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    Darrell Ramos favorited and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
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    Jon Drewes liked and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
    This is an audio movie! Raekwon the chef at his finest! Wu Tang is here forever
    
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    Jon Drewes It is definetly in the top 10 in my book such a awesome album! You can't skip one track
    
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    Nancy Lee liked and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
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    Steven Grover favorited and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
    Ghost complements Raekwon so well!
    
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    jonjon liked and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
    Still sound'z great after 16 year'z..Real Classic shit! WU forever.
    
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    Aaron Eddy favorited and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
    Best rap album of all-time.
    
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    Francis Rivilla favorited and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
    Best Wu Tang solo artist (even though when Ghostface is all over the tracks) album evarr
    
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    Jeff liked and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
    Best hip hop album of all time?
    
    I prefer Illmatic but this runs damn close.
    
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    kompulsive liked and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
    straight-up-classic-material.
    
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    Fraser liked and reviewed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
    
    Dave borrowed this from tall Adam. I remember sitting in the basement copying it to tape.
    
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2008 release containing the instrumental version of this album from the Wu Tang member, originally released in 1995. Only Built 4 Cuban Linx's portraits of big-money drug deals and black underworld kingpins living in luxury had an enormous influence on the new New York hardcore scene, cinematic soundscapes support the album's tone; the appropriately dark or melancholy, shifting moods layer like different scenes in a film. 17 tracks. Altered Ego.Only Built 4 Cuban Linx is arguably the best quasi-solo Wu-Tang album (Ghostface Killah literally gets equal billing). Most of contemporary hip-hop's Mafioso-inspired themes and MC street aliases are inspired by the "Wu-Gambinos" motif introduced on this 18-cut LP. As the Wu's preeminent storyteller, Raekwon (a.k.a. "The Chef") paints Technicolor Kool G Rap-style pictures of high-stakes drug trafficking on "Criminology," and then mixes his street sensibility with 5% Nation of Islam reasoning on "Knowledge God." This album is loaded with RZA's finest production moments, as he samples a barrage of kung-fu flick sound bites, plays discordant keyboards on "Incarcerated Scarfaces," and utilizes some eerie female vocals on "Rainy Dayz." Rae's timeless duet with Nas on "Verbal Intercourse" further cements the album's status as one of the best of all time. --Dalton Higgins

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By Raekwon, 1995

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