Lol I rock this album everyday when I'm riding. Some Mexicans working heard me and was like, turn that up. I went you feeling the Wu? He was like whattt everyday like you, lol.
But what's crazy I bought the tape n 96, lotta ppl were like u listen to that that's too underground. Crazy how now it's a legend and everybody knows them
Remember when THE SOURCE would transcribe the illest verse of the month? I think Meth's verse here made it once. I know the rhyme from Protect Your Neck made it. I remember that.
i literally made a huge post just now about all that lol so true... i cant though find this vers anywhere, all lyrics are for clean/LP its 3:31 all the other results really, this is is almost 5 and every site only has the one, which omits 2 verses.... So confused
COVID-19 and now Russia's attack on Ukraine, black people pushed aside from going on the train as tourists in a foreign country. That's some Nostradamus shit. Where I live, all tourists/non-residents go first during a natural disaster.
@@GReaperEast1999 It is, until u know true history and facts, then anyone could. They use same exact plays every time, they were trolled long ahead of time even like hard... so u know the cypher, u know everything, "any sufficient evolved tech is indistinguishable from majik... forget umm ya alrthur c clarkes 3rd law or something ( From Archer tv series lmao) but its really a quote. that how they did it though, trolled them into their own known, and accounted for in advance playbook. UKR was just a dc/london/vatican corporation (seperate country and laws) base of operations, P00tin hates DS and CB so do others who orchestrated this total ff counter turned to wh embarrassment and bad guy clean out, with embarassment shone more on biden, guarantee its all devolution but djt orchestrated this, GZA could have known the playbook then, anyone could have, but his metaphors are unworldy prophetic scripture lmao... I agree with you
Method Man could literally rap a bunch of gibberish and it would still sound better than 99% of other emcees.... his flow is so cool and has never grown old... same too for The GZA...
@@mannygonzalez8358 He wasn't introduced as a character yet, it wouldn't have made sense (to those unaware); They wanted to save mention of him as a proud moment for GZA getting to sign his own artists.
Did these brothers even comprehend what they were creating at the time! Ahead of their time, timeless masterpieces. As they say, they certainly are 'forever'.
90s-early 2000 the golden era, not only in music, but also sports, fashion, tv/cinema, the list is endles... and yes, not only the wu but also us, knew straight up this was a special time to be alive.
SouthWestTownship-chilled there with some cool brothers a few years back, experience I will never forget. But don't get caught after dark. Peace from Austin Texas.
@@debug27 I have slightly different top 5s depending if it's my favorites or the ones I think are the best, with a more objective point of view. My Favorites would be: - To Pimp A Butterfly - Illmatic - Stankonia - A Piece of Strange by Cunninlynguists - Funcrusher Plus by Company Flow. And What I think are the best: - A Piece of Strange - To Pimp A Butterfly - Illmatic - Madvillainy - Liquid Swords
@@mjrowden Because this is ostensibly the music video for "Shadowboxin'" (featuring Method Man) but hails from the era of the two-for-one pop promo as half the video is actually "4th Chamber" (featuring Ghostface Killah, Killah Priest & RZA).
I can listen to Method Man voice all day long and be completely satisfied. I love his tone and accent. Y'all already know how these brothas get down on that microphone. And it's still all good.
To be a 22 years old b boy in 95 and aware to buying an instant hip hop classic. Rza at the top of the career and the conscious rap of GZA. This album ,to me, is at the same level of PE "It takes a nation" : contents, dope lyrics and the most powerful sound of its era.
The way Meth move around when he say his part in videos - especially this one..enhances the lyrics and make u love it even more -An M.C. Ticallion Stallion 2021' ...Ghost part epic too..omg Us old heads miss this Hip Hop
Peace and love. I need more hip hop for my life, resistance is the best important in the world. Demons attak mt mind, but no problema, because i have the power
Damn..me and my crew listened to this GZA album every single day in High school 95-96, when we got this album...I have not heard it for almost 10 years but all the words are just rolling off my tongue like it was yesterday. 🔥 Wu is forever. Our school mates called us - "the WU" coz its the only hiphop we listened to!
totally agree star crusher. Liquid is an aamazing album. Love the cover art. GZA would run laps around most rappers today. Honestly, I think him, Meth, and Rae r the 3 best of the clan. Everybody else pales in comparison
Definitely not underrated Bro’,this album is regularly put up there as one of the best if not thee best solo Wu albums to this day by those who were teenagers or older on its release!Underrated isn’t a word I would use to describe ‘Liquid Swords’ though
Liquid swords. One of the best hip hops albums 🔥 still bump it on the reg. thanks GZA. Some nice memories partying at Uni listening to this and the Score.
