Liquid Swords

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Liquid Swords
Studio album by GZA

Publication
(s)

1995

Label (s) Geffen Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Hip hop

Title (number)

13

running time

50:49

chronology
Words from the Genius
(1991) 		Liquid Swords Beneath the Surface
(1999)

Liquid Swords is the second solo album by the US rapper GZA . It was released on November 7, 1995 on the Geffen Records label . In Germany it was published on November 14, 1995.

Track list

  1. Liquid Swords
  2. Duel Of The Iron Mic (feat. Masta Killa, Dreddy Kruger, Inspectah Deck and Ol 'Dirty Bastard)
  3. Living In The World Today
  4. gold
  5. Cold World (feat. Inspectah Deck)
  6. Labels
  7. 4th Chamber (feat.RZA, Ghostface Killah and Killah Priest)
  8. Shadowboxin (feat. Method Man)
  9. Hell's Wind Staff / Killah Hills 10304
  10. Investigative Reports (feat. Chef Raekwon, Ghostface Killah and U-God)
  11. Swordsman (feat.Killah Priest)
  12. I gotcha back
  13. Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (feat.Killah Priest)

reception

Charts

Liquid Swords reached number 9 on the Billboard 200 . It stayed on the US album charts for 24 weeks.

criticism

The e-zine Laut.de rated Liquid Swords with five out of a possible five points in its “Milestones” section. From the editor's point of view, Stefan Johannesberg, the “ boundaries between film and music are blurred on the album . “While the listener is listening to “ the story of the samurai's fight against the evil ninjas ”, seconds later“ GZA aka The Genius verbally heads all fake emcees. "For the first song, RZA samples its way through the sounds of 60s soul producer Willie Mitchell " and condenses the " loops [...] so extremely that the sound hums and rumble. “The“ neck breakers ” Living In The World Today and Gold are followed by four timeless“ hip-hop classics ”which, like no other“ quartet of rap killer tracks ”,“ decompose intestines and cells so closely and coherently. “The song labels is a“ prime example of the well thought-out syllables ”of GZAs. After twelve pieces in which “ GZA painted the Wu world black ”, the rapper leads the listener “into the (day) light ” with Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth . "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Billboard.com: GZA. Retrieved January 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Laut.de: No Wu album lives the philosophy of rap as a martial art more blatantly. Retrieved January 4, 2015 .