Quick correction Gza was on Geffin. ODB was with Elektra.

@richasshoIe9411

Жыл бұрын

haha, i just said the same thing!

@thomascauley4556

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@cocakazethesage

Жыл бұрын

Facts 😂

@error4159

11 ай бұрын

@@richasshoIe9411 I was gonna post this too

The first rap album I ever cop with my own money and listened to in its entirety as a young teen. This album was life 🔥

@aldali724

Жыл бұрын

Bro same!!!! That and 36 chambers!!! Back when Best Buy still had CDs

@herbgotti6028

Жыл бұрын

Facts 🤝🤝💯

@blueshirt725

Жыл бұрын

@@aldali724 And Kmart 😂🤣😭

@robmartin5556

Жыл бұрын

Same here bro the same exact way bro that’s just how I did it but then my cousin stole mines and I had to buy another one asap

@christianspears2420

Жыл бұрын

Same here

An album that’s beyond the word classic. It’s a masterpiece and a movie… Cinematic imagery! Greatest Rap Album Ever!

This album is a fkn masterpiece. My fav of all the first releases. I just wish INS would have had all the attention he deserved on his first run too.

@williemakeit2346

6 ай бұрын

Ditto on everything you said. 💯

This ALBUM is the essence of HIP HOP!!! Lyrics, beats, storytelling, only Nas guest appearance, the skits The Purple Tape, Only Built For Cuban Linx and this ALBUM couldn't have come out at a better time.

@rashaanlemell7974

Жыл бұрын

@Real Factruth FACTS

@gray3182

Жыл бұрын

Y'all bugging

@gray3182

Жыл бұрын

Nas being on one joint don't make the album G

@rashaanlemell7974

Жыл бұрын

@@gray3182 I know but he was the ONLY GUEST WHICH MADE IT SPECIAL

@gray3182

Жыл бұрын

@@rashaanlemell7974 ok I concur your right 👍

This album is intoxicatingly addictive. Hearing the beat to Ice Water drop for the first time is something I’ll remember for the rest of my life. Once you settle into it, it sweeps you away and always leads you on an unbelievable ride. The highs, the lows, the everything in between this album depicts emotionally… genius stuff. Easily my favorite solo album of the Wu. 100/10.

@zay_thegentleman288

Жыл бұрын

Fucking ICe water man🤯💥💜💜

@janga75

Жыл бұрын

That was the only song i didnt like back then. Now it is one of my favorites. Its brand new to me now lol

@Andz-fs6pi

Жыл бұрын

Agree.. was something else hearing it for the first time.. I still personally hold liquid swords in higher esteem than this album, but the energy ghost and Rae have together cannot be ignored.. certified classic album, and definitely in the top 2 solo projects ever released by the Wu. 👐🏻

This album is one of the reasons I fell in love wit HIP HOP 🔥🔥🔥

Hands down the greatest rap/hip-hop album ever. The purple tape sound was unheard of. You can listen to it straight through. Classic material frfr...

@EsauistheCaucasian

Жыл бұрын

I agree. PERFECT ALBUM.

@EsauistheCaucasian

Жыл бұрын

@Rob Hunter I have them on the same level. OBC4L edges it just by a millisecond just because of the diversity and cleanliness of the sound.

@williemakeit2346

6 ай бұрын

On my Mt. Rushmore of greatest hip hop albums no question. One of those albums I can enthusiastically rock all the way thru no skips.

The purple tape masterpiece from the first to the last track

@EsauistheCaucasian

Жыл бұрын

Like i said before: This is a PERFECT album. Skits included.

@MegaVern1

Жыл бұрын

Facts

28:51 Nas verse on Verbal Intercourse was so great that even when Jay-Z was beefing with him. Jay-Z still referenced/bit the last part of Nas verse in his third verse from his song Never Change that's on The Blueprint album. Nas should've mentioned this in Ether lool Nas - Verbal Intercourse "From the womb to ta tomb, presume the unpredictable, guns salute life rapidly, that's the ritual" Jay-Z - Never Change "From the womb to ta tomb, from now till my doom, drink Army from one cup, pass it around the room, that's the ritual"

@BIG-7777

Жыл бұрын

Never peeped that before jay a Nas Stan fr fr😂.

