The Art Of Storytelling: Wu-Tang

But I’m still depressed, and I ask what’s it worth?

Ready to give up so I seek the Old Earth

Who explained working hard may help you maintain

to learn to overcome the heartaches and pain

We got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocks

and stray shots, all on the block that stays hot

Leave it up to me while I be living proof

To kick the truth to the young black youth

But shorty’s running wild smokin sess drinkin beer

And ain’t trying to hear what I’m kickin in his ear

Neglected, but now, but yo, it gots to be accepted

That what? That life is hectic”

(One of the greatest groups in music ever.)

Det är sällan Method Man kör något utöver punch-lines, men när han gör det är det sällsynt bra. På A Better Tomorrow kör han en av de bästa Wu-verserna någonsin.

“No longer, brothers, we unstable

Like Kane when he slew Abel, killing each other

You can’t party your life away

Drink your life away

Smoke your life away

Fuck your life away

Dream your life away

Scheme your life away

Cause your seeds grow up the same way”

Den som mest av alla liknar Marvin Gaye och de andra stora sångarna från yesteryear är såklart Ghostface, vilket man förstår när man lyssnar på Impossible, eller Jah World.

“Oh God, I beg for forgiveness

So help me Lord, yes I beg for forgiveness

Deep in my heart, please, I’m crying for forgiveness

Allah U Akbar, I fall to my knees for forgiveness

Branded by the steel iron, bullets flying

Ladies being hit through wickedness, I’m losing my grip

I thought we lived by the books, The Bible, Koran

We pick cotton, my back is still hot and dark and

They threw burners in our babies’ faces

Pale hands that looked scary touched our bodies in the strangest places

Sweat from the white man’s head

Fell on our daughters as she cried, giving white man head, almighty

Alrighty, niggaz is screwing

God won’t you tell me why these ho niggaz is screwing? I’m sorry father, sacrifice me, leave me wife Sacrifice me twice, so my kids can see paradise“

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