The music comes from the Brooklyn soul band the Revelations, who do live-band rap music as well as just about anyone, which is to say that you can't tell you're hearing a live band most of the time. Because once you get past the brevity and the non-Wuness of it all, there is some beautifully executed hardhead grown-folks rap shit on here. A decade on, it's oddly comforting that a label would aim for your Wu-Tang consumer dollar even when that dollar barely exists anymore.īut if Wu-Tang Chamber Music is a hackneyed cash-grab, it's a pretty good hackneyed cash grab. The mere existence of this LP has a weird late-90s quality to it it's a throwback to the time when record-store shelves were crammed with with albums by vaguely Wu-affiliated crews like Killarmy and Sunz of Man, when labels would rush out any old crap they could slap that W logo on. And make no mistake: People who read The Wu-Tang Manual are definitely the target audience here.
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