I was reading a Reddit feed around the debate of "Best track on the album" and the answers were kind of all over the place. What was your favorite song from Only Built 4 Cuban Linx? Leave a comment and a 👍and be automatically entered to win a free shirt. We'll send a link out when we hit 1000 likes! Appreciate you guys! ✌
That Liquid Swords..was Vicious and The Swordsman was sooo deep I don't think these nowadays conscious truth seekers would understand it..he was even talking bout ..looping lifetimes..👍👏..said something bout seeing a Tom from da Past on a Slave ship..🤫😏
I bought this album 3 days before it came out in August 95', i was just listening to it from beginning to end a couple weeks ago, almost 30 years later. Definitely my favorite album of all time!
The Purple Tape. An astonishing piece of art. Still today. Hip-hop at it's most poignant and brilliant. It makes me proud to be a be-boy. Art is all they made. Beautiful timeless art.
Only built 4 cuban links and Hell on earth by mobb deep tied, used too, still do and will continue to listen to these albums. In my opinion two albums u can play from start to finish without having to skip songs. Especially hell on earth, starting with track 1 no intro just straight grit with animal instinct. And god damn incarcerated scarfaces
@@MALLSTAYFLY that's a fact. Criminology, Rainy days, Guillotine Swords and Wu Gambinos are 4 that are different from anything with their words and beat. 1st or 2nd album I bought
Verbal Intercourse - Was Well Put Together Right Artist Right Line-Up, Couldn't Ask For A Better Compilation Of Artist In 1. ONLY BUILT FOR CUBAN LINX Yo RAE 🫡 MUCH RESPECT TO YOU & GHOST & NAS. WU-FOREVER🐝
I live on an isolated Island in Alaska, and I was the 1st one from my village to get this album...yes, the purple tape. Although some of my friends didn't like the album, I knew this album was a classic through the first listen. My only critique was the skits maybe were too long, but that's not that big a deal. The music made up for it.
Dam the Bahamas is inspirational it's not polluted am from the Bahamas and my neighbour Feezy put me on to the WU shout out the chef and iron man y'all some dread brethrens 💯💯
Illmatic & Only Built for Cuban Linx are my top 2 albums in Hip Hop. A Tribe Called Quest first album is 3rd(1990). The Chronic n Aquemini are my 4th n 5th
1995, I'm going to school waiting at the bus stop listening to this and a crackhead (didn't know he was one at the time) walked up to me asked if I know some people that lived in the projects up the block. I knew them but I said no because they be wilding. Dude said he had a gun and he would shoot me if I didn't give him my walkman. I took it out my pocket and gave it to him. He started to run off and I yelled "yo hold up, give me the tape inside" He took it out and threw it to me lol. A couple weeks later I'm going to my cousin crib and I see him on the corner waiting to get served. We fucked his ass up.
This is one of if not my favorite album ever, but there was one flaw. On the B side of the Purple Tape, they specifically told everyone not to byte their sh!t. NOBODY LISENED! Everybody on the East Coast were rhyming like they were in the Gambino Family after this album dropped😂.
Bro it was called the purple tape because the tape was actually.. redman had the red tape on dark side album.. 💯 They left the Bahamas and went and finished in Miami ..W
I was reading a Reddit feed around the debate of "Best track on the album" and the answers were kind of all over the place. What was your favorite song from Only Built 4 Cuban Linx? Leave a comment and a 👍and be automatically entered to win a free shirt. We'll send a link out when we hit 1000 likes! Appreciate you guys! ✌
Hard to choose a fave, too many bangers, but prolly Wu Gambinos
Rainy Days
Criminology or Rainy Dayz
@@ehunt 🔥🔥🔥
Glaciers of Ice
Purple Tape, The Infamous -Mobb, and Illmatic are the holy trinity of Hip hop
The Purple Tape is so iconic and timeless
Liquid swords where it at the key stone highest stone in the temple of the wu.
You can say that again
Man it was a masterpiece and still is
Purple tape and liquid swords are the 2 best albums of all time imo. Knowledge God is my favorite on the album
That Liquid Swords..was Vicious and The Swordsman was sooo deep I don't think these nowadays conscious truth seekers would understand it..he was even talking bout ..looping lifetimes..👍👏..said something bout seeing a Tom from da Past on a Slave ship..🤫😏
Ify on Cuban Linx but both Ironman and Supreme Clientele were 🤌🏾
You got a lot to stand on I want a debate you but you might be right you might be right man
And they came out about 3 months apart
@Dark0_Cl0ud haahahah this cat 😅
This album is to Hip Hop what The Godfather is the cinema. It is a masterpiece. In my opinion, it is the greatest hip hop album of all time.
Great comparison definitely the "godfather"💯
🤝🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I bought this album 3 days before it came out in August 95', i was just listening to it from beginning to end a couple weeks ago, almost 30 years later. Definitely my favorite album of all time!
Hard to say a best track, but incarcerated scarfaces is a perfect song
That’s one of my top favorites too 🔥
WUTANG FOEVER 🔥👐🏿🔥
Best hip hop album of all time.
