"i gotcha back but you best go watch your front, cus its the niggas in front that be pulling stunts" is also really nice, i think. at first it doesnt appear to make sense because of the "watch your back" term is so widely known. after a bit of thinking though, you realise that you would always expect someone to hit you from the back while it's the people in the front (friends etc) that you wont expect to turn their back on you. its small jewelz like those i really like from wu tang.
lol Wu with the acronyms: WUTANG- Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game *OR* We Usually Take All Niggas Garments C.R.E.A.M- Cash Rules Everything Around Me RZA-Ruler Zig Zag Allah GZA-Genius ZigZag Allah tell me if i missed any
all the negative reactions i will get from a lot of people (yeah, im aware that im postulating) arent really making me able to say what i want without consequences. i honestly think that saying what you said is adding to the racism there allready is. in order to get rid of racism we shouldnt even acknowledge skin color because it's not a difference between us. yeah, there is a difference pure genetically and in the looks of us, but the objective value of us all are the same despite the skin color
One of those exceedingly rare and fleeting moments in time, in which a group of people - who all happen to all be oozing with an electric sort of creativity - also happen to be in the same place with each other, and make something happen together. That was the Wu circa '93-'95. They could do no wrong for a while there... and perhaps the craziest part is that every track has somehow stood the test of time. And RZA was the throughline of it all, the nucleus that held everything together. A miraculous run indeed.
I think this is my favorite RZA beat of all time. Its avantgarde & rugged af. The way he adds reverb to snares by hand and fades sounds in and out mixed with that horn sample. Brilliant production.
Check out As Long As You Know by Scientifik(Boston). RZA produced that joint around The same time and used som Of The parts from I Gotcha Back on that one also.
Everything is done right on this track. Beats, Drum Sound, Vocals, Lyrics, Hook, Samples, Arrangement, Mix & Sound...That kinda magic that only a few rap song of the 90s can give you.
It's genuinely incredible how RZA, GZA and the Clan managed to lay down several truly perfect and unimpeachable tracks on the same record: "I Gotcha Back", "Living in the World Today", "Liquid Swords", "Gold", (arguably) "Cold World". Most artists would be grateful to have one song that good across their entire careers. Liquid Swords has five across its 60-minute runtime. The WTC were on a truly insane run in the mid-'90s.
I remember bumpin this on the J-Train riding through the grimiest parts of Brooklyn…durag, baggy clothes with a on Walkman blowin my eardrums out. NYC hip hop was the shit back then.
Thats bugged out when he says"Its an everlasting game and it never cease to exsist only the players change"...and that neighborhood is Brownsville Brooklyn....Murder Inc. came from there...and they were mostly Jews and Italians....back then the players were Jews and Italians now theyre Black and Puerto Ricans
From the 80 & 90s i cant believe i made my 49th B day. This video got me in tears. You don't realize how not normal was once normal until you sit back and chill
Liquid Swords, Tical, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Return To The 36 Chambers The Dirty Version, OB4CL, 6 Feet Deep, Ironman, Illmatic, Ready To Die, Midnight Maraurders, The Low End Theory, Supreme Clientele, and Wu-Tang Forever!
"I'm trapped in a deadly video game" Heard a bear where Doom and Slug rapped over a sample of that line. This video is how my life felt in 94-97. As a kid and all.
Gza is one of my favorite wu tang artist, i use to listen to hes albums when i was 13, 14 years old, i still listen to hes albums, my other wu tang favorite artist is method man, i love wu tang
This is a perfect example of someone narrating the hood lifestyle without glorifying or promoting it, but giving you a better and more in depth look at shit as opposed to bragging about busting guns and sellin crack.
At 1:01 in the background there's a mural of Mike Tyson ,that's the same Mural from the movie Do the right thing by Spike Lee. I used to live on that block when I was a child. That's Stuyvesant between Lexington and Quincy.
This song changed my life and the way I looked at people I knew at that time. Saved my life. I love the Genius for that. That's what hip hop is meant to do.
This is my favourite GZA song, just the beat and the lyrics are so great, it really gives you the feeling of being a hustler back in the 90's in New York. GZA sure is one of the best lyricists of all time!
