So I’m rolling around in the whip with the iPOD on random, which is a pretty typical siutuation… That’s actually how I hear music most of the time, a random occurrence letting the Apple gods control what flows into my ears. Along comes ‘Triumph‘ from the Wu LP Wu-Tang Forever, which is probably one of my non-Ghostface favorite Wu releases. Let’s get something straight though Inspectah Deck is probably my least favorite Wu member – he never comes correct, he’s not very entertaining, and he’s standing amongst true veterans of early 90s hip hop. Dude must have eaten his Wheaties the morning he wrote this verse – it stands out in my mind as one of the most well written verses in Wu history. Inspectah Deck‘s kind of like that next door neighbor you really want to like, but he still lets his dogs shit in your yard. Somehow, on the very first single that was released from Wu-Tang Forever, Mr. Deck completely murders his verse. Check it out (and the video below, which was definitely THE most cutting edge hip hop video shit out there at the time… the bees!):
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
See? killed it, right?
Wu-Tang Clan – Triumph
yes I have always been enamored with this verse
he got a verse on above the clouds i think too where he says “the impact will blow trees back and crack statues” that verse is also classic. (its probably not on above the clouds but you know what i mean)
i had to go thru my itunes library and listen to it… i forgot dude was on the track at all.
thx for the reminder!
Definitely one (if not THE one) of my favorite Wu verses of all time. He just destroyed that track.
Good to see another Ghostface mark around as well
i think the entire track is straight… even rza’s verse at the end. man… wu-tang… what happened?
deck is the illest,you say deck dosent come correct well then my man you might as well be deaf and give up listening to wu or any hip hop for that matter, deck is a beast and never writes a weak verse go get your ears checked,how dare you insult ya highness
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