Windmill - Track Review

[beautifulrock]

Windmill

8 Diagrams
2007

Raekwon
GZA
Masta Killa
Inspectah Deck
Method Man
Cappadonna

RZA


[Intro]

(Make me yours) He get out of line, break his fucking arm...
You know how it go (What am I supposed to say? Yeeaaah)
You know, word up, not playing the games, with these niggaz, man
(Somebody tell me what do I do...)
None at all, man... hit 'em off, none of that, man

(Raekwon)

Ayo, jump out the Acura, crazy heavy, what's popping?
Us locking the game, word to every hand on the lock men
Street gwop, everybody eats, sweep blocks
This is a message, ain't go no grams, we gon' beatbox
Study like lessons, niggaz in the game biting the grain
You knowing where it came from, stop it
You thought we wasn't coming? You dumbing, you blunted again
Watch Lex get that dough out ya pocket, rhyme all 'pallegic
Can't nothing move when I rhyme, when I drop lines it's law out in Egypt
Love ups, don't need no batteries now, what?
The only niggaz that'll glow'll be us
Yo, throw me in Sin City, leave me with the vultures and bats
Then give me two weeks to bubble like Kim titties
Dirt Dog, we miss you, now it's time to murder the game
Cuz if things change, you know it ain't against Wu

[Chorus]

What am I supposed to say? Yeeaaah
Somebody tell me what do I do...

(GZA)

We keep it hot, keep the heat on the block
We never stop, drawing water up until it begin to drop
Raining with the patchwork of puzzles
That was written in the year of the dragon
More raw than you could ever imagine
How much of a great blessing to a rap city
Where the youth is organically fed, from the Witty
Unpredictable, Talent And Natural Game is lyrical
Analyze the picture, the portrait, the visual
A Cuban Link Chef cooks spaghetti that's untied
RAGU nigga whose tomatoes is sun dried
He gave y'all niggaz whiplash from bling bling
But my rhyme'll give ya hot flash and moodswings
Math shed light on divine secrets, then science leaked it
For the lower level creatures that can't peep it
I observe emcees, regardless
From a neighboring world which is ten times the sharpness...

[Chorus]

(Masta Killa)

Let the track wind and ya mind flow free
Remain conscious on this ride to ya best ability
Infinity, back to the source of which it came
Energy, see it change forms, atoms being born, never ending
On and on and on and, travel with me
Not trying to convince the pack, that it's a fact
For those who can't adapt, I lived it, shitted it back
We have agreed, you'll feel the impact of the truth when I'll squeeze
The brain feels something pop, hip hop, locked in texts
Fat checks, fly whips, jewelry, chicks
Enough kicks, fitted crown, buttoned down
Underneath the white T lies the four pound
This is forty-five minutes of menacing
Dismantling, any MC opponent stepping in the zone
Get ya face blown (Get ya face blown)

[Chorus]

(Inspectah Deck)

Observe the word, when I speak, get the truth's heard
True to the curb, Wu classic is the new verb
Spreading the blessing across seven continents
Arm of the trench, there's no form of defense
Entertainment, nine swords swing rapid
Check the techniques, first bow to The Abbott
Witty Unpredictable, gritty individual
Valid, if it's Actual, Talent and it's Natural
Game, rugged like the train, pump it in ya vein
I and I ride or die under the name
W-U, the primary, ya secondary
Definitely not necessary, the legendary
You printed the blueprints to do this shit
Moving the youth in the bricks
Spit poison tipped darts that rip hearts
Through the chest, when I manifest my sick art

(Method Man)

Speaking my mind, fall in line when I spit mine
Still in my prime, still'll shine til it quit time
If this is a crime, find me guilty, I'm so sublime
So rapid with rhymes, same slacking is asinine
Revealing the truth, catching feelings, it's still the Wu
Gorilla the booth, body armored, them killa proof
In living proof, I'm the Wittiest Unpredictable
Most Talented rap muthafucker you ever listened to

(Cappadonna)

I'm a hustler, I grind til my pack is done
Give a seed, mad knowledge til they cracked and run
Can't nobody fuck with me, I'm just too nice
Smack niggas in they head every time I write
Yo, I'm straight from Park Hill where the guns is popping
Where them little black kids do they grocery shopping
Go to school fucked up, it's Africa Island
We poor in the bricks but inside it's nothing but talent

[beautifulrock]

Like Triumph, barely a break between verses, just straight darts. Classic.

[The Jizzah]

Classic track for me, they all kill it & cappa surprised me.

[BGS]

classic, what else could it be with a beat and a song structure like this?!

[FasterBlade]

Originally Posted by BGS

classic, what else could it be with a beat and a song structure like this?!

ya know

definately a Forever/W style joint, love GZA's verse. Meth had the best flow as usual

[New Hills 36]

Absolutetly brilliant to these ears. What a line up. What verses. What production.

[Mack]

With a track like this how can people say 8 diagrams was trash? Classic.

[NeonGenesis]

Classic song i don't know why ppl say things about 8 diagrams i banged this album from day one cuz it got some classic songs on it.

[biblebullet]

what else can i say instant classic

[New Hills 36]

^ aint that the truth.

[the silencer]

i literally just opened my laptop to put this joint on cuz Rae's verse and it's ridiculous lines were verberating in my head

and see this as this most recently posted on topic



joint is BANANAS and a part of Rae's MVP performance on 8D which was a prelude to his current situation just murderin shit and shinin more than anyone under the W (almost 20 years after they dropped!!)

[Lex Lugor]

Good track, but still not in the top three on the album.

[Twiztid-Wutang]

The sped up Nancy sinatra sample all the way to the crisp lyrics by everyone involved, it was one of the tracks that Rae and Gza sounded like they really felt on the whole album

[Sparrow Daene]

I have a problem with this track tho. it would be better if it didnt have such a rigid layout. like it's a verse then a 1 or 2 bar break, then a verse then a break, then a verse etc. it might be a minor gripe, but it feels far less organic and less of the kind of group effort that 'deadly melody' and others were.