@camronshean1758

Жыл бұрын

@@BIG-7777 Jay-Z even bit Prodigy's beginning line "There's a war goin' on outside no man is safe from" from Mobb Deep's song Survival Of The Fittest, in his song A Ballad For The Fallen Soldier from Jay-Z's album The Blueprint² The Gift & the Curse which is while he was beefing with Prodigy

@marrtymax

Жыл бұрын

Jay always been a fan.. he was just a scorn fan lashing out for attention 😅

@Polostar79

Жыл бұрын

Scarface used it too on Guess Who’s Back

By the time the Ice Cream single came out on Rap City I already had been rocking the Album. I loved the Ghostface Chef duo. Rae is my favorite MC period. After that, I bought the ODB album which is a classic and I bought Ready to Die. The South was late on the WuTang and Biggie by the time people start feeling them I already had those CDs. I didn’t like the booty bounce crap that South did and I am extremely thankful for the Geto Boys and eventually OutKast: But it’s was the Chef that held it down until the rap world start respecting the South. Thanks for the memories.

Those skits, intro, n outro is what made the tape so dope! And that's why even when Pt. 2 dropped years n years later when it was a Lil Wayne era I copped that!

@EsauistheCaucasian

Жыл бұрын

This is absolutely the WORST comment on this video.

Only built 4 Cuban Linx is a timeless Classic👐👐👐

The Boondocks introduced me to the Guillotine(Swordz) on the Stinkmeaner episode, which then introduced me to this album, then Wu as a whole!!

@cloutcancun

Жыл бұрын

Boondocks put a lot of people onto different artists. One of my favorite shows of all time! Love the soundtrack

@aldali724

Жыл бұрын

@@cloutcancun forreal though!! I discovered MF Doom there too, ALL CAPS from Oprah kidnapping episode lmao

Rza plan definitely worked because each member attracted the crowd that he planned for them to attract 💯

Heavy Gratitude. Ps Heaven & Hell , Incarcerated Scarfaces, Glaciers of Ice , Verbal Intercourse, and North Star are 5 of the best songs, ever. Pps Only Built For Cuban Linx , Liquid Swords and Ironman are 3 of the best albums, ever.

My favorite album of all time. People forget how influential it was. From the Mafioso themes to the vocal heavy samples like ice water. The album continues to influence and should be recognized as such. Flawless.

The Guillotine Swordz beat came from the intro to Tical as well

Back in Alabama This kid in my school just gave me Raekwon’s Built for only Cuban Links CD back in the 96. He didn’t like it and I didn’t have a lot of CDs at the time. Another friend gave me Spice 1’s 187 He Wrote. I had two classic East and West Coast albums just given to me because they didn’t get it.I had to buy them both multiple times since then (CDs scratches from playing them so much).

This albums is absolutely flawless. Ice cream is stil one of my all time favorite beats . I remember getting all the Wu albums the day they came out but this one just hit different.

I was walking around high school with my little radio rocking “the purple tape!” At that time there was only two tapes the differed from the standard black or white, Redman had a red tape and Rae had the purple one….this was so fucking dope at the time. Even though all the songs was 🔥, I used to have incarcerated Scarface’s, verbal intercourse heaven and hell and wu gambling’s on repeat !!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@dnzwill

Жыл бұрын

Idk if you remember Illegal (Jamal & Malik) but their tape was red. I think it came out 93/94

My favorite album of all time. Bought it in London when it dropped. Had heaven and hell on the fresh soundtrack then heard glaciers and criminology on Tim Westwood. Bought the tape then me and my cousin went to another store and I saw the CD had one extra song so I gave my cousin the tape and bought the CD on the spot. When I played it I could not believe how crazy it was. The beats and rhymes had me in a coma. Nas BODIED his feature too so hearing him was dope on there. Ice water was the song that shook my soul. The vocal loop fucked me up intensely. Rainy Dayz was a highlight too because of how operatic it was. I remember the review in HHC ended with them the album was so good it's scary. When I heard it I knew what they meant. Plus when I finally saw the movie the killer it made this album resonate even heavier seeing how rza based it around that movie. Thanks for this video. Really like the breakdown you gave this masterpiece.

I can Attest to the influence & power this album had back in the summer of '95 being 18 years old growing up in Brooklyn back then every car driving pass was playing different tracks from this album Rae was the king of NY that summer

@tyliekinc.

Жыл бұрын

Biggie was the King & Bad Boy Records was the on top as a whole at the time. Bad Boy was releasing hit after hit at that time. Biggie Craig Mack Total Faith Evans 112 Mase

@BKLYN_TZU

Жыл бұрын

@@tyliekinc. The Tyliek Show honestly Big was on Hot 97 in heavy rotation but he was getting love but not like how Rae was in the streets Rae had a nice little run with The Purple Tape in the summer of '95 so you don't know what your talking about.