"Your... technique... is magnificent, When cut across the neck.... a sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say... I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday... to hear that sound... But to have it happen to my own neck is.... ridiculous"
gza seems to always take his style to another level on so many tracks i would buy other wu members solo albums just to hear him he is the greatest mC of all time
Man this is some chilling stuff. Only really got into 90s east coast type shit in recent months and it was a great move. Dark sinister beats talking about hardship of crime life. No romanticising just straight up story telling. Fucking phenomenal. GZA and Havoc from Mobb Deep are some seriously talented producers
Fresh put me on to this song in 95, like a game of chess, to a next move in life out hear to wear a vest.To live out your life and grow old and never stress.Pray for the one we lost in our lives and feel blessed!
one of the greatest songs from a solo wu-tang artist. rivals Method Man's "Mr. Sandman" and Ghostface's "Nutmeg". all 3 tracks have bobby digital on them
"..im trapped in a deadly video game with just one man.." the lyrical content there was simplistic but it was so real. that separates true emcees from just ur average everyday rappers
this is a real as it gets: It's so hard to escape the gunfire I wish I could rule it out like an umpire But it's an everlasting game, and it never cease to exist Only the players change
The clip from 1:36 is from a movie called Fresh. I highly recommend it, that movie is basically this song but in a movie format and the soundtrack has a lot of old school ny hip-hop. It's raw and gritty and is an excellent depiction of street life in the projects. Check it check it out!
classic!!!!!!!!!! growing up in this era of music wu-tang had it on lock ! so many classic's came out between '92-'96 I wanna go back. I don't even listen to the radio nowadays... like chappelle says WU-TANG!!!!!!!!!!
Its an everlasting game and it never ceases to exsist,only the players change...this shit in the ghetto has been going on even before black and Puerto Ricans were living there....The Italians,Jews and Irish were doing the same thing before we were there
To the people who did not checked this back on Yo MTV Raps or any other TV station : "It's an everlasting game and it never seizes to exist only the players change." thats you
this is one of the reason why the Gza is the best
this whole album is DARK
One of my favorites
Only way I'd listen
Left me tormented
Straight fire like a torch gun zon
Straight up 🔥🔥🔥🔥
"Then I realised the plan. I'm trapped in a deadly video game with just one man"
This track is the most quotable.
Because of the line I had to re-watch the video again
so i dont only watch my back, i watch my front
cause its the niggas who front, they pullin stunts
It's so hard to escape the gunfire, I wish I could rule it out like an umpire.
you know your town its dangerous, when you see the strangest kid come home from doin a bid - nothin' changes
this is a song. a track is just one section of the song. a song has multiple tracks... drum track, vocal track., sample track etc.
To this day, this is the hardest/coldest song I've heard. No out of control/braggy-type threats. Just concrete reality over the hardest beat ever.
Please
Honestly. This is more terrifying than a light skin on a Mercedes with an ak. (Every music vid now)
It's an everlasting game... cold
It's a cold ass song and video
For real? Go listen to shabazz the disciple ' thieves in da night/crime saga...or gutz - the flatz...trem one - animal kingdom etc
"What's the meaning of crime? Is it Criminals Robbing Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?" Damn that line stick with you through the years...
"i gotcha back but you best go watch your front, cus its the niggas in front that be pulling stunts" is also really nice, i think. at first it doesnt appear to make sense because of the "watch your back" term is so widely known. after a bit of thinking though, you realise that you would always expect someone to hit you from the back while it's the people in the front (friends etc) that you wont expect to turn their back on you.
its small jewelz like those i really like from wu tang.
Kneegrumps Mustburn yeah i can see what u mean. i noticed that exact thing when i was younger, and it has just stuck with me ever since, you know
Yep definitely a poignant verse of GZA's.
lol Wu with the acronyms:
WUTANG- Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game *OR*
We Usually Take All Niggas Garments
C.R.E.A.M- Cash Rules Everything Around Me
RZA-Ruler Zig Zag Allah
GZA-Genius ZigZag Allah
tell me if i missed any
@@talhahmahmood837 Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation
GZA drops megaton BOMBS more faster than you blink tho...
Liquid swords.
Cause them thoughts tr al at a tremendous speed
We black ppl got so much style... damn i love being BLACK...
whatever, man... would i be able to say the same about my skin color as a white man?