For me to say this is a masterpiece is a understatement.... The Gods came hard on this and dropped alot of gems. Not to many would have understood pure classic right here timeless pure hip hop !!!
Method Man delivers one of the most haunting and legendary guest verses ever, perfectly complemented by GZA’s razor-sharp middle verse. Respect the Wu.
One of the greatest rap songs of all time. Man it makes me angry sometimes the WU didn’t continue to drop albums. They were the greatest rap group of all time hands down. But happy we got everything we did. Look at inspectah deck, one of the best Lyricists of all time. Never made what he should have in his career, never got the notoriety he should have. That shit makes me mad.
If Deck had a full RZA produced album it prob would have been up there with L/Swords, Cuban Links and Return to 36 but the real ones still pay homage to the Rebel INS
I skipped school to go skating with a friend in D.C. around ‘95. Driving across Arlington he popped Liquid Swords in my car’s tape deck. I listened to that shit continuously for three weeks. Shadowboxin’/4th Chamber will always remind me of grinding ledges and kickflipping on Freedom Plaza.
I love how they mixed both of these songs together for the video highlighting a lot of Wu members. These 2 songs are imprinted on my brain for LIFE! I remember seeing this on Rap City after school and I was a Wu fan before this, but this made me all about it, for life.
This one of the dopest beats ever.
Oh man 😂💪💪🎶🎶
Nah mean!
4th Chamber😎
last part is one of the best ever, the beat is nothing special imho, but totally works to put the attention of the listener where it needs to be...
This fire deepend 3 eyes acend fashion lord binging lyrics to beggars again wu guillotine clean the crisis mic ampliier witheld get atme
RZA KILLED IT!!!!!!!
Absolutely 💯
RZA's verse on 4th Chamber is mindblowing
💯
fr bro.
Ghost too.
Rza's a straight up dope Mc!!
Rza is a certified musical genius!!!!
Whole group are
Facts on facts
They don't call him the Abbot for nothing!
I was jammin to this in high school back in 95 - still one of the HOTTEST rap tracks EVER and STILL jammin at 42 years old!!! 💥💥
Agreed
This was my sophomore year HS and I thought I was gonna literally break my neck to this song
Me too and I will be 42 in a few months
Literally, same 😄
amen to that!! sister!!!!!
Method turned it to a masterpiece!
Starks did it kid
Meth turns EVRY thing in master piece
Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is a masterpiece!!
Yeah I’m surprised but it is a great song the beats the flow the delivery everything!!
Lol I rock this album everyday when I'm riding. Some Mexicans working heard me and was like, turn that up. I went you feeling the Wu? He was like whattt everyday like you, lol.
But what's crazy I bought the tape n 96, lotta ppl were like u listen to that that's too underground. Crazy how now it's a legend and everybody knows them
Once a week I usually sneak back here 😜☺️.
every few months i gotta come back, bump the classics to keep my sanity in this god damn world😭🙌
That beat transition is genius
For real!!!
Gza was dope ppl forget he was a monster
What people forget that?
@@dannyc3774 kids of today i guess
@@davidcobb1379 Wu Tang set the bar high. If kids of today only knew…
Maybe you forgot bro, I didn't.
Yeah Liquid Swords 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
this album changed my way of listening to hip hop
I can dig that.
As a child I learned this clip and it learned me
This that real deal papa! 😤😎💡
Wu, Tribe, Mobb etc. all changed the way my 13 year old listens to hip hop.
That's deep
Seriously, imagine you chilling with the Rza and he be like "Yo God, check out this beat I was working on" and he drops shadowboxing and 4th chamber.
