- #AFRO SAMURAI RESURRECTION SOUNDTRACK MEDIAFIRE MOVIE#
- #AFRO SAMURAI RESURRECTION SOUNDTRACK MEDIAFIRE PLUS#
Inspectah Deck and Kool G Rap both turn in respectable verse for a solid song. Suga Bang’s Caribbean style hook is too good on this. The hook is kind of weird, but after you hear this song, you’ll be singing it too. The RZA pulls out a Caribbean style beat on this one, and man, is it infectious. They been playing this all on the trailers for a reason: this is the song that got me interested in the soundtrack. This is the song that starts everything off, and it does the job perfectly. Dot’s hook is “So many times I had to sneak up on a nigga with my finger on the trigger like, like I’m pulling out my sword, this is combat man this is war.” That’s too hot!! The RZA also goes in pretty well also, nothing really notable, but at the same nothing bad. Jackson playing Afro Samurai, the beat drops, and it’s hot. Let’s see what The RZA put together this time.Īfter a quick introduction from Samuel L.
#AFRO SAMURAI RESURRECTION SOUNDTRACK MEDIAFIRE PLUS#
Plus I saw I got some of you guys on the site interested (916-ness has that new avatar, MaCK and Ebb said it was dope, etc.). But after hearing some of the tracks off of the new soundtrack, I was hooked. After The RZA’s last Afro Samurai soundtrack released two years ago, I was disappointed: there were maybe 5 or 6 hot tracks out of a 25 song album.
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There are no scores from the movie either: just short, 45 second skits included in the tracks, so it’s a straight up, no nonsense Hip-Hop album. Whatever the fate of the Wu-Tang Clan, Afro Samurai: Resurrection is a reminder of RZA’s brilliance as a producer and as one of the most distinctive, innovative forces in hip-hop.Damn, you know January/February is slow for Hip-Hop when we reviewing anime soundtracks. Many of the tracks are about death, fighting, and killing (there’s one simply called “Kill Kill Kill”), but themes of loyalty, honor and brotherhood are also prevalent. It has a palpable grit and an edge that is missing from most mainstream rap it feels much denser and organic, less reliant on electronics, slick keyboards, and vocal processing (no auto-tone here). But the RZA unifies the project and though there was some skepticism about his work on 8 Diagrams, both in and out of the Wu camp, his production here is creative, atmospheric and visceral. Not all the 17 tracks are great and the album goes on for too long.
Former Flipmode Squad rapper Rah Digga shows up for two tracks, including one of the best, the tense, menacing, “Bitch Gonna Get Ya,” in which she spits out lines like “ We can get medieval with spears, shanks and hammers.” Her sweetness is a fine counterpoint to the gritty, often violent music, much like Massive Attack’s use of female vocalists. Dutch singer Thea Van Siejen contributes distinctive, jazzy vocals mildly reminiscent of Nina Simone to several tracks. While Wu-Tang vets like Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, and Killah Priest all make appearances, some of the standout tracks come from unlikely sources. If Boy Jones isn’t exactly the Julian Lennon of rap, he likely isn’t destined to follow in his father’s footsteps. In this case though, the song is self-explanatory and doesn’t really fit in with the album’s narrative, coming off as little more than a favor from RZA. ODB remains one of the genre’s strangest and most idiosyncratic MCs (thought Lil’ Wayne is giving him a run for his money). The soundtrack’s other novelty is “Nappy Afro” by Boy Jones, the son of the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard. In fact, it’s hard to even find him in the song, as he just aimlessly croaks along in the background. For some, the appearance of the legendary and reclusive Sly Stone might be the big draw yet he’s been erratic over the past few decades, and his vocals on “Blood Thicker Than Mud: ‘Family Affair,'” which references the Sly classic “Family Affair,” will do nothing to dispel this impression. More than 20 different rappers and singers are featured on the soundtrack and it gets crowded. Though RZA is in charge of the show’s soundtrack, it can’t help but be a little uneven. He comes across a little like the Lone Wolf mixed with Shaft. So it makes perfect sense that he would produce and “present” the soundtrack to Spike TV’s animated Afro Samurai, which brings together Japanese and black culture.Now in its second season, the show features a wandering samurai, voiced by Samuel L.
Sonic mastermind/head Wu the RZA has worked on soundtracks for martial arts inspired films like Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, provided commentary on kung-fu DVDs, and appeared in American Gangster.
They draw heavily from both 1970s kung fu, especially the Shaw Brothers’ classic The 36th Chamber of Shaolin and blaxploitation. This quality can be found in their dramatic, layered music, vivid lyrics and various aliases. There’s always been something cinematic about the Wu-Tang Clan.
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