GZA / Genius - "Liquid Swords"

The only thing that could be cooler about this video from the Wu-Tang Clan's GZA is if they somehow incorporated the "samurai" story from the beginning of the album version.

The video is a little weird and maybe a little low-budget, but it fits the bare-bones production value and the fact that the beat does not change once throughout the whole song. That is part of the song's appeal, though. The beat is very hot, but different, and can be sustained the whole song's length. Plus the GZA's flow (if not necessarily the lyrical content) is incredible. RZA adds a little something but he's mostly there to say "AAAAANE."

I'm on a Mission, that n***az say is Impossible
But when I swing my swords they all choppable
I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper
Child educator, plus head amputator
Cause n***az styles are old like Mark 5 sneakers
Lyrics are weak, like clock radio speakers
Don't even stop in my station and attack
while your plan failed, hit the rail, like Amtrak
What the f**k for? Down by law, I make law
I be justice, I sentence that ass two to four
round the clock, that state pen time check it
With the pens I be stickin but you can't stick to crime
Came through with the Wu, slid off on the DL
I'm low-key like seashells, I rock these bells
Now come aboard, it's Medina bound
Into the chamber, and it's a whole different sound
It's a wide entrance, small exit like a funnel
So deep it's picked up on radios in tunnels
N***az are fascinated how the sh*t begin
Get vaccinated, my logo is branded in your skin