Much like March Madness, with the imprecise system I used to make this list, only the number one truly matters. What I did was take a hundred tapes, put them in random order, do a lot of riding back and forth to work in my car (a lot), and listen to one side at a time, one side of a tape vs. one side of another tape, double elimination, and that method created the eliminations in the order I list them. I think I could make a top 100 albums list and Ironman would never fall as low as 49... ever. This is my second favorite Wu-Tang album behind the Enter the 36 Chambers one, and I still, to this day, pump this tape all the way through at least once a month. And it's been months since I did all this shit, so I have no idea what other tapes made Ghostface's solo debut (though with Cappadonna and Raekwon all over the album, it was far from a solo venture) fall to #49.
Last year, I saw Genius play a show locally and he sucked and actually caused me to start recording music because I was so disappointed in what a fuckin' chump-ass preachy piece of shit he had become, at least on the night I saw him. Then Ghostface came to town, and he had the flu and couldn't even hardly rap, but still put on the best hip hop show I've ever seen in at least ten years. So later this month, Method Man is coming to town, and if I can weasel my way onto the guest list it will be the rubber stamp show to decide whether Wu-Tang is still worth a shit or not. Though if they keep having shows come through, I'd be more than glad to make it a best of seven series, so long as I don't have to sit through another GZA sermon about how wack freestyling is.
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