GZA / GENIUS - Pro Tools reviews
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 By now the legend of Gary Grice goes without saying. What the hell, let's say it anyway. This 20+ year veteran of the rap game once had a career relegated to dusty discount bins and hip-hop obscurity after an ill-advised attempt by his then label Cold Chillin' records to market him as a Big Daddy Kane type rapper on a pop tip, which was a big-time flop since nobody needed a second Kane or another pop crossover MC....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| Even fans who didn't care for the laid-back, murky feel of GrandMasters -- GZA's 2005 effort with DJ Muggs -- had to give the album respect, well aware that the Wu-Tang member was adjusting his style for the DJ and just grooving it slower with the same high-quality rhymes. The bar remains just as high on the man's follow-up but anyone alienated by GrandMasters' attitude will be pleased that the uptempo and sometimes oddball rhymes are back in full force here and sit on a set of melancholy soul productions that have that classic Wu atmosphere. On the opening "Pencil," GZA's Wu brother Masta Killa drops a jaw-dropping Ivan Koloff reference, RZA holds his own, and crew producer Mathematics provides the hypnotics, but it's GZA who owns the track by linking livestock, damaged livers, and cell phone chirps into a classically Clan bravado story....full text |
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| Billboard |
| Even in this post-Wu-glory-days era, GZA remains easily and unfairly overshadowed. He doesn't have the odd indie appeal of Ghostface, the smoked-up rasp of Method Man or the RZA's Hollywood résumé. But he does have five solo records to his credit now, and a purpose: "All I need is a beat," he opens on "Alphabets," and commences three minutes of liquid rhymes that spray out without any detectable effort. "Pro Tools" is the opposite of flashy. You could count the number of hooks on one hand and most tracks clock in at the three-minute mark, ostensibly to let GZA inhale occasionally....full text |
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