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- Date Released: September 11, 2007
- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Rap
- Label: LOUD Records
- Copyright: (P) 1997 Loud Records LLC
The rare hip-hop double album worth listening to all the way through
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We Say...
Anticipation for the Wu-Tang Clan's second album — released in the summer of 1997 as they prepared to hit the road with Rage Against the Machine — could not have been greater. After a string of classic solo albums, the GZA's opening boast aspired to the moment: "Reunited/Double LP, world excited." It was a measure of your Wu-devotion whether the two hours that followed sustained that excitement.
Despite a cleaner, less sample-reliant production style and much longer songs — Forever's lead single, "Triumph," was six hook-free minutes — the Clan was still in fine form on tracks like the T-La Rock-inspired "It's Yourz," the weirdly uplifting "A Better Tomorrow," "Bells of War" and the unnerving "The City." "Cash Still Rules/Scary Hours" is an absolute classic, Raekwon, Method Man and Ghostface further refining their famously detail-oriented approach to storytelling. Given its audacious length and a density that demanded patient, careful listening, Forever is that rare success: a hip-hop double-album worth listening to all the way through. It captured the Wu-Tang Clan at a turning point, in all their glorious contradictions, from the revolting "Maria" and off-putting "Black Shampoo" to the steely, unshakeable paranoia like "Impossible," when Tekitha's skyward hook seems the only escape from RZA, U-God and Ghostface's relentlessly grim bars about the Illuminati, fallen friends and the planet of slums.
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| 01. |  |
Wu-Revolution
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6:47 |
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| 02. | |
Reunited
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5:22 |
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| 03. | |
For Heavens Sake
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4:14 |
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| 04. | |
Cash Still Rules/Scary Hours (still don't nothing move but the money)
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3:02 |
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| 05. | |
Visionz
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3:09 |
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| 06. | |
As High As Wu-Tang Get
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2:38 |
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| 07. | |
Severe Punishment
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4:50 |
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| 08. | |
Older Gods
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3:06 |
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| 09. | |
Maria
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2:55 |
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| 10. | |
A Better Tomorrow
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4:55 |
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| 11. | |
It's Yourz
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4:17 |
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11 Total Tracks, 45:15 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Intro
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2:03 |
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| 02. | |
Triumph
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5:38 |
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| 03. | |
Impossible
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4:29 |
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| 04. | |
Little Ghetto Boys
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4:50 |
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| 05. | |
Deadly Melody
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4:20 |
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| 06. | |
The City
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4:06 |
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| 07. | |
The Projects
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3:18 |
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| 08. | |
Bells Of War
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5:12 |
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| 09. | |
The M.G.M.
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2:39 |
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| 10. | |
Dog Sh*t
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3:35 |
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| 11. | |
Duck Seazon
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5:42 |
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| 12. | |
Hellz Wind Staff
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4:52 |
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| 13. | |
Heaterz
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5:26 |
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| 14. | |
Black Shampoo
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3:50 |
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| 15. | |
Second Coming
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4:40 |
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| 16. | |
The Closing
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2:37 |
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16 Total Tracks, 67:17 Total Length
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