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Sometimes I think he is my favourite Wu MC. What are his best non-Wu verses? Other than his Gang Starr and Big Pun guest spots, I don't think I've heard much.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Deck too. He sounds really different on the new Wu live album - his voice is really gruff and blown out, he barely sounds like himself.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, he's the worst shouter on the live album, and condiering how many verses he has (lots), it doesn't help overall. Makes ODB sound controlled.

"The Movement" was a dire album, but "Uncontrolled Substance" is a favorite.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I missed The Movement. I'm still disappointed by Uncontrolled Substance - I love "Movas & Shakas" but the rest of the album never did anything for me. It's too bad, because INS has always been the most underrated of the Wu MCs in terms of his verses on the Wu LPs.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM - I think he's best when he just pops up for one verse, either on a Wu track or as a guest on someone else's. But he doesn't have such an immediately recognisable persona as some of the others, so he tends to get overlooked :(

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

His verse on Triumph should be in the Smithsonian.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the things that I like about the Iron Flag album is that it allowed the less popular and prolific members of the Clan to shine - lots of Deck, U-God, Masta Killa. The latter two have come a long way, their Wu material is really great even if their solo records aren't much to talk about.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, he's one of the best Wu guys, but unfortunately, he doesn't have the personality to carry a solo disc, in my opinion. He's best, as someone mentioned earlier, when he's got a few bars.

My favorite verse by him is in "Let My Niggas Live", where he's brilliant. I know probably no one will read it, but I'm going to post the verse anyway, because it deserves some recognition.

Roughneck reppin the set, bang 'em twice in the neck
C.O. flip and jerk the whole yard rec
Block vets, pop barettas, glocks, and tecs
You're no threat, guns talk the language of the project
Checkin shorty with the Black Tail stance, leather pants
Yellin' fuck her man, makin killings off her lap dance
Plus the young guns runnin the slums, funds is major
Drug drought got you huntin for crumbs stuck to the razor
Semi-autos roar in the building hall
Symptoms of bloodsport, the slugs are still in walls
Call it a New York state of mind, gotta take mine
In the daytime, the Jakes'll hit ya forty-one times (ref. to Amadou Diallo murder by police)
So I live by the sword and obey hood laws
Make my team click like high heels on wood floors

― King Korn Karn, Tuesday, 12 October 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

His verse on Triumph should be in the Smithsonian.
-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), October 12th, 2004.

OTMFM. This verse is probably the best thing on Wu-Tang forever. I agree with Matt that Uncontrolled Substance was disappointing though. He just never had much on that album that could touch his Wu verses.

Shacklin the masses with drastic rap tactics.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I think of the Wu in terms of a jazz big band sometimes - they are all at their best when they are together, though some players work better on their own in the way that most people would rather hear a saxophone than a tuba. U-God is definitely a tuba. Deck is weird because he's the most traditional NY-style rapper in the Clan, which works against him - his style and voice isn't as distinct as the other members, so it becomes easier for him to blend in outside of the context of the Wu.

I pulled out The W and Iron Flag just before, and Deck has some really great verses on "Rules" and "In The Hood" from Iron Flag and "Careful (Click Click)" and "Let My Niggaz Live" on The W.

"Careful (Click Click)" is fucking amazing, by the way. Easily one of the best songs in the entire Wu catalog.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"Careful (Click Click)" and "Let My Niggaz Live" are both suffocatingly dark, I agree that they are definitely among the best songs Wu ever released.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Him & Gza I've always sorta seen as the more GOTH lyrical element, both are super talented with dark imagery, whereas like Ghostface and Raekwon hit more of that emo thug narrative style.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Also - MATT OTM RE: "TRIUMPH"...

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies
and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these
mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery
Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me
Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits
tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics
I inspect you, through the future see millenium
Killa B's sold fifty gold sixty platinum
Shacklin the masses with drastic rap tactics
Graphic displays melt the steel like blacksmiths
Black Wu jackets queen B's ease the guns in
Rumble with patrolmen, tear gas laced the function
Heads by the score take flight incite a war
Chicks hit the floor, diehard fans demand more
Behold the bold soldier, control the globe slowly
Proceeds to blow swingin swords like Shinobi
Stomp grounds and pound footprints in solid rock
Wu got it locked, performin live on your hottest block

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i mentioned it in a gangstarr thread the other day,but yeah his verse with them is outstanding,and i'll agree he's amazing on triumph...

i used to listen to the w a lot just as i was getting into the wu tang,haven't heard it in a while though,i must go back and look out for some of his verses...

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost-yeah what a verse!

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Suffocatingly dark" is a pretty good way to describe The W in general. It has this nearly palpable sense of dread and imminant doom straight through, the most relentlessly miserable rap album I've ever heard. It's not dreary, though - just despairing.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Careful" and "Let My Niggaz Live" in particular feel scary and threatening, like the song itself might stab you with a boxcutter if you listen to it the wrong way.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

theres a fairly recent interview with him here

http://www.wutangcorp.com/special/getspecial/special/29/?

― robin (robin), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

His verse on Triumph should be in the Smithsonian.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, October 12, 2004 11:00 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

One of the things that I like about the Iron Flag album is that it allowed the less popular and prolific members of the Clan to shine - lots of Deck, U-God, Masta Killa. The latter two have come a long way, their Wu material is really great even if their solo records aren't much to talk about.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, October 12, 2004 11:02 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Both completely OTM, and I would extend MP's comments on Iron Flag to latter-day Wu generally. U-God is one of the strnogest MCs on Gravel Pit, for example, and him and Deck are both rock-solid on Pinky Ring.

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 5 October 2008 13:09 (seventeen years ago)

er, one of the "strongest."

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 5 October 2008 13:10 (seventeen years ago)

one man hit force, my shirt ripped off/ squeeze a full clip to kill the bullshit then I dip off

― rio (r1o natsume), Sunday, 5 October 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

his voice totally changed on the last album. wtf!

― Shushtari (res), Sunday, 5 October 2008 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Uncontrolled Substance is awesome. I had forgotten how much -- it gets overlooked a lot due to the produciton.

― San Te, Thursday, 15 July 2010 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

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