Carhartt Presents: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... vs. Liquid Swords

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... or Liquid Swords?

  • Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...

    Votes: 8 42.1%

  • Liquid Swords

    Votes: 11 57.9%
  • Total voters
    19
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Spot Rusherz, Heaven & Hell and Can It Be All So Simple (Remix) are the worst on OB4CL. Living in the World Today (fucking hate that hook) and I Gotcha Back are the worst on LS.
 
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sadmanbarty

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something wu tang really capture in the their lyrics is the magical realism you sense living in the dingier multicultural metropolises. i always talk about deptford market as being like some fantastical bazzaar arabic folklore. lines like "watch out for haiti bitches, i hear they throw hex" really tap into that sense you get.
 
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sadmanbarty said:
something wu tang really capture in the their lyrics is the magical realism you sense living in the dingier multicultural metropolises. i always talk about deptford market as being like some fantastical bazzaar arabic folklore. lines like "watch out for haiti bitches, i hear they throw hex" really tap into that sense you get.
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Burroughs' Interzone.
 
Corpsey

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bandz ahoy
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Both trash and overrated

And im not ignorant. I gave them both multiple listens and still can’t find the appeal about em. Its just dusty rap over dusty production.
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This is just some snowflake gen zer who needs his head flushed down the bogs.
 
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Just listening to the Linx instrumentals. The only non-brilliant ones are Knucleheadz & Knowledge God, otherwise almost entirely sublime. Verbal Intercourse is otherworldly.

But what's this?! This wasnt on the vinyl!

 
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DannyL

Wild Horses
Corpsey said:
This is just some snowflake gen zer who needs his head flushed down the bogs.
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Of course I AGREE

... but..... I sympathise to some degree. It took me ages to get OB4CL. I think it's a difficult record to comprehend at first, as a whole. It did seem grainy and repetitive and I was hoping for something else. Then it clicked and made magnificent sense. In that old Wire piece I mentioned above they describe listening to as looking at a message on a rizla paper under a streetlight, it might just mean something. I think that kind of cryptic difficultly catches something of what it can be like on first listen.
 
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DannyL said:
Of course I AGREE

... but..... I sympathise to some degree. It took me ages to get OB4CL. I think it's a difficult record to comprehend at first, as a whole. It did seem grainy and repetitive and I was hoping for something else. Then it clicked and made magnificent sense. In that old Wire piece I mentioned above they describe listening to as looking at a message on a rizla paper under a streetlight, it might just mean something. I think that kind of cryptic difficultly catches something of what it can be like on first listen.
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It's a strange album. The pairing of the whole 'mafioso' thing with those instrumentals. A bunch of guys from Staten Island rapping about selling drugs over beats which sound like they were found in a crate in an Eastern tomb.

 
craner

craner

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But that's exactly what's so great about it!

I have to say, I found it immediate. I listened to 'Glacier of Ice' about 10 times straight before I even got to the following tracks.
 
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