Inspectah Deck would have given Nas a run for his money back in the 90s. He was that nice. Listen to his verse on "Duel of the Iron Mic", "Cold World", "Guillotine", "Hellz Wind Staff", "A Better Tomorrow", "Triumph", basically anything Deck touched in the Wu golden period of 1993-1997.
Dirty DEFINITELY wasn't a savage. Remember when in Brooklyn when Dirty saved the little girl from a burning car, or burning building? What savage would do that? RIP to ODB.
When RZA said on Wu-Tang Forever in 1997 that "yall not gonna figure it out till the year 2G".... now if you look at the state of hip hop and the world in general, I can understand what he was trying to say. These Deck clips are ill btw.
Just like Busta Rhyme, Tony Tony Tone & Prince did...🙄🙄🙄 The face of the masons will be out in their new world order & y'all will be the recipient of the suffering... It was more than just about music... Osama Bin Laden getting ready to bomb...
True ODB story...1993 Wu Tang's first time ever in Cali, a few months after releasing 36 chambers....There use to be this event called the Gavin Convention (3 day Hip Hop Show Case). This particular year it was held in San Francisco,Ca, with showcases through out the Bay Area. I was in college and hosted a college radio show and some how came up on backstage passes in order to get "drops" from recording artist for my particular show. How I knew it was there 1st time ever in Cali?....While chopping it up with The GZA and getting hella "drop sound bites" from him, He said "Yo, this is our first time ever coming to Cali and we had no idea we had love like that". Anyways, after about a 30 min convo the homie GZA blessed me with some tickets to see the Wu perform in Oakland the following day. Mind you, at that point the only Wu membersI saw was GZA and Shyhiem the rugged child.(who must have been 15yrs old). The following night I'm at this little hole in the wall club in Oakland,Ca. The spot had a main club area and a smaller adjacent vip type area. I'm posted up dolo in the small VIP spot which had a small Bar but also had a DJ spinning beats. Roughly about 8 people total in there with 3 of them being these local cats standing in front of me in a cypher busting freestyles to the beats. About 10 minuets later I hear the DJ say "We got the Wu Tang in the house". I look towards to bar area and it was all 9 members, plus Poppa Wu and about 15 fine bitches real talk. i see GZA, he nods what up from a distance, I nod back like good looking on the tiks mane. THEN........I see the "OLD DIRTY FUCKIN BASTARDS" who is walking towards me, looking directly at me like he was coming to holla. ODB had on a very stained and wrinkled white T on. I'm talking very dirty, very wrinkled, stains all over it and he was sweating like a moufucka, just pouring sweat. It was odd because all the other members were dressed Wu Tang Fly. He gets like 3 steps from me, turns and head into the lil freestyle cypher which was right in front of me. After hearing about 2 bars from who ever was spitten ODB unleashed retarded drunken style animated theatrical bars at these dudes. Till this day I've never ever scene ANYBODY rhyme like that, completely invaded personal space, It was personal too because he walked up on each one, his face inches from there's. Spit coming out, sweat coming out.....and he was literally hella dirty. Papa Wu comes over and grabs him. Papa Wu emphatically apologizes to the 3 dudes for ODB'S behavior and pulls ODB to the bar area. I could over hear the other Wu cats get at him about "always buggin and fuckin shit up and to chill the fuck out. Think he chilled? NOPE. After telling the other members to fuck off and mind your own fuckin bussiness AND after Papa Wu turned his head this nigga ODB walked right back over to the cypher and got at these dudes AGAIN. But this time he was really on that ODB Drunk style shit, AGAIN...hella hand and body motions, all up in each one grill dam near kissing em(no homo), spit flying, sweat flying, I'm talking SUPER WET SUPER DIRTY ASS WHITE T SHIRT and lyrically fuckin these dudes up saying the most bizzare chit off beat shit. AGAIN...Pappa Wu see's him and comes snatch him up( and a gives the 3 dudes a very very sincere apology on Wu Tangs behalf AGAIN).... TRILL SHIT......after the same rigamaro as before with the other members this nigga creeps off again walks towards these 3 dudes to fuck em up some more, but Papa Wu see's him and grab him before he get to em and tells ODB, "Nigga, knock it off right now before i FUCK