***** u free to say whatever u want...
all the negative reactions i will get from a lot of people (yeah, im aware that im postulating) arent really making me able to say what i want without consequences.
i honestly think that saying what you said is adding to the racism there allready is. in order to get rid of racism we shouldnt even acknowledge skin color because it's not a difference between us. yeah, there is a difference pure genetically and in the looks of us, but the objective value of us all are the same despite the skin color
***** nothing is going to happen to u... its your opinion.
antoine freeman maybe not physically. whatever, man.. doesnt matter
"It's an everlasting game and it never seizes to exist only the players change." - GZA
Truth.
It' 'Ceases' not seizes but yeah, one of my favourite lines off the album .
I haven’t heard this song in so long I swear good music just pops up on your feed when you need it the best
This track always gave me chills. Over time I've realized it's one of my favorite tracks ever...
Same
this is a song. a track is just one section of the song. a song has multiple tracks... drum track, vocal track., sample track etc.
illiterate dumbfucks tryin to sound like they know something....
I still blast this song in my car as soon as I get off work. I work as a 5th grade teacher.
BOW BOW BOW, BULLETS ARE EJECTED!!!!!!
i always pretend im shooting a gun when that line comes lmao
Hope you still rocking
But you're supposed to be helping the kids solve the puzzle to why's life so hard.
Gza is simply incredible at creating a vivid image with his lyrics.
I love the way Gza writes. Beautiful.
"But it's an everlasting game, and it never cease to exist only the players change."
That is a real ass quote from the Genius.
Kids be slinging in my lobby, little steve and bobby, getting paid but its a life threatenin hobby
Rick Jam esBitch lmao reading this and looking at your pic is hilarious to me. it kinda fits. i cant explain it.
I was always taught by Do's and Don'ts for the Do's I did, and for Don'ts I said I wont I'm from BROOKLYN
what is the meaning of CRIME is it Criminals Robbing Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime
Jason 09
Yeah I know, I commented here too. Top comment probably
DZA favourite wu solo album?
Jason 09
That's a hard one man. Imma go with Ironman, you?
One of rza best beats during his miraculous run with those wu solo albums
One of those exceedingly rare and fleeting moments in time, in which a group of people - who all happen to all be oozing with an electric sort of creativity - also happen to be in the same place with each other, and make something happen together. That was the Wu circa '93-'95. They could do no wrong for a while there... and perhaps the craziest part is that every track has somehow stood the test of time. And RZA was the throughline of it all, the nucleus that held everything together. A miraculous run indeed.
@@cftvdataRZA was the most important piece in the crew. Well said bro ✌️
You know your town is dangerous
when you see the strangest kid
come home from doing a bid
nothing changes
Always have loved GZA's lyricism!
Supreme 12860 SO GOOD! 👏🏻
I think this is my favorite RZA beat of all time. Its avantgarde & rugged af. The way he adds reverb to snares by hand and fades sounds in and out mixed with that horn sample. Brilliant production.
This his early low quality 90s shit FOH he got much better quality beats than this once he got better production over time
@@Iknowyoumadnow I dont like new shit bruh. I like gritty sp12 sounding sh*t. You gtfoh weirdo.
@@Iknowyoumadnow Did you just call an aspect of Liquid Swords low quality?
Check out As Long As You Know by Scientifik(Boston). RZA produced that joint around The same time and used som Of The parts from I Gotcha Back on that one also.
@@Iknowyoumadnow I like how you didn't name one.
Everything is done right on this track. Beats, Drum Sound, Vocals, Lyrics, Hook, Samples, Arrangement,
Mix & Sound...That kinda magic that only a few rap song of the 90s can give you.
It's genuinely incredible how RZA, GZA and the Clan managed to lay down several truly perfect and unimpeachable tracks on the same record: "I Gotcha Back", "Living in the World Today", "Liquid Swords", "Gold", (arguably) "Cold World". Most artists would be grateful to have one song that good across their entire careers. Liquid Swords has five across its 60-minute runtime. The WTC were on a truly insane run in the mid-'90s.
Its crazy how many people come back to this everyday... this song is masterpiece!!!
This song will stand forever as an anthem.
I remember bumpin this on the J-Train riding through the grimiest parts of Brooklyn…durag, baggy clothes with a on Walkman blowin my eardrums out. NYC hip hop was the shit back then.
