Be like me. Like Wu-Tang, but let your true blue Wu-boasting friend buy the album. The W contains a few new techniques: The band includes interludes within songs, place short samples of other songs at the end of some tracks and inserts what jungle fans would recognize identify as a rewind in others. But new tricks and all, this album swings its Wu-blade less like a nimble ninja and more like the stoned NYC inhabitants the Clan are. And those insightful lyrics we all used to like in Wu's early days? They haven't changed. Now that we're sober and not Johnny Blazed, let's admit they were never deep at all.
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