@tylowe78

Жыл бұрын

This album takes me back to my years back in high school too. I remember when it came out I was a junior in high school.

@BKLYN_TZU

Жыл бұрын

@@tylowe78 Ty Lowe me too bro this album dropped in the summer it came out after I graduated high school this album has a special place in my memories of 1995.

@tylowe78

Жыл бұрын

@@BKLYN_TZU yes man! I remember a year prior Redman had the red tape for Dare Iz A Darkside. I played that tape so much until the words came off but i still knew which side had which song.

As a 17 y.o. St. Louis native in '95, ODB's first album welcomed me through the doors of WU. But it was CUBAN LINX that fed me the food. It let me know what Wu-Tang was really about. And I had been feeding on their classics since then.

The Wu albums dropped when I was in highschool and basically defined my childhood. The purple tape being my favorite. Gritty artistic aspirational yet grounded in reality and sonically unlike anything before. A true classic. Great video my brother

This is def one of my fav albums and it was actually the first album that I got on CD (along with The Blueprint by Jay-Z). Amazing album and even tho I wasn't around in '95, this album is still somewhat nostalgic to me since I remember listening to it while riding my bike on the way to a summer job a few years back. Even this last summer I had it on heavy rotation. Idk why I always associated this album with the summer but yeah. I mean, it kinda makes sense if you look it from the perspective of OB4CL as the summer Wu album while Liquid Swords is the winter Wu album Great video as usual and I appreciate this "remaster" of your original video on this album

@cloutcancun

Жыл бұрын

I definitely want to remaster a lot of my older videos. This album is definitely a summer album while liquid swords is more for the winter. I definitely wasn’t around for this era but this album really does have a place in my heart. A lot of memories riding around to this at full blast

@dinerofromdar1113

Жыл бұрын

Yh this dropped in the summer’95! During the Source awards run. Hip hop was maaad competitive and fresh ! Pac #1 in the charts 📊 with phat clout coming in from Thug Life Promo run, year prior. Nas anticipation for a sophomore begins to set-in stone. BiG/Badboy sweeping up 🧹 …

I was 15 or 16 when OB4CL. I’m from la ( south central). I ate it up. I didn’t really understand a lot of the references they made (especially ghostface) but I listened to that record a lot at that time. This record peaked my interest in the 5% nation.

The importance of this album is unmatched.

This and Infamous are the two best east coast street albums of all time

@georgethompson8196

Жыл бұрын

BEST Ever Period! EAST Coast is #1,2 & 3

@EsauistheCaucasian

Жыл бұрын

"of" the best? LMAO. Nah homie, they BOTH are apart of the HOLY GRAIL. This is a special comment because you're 100% correct, and I think about this all the time.

@hoodpimp1519

Жыл бұрын

@@EsauistheCaucasian Read again…SLOWLY lol ..I said THE ….TWO ….BEST

@tyliekinc.

Жыл бұрын

Illmatic is so is Ready to Die

@EsauistheCaucasian

Жыл бұрын

@@tyliekinc. This is the beauty of these classic albums, to have these arguments. We were truly blessed to be given these gems back in the 90's. But I can also break it down like this: illmatic and Ready to die are the GOAT Solo Albums and OB4CL and Infamous are the GOAT group albums. It's only right. (I also rank Ready to Die 4th out of them....).

I used to think the “Killa” tape Rae mentioned on 7th chamber was like a Wu demo or some shit lol

12:38 Raekwon's purple tape probably inspired the creators of the 1998 Rugrats movie to color that tape orange lool

Great work on this video man. I’ve just so happened to have been listening to this album on repeat for the past 4 months. So this is dope af

Phenomenal video here. Infinite thank yous for this, CC!

I Love this album. OB4CL Raekwon/Lex Diamonds, Ghostface Killah/Tony Starks, The RZA/Bobby Steels, Inspectah Deck/Rollie Fingas, Method Man/Johnny Blaze, Cappadonna/Cappachino, U-God/Lucky Handz, Masta Killa/ Noodles, GZA/Maximillion, Nas/Nas Escobar 👐

@tyliekinc.

Жыл бұрын

Don’t leave out ODB

@princemastaking

Жыл бұрын

@@tyliekinc. Oh yeah Ol' Dirty Bastard/Dirt McGirt

Give it up to the Chef. Creating a masterpiece that we have enjoyed for so long.

