Track Listing

1. Bring Da Ruckus
2. Shame on a nigga
3. Clan in da front
4. Wu Tang : 7th Chamber
5. Can it be so simple
6. Da mystery of chessboxin'
7. Wu Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit
8. C.R.E.A.M.
9. Method Man
10. Protect ya neck
11. Tearz
12. Wu Tang : 7th Chamber - Part II
13. Method Man (Skunk mix)
14. Conclusion

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3708 in Music
• Released on: 1994-05-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

From Amazon.com
This debut revolutionized hip-hop (and launched half a dozen solo careers), as much for The RZA's raw barrage of off-kilter, off-key loops and sound effects as for its elliptically violent lyrics. Martial arts--at least as they appear in kung fu movies--are the Wu-Tang Clan's favorite metaphor, but they're also the organizing principle of the group, a crowd of eight rappers, each with his own way-out-there "fighting style." They created their own little self-contained culture, with its own symbols and shifting identities, and let listeners figure it out for themselves. Unless you're willing to immerse yourself in its world, it can be baffling and a little dry, but its aggression and originality are undeniable. --Douglas Wolk

Customer Reviews

An essential hip hop album!
Producer and rapper RZA told a Danish interviewer that the album he's the most proud of is this one, "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)", and it is hard to disagree with him.
What is there to say about such an essential hip hop album that hasn't been said? One classic track leads to another on this 1993 release, and today, in the year of 2008, the price is so low there are no excuses on not owning it. Even if you hate hip hop, this record may be the one to start out with, combining primarily simple and catchy beats with the funny, yet hardcore, lyrical masterpieces each member presents us with in each track.
I can try to point of my favorite tracks, but it is kinda hard. "Bring da ruckus", "Shame on a nigga", "Da mystery of chessboxin'", "C.R.E.A.M.", "Protect ya neck", "Tearz" and on and on and on are amazing hip hop tracks that should make every nowadays mediocre mainstream rapper insanely jealous.
Now BUY THIS MOFO and enjoy the mystery of the Clan!

wu's excellent debut...
i bought this album when it first came out, which is bloody years ago...and i still listen to it now, it was unlike any hip hop at the time, with rza going back to the raw roots of old school hip hop yet adding something new to create the wu's trade mark sound...without a doubt one of the greatest rap albums ever made.

Inspirational
Wu tang are one of my biggest influences in my own rap songs, and this album is killer. Bring Da Ruckus is a hard opener and the whole album is hard as it gets! CREAM is amazing. Wu Tangs standout lyricists are obviously ODB and Ghostface, who both sound amazing on every and any track they are in.
This has to go down as one of the best hip hop albums in history, and the beats are pretty amazing to.
a must have for any rap fan