Wu-Tang Clan "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" [1993]

Gangsta rap meets the locka room. Reeking of skunk bud, malt liquor and ejaculant residue, Wu-Tang Clan compiles a large group of New York knuckleheads to generate beats & rhymes not worth shooting anyone over. Cheap samples thrown together with the care of an unmade bed, this is hip-hop for guys who can't get laid and have given up trying -- a perfect soundtrack for playing your dumbshit video game on the apartment couch that smells like total ass. Wu-Tang Clan were late to the MTV party that celebrated rappers like Snoop Dogg and Tupac, but it's just as well; neither Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, (the Professor, Mary Ann and the rest) nor especially Ol' Dirty Bastard -- so crazy he thought he could rhyme efficiently with a debilitating mouth full of metal and head full of crack -- were worth fussing over or even photographing, and by the time Wu-Tang finally got celebrated as being the "greatest rap group of all time," Tupac and Biggie had already been shot and rap music was clearly a societal annoyance that most people were dropping faster than their OJ posters a year later. Engage in "36 Chambers" only if you are interested in disappearing inside a tenement where nobody's gonna call the cops if you play this crap.