Wu Tang is the most lyrically dense group ever. Like hieroglyphics in rhyme form.. just review the entire album with lyrics and rap genius. Ghostface is a standout. If the guy in the orange studied the Wu, he would turn to be the biggest fan of all, once he starts unpacking things.
whatever it takes to put in a proper request, I’ll even fund your guys’ beer or something 😂 for some, if not the whole album Sour Soul, it’s mid-2010s Ghostface with BadBadNotGood jazz quartet on all the instrumentals. I love your takes too much to not suggest that. Reactions on a music theory level are rare, and I think that’d be right up your alley.
He doesn't understand. He said Raekwon was average on cream...He clearly doesn't know how to even listen to HipHop. Not every track requires a complex rhyme scheme, especially when telling a story or painting a picture lol. He simply doesn't understand HipHop music. Everyone in the 90s has different styles and getting their point across. He is the type of guy to pigeon hole HipHop and say all they talk about is money, cars and violent things without listening to everything like Canibus, Roots, Common, Souls of Mischief, The Pharcyde etc etc.
@@thegamingchef3304Bless his heart🤣(the guy with the orange shirt) He definitely not culture in other types of music and don’t understand slang at all. It ok to be a lil ignorant but he special 😂😂😂😅
I'm not gonna lie, I use to not like them too as a kid in the 90s because it just sounded like noise and nothing else. When I grew up and re listened to them, I was shocked. The word play and styles they had were just crazy to me and I couldnt believe I use to hate them. Same with outcast. I also use to hate rock music as well. That all changed when I grew up and was able to take in and understand what was going on in the music. This man just seems so uninterested, which is fine.
I think buddy with the beard appreciates the musical aspects of the beat and rapping, whether he understands the lyrics or not. Guy in the orange shirt is very closed minded and borderline disrespectful to the art form. Imagine someone listening to your music the first time and being like wtf is this. Stop being hung up on if you understand what they are saying. Your ears have to be trained to listen rap to know what your listening for, which is metaphors, entandres, cadence and unique rhyme patterns. It aint as easy as it looks. By the way RZA did play those keys on the piano himself.
9:43 - The "suuu" (and similar sounds that vary based on hood) is a kinda multipurpose gang call. Dudes may do that when they enter the block to let other's knew he's there. Also if you're walking through an unfamiliar hood at night and you hear such a call, you should probably go another way because you're probably about to get robbed.
I'm a 43 year old white guy from Denmark with the Wu-Tang logo tattooed on my arm, I grew up on Wu-Tang and when I got my first Wu-Tang album on CD back in the 90's I didn't even understood english yet 🙂
(GZA) “A mountain climber ☝🏾that plays an electric guitar , But he don’t know the meaning of DOPE when he’s ☝🏾looking for suit and tie rap that’s cleaner than a bat of soap☝🏾. He’s talking about buddy in the orange shirt . You can’t be that lost from the world that you can’t understand Street lingo . You need a class of hip hop 1ON1 🤷🏾♂️
SUUUUUUUU!!!! how they called each other on the block in staten island. That's how you knew your own people are calling each other from a distance. Every hood crew had a sound to call each other.
he is called the old dirty bast ard because there is no father to his style! and its also a play on the name of an old kung fu film, "ol' dirty and the bastard". He originally went by the name Ason Unique, because his name is Ason, and his style was unique, which he directly mentions in this song right at the beginning of his verse. this was actually his coming out as The ODB. I really liked how much you were paying attention to the lyrics, the beats, the style and flow of each artist. especially when neither of you clearly relate to the music. I get why dude was saying he just doesn't understand, and that makes it hard to relate, but this super group was deeper than anyone gives them credit for, and they get a lot of credit. RZA was a genius in a very eccentric way and he paved the way for so many great producers to make countless iconic beats with his way of experimenting with samples and beats. he produced 90% of the beats for wu tang and even all of their countless solo albums and none of them sound the same.
Except that his name was Russell Jones. Ason unique was his NGE name Ason Unique-a prince, an original child of the universe. Unique. Great video guys! 👐👐👐
If you drew a vertical line between the two of you, it would officially be the metaphysical barrier beyond which you are too white to truly enjoy great hip hop
They are referencing the Zoo, meaning Brooklyn, where ODB is from. The Isle of Shaolin is Staten Island. And most of their sampling from RZA is from Chinese Kung Fi movies.
