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Offered the opportunity to direct a karate flick -- and with all the freedom, funding, and flash that an executive producer like Quentin Tarantino would allow -- Wu-Tang leader and kung-fu fanatic RZA must have been like a kid in a candy store. Still, the soundtrack to his directorial debut is classic, restrained RZA, as sneaky, restrained, and cool as the Wu when Bobby Digital first landed. After a rap-rock opener that's James Bond big with RZA and the Black Keys reuniting after their collaboration on the Blakroc album, this soundtrack gives up highlights that resist gimmicks or going over the top, with fellow Wu man Ghostface Killah leading M.O.P. and Pharoahe Monch down the darkest of alleyways ("Black Out") while RZA and Kanye West co-produce the latter's "White Dress," a sassy soul strut that suggests what 808s & Heartbreak would have sounded like had it been released by Stones Throw. Even more surprising is how the deceptively small "Get Your Way (Sex Is a Weapon)" from Idle Warship (Talib Kweli and RES) rises to the top like one of the best cuts off an old Lyricist Lounge comp, and when Corinne Bailey Rae delivers the deepest of blues on the standout "Chains," it's RZA the compiler at his best, dropping a surprisingly successful cut in the fourth quarter, between futuristic B-movie sounds ("Just Blowin' in the Wind" by RZA and Flatbush Zombies) and a slithering bit of murder music ("Tick, Tock" from Pusha T, Joell Ortiz, Danny Brown, and the Wu's Raekwon). Add some classic Stax sounds ("Your Good Thing Is About to End" from Mable John, as reserved and wicked as Uma Thurman's Kill Bill character), Ghostface, Wiz Khalifa, and Boy Jones in RZA's warped and wonderful vision of an end title track ("I Go Hard"), and the massive punch of "Built for This" with Method Man, Freddie Gibbs, and Streetlife, and this soundtrack stands tall in the man's wide-reaching discography, offering fans a Wu-flavored vision of a world where both the damned and cursed still swagger.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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Not Documented, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Black Keys, MainArtist - RZA, MainArtist
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
The RZA, Composer - Pharoahe Monch, MainArtist - Booker T. Jones, Composer - Ghostface Killah, MainArtist - William Bell, Composer - Howard Drossin, Composer - M.O.P, MainArtist - Ramecca Music, MusicPublisher - Rondor, MusicPublisher - Irving Music Publishing, MusicPublisher - Yo Eleven Entertainment, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
Raymond Jackson, Composer - Carl Hampton, Composer - Kanye West, MainArtist - Homer Banks, Composer - Rondor, MusicPublisher - Irving Music Publishing, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
Booker T. Jones, Composer - William Bell, Composer - The Revelations, MainArtist - Tre Williams, FeaturedArtist - Rondor, MusicPublisher - Irving Music Publishing, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
Not Documented, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Talib Kweli, FeaturedArtist - Res, FeaturedArtist - Idle Warship, MainArtist
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
The RZA, Composer - Kool G. Rap, MainArtist - Atli Örvarsson, Composer, MusicPublisher - Howard Drossin, Composer - The Wu-Tang Clan, MainArtist - Ramecca Music, MusicPublisher - Yo Eleven Entertainment, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
Not Documented, Composer - Method Man, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Streetlife, MainArtist - Freddie Gibbs, MainArtist
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
The RZA, Composer - Howard Drossin, Composer - Killa Sin, MainArtist - Ramecca Music, MusicPublisher - Yo Eleven Entertainment, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
The RZA, Composer - RZA, MainArtist - Howard Drossin, Composer - Ramecca Music, MusicPublisher - Flatbush Zombies, MainArtist - Yo Eleven Entertainment, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
The RZA, Composer - Corinne Bailey Rae, MainArtist - Howard Drossin, Composer - Ramecca Music, MusicPublisher - Yo Eleven Entertainment, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
Not Documented, Composer - Danny Brown, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Raekwon, MainArtist - Joell Ortiz, MainArtist - Pusha T., MainArtist
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
Frances Yip, MainArtist - Gao Shan Qing, Composer - EMI Music Publishing Hong Kong, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
Not Documented, Composer - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - The Wu-Tang Clan, MainArtist
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
Isaac Hayes, Composer - David Porter, Composer - Mable John, MainArtist - Atlantic Recording Corporation, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
The RZA, Composer - Ghostface Killah, MainArtist - Wiz Khalifa, MainArtist - Howard Drossin, Composer - Ramecca Music, MusicPublisher - Boy Jones, MainArtist - Yo Eleven Entertainment, MusicPublisher
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
Album review
Offered the opportunity to direct a karate flick -- and with all the freedom, funding, and flash that an executive producer like Quentin Tarantino would allow -- Wu-Tang leader and kung-fu fanatic RZA must have been like a kid in a candy store. Still, the soundtrack to his directorial debut is classic, restrained RZA, as sneaky, restrained, and cool as the Wu when Bobby Digital first landed. After a rap-rock opener that's James Bond big with RZA and the Black Keys reuniting after their collaboration on the Blakroc album, this soundtrack gives up highlights that resist gimmicks or going over the top, with fellow Wu man Ghostface Killah leading M.O.P. and Pharoahe Monch down the darkest of alleyways ("Black Out") while RZA and Kanye West co-produce the latter's "White Dress," a sassy soul strut that suggests what 808s & Heartbreak would have sounded like had it been released by Stones Throw. Even more surprising is how the deceptively small "Get Your Way (Sex Is a Weapon)" from Idle Warship (Talib Kweli and RES) rises to the top like one of the best cuts off an old Lyricist Lounge comp, and when Corinne Bailey Rae delivers the deepest of blues on the standout "Chains," it's RZA the compiler at his best, dropping a surprisingly successful cut in the fourth quarter, between futuristic B-movie sounds ("Just Blowin' in the Wind" by RZA and Flatbush Zombies) and a slithering bit of murder music ("Tick, Tock" from Pusha T, Joell Ortiz, Danny Brown, and the Wu's Raekwon). Add some classic Stax sounds ("Your Good Thing Is About to End" from Mable John, as reserved and wicked as Uma Thurman's Kill Bill character), Ghostface, Wiz Khalifa, and Boy Jones in RZA's warped and wonderful vision of an end title track ("I Go Hard"), and the massive punch of "Built for This" with Method Man, Freddie Gibbs, and Streetlife, and this soundtrack stands tall in the man's wide-reaching discography, offering fans a Wu-flavored vision of a world where both the damned and cursed still swagger.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:00:41
- Main artist: Various Interprets
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Soul Temple Entertainment
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
(C) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment (P) 2012 Soul Temple Entertainment
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