Best rap album in my opinion....period. production and lyrics impeccable!

Built for Cuban Linx the hip hop album that and Killah priest Heavy mental peace

One of the most legendary rap albums of all time...when I was a teenager I had these 15 inch speakers in my living room and we would blast this where you could hear the bass from "Knuckeheadz" down the block and around the corner Cool channel. Subscribed

One of the best channels out here. Keep ‘em coming. Representing the DMV 804

Man I enjoy these vids so much I love hearing the story about my favorite albums thank you for another great vid

I'm glad you've done this video

Top 5 album in My hip hop collection

This was one of the craziest tapes that came out while I was in high school….

To see videos like this are absolutely amazing. I was 13 years old when this album came out and it was the first WU TANG CLAN album that I bought. Rae and Ghost’s chemistry was absolutely phenomenal. After this I bought Enter The 36 Chambers, Return To The 36 Chambers Dirty Version and Tical. This album started a lot of things and thank you for documenting this time span.

Purple Tape...one of my top 5. It's in the whip right now.

You did a great job breaking down the history on this video and Liquid Swords.

The editing on this joint is fire man!

Great commentary. I was born in 1980. I was a teenager when this dropped living in north Philly. My friends and I used to listen to this daily and religiously I know most of the album word for word. I just saw Wu Tang in concert this past weekend at the cannabis festival and life is good 👐🏾

The beat to incarcerated Scarface’s is like an instant Time Machine to 1995 😂

I still say this is my favorite album in ANY genre of music…Ive bought it 11 times…😂😂😂

@c.christopher6115

Жыл бұрын

I have 3 purple tapes and have bought the CD at least 7 times

@DaKroppster

Жыл бұрын

I lost count of how many times i bought this. It kept getting stolen and honestly didn't even care.

One of the greatest albums of all time for me and I still play it. The music these days ain't got the same lyrical effort.....just say anything and they'll buy it?.

Ppl talk about Illmatic/ready to die & they were Kool but that purple tape still puts me in a certain moode. It's like I go somewhere when I hear it, even almost 30yrs later.

Thanks for sharing! This is my first time ever seeing the promo for, Rae's "Only Built for Cuban Linx". 1/24/23 I didn't know one existed to tell you the truth! Thanks again!

This jawn is actually one of my top 5 greatest/favorite albums of all time. I was just listening to it (again) in my car a couple days ago. Damn, man. I literally just can't get enough of it.

Beautiful Video. I hope you do more videos like this one. Breaking down the tracks. I hope you do one for GZA and Ghost.

U have only improved fam! Great job!

Binge listening your vids at work. Great content g keep it up

Real good work Brother. Blessings!

Classic Work.

My love for this album was born when I heard Glaciers of Ice then Criminology.... I was hype!!! So me and my homie went to the record stores 2-3 times a week, from June until August when it finally was released. We didn't find Rae's joint right away but we found a whole bunch of dope shit. 95 was the bomb because of Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, Krs1, AZ, Fat Joe, LL, Smif-n-Wessun + more

one day i hope to see one of my projects on here broski love the vids

One of the best albums ever. Cinematic. Rae and Ghost told a vivid movie filled with all kinds of emotions. RZA's production perfect like always in that era from 93 to 97

Great video

This is my favorite Wu Tang album, it’s full of classic songs, and I think overall Wu Gambinos has to be my favorite, but also the intro to this album is crazy, maybe best intro of all time??

i been watchin this vid for weeks cuz i keep stopping to hear all the classics he is referencing!

Intro so cold great job Cancun

So if it was up to Rae & Meth we possibly wouldn't have gotten Ice Cream 🍨 😩

@cloutcancun

Жыл бұрын

Basically. I get Meth not wanting to be the "ladies man" but females love him to this day. I also get where Rae is coming from because Ice Cream definitely stands out on the album but I also can't imagine OB4CL without it. It doesn't necessarily fit with the theme but even Ghost was telling him that he was tripping.