I'm a 35yo guy from Chile and I discovered them because my friend gave me a Cassette, (yes a cassette) and I heard the entire album with an old earphone and it was so sick at that time, so dark and catchy, imagine how bad sounded with old earphone and cassette, but that is the magic of RZA beats! great from Chile and this is the best reaction on YT!
And then you said I get it, I'm not going to mess with em. Lol Great that you figured it out even before you heard the song where they specifically tell you that Wu-Tang clan ain't nuthing ta f wit!
hip hop has a lot of slang it takes a while to get used to, wu-tang even moreso cause their whole thing is esoteric old kung fu references and local new york culture
Now that you're making me revisit these old classics, I'm realizing it has/had a lot to do with their voice. These dudes were all like 6ft 100kg black dudes from the streets of NYC. 9:20 Genius Annotation 1 contributor A shout out to 160 Park Hill Avenue, the project building in Staten Island where Meth and many other Wu members grew up. RZA explains further in the Wu-Tang Manual: That’s the building 160 in the Park Hill projects. It was the center-where we did business, hung out, and some of us lived. It was the heart of everything.
Meth's verse: You'd know if you listened to the very next line where he says "1.6.ooh - I mean 0" Area codes can't start with a 1, so 160 was the address for the building they lived in, in Park Hill. But you're missing the forest for the trees here, you don't need to understand every slang term from a statin island project in 1993 to feel the flow over the beat, or to appreciate the word play, which is what they were masters at. I've been listening to this album for 30 years and am STILL learning what all their terms mean.
i always though of the "one-six" part as the number 16, referring to 16 shots in a clip (earlier in the song) but that makes more sense with the "I mean 0" part.
"Protect ya neck( bloody version)" is what we call here in NY back in the day as a posse cut where all 8 members on this song take turns rhyming on the beat it's very easy to do
I can’t hate on the uninitiated. Besides the NY Hip-hop slang, the Wu-Tang slang is on another level. Unless you take the time to learn it, you miss a whole lot of the depth. Wu-Tang Forever!
some of the production from Roc Marci to Griselda, Dump Gawds, or anything Alchemist or Craven-produced… There’s likely a handful in there these guys would appreciate.
A lot of people do not like Wu-Tang simply because they do not understand them. There's a lot of 5 Percent/Muslim reference in their lyrics so it goes over people's heads. They're just very lyrical period, and most are only around for dope beats, of course WU provides that as well. Anyway.... The Dumb Are Mostly Intrigued By The Drum!!!
First vid I’ve seen of y’all, I respect that you gave unfiltered opinions. Very cool seeing dude on the right help dude on the left understand as you both explore a style of music you’re not familiar with. Good stuff!
The "1 6 ooo" is 160. It is the building in either the stapleton or park hill projects that alot of the members lived in. (They lived in both of the projects)
as someone in their teens when Wu-Tang came out, i didn't understand what was being sung either, but you know what, i wasn't so closed minded i couldnt appreciate the skill, the sound, absolutely brilliant, i own most of their albums, including the solos, with all that i grew up in the UK too.
The bar by GZA basically sums up the guy in orange. To be fair, Wu tang does use lots of old school references and east coast slang, but the beats/hooks are universal.
