Liquid Swords [The Chess Box]
- Genius / GZA
- Band Name: Genius / GZA
- Record Label: Get On Down
- Release Date: Jul 24, 2012
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Sep 7, 2012100One of the many great things about Liquid Swords is that while it's an unimpeachable work of lyrical mastery, of fierce intellect and sound morals, it's in no way a record for prudes.
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Sep 7, 2012100It's a historical artifact on an otherwise up-to-date album, one which is more important now that hip-hop needs a refresher on the essence of skills and the value of balancing the materialistic with the intellectual.
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Sep 28, 201295GZA for his part conveys overarching ideas of war with self, the world at large, and pushing oneself artistically to the limit as a coping mechanism--expressing a coherent worldview through top flight craftsmanship.
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Sep 7, 201290In terms of conceptual realisation, Liquid Swords is a blueprint for the perfect Wu record.
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Sep 7, 20128017 years on, Liquid Swords represents hard-nosed hip-hop at its peak. [Oct 2012, p.117
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Sep 7, 201280Overall, though, Liquid Swords is possibly the most unsettling album in the Wu canon (even ahead of Ol' Dirty Bastard), and it ranks with Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx as one of the group's undisputed classics.