Classic GZA Banger 🔥🔥🔥
2:06 that descending melody is dark as fuck
This Album is the gritty New York the ol New york Nothing is better than that ...lyrically Razor Sharp...peace to the GZA
Thats bugged out when he says"Its an everlasting game and it never cease to exsist only the players change"...and that neighborhood is Brownsville Brooklyn....Murder Inc. came from there...and they were mostly Jews and Italians....back then the players were Jews and Italians now theyre Black and Puerto Ricans
I like GZA's style, he can speak about poverty and violence without promoting it.
the deepest, most profound storyteller to bless the mic. hip hop loves you gza.
From the 80 & 90s i cant believe i made my 49th B day. This video got me in tears. You don't realize how not normal was once normal until you sit back and chill
“You know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest kid come home from doing a bid and nothing changes.” - right to the dome with it. God MC
fuckin master piece..love this joint.
Best Hip Hop Albums of All Time
Liquid Swords
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Enter the 36 Chambers
That's all.
illmatic? tical 2000? ironman?
midnight marauders?
y'all aint even ready for the 'slote yet
Illmatic
Predetor ?
Liquid Swords, Tical, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Return To The 36 Chambers The Dirty Version, OB4CL, 6 Feet Deep, Ironman, Illmatic, Ready To Die, Midnight Maraurders, The Low End Theory, Supreme Clientele, and Wu-Tang Forever!
Fantastic list! 👍
Got all those on cd...
Would add Jeru - sun rises in the east, and pete rock, cl smooth - main ingredient up there personally.
Tical is wack stop that lol
"I'm trapped in a deadly video game" Heard a bear where Doom and Slug rapped over a sample of that line. This video is how my life felt in 94-97. As a kid and all.
rza n gza killed this
i really am starting to think GZA is the GOAT ...... hes so raw but doesnt even raise his voice hes like this holy figure in hip hop
Gza is one of my favorite wu tang artist, i use to listen to hes albums when i was 13, 14 years old, i still listen to hes albums, my other wu tang favorite artist is method man, i love wu tang
Liquid Swords is still the dopest album out every song
This is a perfect example of someone narrating the hood lifestyle without glorifying or promoting it, but giving you a better and more in depth look at shit as opposed to bragging about busting guns and sellin crack.
Top 5 album for me bra
At 1:01 in the background there's a mural of Mike Tyson ,that's the same Mural from the movie Do the right thing by Spike Lee. I used to live on that block when I was a child. That's Stuyvesant between Lexington and Quincy.
This song changed my life and the way I looked at people I knew at that time. Saved my life.
I love the Genius for that. That's what hip hop is meant to do.
My lifestyle is so far from well
Gza late 90s.
Austin Tx
Best show ever.
O boy bout that!!
Dopest beat GZA ever killed...he's a genius
Love the clips from Fresh. Such a good movie.
(Fresh) should be a required movie in schools today.
This is my favourite GZA song, just the beat and the lyrics are so great, it really gives you the feeling of being a hustler back in the 90's in New York. GZA sure is one of the best lyricists of all time!
"Your... technique... is magnificent, When cut across the neck.... a sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say... I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday... to hear that sound... But to have it happen to my own neck is.... ridiculous"
How profound 🥱
What movie is it from?
@@kregmcbutler7016 Shogun Assassin. Great movie👍
You forgot: uuuurrrghhhhh sssssssssss
“Couldve wrote a book w da title age twelve and going thru hell” 🔥🔥
gza seems to always take his style to another level on so many tracks i would buy other wu members solo albums just to hear him he is the greatest mC of all time
Hes called Genius for a reaon u know! One of the best MCs ever. Hip Hop 4 life.
Man this is some chilling stuff. Only really got into 90s east coast type shit in recent months and it was a great move. Dark sinister beats talking about hardship of crime life. No romanticising just straight up story telling. Fucking phenomenal. GZA and Havoc from Mobb Deep are some seriously talented producers
It was produced by RZA. He is also featured in the hook.
Ah yes, I was a bit of a hip hop virgin back then
This is perfection
My favorite GZA song
"then I realize the plan. Trapped in a deadly video game with just one man'" kills me.
What is the meaning of Crime? Is it Criminals Robbing Innocent MFs Every time? ...one of best lines....
JediDann bringing back memories. That person was a hero for any UK fan in the early 2000s
who is he bro?? where's that wallpaper from also?