Easiest way to get it. This group transcended rap at the time. At the time you had rap and everything else. NY rap was about straight trash talking everybody as a whole rather than dissing somebody. So those of us late 70s early 80s generation we can shit talk a freestyle on cue if we tried. White black Asian Latino all walks of life are why Wu is 4 Ever!!!!😂
The Wu-Tang Clan consists of 10 total members. The group started with nine members and then Cappadonna was officially added to the group later after making guest appearances on some of the Wu-Tang solo projects and getting a solo deal of his own. Below I will list all 10 members that also includes RZA who is the founder and main producer of The Wu-Tang Clan and is a member who raps as well. When you guys talk about the Protect Ya Neck song where Method Man is talking about the 160 it's not an area code. It is the building number of the building he and some of the members of Wu-Tang lived in Staten Island also known as Shaolin. Watch the video you see Method Man in front of the building pointing at the number on the building 160. One more thing, Wu-Tang is not the only group out of NY with their own street vernacular (street language or ebonics). Mobb Deep a rap group from the Queensboro section of Queens speak what they call the Dunn Language (Google it for its history). Many NY MC's speak a particular NY street language that is parallel to none. Wu-Tang Clan Members 1. RZA 2. GZA (Aka The Genius) 3. Ol' Dirty Bastard (O.D.B) #RIP 4. Inspectah Deck 5. Raekwon the Chef 6. Ghostface Killahi 7. U-God 8. Method Man 9. Masta Killa 10. Cappadonna Just an FYI when you see Wu-Tang Clan in concert the person doing Ol' Dirty Bastard is his son Young Dirty Bastard (who by the way is not the same person in the Wu-Tang American Saga HULU show). I hope this information was helpful.
160 is the number of the building we used to get our weed from the rasta man. In park hill ,Staten island. Suuuuuuu is our shoalin call we used to shout out at each other.
I cant, when he said wheres your seed at, seed, child, it was an ad campaign from the 80's promoting being a good parent, at 10pm every night a commercial would come on t.v. that said, its 10 oclock, do you know where your children are. Seed = children
Def listen to Big L. I think some of his beats sound kind of thin compared to a lot of wu tang stuff (not all of his songs), he's more famous for his writing. But if you do listen to him I recommend "street struck" great rap song. Doubt you guys would like him but... eh keep an open mind ig. (Warning for orange shirt guy lots of slang on "street struck")
most of L’s beats come from the DITC stable - Bucwild, Showbiz, Diamond D, etc. Definitely a different sound from rza’s production but still some of the dopest of that era
I don't understand all the slang like im not even american or english I speak swedish, but it has never bothered me I don't know why. I just guess what it means and make it my own meaning how it makes sense. I do that all the time, maybe because english is not my first language so I have always done that with music. You don't always have to understand all to enjoy. But we are all different, orange shirt seems so want to really understand all, maybe this is just not for him.
@@BandHouseStudios Ok, then do the knowledge to learn what Wu' talking about before you just automatically say you don't like 'em. By the way, you're the ONLY person I ever heard say that
The guy in orange reminds me of the family guy scene when Lois and Peter were in Chris’s room reading Wu Tang lyrics and they had a translation for white people 😂
@@BandHouseStudios the group "outkast" is a fun one to check out. they definitely have a unique sound and slang but they're less "thug life" type rappers. they just do good music. im sure youll see them recommended eventually by others
SUUUUU is the sound that wu tang makes when they are about to beat up someone.. they have 10 members but over a hundred affiliated rappers that will do their dirty work.. SUUU is their battle cry... 160 is their appartment building in their projects or something like that.. lol they slang is to much.. they say stuff like "mc wizidry" and "Proton bombs from my arms".. its wordplay..
The second sample was from Method Man's verse. Like faaaame my style will last forever. That sample you played was from the show Fame. He sung the chorus to that song.
love the reactions u guys do with hiphop. u guys dive into the production and slang behind the song and not a lot of reactors do that, and u keep it honest too. anyways, i have some recommendations: kendrick lamar - i (live on SNL) and kanye west - runaway extended/original version (around 9 minute long) and devil in a new dress by the same artist
Almost nobody understands everything being said in songs where people are rapping about things that only a select few know. But the point of the music was to enjoy it, not treat it like a math problem to be figured out. The figuring out comes later.
160 is the building number in the Park hill projects. Meth said nuff respect due to the 16 ooo, I mean oh. Also Suuuuu was used as a calling to get someone's attention, calling from the street to a window or down the street, and probably other stuff.
That era of rap had a lot of slang, metaphors, double entendres and so on. You can sit around and disect some artists line by line. yall should do Coast Contra "Breath and Stop". It is a modern take on that old school, heavily lyrical style. Watching the utter confusion of you two would be hilarious.
