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  1. Striving For PerfectionDownload & Buy
  2. Knuckleheadz - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face Killer And GoldenArmsDownload & Buy
  3. Knowledge God - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face Killer And GoldenArmsDownload & Buy
  4. Criminology - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
  5. Incarcerated Scarfaces - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
  6. Rainy Dayz - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer And Blue RaspberryDownload & Buy
  7. Guillotine (Swordz) - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer, Genius And Rollie.Download & Buy
  8. Can It Be All So Simple (Remix) - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
  9. Shark Niggas (Biters) - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
  10. Ice Water - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face Killer And CappachinoDownload & Buy
  11. Glaciers Of Ice - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer, Noodles,Sunz Of...Download & Buy
  12. Verbal Intercourse - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face Killer And NasDownload & Buy
  13. Wisdom Body - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
  14. Spot Rusherz - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
  15. Ice Cream - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer, Cappachino ....Download & Buy
  16. Wu-Gambinos - Raekwon With Ghost Face Killer, Method Man ....Download & Buy
  17. Heaven And Hell - Raekwon Featuring Ghost Face KillerDownload & Buy
  18. 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

  1. Perfect Disc

    , August 27, 2000
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  2. SHOOT ME

    , March 15, 2002
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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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