"still play hide and seek
fiends seek the crack
and they hide and let the cops peek"
straight genius
Fresh put me on to this song in 95, like a game of chess, to a next move in life out hear to wear a vest.To live out your life and grow old and never stress.Pray for the one we lost in our lives and feel blessed!
real G music makes me want to time travel back to those times DAMN
Fresh is one of the dopest movies and soundtracks ever and this song being on the soundtrack exemplifies that.
gza allways has good lyrics he is so consistant its amazing
"and its a everlasting game / and it never ceases to exists only the players change"
Dopeness
Top 10 rawest beat of all time.
I was 14 when i was introduced to Wu. And all i bump 12 years later is Wu. Respect for you and for Wu Tang.
NYC at its finest GZA nigga ✌👏👏
🔥‼️
gza's delivery is high on this one and the storyline so intense,
one of the greatest songs from a solo wu-tang artist. rivals Method Man's "Mr. Sandman" and Ghostface's "Nutmeg". all 3 tracks have bobby digital on them
"..im trapped in a deadly video game with just one man.."
the lyrical content there was simplistic but it was so real. that separates true emcees from just ur average everyday rappers
Fresh Soundtrack and Liquid Swords!!!!!!!!!!!
word GZA rap style is so slept on his lyrics always on point
this is a real as it gets:
It's so hard to escape the gunfire
I wish I could rule it out like an umpire
But it's an everlasting game, and it never cease to exist
Only the players change
This beat goes so hard. GZA and RZA, cousin geniuses. Timeless.
The clip from 1:36 is from a movie called Fresh. I highly recommend it, that movie is basically this song but in a movie format and the soundtrack has a lot of old school ny hip-hop. It's raw and gritty and is an excellent depiction of street life in the projects. Check it check it out!
The Mad Thrasher it was on the sound track.
I’m an extra in the film
I've been bumpin' this song for years, and I never knew it was on the Fresh soundtrack. That's one of my favorite movies.
"Yea they still play hide and seek, the fiends seek for the crack and they hide and let the cops peek". Buying thier new album.
GZA's jewels of musical compositions, epitomize essence of hip-hop..
Decades later still light years ahead, of anything produced today..W5X
He said Livonia and Bristol so a lot of the WU is originally from Da Ville... B-ville stand up from up the hill to down the hill
some of them rep Brooklyn and the others are from long Island
Word. GZA spits with an unbeatable flow and irrevocable lyrics.
Still listening in 2019.
classic!!!!!!!!!! growing up in this era of music wu-tang had it on lock ! so many classic's came out between '92-'96 I wanna go back. I don't even listen to the radio nowadays... like chappelle says WU-TANG!!!!!!!!!!
Peep the SP-1200 on top of the stereo rack in 'lil man's crib!
Classic song and classic video. The early 90's golden age when hip-hop was still original.
Then I realized the plan, Im trapped in a deadly video game with just 1 Man! This is #woke 💯
That's a deep line!!
I saw this movie as an 11 year old kid in the theatres and I remember being terrified as if watching a horror film.
Exactly, all their first solo(and then some) albums ARE classic.
Hip hop cant be dead -
- "Wu tang is here for ever"
These are lyrics 50
this shit is harder then anything g-unit ever did and it's a story.. fucking classic
WU TANG 4 EVER
Classsssssssic. Gotta love rzas backups on this track, real dope shit right here.
A golden age.
a ideologia desses cara do wu tang é muito foda admiro muito esse grupo de rap
"I'm trapped in a deadly video game with just one man" .....crazy....that's what i call ryming man. creative, imaginative sh%t u feel.
Life of a black man
Then I realized the plan, I'm trapped in a deadly video game with just ONE MAN.
I haven't heard that shit in a minute, one of RZA's best beats
Liquid Swords is right next to the Purple Tape💯🫡
#FACT
His technique.... is....maaaagnificent.....
"rule it out like a umpire. "
Its an everlasting game and it never ceases to exsist,only the players change...this shit in the ghetto has been going on even before black and Puerto Ricans were living there....The Italians,Jews and Irish were doing the same thing before we were there
Smokin' Aces brought me here!
word, i think the world of Rap Music needs people like this to keep Rap alive...
i want this beat as my theme song
To the people who did not checked this back on Yo MTV Raps or any other TV station : "It's an everlasting game and it never seizes to exist only the players change." thats you