The MYSTERY of CAPPADONNA

[RhymzaRua]

Cappadonna is the 10th honorary member of the Wu-Tang Clan, and also known to be legendarily wack, constantly outshined on songs he appears on. Triumph is a great example of this, a track where the ENTIRE Clan slaughters Cappa's verse, even ODB, who doesn't even drop a verse. I mean, half his verse doesn't even rhyme:

"I twist darts from the heart, tried and true
Loop my voice on the LP, martini on the slang rocks
Certified chatterbox, vocabulary 'Donna talkin
Tell your story walkin
Take cover kid, what? Run for your brother, kid
Run for your team, and your six camp rhyme groupies
So I can squeeze with the advantage, and get wasted
My deadly notes reigns supreme
Your fort is basic compared to mine
Domino effect, arts and crafts
Paragraphs contain cyanide
Take a free ride on my dart, I got the fashion
catalogues for all y'all to all praise to the Gods"

Ugh, awful... but that's only half the story. Earlier, Cappadonna (aka Cappachino) was on one track on Cuban Linx (Ice Water) and five tracks on Ironman (Iron Maiden, Winter Warz, Fish, Camay, Daytona 500), and he BLAZED his verses, absolutely killed them. On Iron Maiden, for example:

"Deep meditation sound orientated, war the blizzard
Rap para-medical the wizard
Cappadonna, never caterin' to none
My microphone and three verse weigh a ton of slaughter
You oughta five thousand back across the water
My laboratory story keep me flowin' with the glory
Acapella or deep dirty instrumental
I could blow the sky like the stormy wind blew
One gallon of whylin', Park Hill profilin'
I cut your face up rough fifty sure while you're smilin'
For violatin' my position,
I leave you smoked like a crackhead on a mission
Two tokes of mic dope, one stroke of elegance
Rated like the movie graphic told intelligence
Person to person, it'd be hard for you to take a trophy
You better off to get somebody out to try to smoke me
'Cause I'm P-L-O T-K-O every day
Dancehall General, Party Fanatic Colonel
Cappadonna son'a old school just go infernal
Veteran for rappin' with the new set of rule of hard rappin'
Ninety-six jive, I keep the live crowd clappin'
When I bow, all praises due to Staten Isle
I spark the mic and Shaolin spark the methtical
Every evenin', I have a by myself meetin'
Thinkin' who's gonna be the next to catch a beatin'
From my mental slangin', bitchin' rap twist the point of warfare
I brutalize, all competition catch ill hair
Chance him, that's what they said, threw up a ransom
I jacked it, stripped the beat naked and packed it
Gimme my rewards"

Both his flow and lyrics were unstoppable, the exact opposite of his later performances. But what I REALLY don't get is... how'd he degrade such lengths, in such short time? I mean, Ironman and Wu-Tang Forever were only released about a year apart, right?

[Create]

Cuz Ghost Wrote His Verse

[Create]

Hello Ghostdface


Ghostwriter

[Travis B.]

thats bullshit...listen to "little gehtto boys" for example, cappa is killin it

[fox7jr7]

I dont understand how one semi-bad verse needs a thread.

[WolfMan]

I like Cappa, but I have to agree with you, he's, what should you say, "unstable"? He can be great sometimes (Winter Warz, he KILLED it!) then on the next track he could be mediocre, and sometimes bad.

[Knicks]

yeah, cappa shouldna been on triumph.......

[Sicka than aidZ]

I like Cappa, but I have to agree with you, he's, what should you say, "unstable"? He can be great sometimes (Winter Warz, he KILLED it!) then on the next track he could be mediocre, and sometimes bad.

WINTER WARZ AN CAPPA...I LUV HIM FOR THAT VERSE.....IT WENT ON AN ON FOR LIKE 1 AN A HALF MINUTES

[Claustrofobic]

I dont understand how one semi-bad verse needs a thread.

co-sign

[Sicka than aidZ]

Triumph is a great example of this, a track where the ENTIRE Clan slaughters Cappa's verse, even ODB, who doesn't even drop a verse. I mean, half his verse doesn't even rhyme:

LMAO!!..THATS FUNNY AS HELL

[WolfMan]

WINTER WARZ AN CAPPA...I LUV HIM FOR THAT VERSE.....IT WENT ON AN ON FOR LIKE 1 AN A HALF MINUTES

Yeah, I remember the first time I heard that song... I didn't listen very carefully, but after a while I was like "Is Cappa still on?! How long is his verse?!" Then I listened to it again, and shit was on fire! Just that verse alone was probably the reason why I bought The Pillage!

[faderlaceratah]

Legendarily wack? that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard. Before you label an exceptionally dope emcee "legendarily wack" you should do your knowledge... you call him wack because of one semi-wack, 13 bar verse? you seem to have forgotten about his debut LP The Pillage from 1998, which is a certified classic in my books. I bumped that album for months, and still do, start to finish. That's a dope album with what, like 16 tracks of dope verses from cap.. listen to that album and tell me that he's "legendarily wack" and "constantly outshined on tracks he appears on"

[Sun Tzu, Tha Soul Controllah]

Legendarily wack? that's the stupidest thing i've ever heard. Before you label an exceptionally dope emcee "legendarily wack" you should do your knowledge... you call him wack because of one semi-wack, 13 bar verse? you seem to have forgotten about his debut LP The Pillage from 1998, which is a certified classic in my books. I bumped that album for months, and still do, start to finish. That's a dope album with what, like 16 tracks of dope verses from cap.. listen to that album and tell me that he's "legendarily wack" and "constantly outshined on tracks he appears on"

exactly. Also my theory is that most of the time he is freestylin, i mean, literally his verses sound like freestyles most of the time, but Cappadonna isn't wack man, far from it, you just haven't delved deep into his material to hear his greatness

[Analyze]

I not a fan of Cappa but I thought he verse on trumiph didnt take away for the song. After I heard it I wasnt like "Man they should've put Preist on instead of Cappa".

Wu Forever

[Sicka than aidZ]

cappa's all hood...grimey emcee.....if i knew him id trust him as far as i could throw him.....

I called his celly and his message was "luv is luv" beeeeep....some baltimore number, caps voice tho, got the number from this site