The dude, Blackink done put an idea in my head. He don’t appreciate RZA’s mic skills too much and estimated that he’d fall into the bottom 3rd of any breakdown of the Wu. That, of course, got me wondering what the full breakdown would look like. Let’s here The engine and caboose are easy. That’s GZA and U-God, for sure. It’s those ones in the middle that make it tough.
9. U-God. Worst of the bunch by far.
8. Masta Killa – I have some friends who’d rank him higher, but nah, B. I never, ever liked his flow.
7. RZA. I went from the bottom and then from the top, and here’s where he landed. I guess he is in the bottom third. But I will say that the distance between him and the other two is probably greater than the distance between, say, Method Man and Ghostface.
6. Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Obviously this ain’t based on who my favorite is, otherwise he’d be first.
5. Method Man – On flow alone. He could probably go a little higher, but I’m really not seeing him top out over Ghost or Rae.
4. Raekwon. This could go either way. It could be either Ghost-Rae or Rae-Ghost. Only because I’m trying to break it up in 3rds do I even bother.
3. Ghostface Killa – Even though I didn’t always like Ghost, I think he always brought it.
2. Inspectah Deck. There’s a reason he usually went first. Only one with more scientifically-structured lyrics was GZA.
1. GZA. There’s a reason he usually went last. All I got to say is, disciplinary action was a fraction of strength that made me truncate the list one-tenth.
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My list would be a bit different. I think Deck is actually number one. GZA was strong, but its usually Deck’s verses that I found myself dropping everything to listen to. Also, I actually think Dirty was underrated as a lyricist and Ghost is somewhat overrated. I like both of course, but Ghost makes up a lot of words (if you want to call them that). RZA had moments, but overall i think 7th is about right. My breakdown would probably be like this….
1. Deck
2. GZA
3. Raekwon
4. Method Man
5. Ol’ Dirty
6. Ghostface
7. RZA
8. U-God
9. Masta Killa
i fools w/ that list. i can definitely see the argument of deck over gza, and historically, i wasn’t really a big ghost dude. it wasn’t until later-later that i started to think he might’ve been better than i was givin him credit for being. as of 36 chambers, he’da been 6th for me. but u-god…he’s always last.
Dude, we’re of the same mind sometimes.Great minds and all that.
Yeah. I can definitely see U-God as last. Especially how he flipped out toward the RZA a few years back. But Masta Killa is last for me because, like you, I just never liked his flow. Especially on the uptempo tracks. He would just throw it completely off.
Ghost has been the subject of many heated hip hop arguments in my lil’ crew. Everyone likes him, but its always hard to place in a list like this.
RZA was definitely better at crafting the beats, but his verse on Wu-Gambinos is one of my all time favorites from the crew.