RaindropHustla

So, this happened:

I’m saying tho...Black Lips does a pretty good RZA.

GZA, last we checked, was doing things that were not so cool (dissing 50 Cent? Ok. But just to publicize your own album that wasn’t any good? Is that cool?) and then doing things that were quite cool (touring behind my favorite winter rap album Liquid Swords and being very nice to me on the phone when I asked him about recording it) and then doing not-cool things again (phoning in his Neumo’s Liquid Swords performance, IMHO).

GZA reminds me of Pete Sampras late in his career.

(On the right.)

Sampras had great form. Perfect form. Classic form. He did not need to be radical and in-your-face and breaking rules like Andre Agassi, because his fundamentals were beyond improvement. He made simple baseline backhands things of beauty.

All GZA’s lines end neatly, cleanly. They fall in blocks, like Tetris. They fit tight and are descriptive. He makes it easier than it is, and has sort of a formal way of announcing himself, that GZA.

I guess he sounds semi-noble on the Black Lips experiment. I remember when Kelly O first wrote about it…

h/t Stranger