160 is the address that he lived in.. but he said 1 6 owh.. then i said i mean O . Seeeew is the call of the wu.. when you hear that the whole clan assemble
13:31 the off bests you’re referring to is called crossing the bar line in rap. Vox made on video on this and other things about rapping called Rapping deconstructed
Not to shit on the guy in the orange shirt. I think he may need some context. This song was the introduction of the Clan. With 9 members to its name, they obviously had to find a way to make it onto the rap scene. With so many members you can't make a full blown song with hooks and bridges. So they had to make it a posse cut where the individual members put their styles on display. The lyrics may not necessarily make sense all the time but think of this song as an appetizer or something that would set the tone for what comes after that. In 1992 when this first dropped, nothing sounded like this. There were other posse cuts but nothing on this level - instrumentally and energy wise.
Wu Tang is the most lyrically dense group ever. Like hieroglyphics in rhyme form.. just review the entire album with lyrics and rap genius.
Ghostface is a standout. If the guy in the orange studied the Wu, he would turn to be the biggest fan of all, once he starts unpacking things.
We will get him
whatever it takes to put in a proper request, I’ll even fund your guys’ beer or something 😂 for some, if not the whole album Sour Soul, it’s mid-2010s Ghostface with BadBadNotGood jazz quartet on all the instrumentals. I love your takes too much to not suggest that. Reactions on a music theory level are rare, and I think that’d be right up your alley.
@@stateportSound_wav Dope! Check out Patreon for requests!
I had that problem with the clan in the beginning
Dude in black gets it, dude in orange is as bright as a 20 watt light bulb when it comes to the Clan.
Agreed! lol
He doesn't understand. He said Raekwon was average on cream...He clearly doesn't know how to even listen to HipHop. Not every track requires a complex rhyme scheme, especially when telling a story or painting a picture lol. He simply doesn't understand HipHop music. Everyone in the 90s has different styles and getting their point across. He is the type of guy to pigeon hole HipHop and say all they talk about is money, cars and violent things without listening to everything like Canibus, Roots, Common, Souls of Mischief, The Pharcyde etc etc.
LMAO!!!!
@@thegamingchef3304Bless his heart🤣(the guy with the orange shirt) He definitely not culture in other types of music and don’t understand slang at all. It ok to be a lil ignorant but he special 😂😂😂😅
hahhaahhaha omfg, hit the nail on the head
Imagine not liking Wu-Tang Clan , the best rap group in history.
He fell out of a treehouse at a young age
@@BandHouseStudios 😅😅😅😭
Nah... i will call the police. Whoever say thay sh*t is crazy sorry. Respect the Wu Tang Clan.
I'm not gonna lie, I use to not like them too as a kid in the 90s because it just sounded like noise and nothing else. When I grew up and re listened to them, I was shocked. The word play and styles they had were just crazy to me and I couldnt believe I use to hate them. Same with outcast.
I also use to hate rock music as well. That all changed when I grew up and was able to take in and understand what was going on in the music. This man just seems so uninterested, which is fine.
I think buddy with the beard appreciates the musical aspects of the beat and rapping, whether he understands the lyrics or not. Guy in the orange shirt is very closed minded and borderline disrespectful to the art form. Imagine someone listening to your music the first time and being like wtf is this. Stop being hung up on if you understand what they are saying. Your ears have to be trained to listen rap to know what your listening for, which is metaphors, entandres, cadence and unique rhyme patterns. It aint as easy as it looks.
By the way RZA did play those keys on the piano himself.
Thanks!
fuckin A!
I laugh because the same guys will love Nirvana but say Wu Tang is too hard to comprehend lol. Swear by Teen Spirit tho
Hahaha exactly
9:43 - The "suuu" (and similar sounds that vary based on hood) is a kinda multipurpose gang call. Dudes may do that when they enter the block to let other's knew he's there. Also if you're walking through an unfamiliar hood at night and you hear such a call, you should probably go another way because you're probably about to get robbed.
Dope. Thanks for the knowledge
I'm a 43 year old white guy from Denmark with the Wu-Tang logo tattooed on my arm,
I grew up on Wu-Tang and when I got my first Wu-Tang album on CD back in the 90's I didn't even understood english yet 🙂
That flow is undeniable!. Hello from Seattle!
I grew up listening to Wu in the 90’s, also white and got a Wu Tang tattoo.
same. i grew in the UK
(GZA) “A mountain climber ☝🏾that plays an electric guitar , But he don’t know the meaning of DOPE when he’s ☝🏾looking for suit and tie rap that’s cleaner than a bat of soap☝🏾.