YOU UP". ODB says to Papa WU ok and post up right beside me....BUT he faced the wall, I had my back to the wall. I'm just knowing the nigga was gonna try to get at me on some shit because he is ON ONE and standing right next to me. I don't look at him or acknowledge him but i can hear the nigga rhyming, so I turn and peep him. MY NIGGA IS FACING A BRICK WALL LIKE HE ON DETENTION, RHYMING/BATTLING THE WALL, FULL BLOWN SWEAT, SPIT FLYING AND CURSING, THEATRICAL, HAND AND BODY MOTIONS ALL OVER THE PLACE, BUT SAYING SOME DOPE SHIT. This goes on for about 10 min no lie. Then I hear the DJ say "WU TANG TO THE STAGE"....By this time it's about 30-40 people in the VIP Spot. Trill shit.....All 40 plus people plus all 9 Wu Members walk out the VIP to the main club area and ALL of us go on stage. Shit was incredible......but wait we are talking ODB! They did'nt have a DJ, instead they performed off a "DAT" tape (pre recorded instrumentals). Not sure what the 1st song was, but ODB had the 1st verse. About 4 bars into his verse the DAT tape stopped. ODB has a fuckin fit. RZA rewinds the tape and ODB starts spitten. 8 bars in same thing, tape stop. AGAIN ODB flashes, says he gonna kill the sound man(RZA) and demands that the tape be rewind so that he can get his shit off. In fact he says "AIN'T NO FUCKIN BODY ROCKIN UNLESS THE TAPE IS REWIND SO THAT HE CAN GET HIS SHIT OFF! Mind you, he was dripping sweat and hella dirty. NO BODY WAS TRYING TO EVEN STAND CLOSE TO HIM( Wu niggas included) After trying to fix the DAT TAPE for a good 5 min RZA was like fuck it...NEXT SONG. Other Wu niggas nodded in agreement, but ODB was not having it. My nigga goes off on a drunken/high tangent about how the other members always be hating on him, about the people are here to actually see him, NOT the other niggas.....and more importantly "FUCK THAT SHIT GOD, IF I DON'T SPLASH MY VERSE, AIN'T NO BODY SPLASHING" Niggas was trying to grab his mic an all. Mind you, we/they been on stage a good 15 min now. I see METH talking to Pappa Wu in discuse and then Pappa Wu walks up to ODB and whisper something in his ear. ODB then pauses, looks around then slams the MIC on the stage, breaking it and says" Aight, it's like that my nigga, ok fuck all ya'll bitch ass niggas then, I'm out back to my hotel room.....but yo....which one of ya'll fine Cali bitches wanna come get high with Ason Unique?....and literally bounced out with 4 bitches. THEN....ALL I HEARD WAS" M.E.T.H.O.D MAN " coming from the sound system and the crowed went funkin ballistic in OAKLAND CALIF. SHIT HAPPENED 25 YRS AGO...BEEN AROUND HIP HOP 30YRS....TO THIS DAY MY MOST FAVORITE/MEMORABLE MOMENT IN HIP HOP. THANK YOU ASON UNIQUE...I SEEN IT WITH MY OWN EYES, HE REALLY REALLY WAS AN OLD DIRTY BASTARD!
I was there too, my brother lost a shoe in the whole commotion. I remember walking back to the tel and saw Mic Jeronimo beating some dude up. Crazy ass night.
WU Tang, Mobb Deep, & Nas... The best collaborations in hip hop imo. Come at me with if u feel others could fuck with that duo, coz I'm thinking none! Real talk
Also I'm from Chicago and growing up the Rza was my Mozart in terms of hip hop music as far as a production standpoint. But Deck is right Kanye from a production standpoint could've been a Clan member. Kanye always said in his earlier interviews that he based his sound on Supreme Clientele which was his favorite album. I think people not from Chicago and those under 30 won't know about Kanye's work pre-Roc-a-Fella. Go check out Gravity album's can't remember the name of it but it's on youtube but he got a song with Al Tariq from the Beatnuts called City to City on some Chicago/ NY shit and Kanye produced the joint and that album. This was 1996 and his shit was fire and ahead of the curve back then. There was alot of niggas in Chicago that would've been like Kanye but Chicago dosn't hae the labels so Kanye had to move to Jersey. Plus Kanye came of age in the digital age where technology had updated but his music has always been on some subterranean underground, spazzola shit mixed with soul samples. The difference is Rza was producing his best shit on an MPC and analog Kanye came along in the Pro Tools/Digital era. The RZA used ot loop his samples and Kanye used to speed them up but the percussion and sounds were damn near eerily similar and I'm glad they got ot work together on MDTF. Listen to Kanye's song like Power or Triumph or PLO style and then Kanye's joint Breathe In and it's basically like the RZA is Jordan and Kanye is Kobe.
