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Buggin' Out A Tribe Called Quest – Buggin' Out
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“Buggin' Out” is attributed as the song responsible for the emergence of Phife Dawg as a notable emcee rapper, who trades verses with Q-Tip.

The song exudes a playful enthusiasm over the jazzy bassline and the iconic “boom-thack” sounding beat.

The song’s music video has been praised as groundbreaking aesthetically and on a conceptual level. It set a new bar and influenced how hip-hop music videos would be made in the industry by future video directors such as Hype Williams. The music video included songs “Buggin' Out” and “Jazz (We’ve Got).”

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Glaciers of Ice Raekwon (Ft. 60 Second Assassin, Ghostface Killah & Masta Killa) – Glaciers of Ice
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Classic Wu.

The track was released as a double a-side single alongside “Criminology” on 23 June 1995.

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The beat is a distorted and stretched sound of an video game sound. Its probably the jump sound from the game: Keystone Kapers

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Ice Water Raekwon (Ft. Cappadonna & Ghostface Killah) – Ice Water
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Like most other tracks on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Raekwon finds Ghostface by his side on the mic.

Also, this track is Cappadonna’s debut. He’s actually pretty important to Raekwon as he taught Raekwon how to first rhyme and was supposed to be an original member of Wu. He had just got out of prison, and U-God convinced him to come down to the studio to see what was going on. Cappadonna flexed his muscles on this track and impressed everyone around.

Ignore the rumor about the sample coming from Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas,” because it’s actually “Where Do We Go From Here” by Delores Hall.

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This was like proto-Supreme clientele sound

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Guillotine (Swordz) Raekwon (Ft. Ghostface Killah, GZA & Inspectah Deck) – Guillotine (Swordz)
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The crown jewel of the album–the Clan kills every single verse. GZA sums it all up brilliantly at the end.

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this was also featured on the episode “Granddad’s fight” of season 1 of the boondocks

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Rainy Dayz Raekwon (Ft. Blue Raspberry & Ghostface Killah) – Rainy Dayz
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An epic about the pitfalls of hustling and the resulting relationship tumult it can cause. Ghost and Rae reflect on their goals and the dangers of the hustling life, but recognize that it’s the only way out of the streets and to eventually live the good life. Blue Raspberry plays the part of a sort of damsel in distress, who sticks by her man despite how the street life has changed him into someone she no longer knows.

RZA considers this his favorite track on OB4CL and has called it his favorite Wu Tang song. One of the most captivating hip-hop productions, the eerie beat–low key drums and ominous strings combined with the rain and storm effects–creates the perfect backdrop for Rae, Ghost, and Blue Raspberry’s haunting lyrics. (Source: “The Making of ‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx’”, XXL, 8/1/10)

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Blue Raspberry Raekwon (Ft. Blue Raspberry & Ghostface Killah) – Rainy Dayz
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Blue Raspberry is a singer affiliated with Wu-Tang.

She is featured on three Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… tracks. The other two being “Heaven and Hell” and “Glaciers of Ice”.

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She also provides backing vocals for a lot of the tracks like Ice Cream

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She is otherworldly

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Yeah is she!

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Incarcerated Scarfaces Raekwon – Incarcerated Scarfaces
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Track five off Rae’s debut solo album, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…

In an interview with XXL about the making of Cuban Linx, RZA recalled:

I wasn’t making that beat for Rae. I was finished with Rae. I like having 13 tracks. I don’t like having 18. I was making it for GZA probably. He was next. But then Rae heard that beat, grabbed his pen and paper, and started writing. Two hours later, it was written.

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Criminology Raekwon (Ft. Ghostface Killah) – Criminology
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Doing those crimes in order to get that C.R.E.A.M.

“Criminology” was released as the second single from Only Built 4 Cuban Linx on June 26, 1995.

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Rae explains this line in this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXAXoLmDMEQ

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“We wind up doing the video. You know me, orchestrating the video, ‘I need Benzes, jewels, and waterfalls behind shootin’ to the right.’ We actually went into the dessert and found a waterfall that shot to the right. I told Ghost, ‘I need you to be Vincent ‘Chin’ Gigante right now. Don’t have no muthafuckin’ gear on, all I need you in is a mean robe.’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, you right. I'ma just run with the robes.’ And, the next think you know, he’s the robe man.

”I’m tellin’ you, from that record it opened up the door. It started it. So now it’s, ‘Yeah, I need my jewels and a robe, I ain’t wearin’ no clothes no more.’ I was all the way into my mafia chamber, so I’m tellin’ him, ‘Yeah this is how I need you to be. You’re my underboss. Yeah, you come, you walk around. We gonna do it like this.’ It was just a hot video man.”

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http://www.complex.com/music/2011/03/raekwon-25-essential-songs/criminology

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Heroes are remembered, legends never die ​mgk – Salute
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He would rather be a legend than a (hometown) hero, because people remember heroes for a while, but a legend is known forever; Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Jackie Robinson. Must I go further?

This is also a quote from the film The Sandlot.

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Knuckleheadz Raekwon (Ft. Ghostface Killah & U-God) – Knuckleheadz
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“Who the Knucklehead, wanting respect?”
This song by Rae, along with help from U-God and Ghostface, talks about making drug deals go down.

Track #2 of Rae’s first solo album, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…

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