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Weekly mp3 #59: Ghostface - The Sun (feat. Raekwon, Slick Rick & RZA)

The Wu-Tang Corp site has a page with masses of free downloads including this track. I resisted the madness that is Old Dirty Bastard & Macy Gray covering Don't Go Breaking My Heart - laughing at ODB's incoherent rambling felt much too much like gallows humour given how he died - in favour of a slightly tamer oddity.

Basically, a bunch of New York MCs swoon over how GODDAMN FANTASTIC THE SUN IS, over a looped sample that sounds like some cheery woodwind and pizzicatto strings that may have once been the opener of some 60s soul tune like Just My Imagination or Betcha By Golly Wow.

"As God is my witness / It's the scriptures in pictures / It's scrumptious, sunkissed, nutritious" gushes Ghostface Killah. This is the man who brought us lines like "Remember when I long-dicked you and broke one of your ovaries?"

"You my favourite / I wish we had three more of you / I adore you" raves Chef Raekwon, after recounting how cute is nephew is looking out the window to check out the sun. He's not really known for being particularly filthy, but, hey, this is still fairly out of character.

Guest, non-Wu-Tang MC Slick Rick (he who wrote 80s numbers like Treat Her Like A Prostitute ) reveals "A theory I've clung to deep within / Is that souls have to go through the sun to reach heaven / [...] It's a peep-hole which leads to the firmament above us."

RZA just burbles a bit, but that's what producers-turned-MCs tend to do.

Not really sure what I think of the track, but I find it sufficiently odd that I've kept coming back to it. Maybe I started out on the wrong foot and it'll seem nothing out of the ordinary to everyone else. But still... WTF, etc.

I'm going to take a punt that anyone who'll bother checking this out already knows the Wu-Tang Clan and knows that Ghostface, Raekwon and RZA are founding members. Slick Rick's probably best remembered for La-Di-Da-Di and Children's Story in the 80s, but being in jail for many years certainly hindered his ability to release more hits.

Labels: music, weekly mp3

Posted at 6:00 PM