Chad, I agree. Master P gets down, even now that he's almost 50. I still laugh at the way he wiped the smile out of Charlamagne's face, LoL. Plus, he pistol whipped Pimp C
Very few curse words came out of Deks mouth . No yadadamean bullshyt like Lord Jamar. True MC who can spit his thoughts and paint a picture with words and vernacular gifts on a spiritual level
+RaTeedus Yeah i think he knows considering he wrote after 'when they first came out'. I think he was supposed to write Wu Tang members but made a mistake and wrote member.
the nastiest and most talented *lyricist* out the Wu! This cat is so effing slept on, yo'. Like everybody always wanna talk GZA, RZA, Ghost...but right here. This is the most solid example of lyrical talent in the Wu camp. Just sayin'... There's lotsa talent in Wu but nobody can outshine this dude when he brings his a-game!
We all know The Rebel INS is a legend but I was just thinking back on Wu history and their first two albums were and are heralded as classics but think about it Deck has the dopest verses on both albums. His verse on C.R.E.A.M off Enter the 36 Chambers and his verse on Triumph off the double LP Wu Tang Forever. Those two verses solidified the Wu's legacy again and again. I love listening to his stories because he and Masta Killa were always the laid back ones that weren't all up in the camera's face. By the way go cop his first solo album Uncontrolled Substance. It had a lot of darts and jewels on there.
I was at that show in Miami when ODB ran up on Akinyele, It was a mess.. For the record though, Deck is one of the most underrated ever and definitely one of the greatest writers and emcees of our time..
Dirty was the type too get his hair braided 2weeks before videos and photo shoots Best one was at the VMA's when he took the mic and said Wu Tang is for the kids I bought this Suit Lmaooooooooooo I died when he said that but it was some real shit tho!
VLAD! Please bring more Wu-members! Everybody's saluting and honoring Wu, from Kendrick and TDE to even Drizzy, yet the Wu is pretty unexplored on Vladtv. Bring GZA, RZA or Ghost, they are good talkers. To make it special, bring GZA!
GZA and Deck displayed the most spectacular vernacular out of the WU... Meth and ODB were the hottest stage performers, so smooth and so rough. RZA chopped and mixed it.. everybody else is great seasoning.. but for me, those former five is what kept it live. Liquid swords, Tical, return to the 36, and last but by no fuckin means least, Uncontrolled Substance are primo records... respect to Ghost, Chef, Masta, and U-God. Just my flavors leakin out.... what?!
Just after the video of Protect your neck dropped I saw Dirty in this asian electronics store in China toad NYC on Canal St that I picked up my VHS and audio tapes from. He was causing a ruckus in there talking about the prices were too high, when in reality they were the cheapest prices in the entire area LOL. Met him again a while later when he was blowing up when he came through to talk about working on a collaboration project with a pretty big European artist I was working with, he was the calmest nicest dude you could ever meet at that time. R.I.P. ODB
ffeda yea right? i dont agree with him saying kanye style as far as rhyming now from a production stand point i dont know either but as far as rhyming i dont think him or nas would fit into that wu chemistry. Now in my opinion roc marciano and i could see redman fitting. No disrespect to nas or kanye love there contribution to the craft but everything in the history of hip hop took its direction for a reason. To me it aint ever and never will be a unit of intellectuals like them. They the only individuals i salute when they use the term God referring to themselves as well as black men, because of yhe knowledge they spreaded and lessons through there music, not just upstate either but down here below the mason dixon they trie'd to uplift brothers, breaking bread with the crowd at shows on stage and shit
@@jeremyeastland9531 sohn God is ol' d b and Nas GodSon son is God out chere just had to walk a fine line since forgot was fear kept me at Bay. ..im ol d b son I live
"...i try to keep my calm at all times unless its u know time to flip out. And hes always on flip mode unless its time to calm down" hahahahaha. Thats dirty for ya
It's like this, I'ma start from the top Inspectah Deck, he's like He's like that dude that'll sit back and watch you Play yourself and all that, right? And see you sit there and know you lyin And he'll take you to court after that Cause he the Inspectah, that's why he the and And also he the Rebel I.N.S. You know what I'm sayin?
Damn I remember seeing that Akinyele ODB shit... neither one of them beat each other up but both of their crews got into it and yes, ODB started that shit.... South Beach Miami 1996 'How Can I Be Down' seminar, at the Luke Show.... Funkmaster Flex was DJing ( I think Red Alert was too) No cameras were allowed in the club so nobody got any of the footage and the show was cut short cuz right after the fight someone started shooting...20 dollars for not even half of a show, but it was worth the experience!!!
I was at the glam slam in Miami working front stage security when he flipped over the turntable on meth and Redman set. He did his set laying on a mattress. And threw up. After his set cut short he was standing next to me front bottom stage. Looked me dead in the eye jumped on the stage and ran into the turntables! True story
Ich kann es kaum glauben dass er sich so unterm Radar bewegt. Der Typ ist ein top 10 ever. Allein sein neuen Platten mit eso, 7l und doom sind brutal gut. Holt euch seine Platten!
