#Enter the wu tang clan songs skin#

4 OlвЂ™ Dirty Bastard вЂ“ Brooklyn ZooД«uilt around an agitated sample from Bobby EllisвЂ™s rocksteady staple Step Softly, the late ODBвЂ™s gloriously aggressive 1995 debut solo single finds him stepping anything but softly on the track. Where earlier rap icons Big Daddy Kane and LL Cool J had come undone with their saccharine forays into romance rap, the Ticallion Stallion successfully showed us his sensitive side without taking off his Timberlands. And just like MethвЂ™s relationship, the track (in both of its remixes: this version overseen by RZA which accompanied the heavily played video and the radio version handled by Puff at the top of his game) worked in the face of all obstacles.

#Enter the wu tang clan songs skin#

With co-star Mary J Blige (whoвЂ™d also lend her soulful pipes to Ghostface KillahвЂ™s All That I Got Is You the following year), offering a haunting interpolation of Marvin Gaye and Tammi TerrellвЂ™s 1968 duet YouвЂ™re All I Need to Get By, Meth pays tribute to the low-maintenance love of his life, a down-since-day-one type who still revs his engines ( вЂњI got a Love Jones for your body and your skin tone/ Five minutes alone, IвЂ™m already on the boneвЂќ) and whoвЂs loyal enough to dress demurely if heвЂ™s ever incarcerated. Blessed with a husky, blunt-addled voice, agile wordplay and rugged good looks, the MC had spread his street-corner charisma liberally across Enter вЂ¦, notably on his own, self-titled solo track, and this 1995 hit perfectly harnessed his rugged-yet-smooth appeal.

That Meth was the first member of the Wu to release a solo album вЂ“ 1994вЂ™s The Tical вЂ“ was hardly surprising. Released in May 1993 on Loud Records after a DIY pressing the previous year earned the crew a Killa Bee buzz, the WuвЂ™s opening salvo вЂ“ featured on their instant classic album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) вЂ“ was the perfect east coast antidote to Dre and SnoopвЂ™s crisp G-funk or, as GZA would put it, вЂњthe dirtiest thing in sightвЂќ.ДЈ Method Man ft Mary J Blige вЂ“ IвЂ™ll Be There For You/YouвЂ™re All I Need to Get By (Razor Sharp remix) With eight distinctive voices (an incarcerated Masta Killa had yet to sign up) ravaging an RZA track powered by that trusty trumpet glissando from the JBвЂ™s The Grunt, quotable lines abound, from Method ManвЂ™s playful Irene Cara impression to GZAвЂ™s bitter takedown of his unappreciative former label Cold ChillinвЂ™ and the wider music industry henceforth вЂњa mountain climber who plays an electric guitarвЂќ was the de facto stereotype of the clueless A&R.

From the second Inspectah Deck attacks his opening verse ( вЂњI smoke on the mic like smokinвЂ™ Joe Frazier/ The hellraiser, raising hell with the flavourвЂќ), itвЂ™s easy to see why the clued-up radio caller at the songвЂ™s start is desperate for a repeat fix of the debut single from the mysterious, kung fu-crazy Staten Island crew.