Lol yeah 4th chamber is a classic I also like the hellz wind staff ,the dual of the iron mic , praying mantis etc etc lol
@@trichomebeast1130 the whole album album is straight 🔥🔥
My favorite gza beat is hellz wind staff
Of course it is it's a gem💯
@@brandonmiller8351 gza wasn't on hellz wind staff
"Why is the sky blue, why is water wet?..." always loved this line🔥🔥
Why did Judas rat The Romans while Jesus slept
Stand up you’re out of luck like two dogs stuck Iron man be sipping rum out the Stanley Cup unflammable Noriega….
Wrong song lol
@@Nee-vk7zz did you watch the entire clip? 😅 two songs in one 2:22
@@billeone yeah I made that comment before I watched the video lol
One of Meth's most underrated rhymes.
I agree 💯
Definitely. This & Wolves..
Facts
Raw hide
Remember when THE SOURCE would transcribe the illest verse of the month? I think Meth's verse here made it once. I know the rhyme from Protect Your Neck made it. I remember that.
Rza verse gave me chills😵💫
Back when rappers could rap. No flashy jewelry, just fire lyrics!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
Forensic details are about as important as the gear you're sportin'
GZA so underrated. Liquid Swords is a gem
Hot take new rap>>old rap
They definitely wore lots of jewels and fashion, it's just the music video
Bruh Wu was constantly rapping bought jewels and material shit lol. They had both 😂
One of the best hip hop song in the history of hip hop industry
Rza verse is hella relevant right now
He was speaking ahead of his time
Facts 💯
I saw him on ted talks. Guys smart
i literally made a huge post just now about all that lol so true... i cant though find this vers anywhere, all lyrics are for clean/LP its 3:31 all the other results really, this is is almost 5 and every site only has the one, which omits 2 verses.... So confused
COVID-19 and now Russia's attack on Ukraine, black people pushed aside from going on the train as tourists in a foreign country. That's some Nostradamus shit.
Where I live, all tourists/non-residents go first during a natural disaster.
@@GReaperEast1999 It is, until u know true history and facts, then anyone could. They use same exact plays every time, they were trolled long ahead of time even like hard... so u know the cypher, u know everything, "any sufficient evolved tech is indistinguishable from majik... forget umm ya alrthur c clarkes 3rd law or something ( From Archer tv series lmao) but its really a quote. that how they did it though, trolled them into their own known, and accounted for in advance playbook. UKR was just a dc/london/vatican corporation (seperate country and laws) base of operations, P00tin hates DS and CB so do others who orchestrated this total ff counter turned to wh embarrassment and bad guy clean out, with embarassment shone more on biden, guarantee its all devolution but djt orchestrated this, GZA could have known the playbook then, anyone could have, but his metaphors are unworldy prophetic scripture lmao... I agree with you
Imagine nodding your head hard as hell to some dope shit that came out in 1995, and its 2023!!!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾💯💯💯
I was not aware there was a music video for this.
It may be 1AM... but my day just got a whole lot better!
Fukkk yeeeeaaahhh
Same!
Let the Heat touch rapper 🤩
DAMN...REALLY, MAN???
HOW OLD ARE U?
@@curtishawkins55 32. I was 6 when this came out and it took a bit before Hip-Hop caught on in Slovenia :)
"U Can See The Weakness Of A Man Right Thru His Iris" RZA!!! I Felt This When It First Dropped & It's STILL FELT!!! WU TANG 💪🏾✊🏾✊🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾✊🏾✊🏾
It’s absolutely true.
DO U REALLY KNOW WHAT HE TALKIN BOUT THO???
@@wildstyle203 educate me
That's from 4th Chamber. Same album. Different song.
Dopest line af.
@@wildstyle203That part🧐!
2025 damn the lyrics and the beat bass line is still pumping shit I love this song always well done 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
Method Man could literally rap a bunch of gibberish and it would still sound better than 99% of other emcees.... his flow is so cool and has never grown old... same too for The GZA...
Cadence
Oh god 🙏
no jibberish, pure mathematical bars fa yuh intellect
Wu Tang Drunken Mastah technique...#Shaolin Temple Type Shit
I mean that was basically the whole song 'method man'; just a bunch of random gibberish he strung together and made work with that BDE!
