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Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt.II

Review by Philip Bloomfield

OB4CLII is quite simply one of the best rap records released this decade: literate, funny, dark, evocative and meaningful all at once. »

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the wait is over. it's here. released on his own label. let's hand over to the man himself taliking to pitchfork..."the record is the shit. i got some of the most talented producers in the game for the last 20 years that came up for this project. we didn't wanna have rza be the only producer because we wanna move on, we wanna elevate. life is about elevating. so we called some of our friends that really get busy in the game to come out, and when i tell you that these motherfuckers went off, they went off. that's why i've been holding shit back. i haven't really been releasing nothing from my album, 'cause i wanna make sure people know that this is the album. don't get caught up in the single or one record or a mixtape record. just know that, at the end of the day, you gotta go buy that album and go get the real shit. after you see the artwork and the production and the time invested into it, you're gonna want to have it as one of your top classics in your joint." in addition to rza, the list of motherfuckers who went off on the album includes dr. dre, marley marl, pete rock, dj scratch, scram jones, and the late j dilla on the production side of things. the record also features appearances by method man, ghostface killah, gza, busta rhymes, inspectah deck, and travis barker.
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