Inside Supreme Clientele
Classic album was on constant rotation for most of the early 2000s for me
Originally Posted by SATAN
First time I heard it when I was 12. It was 2005 and I remember I wanted to understand what Ghostface rapped about in "One" so I took my dictionary and tried to translate the lyrics lol.. Now I know it was pointless 'cause of the slang.
"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth" (Rev. 3:15-16)
1st Ghostface album I bought tho
nice piece on one of my fav albums ever
SC is an interesting album in the WU's history. Even though I think its a dope (not classic) album i find it odd that alot of WU fans especially think its so great considering that Ghost admits that his pen game is for the most part nonsense on here. Rapping just for the sake of rhyming random shit together is not something to be celebrated or looked upon as something classic...right or wrong? I mean thats essentially what's the problem in todays hiphop and why people say "hip hop is dead". Wether its fluff or bravado or nonsensical, thats ultimately what WU fans DON'T like or are against. And to think its an album that supposedly saved WU from going under is a ridiculously ironic statement.
Wrong... next please! lol
"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth" (Rev. 3:15-16)
HOW am i wrong tho?
Most of SC makes sense, no matter what Ghost says.
There's nothing wrong with a free- associative style, it encourages the listener to make connections between the words and phrases. Whether or not those connections were intentional is immaterial.
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Crashing high speed Strawberry Kiwi yo. How can you not understand that is beyond me.
N.I.
there's not many 24hr periods I've gone without hearing a couple tracks from this album in 15 years
same here, I bang this album least once a day, once a week and been bumping this since it came out when I was in my junior year of high school
When Ghost brushes it off like "I was just throwin random shit together" i think he's either being overly modest or throwing us for a loop
The trademark of his style for many years, before and after SC, could be described as "throwing random shit together" it's just the most concentrated and well-done on SC
He's "throwing random shit together" all over Ironman too: "Michael Bolton magazine quote, I'm too potent"
Supreme Clientele is simply SLANG metaphors taken to the utmost extreme and it is hip hop poetry at its finest
"Acrobat run up on that Love Jones actress
distract the cat, while I'm high, sugar get a crack at this"
Would've been great if Cobra Clutch had made it onto there. Ghost Supreme Slang to the utmost. One of my favorite Ghost tracks
What up. I see your points and all but this is hard to defend :“’Yo I’ma make a rhyme not meaning nothing.’” Just put words together but what the sentence might mean, might not got nothing to do for nothing." Its cool and all but in the Wu-tangs history I think its strange considering what they stood for, at least in the beginning. Also, ghost didn't know what to write, he admits that in another interview, the same went for bulletproof wallets. But as a fundamental WU fan I have to say this album is wrongly overrated to classic status, and I attribute that to its beat selection.
I read a lot off stuff about Ghostface rhyming about nothing on Supreme Clientele nowadays, but to me it was always about him bragging. Me personally I never took his versers from "One" or "Nutmeg" as songs about nothing, It was always braggin' and playing with rhymes on these type of Ghost's joints to me
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