GZA is a lyrical genius for real. Method Man is one of the most slept on lyricist in Hip Hop.
Method has the best style Gza has the best flow next to deck.
GZA is a literal genius, he has a PhD in Astrophysics and is a member of Mensa.
Word! Better than that white boy that gets all the props. Just sayin
He's a lyrical surgeon
Facts
"Allow me to demonstrate the skill of Shaolin, the special technique of shadowboxing." This sample is dope as fuck.🙌
Search youtube for Shaolin vs Lama. Watch the epic fight scenes and you'll find it💪🏼
“your naps ain’t nappy enough and ya reach ain’t rugged enough”👐🏿👐
👐🏾👐🏾👐🏾👐🏾
One of the hardest beats in hip hop history 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Rza ate on there
Liquid Swords my favorite hip hop album. No need to skip one song
True that.
@@ISellSigals right on. I appreciate the subscription. 👍🏻
@@a.k.4o same brother. 90s hip hop is the best. Youth these day got no idea about real music.
@@ISellSigals also have no respect for it . They dont even care if people steal the lyrics.
@@a.k.4o Check out Army Of the Pharoahs - Battle Cry. Underated.
"I breaks it down to the bone gristle" 🔥🔥🔥
The entire album is so good.
Yes
Loved how the Wu-Tang Hulu show integrated this video. The whole build-up was amazing.
THAT WAS HARD
They really did a great job recreating every video
That was the best episode
Too bad Killah priest was deleted like he was nothing
@@mannygonzalez8358 He wasn't introduced as a character yet, it wouldn't have made sense (to those unaware); They wanted to save mention of him as a proud moment for GZA getting to sign his own artists.
This gem doesn't get old
90s FOREVER
Did these brothers even comprehend what they were creating at the time! Ahead of their time, timeless masterpieces. As they say, they certainly are 'forever'.
They had two choices: express themselves or die. Wu is forever because they never made music to conform, they did it to put their existence on record.
90s-early 2000 the golden era, not only in music, but also sports, fashion, tv/cinema, the list is endles... and yes, not only the wu but also us, knew straight up this was a special time to be alive.
30 years old and still 🔥
One of Meth's best verses!!! Straight slayed it!! GZA & Mef unstoppable together always⚔⚔🥷🥷🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 this whole joint... lyrical homicide💣💫
GZA's bars on this track are very hardcore.... and easy to pass off but with much science to them. Genius indeed
From June to June?
@@elsteve43 yeah, June of /year/ to June of /year+1/
".......only plant your seed deep inside FERTILE soil....!"
Wonder how many caught that message?
Hip Hop peaked with this track - can’t see anything better ever being produced- flawless in every possible way
Still banging this in 2020.Much respect from Soweto,South Africa.
Isnt Trevor Noah from there too?
Much Love from Durban bro
Have you heard any sully nomad out there?
SouthWestTownship-chilled there with some cool brothers a few years back, experience I will never forget. But don't get caught after dark. Peace from Austin Texas.
Yeah bro, from Uzbekistan🇺🇿
❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍
I've been transported to my high school days...
middle school for me 😎
hahahaha
Barely out the womb for me 😂
Better yet, back when hip hop was lyrical! 😎
I was in this video. And the GZA was talking with us while the crew was setting up. Awesome night.
Nice! 🙌
Top 5 best rap albums ever.
Exactly the 5th
For sure
FACTS
@@hectorhervas3749 what’s your top 5?
@@debug27 I have slightly different top 5s depending if it's my favorites or the ones I think are the best, with a more objective point of view.
My Favorites would be:
- To Pimp A Butterfly
- Illmatic
- Stankonia
- A Piece of Strange by Cunninlynguists
- Funcrusher Plus by Company Flow.
And What I think are the best:
- A Piece of Strange
- To Pimp A Butterfly
- Illmatic
- Madvillainy
- Liquid Swords
One of rza best tracks!!!never gets old classic Wu!!!
I still listen to Liquid Swordz weekly and have done since buying it on release. So good.
Gza, Meth, Ghost, Killah Priest & Rza... Timeless 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
U-GOD
Trying to work out why only Meth gets a feature mention!?