He’s talking about buddy in the orange shirt . You can’t be that lost from the world that you can’t understand Street lingo . You need a class of hip hop 1ON1 🤷🏾♂️
That's 4 sure!
Exactly
Lmao I was thinking the same thing
Hahaha cooked
Ol' Dirty Bastard rest in peace!! He was a genre all on his own. Master of the drunken style rap technique 😅😅
SUUUUUUUU!!!! how they called each other on the block in staten island. That's how you knew your own people are calling each other from a distance. Every hood crew had a sound to call each other.
Legit.
You don't have to like the Wu, simply just respect them and the path they paved for Rap/HipHop
exactly
No ACTUALLY you have to love WU.if you say you don’t your just mentally not worth a conversation 😩
he is called the old dirty bast ard because there is no father to his style! and its also a play on the name of an old kung fu film, "ol' dirty and the bastard". He originally went by the name Ason Unique, because his name is Ason, and his style was unique, which he directly mentions in this song right at the beginning of his verse. this was actually his coming out as The ODB. I really liked how much you were paying attention to the lyrics, the beats, the style and flow of each artist. especially when neither of you clearly relate to the music. I get why dude was saying he just doesn't understand, and that makes it hard to relate, but this super group was deeper than anyone gives them credit for, and they get a lot of credit. RZA was a genius in a very eccentric way and he paved the way for so many great producers to make countless iconic beats with his way of experimenting with samples and beats. he produced 90% of the beats for wu tang and even all of their countless solo albums and none of them sound the same.
Thanks!! Glad you enjoy it
Except that his name was Russell Jones.
Ason unique was his NGE name
Ason Unique-a prince, an original child of the universe. Unique.
Great video guys! 👐👐👐
Dude in the polo shirt is who Gza's talking about 😂
That's what they say. He ain't a rock climber but everything is spot on
Next time get your buddy a coloring book to keep him busy while the adults listen to classic hip hop.
I think adults listen to classical music
Damn why so harsh? lmao
Am I the only one getting pissed of at the orange shirt guy " I don't understand" like shut up, this music is real
Lol everyone comes from a different place! Are you a musician?
If you drew a vertical line between the two of you, it would officially be the metaphysical barrier beyond which you are too white to truly enjoy great hip hop
Hahaha that's perfect
They are referencing the Zoo, meaning Brooklyn, where ODB is from. The Isle of Shaolin is Staten Island. And most of their sampling from RZA is from Chinese Kung Fi movies.
I'm a 35yo guy from Chile and I discovered them because my friend gave me a Cassette, (yes a cassette) and I heard the entire album with an old earphone and it was so sick at that time, so dark and catchy, imagine how bad sounded with old earphone and cassette, but that is the magic of RZA beats! great from Chile and this is the best reaction on YT!
Shout out to Chil from Seattle! I bet Wu Tang on Cassette hits hard!
160 is the number of the building they stayed in/hustled from in the projects..
Dope
Raekwon went in on this track. One of the best albums ever.
Dude in the orange taps his foot to Billy Joel and thinks Kiss is the best rock band. Absolutely vanilla af.
I'll let him know!
And then you said I get it, I'm not going to mess with em. Lol
Great that you figured it out even before you heard the song where they specifically tell you that Wu-Tang clan ain't nuthing ta f wit!
Ghostface is a beast, dude had a shootout with the Delfonics in the car with him.
"I dont understand any of it" lol dont trip i used to feel the same way about rock and country and shit.
That's how it goes most of the time. :)
Damnnn ya really did know queen latifah was a rapper before actor??? Shes dope
Always been a big fan! Cant wait to hear!
GZA - 4th Chamber
That song is dope as fuck
Dope :)
The Mystery of Chessboxing next
Sound good. I love chess and boxing
This one dude has been living inside of a mayonnaise jar. I love the honesty.
hip hop has a lot of slang it takes a while to get used to, wu-tang even moreso cause their whole thing is esoteric old kung fu references and local new york culture
It's so much.. too much for some.. lol
a lot of it is 5% nation lingo, most of the members are adherents of that movement
@@the_dj_woodsupreme mathematics/alphabet
WU TANG FOREVER !