I agree! I still have my original tape! It is literally a flawless album.
easy tiger... it's great, yes, but b.o.a.t. ? c'mon.
@jdbankshot My bad, it the GREATEST hip hop album GOAT. Fixed it for you...Sparky.
THE MOST ICONIC ALBUMS EVER FOR HIP HOP.🙌🏼❤
The illest Cinematic album of all time
Arguably the best album of all time. No less than 2nd place. It is a complete project no skips.
Rza was on a helluva production run with the first solo Wu albums. Many of them are in that category of “no skips”.
Legendary artist.
Glaciers of Ice 🔥
Wu Tang '94/'95 is one of the greatest phenomena in the history of modern music.
I listen to this album at least once a week. Beautifully crafted album!
That album changed my 15yr old life
That’s the main thing I miss about these days people made albums that you could just throw on and let em go
Hand down “Rainy dayz” and if you don’t think so listen to it good!! “I sing for him but he isn’t here”
Word!!! I put brothers down
With the crows chirping in the background 😂. Classic
😂😂word😂😂
Agreed!
@@MrBigtoddI thought it was some monkeys in the background, like the little monkey on tarzans shoulder.
Only Built album is still my 🔥iconic audio,lyrics but also the album cover font style of reakwon is the sickest image!
The Purple Tape will never be matched Classic Forever Wu-Tang For Life. The Wu will always be a top notch music
I need one of these videos for Ghostface’s SUPREME CLIENTELE..
Word brother , we will look into this , appreciate the comment,✌️✅
@_illmatic We got it in the works brother... should be out in a week or two , we'll throw a shout out to you for the idea ✌
@@HipHopChronicles7 no doubt, take y’all time and make it right!🫡
This album transcends time Pre '96 Hip-Hop 4EVA!!!!!
This came out when I was in high school. The best street album ever. Deep, layered, cinematic, gritty, and thought provoking!
Legendary times with legendary people 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Still have my original purple tape... Wu tangible still one of my favorite songs
Liquid Swords is not GZA's debut album. Words from the Genius which came out about 4 years prior.
Appreciate the feedback ✌️
His stage name was The Genius first not GZA
@@ralphking425 The GZA/Genius. So what, Liquid Swords is his sophomore album
“Labels “ explains it all
@@foggylungsLiquid Swords is his Clan debut
OB4CL 1 and 2 are my top ten favorite albums of all time
People like to crap on 2 but it’s personally a favorite of mine and was a quality follow up to 1.
Ice Water is my favorite. That annoying ass sample is fuckin genius. I LOVE this jawn.😊
Ice Water
Nigga$ Don't know
This album started a lot of trends 💯
Raekwon = Purple Tape
Masta Ace = Yellow Tape
Redman = Red Tape
Illegal The Untold Truth was the first red tape in 1993
@@williambattiste2402they had to be close together because Red 2nd album, the red joint dropped in '93 too
@@dannytarver4533 November 94
Redman notably hates that album.
Mister CR - Thc Green Tape 🎤🎤🎤🎤
The Purple Tape. An astonishing piece of art. Still today. Hip-hop at it's most poignant and brilliant. It makes me proud to be a be-boy. Art is all they made. Beautiful timeless art.
This album is so iconic and i still bump this in my ride till today
Only Here To Ask Why Y’all Got A Dominican Nas On The Thumbnail? 😂
😂😂😂. The comment I was looking for 🏆
Yo, word. WTF
Nah fr. Tf
Lmao whooo the fuck is dat
How is Nas Dominican when both his parents were born in Mississippi? Natchez and Canton
Only built 4 cuban links and Hell on earth by mobb deep tied, used too, still do and will continue to listen to these albums. In my opinion two albums u can play from start to finish without having to skip songs. Especially hell on earth, starting with track 1 no intro just straight grit with animal instinct. And god damn incarcerated scarfaces
Illmatic, Reasonable Doubt and GKMC too.
The Infamous is better than Hell on Earth
Infamous is Mobbs best joint
And the winner is “ VERBAL INTERCOURSE” hands down ain’t even close!
Nah, theirs better songs than that. Nas is in my top 5 favorite tho
You’re entitled to your opinion!!!
@@MALLSTAYFLY that's a fact. Criminology, Rainy days, Guillotine Swords and Wu Gambinos are 4 that are different from anything with their words and beat. 1st or 2nd album I bought
I like how most of the songs are being cherished in this comment section that’s how you know it’s one of the greatest albums
One of the most iconic Wu albums!
Criminology ! Glaciers of ice ! The intro lol ! The whole cd was one of them things that you knew was something special
Wu-Tang Clan is the most impactful part of Hip-Hop history…hands down! And yes, I am speaking for everybody
Yall got Nas looking like Matt Barnes in that photo 😂😂😂😂
I said the same exact thing
Verbal Intercourse - Was Well Put Together Right Artist Right Line-Up, Couldn't Ask For A Better Compilation Of Artist In 1. ONLY BUILT FOR CUBAN LINX Yo RAE 🫡 MUCH RESPECT TO YOU & GHOST & NAS. WU-FOREVER🐝
The production, the lyricism, the hooks, everything about this album was the epitome of hip hop. And it still cooks!!
