With a new Wu album due next week, here are 10 kung-fu kicking highlights from the Staten Islanders’ group efforts and solo projects, Wed 26 Nov 2014 08.52 EST “I smoke on the mic like smokin’ Joe Frazier/ The hellraiser, raising hell with the flavour”, he Charmels’ 1967 soul ballad As Long As I’ve Got You, “I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side / Stayin’ alive was no jive”, Method Man ft Mary J Blige – I’ll Be There For You/You’re All I Need to Get By (Razor Sharp remix), Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s 1968 duet You’re All I Need to Get By, “I got a Love Jones for your body and your skin tone/ Five minutes alone, I’m already on the bone”, Bobby Ellis’s rocksteady staple Step Softly, “I’ll be trapped by sounds, locked behind loops”, Black Ivory’s I Keep Asking You Questions, Cannonball Adderley, Rick Holmes and the Nat Adderley Sextet’s Aries, I’m deep down in the backstreets, in the heart of Medina, “I bomb atomically/ Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses/ Can’t define how I be dropping these mockeries”, “Since the face been revealed, game got real”, “the Wu-Library” to Meth’s quintessential commandeering of the chorus. The rapper’s opening lines (“I’m deep down in the backstreets, in the heart of Medina/ About to set off something more deep than a misdemeanour/ Under the subway, waiting for the train to make noise/ So I can blast a nigga and his boys”) drop the listener straight into the trenches traversed by a ruthlessly ambitious young drug dealer; a world whose claustrophobia intensifies as GZA continues to paint his paranoid picture: “I’m in a park setting up a deal over blunt fire/ Bum nigga sleeping on a bench, they had him wired/ Peeped my convo, the address of my condo/ And how I changed a nigga name to John Doe.” Throw in a cameo from Meth as a rival drug dealer and you have to wonder whether David Simon was reupping this on his Discman back in 1995. A classic single from Method Man and Red Man’s Blackout is two minutes of spitfire rapping. Am the one and only Method Man Blessed with a husky, blunt-addled voice, agile wordplay and rugged good looks, the MC had spread his street-corner charisma liberally across Enter …, notably on his own, self-titled solo track, and this 1995 hit perfectly harnessed his rugged-yet-smooth appeal. Over a melancholic piano loop from the Charmels’ 1967 soul ballad As Long As I’ve Got You, Rae’s gruff opening lines – “I grew up on the crime side, the New York Times side / Stayin’ alive was no jive” – set the scene as he and Inspectah Deck describe a harsh youth spent slinging drugs in the high-stakes pursuit of paper. Even if you tried your best, yo, I can spit, Damn, I'm just like Dirt in the booth Even if I didn’t know the words to the song, I had my own version of the words. Ooh, I be the super sperm (F*** you, f*** you, f*** you, f***) I wanna sit behind the scenes and see nothin' but the greens. Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there. When I did ‘Method Man,’ the way I got the hook part was half of it was Michael Jackson’s remake of the Beatles joint, and the beginning was a mixture of Hall & Oates, ‘Method of Modern Love,’ and the ‘Man’ part came from ‘Music Man’ by Masta Ace. After a while, you can't get any higher. I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually. I want to do a documentary about strippers, 'cause it's a moneymaker. M-E-T-H-O-D Man I got fat bags of skunk Method Man), West Coast Wu-Tang by Kendrick Lamar (Ft. Ab-Soul & Punch), Loaded Lux vs Hollow Da Don by UDubb Network (Ft. From the second Inspectah Deck attacks his opening verse (“I smoke on the mic like smokin’ Joe Frazier/ The hellraiser, raising hell with the flavour”), it’s easy to see why the clued-up radio caller at the song’s start is desperate for a repeat fix of the debut single from the mysterious, kung fu-crazy Staten Island crew. I'll fuckin', I'll fuckin', sew your asshole closed, and keep feedin' you And feedin' you, and feedin' you, and feedin' you Wu-Tang Killa Beez on a swarm Ah!’ But that’s what it sounded like in my memory. / Torture, nigga, what? (Ft. Ill behavior, savior or major flavor Damn, I'm just like Dirt in the booth I'm the truth, I … Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, hey! While the titular acronym, which, as Method Man reminds us on the hook, stands for Cash Rules Everything Around Me, was quickly adopted as hip-hop slang for boatloads of dough (not least by the Wu themselves – witness Raekwon admiring the C.R.E.A.M.-making aptitude of Julio Iglesias on Criminology), this poignant study of ’hood capitalism (also from the crew’s debut) is no Puffy-style shopping spree. And you didn't have friends to begin with, I'm… Don't forget your forty Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go. 3 Method Man ft Mary J Blige – I’ll Be There For You/You’re All I Need to Get By (Razor Sharp remix). Yeah? It's the Method Style by Method Man (Ft. Carlton Fisk), Bring the Pain by Missy Elliott (Ft. Not an average Joe with an average flow [Chorus: Method Man] The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany. I'm dope, too many fiends, live by many means Since I was eight years old. The bassy tones of an Angela Bassett-admiring U-God sets things off in fine style, with all of the Clan (bar ODB, absent owing to a chock-a-block legal schedule) sounding ravenous over a beat that snatches its brassy blaxploitation swagger from Parade Strut, off JJ Johnson’s soundtrack to the 1974 movie Willie Dynamite. M-E-T-H-O-D Man I'm the truth, I don't need to go to church in a suit Method Man & Redman), I’ll Be There For You / You’re All I Need to Get By (Keep It Tight Mix) by Method Man (Ft. Mary J. Blige), Primera Ley de Vida by WOS (Ft. Olimac Rizas), Disciples Of Funk (The Return Of The Funkateers) by Bootsy's Rubber Band, Green Eggs and Ham [Excerpt] by Dr. Seuss, Chim Chim Cher-ee by Dick Van Dyke (Ft. Julie Andrews, Karen Dotrice & Matthew Garber), The What by The Notorious B.I.G.
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