Big L is a legend, RIP.
Now that you're making me revisit these old classics, I'm realizing it has/had a lot to do with their voice.
These dudes were all like 6ft 100kg black dudes from the streets of NYC.
9:20
Genius Annotation
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A shout out to 160 Park Hill Avenue, the project building in Staten Island where Meth and many other Wu members grew up.
RZA explains further in the Wu-Tang Manual:
That’s the building 160 in the Park Hill projects. It was the center-where we did business, hung out, and some of us lived. It was the heart of everything.
Dope! I knew someone would know!
Meth's verse: You'd know if you listened to the very next line where he says "1.6.ooh - I mean 0"
Area codes can't start with a 1, so 160 was the address for the building they lived in, in Park Hill. But you're missing the forest for the trees here, you don't need to understand every slang term from a statin island project in 1993 to feel the flow over the beat, or to appreciate the word play, which is what they were masters at. I've been listening to this album for 30 years and am STILL learning what all their terms mean.
i always though of the "one-six" part as the number 16, referring to 16 shots in a clip (earlier in the song) but that makes more sense with the "I mean 0" part.
"Protect ya neck( bloody version)" is what we call here in NY back in the day as a posse cut where all 8 members on this song take turns rhyming on the beat it's very easy to do
The guy is the black is feeling it. The guy in the orange is being a real rain man.
160 is the building in park Hill projects that a lot of the members lived in. The called it one-six-eww because it was a mess
Hahahha amazing
It's called the 1 6 ooh!
Guy in the orange never felt flavor before lmao. “I don’t get it” 😂
Vanilla is a flavor! Lol
“Ketchup is spicy “
I can’t hate on the uninitiated. Besides the NY Hip-hop slang, the Wu-Tang slang is on another level. Unless you take the time to learn it, you miss a whole lot of the depth. Wu-Tang Forever!
dope!
kayne west,westside gunn, and jpeg mafia are amazing and you should check them out
Will do 👍
not sure they'll like Westside/Conway/Roc
some of the production from Roc Marci to Griselda, Dump Gawds, or anything Alchemist or Craven-produced… There’s likely a handful in there these guys would appreciate.
A lot of people do not like Wu-Tang simply because they do not understand them. There's a lot of 5 Percent/Muslim reference in their lyrics so it goes over people's heads. They're just very lyrical period, and most are only around for dope beats, of course WU provides that as well. Anyway.... The Dumb Are Mostly Intrigued By The Drum!!!
It’s the 160. He says “the one six uhhh I mean Oh”
The 20 watt line was saying it’s not a very bright idea.
I'm a millenial, and orange top makes me glad of that.
We are all millenials
Alot of the members are gen x
First vid I’ve seen of y’all, I respect that you gave unfiltered opinions. Very cool seeing dude on the right help dude on the left understand as you both explore a style of music you’re not familiar with. Good stuff!
Appreciate that! Thanks for watching!
The "1 6 ooo" is 160. It is the building in either the stapleton or park hill projects that alot of the members lived in. (They lived in both of the projects)
Immortal technique-you never know
Orange shirt will love that!
or Industrial Revolution
you gota do triumph by the wu
as someone in their teens when Wu-Tang came out, i didn't understand what was being sung either, but you know what, i wasn't so closed minded i couldnt appreciate the skill, the sound, absolutely brilliant, i own most of their albums, including the solos, with all that i grew up in the UK too.
Yup!
The bar by GZA basically sums up the guy in orange. To be fair, Wu tang does use lots of old school references and east coast slang, but the beats/hooks are universal.
