TAKING U BACK:

Tacking U back to the Classic, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, debut album by Wu-Tang Member Raekwon , released in 1995. Fellow member Ghostface Killah is featured on most of the album with RZA handling the production in its entirety. This album is known as a pioneer of the Mafioso rap genre, with an emphasis on elaborate lyricism wherein Italian Mafia references, and organized crime abound.

Cuban Linx is commonly referred to as The Purple Tape because the original cassette's plastic was entirely purple. Raekwon marked the tape distinctively as a reference to drug dealers' method of tagging their product. The album is often commemorated for its introduction of a distinctive slang individual to Raekwon and Ghostface; heavy use of the Supreme Alphabet and Supreme Mathematics, blended with terms picked up on the inner-city streets of New York, as well as several songs based around detailed, loosely-connected stories.

Seeking to musically express Raekwon's blend of Five Percenter creed and inner-city experience, producer RZA worked intensively on a polished sound, slower and more layered than that of the Clan's previous efforts, using strings, piano loops and vocal samples from Kung Fu movies, and Mafia films. That hard work definitely paid off because now the album has become a staple in Hip-Hop!

Tracklisting

1"Striving for Perfection"
2"Knuckleheadz"
3"Knowledge God"
4"Criminology"
5"Incarcerated Scarfaces"
6"Rainy Dayz"
7"Guillotine (Swordz)"
8"Can It Be All So Simple (Remix)"
9"Shark Niggas (Biters)"
10"Ice Water"
11"Glaciers of Ice"
12"Verbal Intercourse"
13"Wisdom Body"
14"Spot Rusherz"
15"Ice Cream"
16"Wu-Gambinos"
17"Heaven & Hell"
18*"North Star (Jewels)"

Enjoy the six videos released off the Ablum (below)