Top 5 of All-Time. It was awe inspiring when that purple tape dropped. Definitely the album that made you having a moniker cool.
3. Liquid Swords 2. Supreme Clientele 1. Purple Tape . That’s my order of preference
Dang dat Buffalo Bills hat Rae had on was crazy 🪂🪂
Real 🥷 lick shots, peace Connecticut. ✌🏾💪🏾💪🏾
I love this album man
Blue Raspberry’s vocals are absolutely beautiful on Only Built For Cuban Linx album.
Overall an amazing album 🔥🔥😎👊🏾
Shout out to Rae rockin that Buffalo Bills hat! Legendary in my book! 💪🏾😎
I saw that. I'm a big wu tang and bills fan myself! Go bills! Wu Tang forever!
@@billybuffalo Go Bills! Wu Tang Forever! 💪🏿😎
Line for Line
Line for Line
This is how
We get down
I live on an isolated Island in Alaska, and I was the 1st one from my village to get this album...yes, the purple tape. Although some of my friends didn't like the album, I knew this album was a classic through the first listen. My only critique was the skits maybe were too long, but that's not that big a deal. The music made up for it.
Dam the Bahamas is inspirational it's not polluted am from the Bahamas and my neighbour Feezy put me on to the WU shout out the chef and iron man y'all some dread brethrens 💯💯
It is the best Hip Hop album of all times. Period.
1.Guillotine
2.Verbal Intercourse
3.Heaven and Hell
But the whole album is incredibly dope. I still listen to this album to this day.
Great video, family. This was my favorite album as a kid.
Appreciate you brother ✌️
When that album came out…jeeezus!
Still got the purple tape. I’ve bought that record on every form of physical media over the years.
Illmatic & Only Built for Cuban Linx are my top 2 albums in Hip Hop. A Tribe Called Quest first album is 3rd(1990). The Chronic n Aquemini are my 4th n 5th
Very Very Underrated...they covered all areas of Knowledge and life within this album..Should've been ..💎...It was like listening to a Movie..👏👍
It was
Classic.... sampled the movie The Killer... Real hip hop at it finest from start to finish
1995, I'm going to school waiting at the bus stop listening to this and a crackhead (didn't know he was one at the time) walked up to me asked if I know some people that lived in the projects up the block. I knew them but I said no because they be wilding. Dude said he had a gun and he would shoot me if I didn't give him my walkman. I took it out my pocket and gave it to him. He started to run off and I yelled "yo hold up, give me the tape inside" He took it out and threw it to me lol.
A couple weeks later I'm going to my cousin crib and I see him on the corner waiting to get served. We fucked his ass up.
Crack head love
Gimme my tape son !!!!!👍
BRAVO!
No doubt, much respect 💯😎
The tape was purple yo 💪🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Top 5 of all times
Summer of 95 was EPIC!!!!
Lawd
Cuban Linx in my top 5, maybe top 3
Attack of the killer tomatoes is AWESOME!!
Can it be remix is my top 10 remixes. Especially what I was into at that time
I can only listen to this masterpiece in Tims. It’s so NYC…..
Only built for cuban links is an undeniable legendary tape
I said AYO!!!! 👐🏼
This is one of if not my favorite album ever, but there was one flaw. On the B side of the Purple Tape, they specifically told everyone not to byte their sh!t. NOBODY LISENED! Everybody on the East Coast were rhyming like they were in the Gambino Family after this album dropped😂.
Goat ish blessings
No skips on that Album
I wrote my first movie script with that tape as the soundtrack. If I gotta pick one,"KNOWLEDGE GOD"🔥
👍
#ReNewEra of Hip-Hop
🎇🎆🎊🎉
Top 3 Hip-Hop Albums:
1. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
2. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Life After Death
And ill always remember the video of reakwon punching the sh*t out of joe budden 😂
Nas is my goat, solo speakin, with gza being my 2nd favorite lyricist, Rae gets 3rd just for putting this masterpiece together 💪🏼
Wu-Tang forgets Kool G Rap was like that before Raekwon That Mafia Gambino rap style
Got Nas Rodriguez in the thumbnail 😂
Great vid .I dont see no green tapes in the clip ,Yellow ,Purple,red and clear
Only built and Ironman are a package basically its part 2 of the purple tape 🎤🎧🥁🎹💾💽📀💿
I had the purple tape as well as the CD..
🔥👏🏽💥🤩✅🙏🏽
Raekwon and nas had the best albums of all time
My seeds grow with his seeds,marry his seeds that's how we keep wu tang money all up in the family
One of nas' best verses all time
wu tang took word play to a whole new level
Wu Tang forever ♾️
💯
Dope video but why nas look like Matt Barnes in the thumbnail
Bro it was called the purple tape because the tape was actually.. redman had the red tape on dark side album.. 💯 They left the Bahamas and went and finished in Miami ..W
Verbal intercourse best sing on the album
🔥🔥🔥doc
Appreciate you ✌️
Who's hair is that on nas head?
The cd should've been purple too instead of red