Easiest way to get it. This group transcended rap at the time. At the time you had rap and everything else. NY rap was about straight trash talking everybody as a whole rather than dissing somebody. So those of us late 70s early 80s generation we can shit talk a freestyle on cue if we tried. White black Asian Latino all walks of life are why Wu is 4 Ever!!!!😂
bro my mans in da orange shirt is bugging 🤦🏾♂️ 🤣🤣 i cant stop laughing
The Wu-Tang Clan consists of 10 total members. The group started with nine members and then Cappadonna was officially added to the group later after making guest appearances on some of the Wu-Tang solo projects and getting a solo deal of his own. Below I will list all 10 members that also includes RZA who is the founder and main producer of The Wu-Tang Clan and is a member who raps as well. When you guys talk about the Protect Ya Neck song where Method Man is talking about the 160 it's not an area code. It is the building number of the building he and some of the members of Wu-Tang lived in Staten Island also known as Shaolin. Watch the video you see Method Man in front of the building pointing at the number on the building 160. One more thing, Wu-Tang is not the only group out of NY with their own street vernacular (street language or ebonics). Mobb Deep a rap group from the Queensboro section of Queens speak what they call the Dunn Language (Google it for its history). Many NY MC's speak a particular NY street language that is parallel to none.
Wu-Tang Clan Members
1. RZA
2. GZA (Aka The Genius)
3. Ol' Dirty Bastard (O.D.B) #RIP
4. Inspectah Deck
5. Raekwon the Chef
6. Ghostface Killahi
7. U-God
8. Method Man
9. Masta Killa
10. Cappadonna
Just an FYI when you see Wu-Tang Clan in concert the person doing Ol' Dirty Bastard is his son Young Dirty Bastard (who by the way is not the same person in the Wu-Tang American Saga HULU show). I hope this information was helpful.
Do you know what Redman’s level of affiliation is? I was never fully clear on that.
Awesome thank you!
@@stateportSound_wavhe might be initiated honorably as a "killer bee". Maybe?
160 is the number of the building we used to get our weed from the rasta man. In park hill ,Staten island. Suuuuuuu is our shoalin call we used to shout out at each other.
Orange wasn’t even trying to enjoy the song. He went into trying not to like it.
Did he tell you that?
We have eyes. He's actively trying to pick stuff that he doesn't understand. He comes across as a sheltered idiot.
Public enemy (rebel without a pause) actually sampled that james brown part too. I agree with orange shirt sounds like a tea kettle!
Wu Tang is cryptical with their lyrics. Some haven't been deciphered yet.
That makes us feel better!
160 was their building number in Park Hill (Killah Hills) projects in Staten Island.
I cant, when he said wheres your seed at, seed, child, it was an ad campaign from the 80's promoting being a good parent, at 10pm every night a commercial would come on t.v. that said, its 10 oclock, do you know where your children are. Seed = children
No way!? We should bring that back!
Ol dirty bastard was my fav of them all. That should tell you how iconic this group is
For real! I'm really digging ODB
Def listen to Big L. I think some of his beats sound kind of thin compared to a lot of wu tang stuff (not all of his songs), he's more famous for his writing. But if you do listen to him I recommend "street struck" great rap song. Doubt you guys would like him but... eh keep an open mind ig.
(Warning for orange shirt guy lots of slang on "street struck")
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most of L’s beats come from the DITC stable - Bucwild, Showbiz, Diamond D, etc. Definitely a different sound from rza’s production but still some of the dopest of that era
I feel like you also have to remember that they make a lot of five per-center references which is almost like an entire other language in itself lol
Yeah! There was a lot going on! Haha
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I don't understand all the slang like im not even american or english I speak swedish, but it has never bothered me I don't know why. I just guess what it means and make it my own meaning how it makes sense. I do that all the time, maybe because english is not my first language so I have always done that with music. You don't always have to understand all to enjoy. But we are all different, orange shirt seems so want to really understand all, maybe this is just not for him.
Rza, Gza, and old dirty bastard are cousins
Oh I didnt know ODB was related to the Rza and Gza
Stick to Rock & Roll they're too over ya head
I enjoy expanding my musical pallet.
@@BandHouseStudios Ok, then do the knowledge to learn what Wu' talking about before you just automatically say you don't like 'em. By the way, you're the ONLY person I ever heard say that
@@marcellusrivera4936 sometimes it takes awhile. Nothing wrong with that
The guy in orange reminds me of the family guy scene when Lois and Peter were in Chris’s room reading Wu Tang lyrics and they had a translation for white people 😂
hahahaha exactly
Great content. Respect to orange shirt for not lying about disliking wu tang.
