Wu-Tang Clan – 36 Chambers-LP-

This debut revolutionised hip-hop (and launched half a dozen solo careers), as much for The RZA’s raw barrage of off-kilter, off-key loops and sound effects as for its elliptically violent lyrics. Martial arts–at least as they appear in kung fu movies – are the Wu-Tang Clan’s favorite metaphor, but they’re also the organising principle of the group, a crowd of eight rappers, each with his own way-out-there “fighting style.”

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