Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
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Track List: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
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- Striving For PerfectionDownload & Buy
- Knuckleheadz - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face Killer And GoldenArmsDownload & Buy
- Knowledge God - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face Killer And GoldenArmsDownload & Buy
- Criminology - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
- Incarcerated Scarfaces - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
- Rainy Dayz - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer And Blue RaspberryDownload & Buy
- Guillotine (Swordz) - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer, Genius And Rollie.Download & Buy
- Can It Be All So Simple (Remix) - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
- Shark Niggas (Biters) - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
- Ice Water - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face Killer And CappachinoDownload & Buy
- Glaciers Of Ice - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer, Noodles,Sunz Of...Download & Buy
- Verbal Intercourse - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face Killer And NasDownload & Buy
- Wisdom Body - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
- Spot Rusherz - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
- Ice Cream - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer, Cappachino ....Download & Buy
- Wu-Gambinos - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer, Method Man ....Download & Buy
- Heaven And Hell - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
- North Star (Jewels) - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1995
- Label:
- Rca
- UPC:
- 078636666327
User Reviews: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
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Perfect Disc
, August 27, 2000Reviewer: biachreal - See all biachreal's reviews -
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, March 15, 2002CAUSE LYRICALLY AND MUSICALLY I LOVE THIS...AT FIRST I WAS LIKE THIS SUCKS,,,,BUT THIS IS HELLA GOOD......
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Pro Reviews: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews A serious contender for the title of best Wu-Tang solo album (rivaled only by the Genius' Liquid Swords), Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is also perhaps the most influential, thanks to Raekwon's cinematic imagination. If the Genius is the Wu's best overall lyricist, Raekwon is arguably their best storyteller, and here he translates the epic themes and narratives of a Mafia movie into a startlingly accomplished hip-hop album. Raekwon wasn't the first to make the connection between gangsta rap and the Cosa Nostra (Kool G Rap pioneered that idea), but he was the one who popularized the trend. Cuban Linx's portraits of big-money drug deals and black underworld kingpins living in luxury had an enormous influence on the new New York hardcore scene, especially Mobb Deep and Nas, the latter of whom appears here on the much-revered duet "Verbal Intercourse." The fellow Clan members who show up as guests are recast under gangster aliases, and Ghostface Killah makes himself an indispensable foil, appearing on the vast majority of the tracks and enjoying his first truly extensive exposure on record. Behind them, RZA contributes some of the strongest production work of his career, indulging his taste for cinematic soundscapes in support of the album's tone; his tracks are appropriately dark or melancholy, shifting moods like different scenes in a film. Cuban Linx's first-person narratives are filled with paranoia, ambition, excess, and betrayal, fast rises and faster falls. There are plenty of highlights along the way -- the singles "Criminology" and "Ice Cream," the gentle "Rainy Dayz," the influential posse cut "Wu-Gambinos" -- and everything culminates in "Heaven Hell" and its longing for redemption. Like the Genius' Liquid Swords, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx takes a few listens to reveal the full scope of its lyrical complexities, but it's immensely rewarding in the end, and it stands as a landmark in the new breed of gangsta rap. - Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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Raekwon may not have achieved the solo stardom of his fellow Wu-Tang Clan mates Method Man or Ol' Dirty Bastard, but along with Genius/GZA and frequent partner Ghostface Killah, he's done some of the most inventive, critically acclaimed work outside ...Full Raekwon Biography
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-- ©2008 All Media Guide, LLC
This is the quintessential Wu disc, undeniably the best solo album, I think it even gives 36 Chambers a run for it's money. Every track is unique, the styles Rae flexes are crazy; but the real gem is how cohesive the album is. It plays out like a movie, and it's hard to listen to just one track because it plays out so perfectly. It makes you want to listen to it in sequence.
Hate to say it, but Tical doesn't even compare to this disc in some wacked out parrallel dimension. Tical was a brick.
PZ ...