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902001 has been a tremendous year for hip-hop. At the last moment, the Wu-Tang Clan just made it even better.
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Their darkest, most hypnotic disc since 1997's ''Wu-Tang Forever.''
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80The Clan's lyricists remain as aggressively word-drunk as ever, balancing the music's pop conciseness with oblique rhymes that compel repeated listening. [Feb/Mar 2002, p.116]
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Iron Flag focuses squarely on the Wu's immense, twin strengths: bringing together some of the best rappers in the business, and relying on the best production confederacy in hip-hop (led by RZA) to build raw, hard-hitting productions.
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80RZA and company get back to basics with the kind of stripped-down ghetto menace that made the Wu Tang great in the first place.
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80An album as confrontational and consistent as Public Enemy's Apocalypse '91. [Feb 2002, p.93]
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78It's the most solid Wu album in years.
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On Iron Flag, the Wu are not just back - they're overhauled and determined to compete.
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70Iron Flag owes its lack of cohesion to some simply dull songs, plus the growing disparity in lyrical ability among the Wu’s members.
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More interesting than essential, Iron Flag may not win over those who gave up on Wu-Tang Clan around the time of Wu-Tang Forever, but the group's dedication to its own idiosyncratic path remains impressive.
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40Although RZA tries crisply updating his trademark murk for the new rap age, the results rarely cohere. [Jan 2002, p.108]
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20The rhymes are gangsta shit at its laziest and most drearily noxious. [Mar 2002, p.111]
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redman10jawn is straight off da hook
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ShapkG10a great piece of work from the clan...the raw hip-hop they've got us used to.
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