Hes. Honest if nothing else lol
@@BandHouseStudios the group "outkast" is a fun one to check out. they definitely have a unique sound and slang but they're less "thug life" type rappers. they just do good music. im sure youll see them recommended eventually by others
@@juelz3451 on it ;)
I dont think he dislikes it. It may be alot for him to digest in just one sitting
Dude drinking the manly bud light platinums is the A&R mountain climber who plays an electric guitar and don't know the meaning of dope.
That's both em!
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SUUUUU is the sound that wu tang makes when they are about to beat up someone.. they have 10 members but over a hundred affiliated rappers that will do their dirty work.. SUUU is their battle cry...
160 is their appartment building in their projects or something like that..
lol they slang is to much.. they say stuff like "mc wizidry" and "Proton bombs from my arms".. its wordplay..
Dope! Thank you!
The second sample was from Method Man's verse. Like faaaame my style will last forever. That sample you played was from the show Fame. He sung the chorus to that song.
If you dont know hood shit... you'll never get it.
Dude in the orange wouldn’t last a day of where I’m from lmfao.
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love the reactions u guys do with hiphop. u guys dive into the production and slang behind the song and not a lot of reactors do that, and u keep it honest too. anyways, i have some recommendations: kendrick lamar - i (live on SNL) and kanye west - runaway extended/original version (around 9 minute long) and devil in a new dress by the same artist
Dope man thanks! :):) will do.
It's on sight for the orange guy
160 is the building number of the project in Park Hill
dude in black - respect!
I wouldnt expect Eli Manning to know 5% slang 😂😂
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Truth be told there are alot of Caucasian 5%ers
Thats. Where. He. Lives 160. And sooo. Is. What. Hes. Calling his friends
Remember the 80s comercial , is 10 o clock do u know where ur kids are? That’s what the riza was talking about
Instead of saying "kids" he said "seeds"
160 is the number of the Park Hill Apartment Building in Staten Island where Meth used to live.
160 is the number of a building that they lived in/hung around
Seed... child.
To each his own. You don't have to like it. It's ok.
Thank you!
Almost nobody understands everything being said in songs where people are rapping about things that only a select few know. But the point of the music was to enjoy it, not treat it like a math problem to be figured out. The figuring out comes later.
Stay away from hip hop, lmao. Wu-tang are the greatest ever.
Okay!
this song is so good
I'm subscribing and hoping for more Wu reactions
Appreciate you guys!
We wont quit til orange shirt understands the Wu!
How can you not understand Deck’s verse? Maybe you won’t get the Tevin Campbell reference but other than that it’s simple words stated crystal clear
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If u think this is esoteric, give supreme clientele a whirl 😂
Gravel Pit is one of my favorites from the Wu Tang Clan
Mr Meth is by far the best out of the group
160 is the building number in the Park hill projects. Meth said nuff respect due to the 16 ooo, I mean oh. Also Suuuuu was used as a calling to get someone's attention, calling from the street to a window or down the street, and probably other stuff.
So sick. Thank youA
That era of rap had a lot of slang, metaphors, double entendres and so on. You can sit around and disect some artists line by line. yall should do Coast Contra "Breath and Stop". It is a modern take on that old school, heavily lyrical style. Watching the utter confusion of you two would be hilarious.
160 is the address that he lived in.. but he said 1 6 owh.. then i said i mean O . Seeeew is the call of the wu.. when you hear that the whole clan assemble
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It's hard to understand cause of the slang but once you get it, it's worth the wait. Greatest hip hop group ever. The Beatles of hip hop.
Dude in orange giving me brain rot😂😭
Dude in orange plays an electric guitar
1 6 OUUU is 160. The number of the apartment building.
Ooooooh!! Makes sense
13:31 the off bests you’re referring to is called crossing the bar line in rap. Vox made on video on this and other things about rapping called Rapping deconstructed
Sick! Thank you
Not to shit on the guy in the orange shirt. I think he may need some context. This song was the introduction of the Clan. With 9 members to its name, they obviously had to find a way to make it onto the rap scene. With so many members you can't make a full blown song with hooks and bridges. So they had to make it a posse cut where the individual members put their styles on display. The lyrics may not necessarily make sense all the time but think of this song as an appetizer or something that would set the tone for what comes after that. In 1992 when this first dropped, nothing sounded like this. There were other posse cuts but nothing on this level - instrumentally and energy wise.
Except “scenario”