While rap remains a fluid genre with evolving aesthetics, Liquid Swords has endured as one of its essential releases, typically ranking well in both critical and fan-made lists of the best hip-hop albums of the 1990s. I was doing the album, and every now and then a Clan member would come through, Rae would be there one day or Ghost another.

We were still in our early stage, so there was so much support from everyone. 'Making an album was a great feeling, and there were many hours in RZAРІР‚в„ўs house, in his basement, and hours of beat playing. In an interview this summer with The Guardian, GZA described the recording sessions in intimate terms: Arguably the Wu-Tang Clan's most verbose emcee, GZA graciously shares the mic here with each of the group's members, making for rap classics like '4th Chamber' and 'Shadowboxin'.' FeaturingР’В a dozen beats from producer RZA, the album proved a logical extension of the group's signature sound, blendingР’В samples from old kung fu movies and dusty records into gritty albeit robust instrumentals designed to support GZA's dextrous wordplay. Though it doesn't match the Wu-Tang Clan's sales king, theР’В quadruple platinum Wu-Tang Forever, GZA's Liquid Swords remains one a favorite among hip-hop fans and critics alike. The group's fourth outing, 2001's Iron Flag, did so as well. That same year,Р’В Ghostface Killah's Supreme ClienteleР’В went gold within a month of its release.

TheР’В certifications continued on the other side of the millennium, with platinum plaques for the group's third full-length The WР’В and Method Man's collaborative Blackout album with New Jersey native Redman, bothР’В honored in 2000. Like 1995, it was a bannerР’В year for Wu-Tang Clan in terms of RIAA awards, with gold status for new albums from Ol' Dirty Bastard ( N**** Please), Raekwon ( Immobilarity), and RZA ( Bobby Digital In Stereo) in addition to GZA. GZA's follow-up Beneath The SurfaceР’В went gold in 1999. It capped off an impressive year of solo wins from his fellow Clansmen, including gold awards for Ol' Dirty Bastard's Return To The 36 Chambers andР’В Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, as well as a platinum one forР’В Method Man's Tical. While the album failed to catapult him into stardom, he retained that name in a hybridized form (Genius/GZA) for his next effort, released two years after the group's platinum selling Loud Records debut Enter The Wu-Tang.Р’В First released in November of 1995, Liquid SwordsР’В peaked at #9 on the Billboard 200 album charts and was certified gold the following January. In 1991, he released an album for seminal rap label Cold Chillin' Records under the moniker The Genius.

Yet the group's last certifications came in 2004, with a gold nod to Method Man's Tical 0: The PrequelР’В and a platinum one for Ghostface Killah's Ironman, thusР’В making Liquid SwordsР’В the first Wu-Tang Clan project to reach RIAA platinum status in more than a decade.Р”В«ornР’В Gary Grice, GZA's rap career precedes his involvement in the Wu-Tang Clan. Several of theirР’В albums, as well as the solo efforts of its multiple lyrically adept members, have sold at RIAA award levels. As one of the best known and most respected hip-hop groups ever, the Wu-Tang Clan are no strangers to gold records and platinum plaques.

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