If INS had spit his lyrics over the beats from The Pillage the album would have been just about an outright classic. The pillage is a decent album but mainly due to the quality of the beats. while uncontrolled substance suffers from poor beats. Rza is executive producer on both, why did he not give one of the hottest mc's in his crew good beats. I read a review of the Pillage once where they described Cappadonna as coming off as a retarded Ghostface killah. It just seems a dumb move to me.

While touching on this most of the Wu release after Forever up to 2000 are very good albums many ageing well. At the time of there release many were seen as a failure. Now in 2009 these albums were actually quality releases. Off the top of my head albums like Heavy mental, The pillage, GAR, Silent weapons for quiet wars, beneath the surface , In stereo and Immobilarity fit in this category. I love these albums now more than ever. When released they got slated. I aint saying they are all classics, as I said the beats make The Pillage for example.