Da Mystery Of Chessboxin' - Track Review

Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'

Enter The Wu Tang(36 Chambers)
1993

U-God
Inspectah Deck
Raekwon The Chef
Method Man
Ol' Dirty Bastard
Ghostface Killah
Masta Killa

RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard



[Intro - Wu-Tang movie dialogue]

The game of chess, is like a swordfight
You must think first, before you move
Toad style is immensely strong, and immune to nearly any weapon
When it's properly used, it's almost invincible

(U-God)

Raw I'm gonna give it to you, with no trivia
Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia
My hip-hop will rock and shock the nation
like the Emancipation Proclamation
Weak MC's approach with slang that's dead
you might as well run into the wall and bang your head
I'm pushin' force, my force your doubtin'
I'm makin' devils cower to the Caucus Mountains

(Inspectah Deck)

Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire
Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah
I come from the Shaolin slum, and the isle I'm from
is coming through with nuff niggas and nuff guns
so if you wanna come sweating, stressing, contesting
you'll catch a sharp sword to the midsection
Don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk
Phony niggas are outlined in chalk
A man vexed, is what the projects made me
Rebel to the grain there's no way to barricade me
Steamrolling niggas like a eighteen wheeler
with the drunk driver driving, there's no surviving

(Raekwon)

Rough like Timberland wear, yeah
Me and the Clan, and you're the Landcruisers out there
Peace to all the crooks, all the niggas with bad looks
Bald heads, braids, blow this hook
We got chrome tecs, nickel plated macs
Black axe, drug dealing styles in phat stacks
I've only been a good nigga for a minute though
'cause I got to get my props, and win it you
I got beef with commercial-ass niggas with gold teeth
lampin in a Lexus eating beef
Straight up and down don't even bother
I got forty niggas up in here now, who kill niggas fathers

[Chorus]

(Method Man)

My peoples are you with me, where you at?
In the front, in the back killer-bees on attack
my people are you with me, where you at?
Smoking meth hitting cats on the block with the gats

(Ol' Dirty Bastard)

Here I go, deep type flow
Jacque Cousteau could never get this low..
I'm cherry bombing shits... BOOM
Just warming up a little bit, vroom vroom
Rappinin is what's happening
Keep the pockets stacked and then, hands clapping and
At the party when I move my body
Gotta get up, and be somebody!
Grab the microphone go straight to the phone
DUH-DUH-DUH...enter the Wu-Tang zone
Sure enough when I rock that stuff
Guff puff? I'm gonna catch your bluff tough
rough, kicking rhymes like Jim Kelly
or Alex Haley I'm a Mi-..Beetle Bailey rhymes
coming raw style, hardcore
Niggas be coming to the hip-hop store
Coming to buy grocery from me
Trying to be a hip-hop MC
The law, in order to enter the Wu-Tang
You must bring the Ol' Dirty Bastard type slang
Represent the GZA, Abbott, RZA, Shaquan, Inspectah Deck
Dirty Hoe getting low with his flow
Introducing, the Ghost..face.. Killer!!
No one could get iller

[Chorus]

(Ghostface Killah)

Speaking of the devil psych, no it's the God, get the shit right
Mega trife, and you're I killed you in a past life
On the mic while you was kicking that fast shit
You reneged tried again, and got blasted
Half mastered ass style mad ruff task
When I struck I had on Timbs and a black mask
Remember that shit? I know you don't remember jack
That night yo I was hitting like a spiked bat
and then you thought I was bugged out, and crazy
strapped for nonsense, after me became lazy
yo, nobody budge while I shot slugs
Never shot thugs, I'm running with thugs that flood mugs
So grab your eight plus one, start flipping and tripping
Niggas is jetting I'm licking off son

(Wu, Tang, Wu, Tang, Wu, Tang, Wu, Tang!!!!)

(Masta Killa)

Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
What justifies the homicide, when he dies?
In his own iniquity it's the
Master of the Mantis Rapture coming at you
We have an APB on an MC Killer
Looks like the work of a Master
Evidence indicates that's it's stature
Merciless like a terrorist hard to capture
The flow, changes like a chameleon
Plays like a friend and stabs you like a dagger
This technique attacks the immune system
Disguised like a lie paralyzing the victim
You scream as it enters your bloodstream
Erupts your brain from the pain these thoughts contain
Moving on a nigga with the speed of a centipede
and injure - ANY MOTHERFUCKING CONTENDER

[Chorus]








What do you think about this Song?For me It's one of my favorites.

Classic. I just wished that RZA & especially GZA were on this; it would be the true posse cut on their debut LP.

Is this a real poll?Of course classic no doubt

Damn, who voted star banger? sorry i disagree with you, this should be and is a straight classic, hands down.
Even the opening verse alone is enough to make this song a classic

Method Man's chorus is so charismatic, i love the chorus. Deck's verse is fucking insane. U-God, Masta Killa fucking destroyed the track. ODB has a nice flow as did Rae and Ghost.

Surprisingly Ghostface and Rae are my least favs on the track, despite them being my 2 fav Wu members.

whoever didn't vote 5 stars is pretty suspect
if you could extract the wu tang essence in its purest form and make a track out of it 'mystery of chessboxin' would be the result

It's decent. never liked this one too much.

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Originally Posted by breaststroke & butterfly

it's decent. Never liked this one too much.

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what!?

what this song really makes it a classic is odb singing.
nah,it`s definetly a classic

Lyrically, Masta Killa is light years beyond the rest of the clan on this track.

Best verse on 36 chambers IMO.

U-God's lyrics got sampled on The Pharcyde's Devil Music song on LabCabinCalifornia album when he said my hip hop will rock and shock the nation. Da Mystery Of Chessboxin song is a classic and I like the video.