GZA the genius released this masterpiece during the rennasaince of East Coast Hip hop in 1994- The Legend of the Liquid Sword. He played the whole album from beggining to end rencently in ATX - amazing to watch him flow like the blood on a murder scene. Big-ups to our boy Quinn at C3 Presents.
Album intro: When I was little... my father was famous. He was the greatest sam-urai in the empire; and he was the Shogun's decapitator. He cut off the heads of a hundred and thirty-one lords. It was a bad time for the empire. The Shogun just stayed inside his castle -- and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by DEVILS. My father would come home -- he would forget about the killings. He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem. Then, one night... the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father... but they didn't. That was the night everything changed