@bigdaddylocdiesel5688

Жыл бұрын

@@cloutcancun see stuff like this is why Rza is My Top 3 Producers of all Time 🔥🔥🔥🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🐐🐐🐐

I was just entering adulthood in Milwaukee about a year before moving to Vegas when this dropped. Had the purple tape and honestly that could play all the way through from Knuckleheadz to Heaven & Hell but some of my favorite tracks are Rainy Dayz, Guillotine, Verbal Intercourse and Wu Gambino's. It was almost impossible to outdo Tical and Return of the 36 but Only Built is one of the best albums ever in my humble opinion. Regardless of genre. Masterpiece

Amazing album, might have the RZA’s best beats? Hard to decide between this and liquid swords. Love your videos anyway 👍

@cloutcancun

Жыл бұрын

That would make sense because as stated in the video those 2 albums were two albums where he had nobody messing with him. Those were entirely produced by him. I'm pretty sure Tical was too but nonetheless, I think RZA's best production that I've heard is on OB4CL

Another masterpiece

"Shine in lock that couldn't be broken" . . . Beautiful Meta4 ... merciful tech 9completions xx

THE best Wu album......PERIOD!!!

Yo the first time I heard Cuban links I was trippin balls on acid at this house party in NY. To this day glaciers of ice reminds me of the visuals I was seeing that night. Crazy memories

Liquid Swords is one of my favorite albums ever. It’s so fire !!!

Still listen to rainy days on rainy days!

Masterpiece..... Nothing else needs to be said.

This is a dope documentary to a super classick album!!

I was 10, my friends brother had the knowledge and goods for great tunes and getting to sneak in and hear amazing new music was huge to me in life

Always love your videos!! Always very thorough and informative. For what it’s worth, I grew up hearing Ballantine with a long I, like in the Beastie Boys line “Ballantine quarts with the puzzle on the cap” in High Plains Drifter.

Chef was always my favorite. When that purple tape dropped it was the soundtrack for the whole summer. It was played in every car, CD player or Walkman. I played that tape until it popped and I fixed it kept playing it. That album is a timeless classic and him and ghost together are great.

22:00 You mean Meth vs Chef

This is a perfect album It's high art One of my favorites and ever since the first time hearing it because it is one of those weird albums where you can listen through the whole thing without skipping any songs. Rap opera and CLASSIC

Better than Illmatic and Reasonable Doubt

@rings4504

Жыл бұрын

Not illmatic brah!! Slow down young'in!!

You be working overtime 😅

Classic. They was saying this when it was out Wu Tang forever ♾️

My favorite album of ALL time. Hands down

🔥 intro!

This album literally changed my life. When I heard Rza production on this album I was amazed inspired and it showed me the possibilities where you can take music. I would love to know what zone Rza was in. My brother actually stole the tape, we got in the car with my cousins and rode and listened. It was so quiet everyone was just blown away

THE PURPLE TAPE IS MY FAVORITE & THE BEST WUTANG ALBUM 💿 EVER PUT OUT A TOP 10 HIP HOP ALBUM 💿 ALLTIME …. WHEN IT DROPPED AUGUST MY BORNDAY 🎂 MONTH 1995 IT WAS THE SOUNDTRACK TO MY LIFE AT THE TIME I WAS SCRAMBLING ON BROADWAY N.Y.C. FOR THE DOMINICANS …. GREAT TIMES 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🥂🍾🥂🍾💯🤞🏿

Summer 95 I remember like it was yesterday going to get the cassette at my local mom and pop record shop in Brooklyn east New York. After that we went to the weed spot I was 17 at rhe time great memories 💯🇵🇷🔥

i first fully listened to this after the first season of wu-tang AS and it’s in my top 5 of all time now

When this dropped man I loved hip hop fr fr to this day, that album is a treasure to the world forever that ish sparked that mafioso talk, that fly Versace ish,cables,the wallabees,the RZA was immaculate on the production,the whole clan was shining on the guest spots,the NAS feature, the shark niggaz(biters) intro that sparked Nas and Biggie back n forth all the way to kick in the door to the last real nigga alive, man this album is a Hall of Fame Album, not to many Albums garner the respect this one gets,FACTS.

When this hit the streets in 95 everyone I mean everyone bumped this in there car, house party street…. Fire…. Was 16 when it came out still listen to this day and it takes me right back to those dayz…

I had this album on tape. I don't remember when it dropped but I was put on to WU when I was 14, so 23 years ago. Favorite songs on album are Guillotine; criminology, glaciers of ice, ice cream, knuckle heads, can it be all so simple. The whole album is a masterpiece so difficult to pick them out, but those are my favorite for sure.

me and my bro joke all the time about how many times we bought this album and stole it from the stores and each other lol

Rewatching the saga right now!!

Whenever my brother and I see someone who has a weak resolve, or can't cut it at something we say, "Damn. He ain't built for cuban linx."

Prob my fav album ever, no lies!

Aye you a real one for this one fucking with the content !

One of the dopes NY Rap Albums. Its in my top 10 All-Timers.