Rae too
Blackpixels@ Chef
@@mjrowden Because this is ostensibly the music video for "Shadowboxin'" (featuring Method Man) but hails from the era of the two-for-one pop promo as half the video is actually "4th Chamber" (featuring Ghostface Killah, Killah Priest & RZA).
Hip Hop is never dead.
Wu-Tang is forever!! 👐
The fate of the world is in our hands.
All focused energy can have an impact.. even social outrage.
🤘🤘🤘
I can listen to Method Man voice all day long and be completely satisfied. I love his tone and accent. Y'all already know how these brothas get down on that microphone. And it's still all good.
Sounds like you want him to be inside you.
To be a 22 years old b boy in 95 and aware to buying an instant hip hop classic. Rza at the top of the career and the conscious rap of GZA. This album ,to me, is at the same level of PE "It takes a nation" : contents, dope lyrics and the most powerful sound of its era.
The young boys need to pay homage
You mentioned Public Enemy....took me back to being 20 years old when their TAPE dropped lol! 80s, gotta love them days...😊
I was 15 my brother was playing this 😂 I play it now at 43 yrs old most days
SAME
I'm just glad I was a teen when this came out still to this day best album ever if you can rock this album in 2023 that means something
GZA hits hard in this
The way Meth move around when he say his part in videos - especially this one..enhances the lyrics and make u love it even more -An M.C. Ticallion Stallion 2021' ...Ghost part epic too..omg
Us old heads miss this Hip Hop
Swag
Meth is cool Af
He the most *rhythmic* out The Clan. It just flows through him. He dances on tracks.
Absolutely, I always felt the same thing. The way he moves, he has the most natural hip hop swag I have ever seen.
This album is classic, and one of the best wu albums hands down
Definitely one of RZA's top verses EVER!!!
i was in this video..i couldnt believe it that i saw rza, methodman and killah priest right in front of me..it was a dream come true
My nan was in this video
This songs makes my eyes water.... love wu forever.... will be playing these songs even when I'm 99
One of the most underated albums in the industry.....this had hit after hit and didnt even have to skip let it play......damn i miss this era
Check out DON LEGEND ESAU - GZA VS JACKPOT SCOTTY WOTTY..
It was certified platinum and is regarded as one of the most important records of all time.
@@DaveTaste DON LEGEND ESAU
How can it be underrated when it was platinum broh
It was never underrated. It has been called one of the best hip-hop albums of all time.
Method to fire 🔥 0:30
Agreed. But Allah Justice is the detonation!
Too
I been sayin oh man in this voice ever since
Who’s here in 2024🤚🏽
Thast how rap's supposed to sound
Just watched it. I remember losing my mind when this video first dropped. #WuTangForever
Still here, never left...
@@hanswurst9437 word
Yessss'Siiiirr 🙌🙌🙌
Peace and love. I need more hip hop for my life, resistance is the best important in the world. Demons attak mt mind, but no problema, because i have the power
Damn..me and my crew listened to this GZA album every single day in High school 95-96, when we got this album...I have not heard it for almost 10 years but all the words are just rolling off my tongue like it was yesterday. 🔥 Wu is forever. Our school mates called us - "the WU" coz its the only hiphop we listened to!
Wu 4 life !
Awesome memories 🙏🏿
liquid swords still sounds like nothing else ..
Arguably the best WU Solo record In my top 20 hiphop albums of alltime. More than a quarter of top 20 hiphop albums belong to Wu Tang projects
Nothing will EVER sound like the Wu members ! Cult following shit !
Part of me wants to believe it's all freestyles
Yeah,liquid swords is a phenomenal hip hop record.
totally agree star crusher. Liquid is an aamazing album. Love the cover art. GZA would run laps around most rappers today. Honestly, I think him, Meth, and Rae r the 3 best of the clan. Everybody else pales in comparison
One of the finest WU-muzik video's!
Still bumping ’ in ‘24!!! So HARD!
Shit is aging like fine wine.
