Happy Birthday To A Classic

     Today, August 1, 2010 is the 15 year anniversary of one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time.

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx by Raekwon the Chef featuring Ghostface Killah or otherwise known as the Purple Tape is a classic.  It was Scarface on wax, basically a movie through sound, provided by the RZA.  It's amazing to think that this much time has passed since it dropped, 1995, wow.  That was the summer before my senior year of high school and this was part of the soundtrack.  I eventually got a pair of Clark's Wallabee's a couple years after, but it's the intro to Glaciers of Ice that made me do it.  Even beyond the influence Rae and Ghost put on hood fashion and swag (before people even called it that), the album had it's own supersonic, soul, comic book, drug, kung-fu flick sound that was mind blowing.   You could never skip a song and each ballad is it's own masterpiece.  RZA completely produced the entire record and most of the Wu-Tang members and other guests all guest spot.  I still listen to this album often in it's entirety and there are so many singles on here I could call my favorite.  As a tribute, peep one of the best Wu video's and singles that was from this album, Ice Cream.  This album gets a very rare 5 Z out of 5 Z, all time classic rating in the catalog.
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