Demo that anticipates the first legendary Wu-Tang album. Beyond the sound quality – basically poor – it's a discreet level tape that has some good notes and some hints of what you can hear in the first LP, for example "Bring da Ruckus", a great dark, heavy, rough boom bap. "Cuttin Headz" instead is shown for the ODB solo album. RZA leads the games in a dominant way even as a rapper and pulls down some solos that, however, aren't up to the best of the other members of the crew, despite a decent production: "It's All About Me" and "Wutang Master" have a good dark, jazzy, tense, rough, underground beats due to successful samples. "Problems", retrospectly, recalls the iconic track of the Legend AZ, the producer also samples 1982 "All This Love" by DeBarge, the same R&B track sampled by Cruz for "9 Lives". Ol' Dirty returns to help RZA in "The Wu is Comin Thru", a hardcore cut on rough, gloomy, moody, tight rhythm, a slightly better song than the others.
Weak sound quality, raw production, dirty, hardly noticeable, discrete lyrics, this demo appears as a unique RZA effort between production and rapping with some good guests of what isn't yet the Wu-Tang Clan.
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