♪ Whirlwind spinning, save the children ♪ ♪ Hell's wind staff, the rise of rap titans ♪ The classic headphones were built with antennas, but mine are damaged and take forever to get a signal. Oh, we only listen to the classics, either on vinyl or through this faint radio transmission, all produced by the Abbott or the Godfathers. So why didn't you and your daughter become affected? Looks like they're staring into emptiness, but they're staring into illusions and false images. So you got a whole fiefdom staring into oblivion? They tranquilized the people with popotronics. The culture was usurped by Cyrus, and the Ministers of Culture turned out to be culture vultures. Yenji: ( whispering ) He's in his old laboratory. No one brews spicy sake as he does, and dead men can't brew, so why don't you tell me where your father is? We used to work together as imperial masters. No one is allowed to grow or sell food anymore.įiltered, unfiltered, bitter, sweet, and spicy. Well, uh, do you have anything good to eat? Genius: Medina, where the gods are meaner. Then there's the Zu, the underground, and. Mecca, land of the riches, where they keep making it and try to keep the others from taking it. The desert, which has truly been deserted since the Fatherless Child disappeared. There's Pelan, home of the savages, where beef isn't served on a plate. Wisdom: But the fiefdoms have never been further apart than they are now. That he will reunite the brothers, somehow. The legend of the Liquid Sword, which says that a man of words, a genius perhaps, will come forth to save the culture when he's needed the most. Our radio signal is the last true broadcast of culture that is left, which is why we've locked ourselves in the booth. They fragmented our empire of culture into separate fiefdoms like Medina, Pelan, and Mecca. This allowed the head of the labels, Cyrus, to infiltrate them one by one, using the ministers to buy up all the broadcasting signals and pump pop into the system, keeping the masses stuck on stupid. We reunited once, but over time, our brothers wanted to outshine one another. Wisdom: The labels are on the precipice of ending the culture, putting us at the brink of doom. Wait, so you know where the Abbott is at? That nіggɑ got back from LA with these books from the Bodhi Tree, and now he's looking for a Shaolin monk named Sifu Shi Yan Ming. The first Wu member to get knowledge of self.Īnd all I need is my Wu brothers to achieve that.Ī'ight, well, let me see if I can get two more weeks with Geffen, okay?īut you gonna need the Abbott to help you convince your brothers to jump on.Įspecially the ones who careers are blossoming. However, the label are investing in our music and expanding our reach.ĭivine, I'm the one who learned the hip-hop culture from the Bronx. We the ones that the people are coming to see, to find out what we're saying. Now, I'm sure RZA can get him to hop on a track with you.ĭivine: And then the label will love that, know what I mean? Now, I heard D'Angelo gonna be at Battery Studio next week. Look, instead of trying to get Wu-Tang features, let's try some other flavor. The label needs the album handed in to them by next week, and it's already gonna be a challenge for them to market it without a radio-friendly single. Yeah, but you don't got time for that, GZA. That's why I gotta assemble the entire team for my album. Yeah, but y'all haven't been on the same album since 36 Chambers. If the Wu-Tang forms like Voltron, and I'm the head, how I'm supposed to function without the body, god? I did a whole album with me spitting by myself on every track. Why are you sitting here alone in the dark?ĭivine: Well, talk to me. ♪ And when the MCs came to live out the name ♪ ♪ Get vaccinated, my logo is branded in your skin ♪ Gza: ♪ Niggas are fascinated how the sh¡t begin ♪ My album might be the last time we can pull that sh¡t off, yo. Gza: The only thing I'm missing now is just the verses from the Clan, son.Īnd you know when we come together, the music is raw. Hey, yo, this is that classic Genius fire. Gza: ♪ I flow like the blood on the murder scene ♪ 'Cause you know I got that staccato beat for you with that Willie Mitchell sample on it. I'm in a whole other different chamber on this, cuz. GZA takes on the persona of "The Genius" as he journeys through an alternate New York City to unite the people using music from his debut solo album, Liquid Swords.
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