“GZA's 1995 debut, *Liquid Swords*, is arguably Wu-Tang's finest hour; the lyrical force GZA unleashed on that album sucked the listener through a black hole beneath the subways of NYC into a grimy hip-hop Twilight Zone inhabited by Shaolin monks, microphone magicians, and linguistic architects. While GZA was busy creating mystical spheres with his rhymes, RZA laid down his most stark, violent prod”