Dimensions are timeless. 🧠
This is classic hip-hop and classic Wu-Tang together it's pure lava!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hip-Hoppah'$ Nu Year❤🎉🎉🎉
2024 still on play list ❤❤😊😊
This ish got me back in the 90s….90-95!! Yes siiirr🫨
I pledge allegiance to the hip hop
One of the most underrated albums ever.
Definitely not underrated Bro’,this album is regularly put up there as one of the best if not thee best solo Wu albums to this day by those who were teenagers or older on its release!Underrated isn’t a word I would use to describe ‘Liquid Swords’ though
Everybody in my hood had this album..
Whadaya mean...?
Always WAS (and still IS) rated Total Badassery. 💯✌
Fr
Real rap music
Shadowboxin is my favorite hip hop track of all time
Fire back in the 90’s while in my 20’s still fire in my 50’s! Wutang is for the children
Yes it is
Liquid swords. One of the best hip hops albums 🔥 still bump it on the reg. thanks GZA. Some nice memories partying at Uni listening to this and the Score.
Whose score by?
For me to say this is a masterpiece is a understatement.... The Gods came hard on this and dropped alot of gems. Not to many would have understood pure classic right here timeless pure hip hop !!!
Method Man delivers one of the most haunting and legendary guest verses ever, perfectly complemented by GZA’s razor-sharp middle verse. Respect the Wu.
My third eye seen it coming, before it happened...
All ready
👍🔥😂
woke
Aint that the Word🌋
Meditation better than prayer,stay woke
One of the greatest joints ever!! 💨💨💨💨💨🎧🎧🎯🎯🎯 Nothing but 🎯
Can listen on repeat. Never enough. Still want a" Kangol in rainbow colors ."
Almost 30 years ago still sounds brand new man 😮😮
Masterpiece. Song, video, album.
Method man’s intro makes this wu banger that much crazier
Here all day ... rocking 90's hip hop
Always love that transition to the 4th chamber!
One of the greatest rap songs of all time. Man it makes me angry sometimes the WU didn’t continue to drop albums. They were the greatest rap group of all time hands down. But happy we got everything we did. Look at inspectah deck, one of the best Lyricists of all time. Never made what he should have in his career, never got the notoriety he should have. That shit makes me mad.
If Deck had a full RZA produced album it prob would have been up there with L/Swords, Cuban Links and Return to 36 but the real ones still pay homage to the Rebel INS
@@boggmarley most of the beats rza had for deck got lost in the flood but deck was up next
I would say it wuz around 2001 wen things started Fallin apart
honestly, Wu Tang, good, but meh I think NWA has been the best group historically. Though it is like comparing orange juice and coke.
As said, they're the greatest group in Hip Hop History. They did ok, you're just being greedy now! Don't blame you, I wanted more too!
December. 2023 & the Wu is in my fucking workout 💪 let's fucking go 💯
Damn 25yrs i feel old as shit. Listening in 2020 Thanksgiving week till forever..
The body ages the soul is forever
@@aqilanwarrivera3503 facts
One of the best Hip Hop Tracks ever made! Hands down
"My sword still remain imperial
before I blast the mic, RZA scratch off the serial"
I dont waste ink nicca i think i drop megaton bombs more faster than you can blink🔥🔥🔥
This was my first hiphop album. My brother bought it for me cuz he knew Gza was (is) my favorite Wu member. Best birthday present ever!
I skipped school to go skating with a friend in D.C. around ‘95. Driving across Arlington he popped Liquid Swords in my car’s tape deck. I listened to that shit continuously for three weeks. Shadowboxin’/4th Chamber will always remind me of grinding ledges and kickflipping on Freedom Plaza.
2:52 goes absurdly hard
crazy how this beat sounds even better now then it did then . love
Em pleno 2024 ainda curto esse som apartir de Moz
It's 2022 as a 42 yr old this song is still fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Swinging sword 👐
Still!! W to the U!!
Pure genius coupled with brutal talent. I love returning to this 🔥.
The GZA, RZA, Method, Cappa, Inspecta deck remain solid and ageless.
I love how they mixed both of these songs together for the video highlighting a lot of Wu members. These 2 songs are imprinted on my brain for LIFE! I remember seeing this on Rap City after school and I was a Wu fan before this, but this made me all about it, for life.