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« on: January 14, 2008, 05:00:31 PM »
to me, as an album, liquid swords is superior... cuban linx is just too long and has too many weaker moments, i find it hard to sit through a straight out listening of cuban linx without skipping tracks.... rae pioneering the mafiosa thing wasn't neccessarily good, how horrible is most subsequent shit?! even his own stuff. as far as rae/ghost lyricism/interplay, ironman is massively slept on just cause their's a lot of more 'commercial' beats. i find a lot of rae's lyrics on ob4cl a bit tiresome at times, i mean i know it's a mafiosa concept album but he gets kinda carried away, gets a bit cheesy at times.
i can see what your saying about gza's delivery coming off as a bit sleepy at times, but i think that's part of his collected-wise-elder-of-the-wu appeal...
oh yeah, CLIPSE... beats are very digital which normally turns me off but these guys pull it off very well. best vocal deliveries i've heard in a long time, not that i keep very up to date with gangsta shit.