SIDE A
1. Intro (Shaolin Finger Jab) / Chamber Music
2. Careful (Click, Click)
3. Hollow Bones
SIDE B
1. Redbull (featuring Redman)
2. One Blood Under W (featuring Junior Reid)
3. Conditioner (featuring Snoop Dogg)
SIDE C
1. Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)
2. Let My Niggas Live (featuring Nas)
3. I Can’t Go To Sleep (featuring Isaac Hayes)
SIDE D
1. Do You Really (Thang, Thang)
2. The Monument (featuring Busta Rhymes)
3. Gravel Pit
4. Jah World (featuring
The W is the third studio album by the world’s baddest Hip Hop group Wu-Tang Clan. Released in 2000, the album debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200, and instantly topped the R&B/Hip Hop Albums Chart after release. Containing the hit “Gravel Pit”, the album was certified Platinum a few months later.
After their 1997 album Wu-Tang Forever [MOVLP1055] and several solo projects, The W has a more rugged, less polished sound than most Wu-Tang related albums from that era. Group mastermind RZA produced The W with roughed up Soul samples and tight, tough beats. Paranoid kung fu samples and bizarre sounds drive the fantastic nightmare. The back-to-basics approach (the group’s massive debut Enter The Wu-Tang [MOVLP215] comes to mind) works so well because it puts the focus back on some of the best rappers in the game.
The album also features guest appearances from Isaac Hayes, Redman, Nas, Busta Rhymes and Snoop Dogg.
180 gram audiophile vinyl
Wide spine sleeve
First pressing of 1500 numbered copies on crystal clear vinyl