Wu-Tang Forever

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Wu-Tang Clan’s first album (<i>Enter the Wu-Tang</i>) was so successful—and so successful on the group’s own terms—that by the time they made their second they could’ve done pretty much whatever they wanted. It wasn’t just the scale of <i>Wu-Tang Forever</i> that felt decadent, it was the sense of 10 talented and very different artists letting themselves burrow further into their own styles and idiosyncrasies—whether it was the way Ghostface’s wordplay could make a conventional street narrative shimmer to the point of feeling almost supernatural (“Impossible”) or the way RZA’s weird layers of grainy samples and amateurishly played synthesizers sounded both like outsider art and the vanguard of blockbuster rap (“Triumph”). He’d famously promised the rest of the group that if they gave him five year, he’d make them legend, and <i>Wu-Tang Forever</i> is when his promise came true. .

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