work at first, but as is usually the case, inspiration hit at midnight when I was trying to sleep (the coincidence of the timing is not lost on me). To mark the 25th anniversary of both LP’s, I thought it might be a good idea to try and take the vocals from Wu-Tang’s album, and blend them over the instrumentals from Midnight Marauders. Those albums stayed in my rotation forever (literally). One moment, I was transported to the boulevard of Linden, and the next to the rugged streets of Shaolin. For the months that followed, both albums fought for playing time on my single-disc CD player. I had anticipated this day for awhile, and saved up in advance to pick up both CD’s (at that age $40 felt like $500). I remember riding my bike to the mall, with money I had earned from my after-school job. Two of the genre’s most revered albums dropped on the same day: Wu-Tang Clan’s debut ‘Enter The 36 Chambers’, & A Tribe Called Quest’s third LP ‘Midnight Marauders’. Novemwill forever go down as one of the greatest days in hip hop history. A couple of classic albums that just recently celebrated their 25 year anniversaries gets the blends treatment by DJ Filthy Rich…
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