Brooklyn Zootopia: It's Like a Jungle Sometimes...Five Great Wu-Tang Songs With Animal Titles
Ol’ Dirty Bastard-Brooklyn Zoo
The One Man Army Ason put his foot in on this one.
Top five Wu-Tang solo single of all-time.
Classic video.
Still sounds fresh today more than two decades after its release and twelve years after his passing.
There was no father to his style and there shall be no son.
The GZA aka The Genius-Animal Planet
Living up to the moniker, The Clan’s most intricate/scientific MC shows you why they call him The Genius on this one.
Easily his best song post-Liquid Swords.
Also best song in the vein of its cousins “Labels” & “Fame”.
Welcome to the Jungle.
If this is your first time hearing this one, you’re welcome.
Ghostface Killah featuring Raekwon and Cappadonna-Fish
“We eat fish, tossed salads and make rap ballads”.
Now that's the way you introduce yourself on a record.
Ghost, Rae and Cappa in full ‘95/’96 Purple Tape form on this classic album cut from Ironman.
What’s not to love?
Wu-Tang Clan (Raekwon, The RZA, Method Man)-Duck Season
Forever was the commercial peak and in many ways the beginning of the end. While sonically the crisp, digital sound of tracks like this probably threw off a few OG Wu fans more used to RZA’s beautiful and sloppy sequencing of old-soul samples earlier in the Wu’s rise to power that crested here with a double-album that’s both loved and debated to this day.
Still I challenge anyone to tell me this isn’t three of the Clan’s sharpest swords at the top of their MC game on this one.
RZA also channeling late 90’s Dr. Dre on the beat here while signally the Bobby Digital In Stereo album that would arrive a year later.
Don’t play this one at work.
In fact if you are one of The Wudder’s readers with more refined tastes or delicate sensibilities, don’t play this at all.
This is the Dirt Dog at his absolute dirtiest.
His brothers definitely missed his energy, humor and personality on their records ever since.
RIP ODB
