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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Contest Win Tickets to GZA!

Posted by Ezra Ace Caraeff on Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:11 AM

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Woo? Wu!! We've got a sweet pair of tickets to giveaway to see GZA next Monday, August 25th, at Berbati's Pan. The Genius is rolling through town with a new disc under his belt--the gritty Pro Tools which holds down the classic Wu style you've come to expect, alongside all the prerequisites (50 Cent diss track? Check!) of a modern hiphop banger.

But come Monday, GZA will be sharpening his rhyming skills by performing his masterwork, 1995's Liquid Swords, in its entirety. Arguably (although this is a good debate) the greatest solo album to fall from the Wu family tree (it sure beats U-God's Mr. Xcitement), Liquid Swords has aged gracefully over the years and should be considered one of East Coast hiphop's landmark releases. Plus, anytime a Wu member comes to town (Berbati's, specifically) who knows if ODB's (Vancouver-based) extended family will once again roll down and take the stage.

Enough already. Let's giveaway those tickets. To win two tickets to see GZA all you have to do is comment below and explain why you (and no one else) deserve to take home this prize. Are you the biggest GZA fan ever? Did Liquid Swords change your life? Want to send a photo of your Wu Tang logo (riding a dolphin) ankle tattoo? Or perhaps you should share that erotic Raekwon/Masta Killa slash fiction you've been working? And if all those things don't work out, just plea your case. Sob stories welcome.

The contest ends Friday at 9am, so good luck.

LISTEN:







GZA - "Liquid Swords"

 

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Liquid Swords is the best solo Wu record, and second in the entire Wu catalog only to 36 Chambers.

There, I said it.
Posted by Rob on August 20, 2008 at 10:31 AM · Report
2
I want them because my father was the shoguns decapitator
Posted by smithygreg on August 20, 2008 at 11:11 AM · Report
3
The Genius of all Clan Members was by far the best lyricists around. No one could touch him. Like they once said....when the Wu Came together, the Genius was the head. They formed like Voltron, and the Gza was the head...
No Sob-stories...give these tix to me...to a 31year old who now lives in cubicles slanging software listening to Wu in one year, and Software guys in the other. Make my day.

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I now leave you with one of the best rhymes:

"Yo, too many songs, weak rhymes that's mad long
Make it brief Son, half short and twice strong
No doubt, it took time searchin, eventually
it was prime urgent, for you to examine the rhyme merchant
Lace MC's with styles when they rhyme drunk
On a label hunt, until twenty thou, out the trunk
Eight Diagram sword swinga armored tank force
RZA throw in the disc but then change the bank source
You can't flow, must be the speech impediment
You got lost off the snare off Impeach the President
Whether in Amsterdam smokin seven grams of green
then you pack, a thousand white teens in tight jeans
This Witty Unpredictable shot is critical
to analytical analogy, insurance policies why
Said he know that sounds define the note
Couldn't recognize, blast him the fuck behind the ropes
Too many dope niggaz I see starvin
Catch a single deal, a possible plea bargain
Wu slay regardles to whom or what, five mics five nights
Hang him from the balcony, drop twenty-five flights
A fugitive bass playin rap czar
smoke the cigars, his prints on the strings of his guitar"

WU-TANGGGGGG
Posted by The Shrza on August 20, 2008 at 12:37 PM · Report
4
Gary Grice is my hero.

A solid mass of minerals, easily broke down.
Posted by z on August 20, 2008 at 1:30 PM · Report
5
I need to go to this! I bonded with my first serious crush in middle school over wu tang. He was so out of my league but we both had love for the wu. If only he had had love for me! :(

Posted by whitelightgenerator on August 20, 2008 at 2:59 PM · Report
6
Why should I get the ticket?

Because I secretly think he guy I'm dating is racist, and this will be the best way to call him out.
Damn it.
Posted by _dom on August 20, 2008 at 3:55 PM · Report
7
I smoked a blunt with Method Man and RZA at a Wu show in Rochester, NY when I was like 14. I believe I heard GZA make a passing comment that "Meth shouldn't be smokin no woo's with a bunch of corny whiteboys from Long Island."

So give me the damned tickets, already.
Posted by Steve Bonus on August 20, 2008 at 4:04 PM · Report
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I HAVE to go to this show. I am working riDONKulous hours at the jobby job and have managed to miss Mos Def, DJ Shadow, and just about every other hip hop show worth a lick this summer. I'm hoping to redeem myself in a big way if I can swing Rock the Bells, but that weekend might get squeezed by the job, too. GZA would be a great start at salvaging my summer, especially if I can talk my way backstage armed with nothing but a maple bacon bar with the letters "GZA" spelled in bacon across the golden maple iced top. C'mon guys - you know you want me representin' PDX. I'm the only one here willing to wait in a line around the block at Voodoo dodging bicycle cabs, riff raff and sweaty weird guys coming out of that erotic anime theater next door. BRING IT ON!

to summarize: gza who? gza what? gza please?
Posted by djbills on August 20, 2008 at 9:27 PM · Report
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It's going to be hard to beat the girl with racist boyfriend, but here goes:

1. I am tired of Li'l Wayne
2. I am tired of Li'l Wayne and every other radio hip hop/rap/r&B/etc. personality using vocoder on EVERY song.
3. i still own a recorded-off-mtv video cassette of the top 10 wu tang music videos that i made in my teenage years and would play almost every day i came home from school. i'll give you this tape if you want it.
4. again, in high school, during the weezer "pinkerton" tour, I made a tshirt that said "weezer" with the wu-tang font and wore it to the concert. i don't have any photos or the shirt anymore, but i have a friend who will vouch i was at that concert.
5. i have seen (and for a while, owned) videocassettes of "shogun assassin," "5 deadly venoms," and "shaolin & wu tang" (check the samples).
6. i bought tickets to the RATM, ATR, and Wu Tang concert that at the old memorial coliseum in 1997. i didn't end up going because i had my wisdom teeth pulled a few days before. i might still have the concert poster.
7. i volunteered at the wow hall so I could get "back stage" and let all my friends in the back door for free during the november '05 GZA concert.
8. I suspect the racist boyfriend post is a really good lie.
9. I will not sell these tickets on craigslist
10. I'll spend $50 (the cost of tickets) on locally recorded and produced records/concerts in the next couple weeks.
Posted by miguelaron on August 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM · Report
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The GZA the Genius is just a genius he.... He's the back bone of the whole clan. Self explanatory. He da head, lets put it that way. We form like Voltron and GZA happens to be the head.

P.S. I will never reveal the Wu-Tang secret. Even if it costs me these free tickets.
Posted by Finger Jab on August 21, 2008 at 2:05 PM · Report
11
I think he's my dad and I need to get a DNA sample.
Posted by dalasv on August 21, 2008 at 4:38 PM · Report
12
I think I should get the ticket because:

Last time I saw the GZA I reached out with my fist in hopes that he'd bump it. When it came to my turn someone reached over my and stole my bump.
Posted by Jon Blaze on August 22, 2008 at 8:22 AM · Report
13
so, did i win or what?
Posted by miguelaron on August 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM · Report
14
so, did i win or what?
Posted by miguelaron on August 22, 2008 at 10:59 AM · Report

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