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  • Опубликовано: 18 сен 2023
  • Today on Culturalist Theory, C Jay Williams ranks the multiple solo albums released by legendary group The Wu-Tang Clan from 2000-09. No EP's, affiliate albums or mixtapes included in this list. #wutangclan
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  • @slimkilla321
    @slimkilla321 9 месяцев назад +80

    Pretty Tony album being that low is crazy lol

    • @bluu_ice6554
      @bluu_ice6554 9 месяцев назад +1

      No it's not. That album was weak

    • @charliemiles7072
      @charliemiles7072 9 месяцев назад

      Pretty Tony was dog turd served warm on a cold plate

    • @JEStheUniversual
      @JEStheUniversual 9 месяцев назад +14

      Pretty Toney record is 🔥🔥🔥 they buggin on the ranking here. It has one of Ghost best tracks ever with “Run”

    • @gambitgrey3920
      @gambitgrey3920 9 месяцев назад +4

      Agreed... Strongly

    • @husman3109
      @husman3109 9 месяцев назад +11

      That album was tuff. Biscuits, it’s over , beat the clock, be this way. Even the jawn wit missy was cool

  • @dmx7361
    @dmx7361 8 месяцев назад +16

    How The Hell Tical 0 is better than Pretty Tony album ? Something don't seem right with this list

  • @forever8671
    @forever8671 9 месяцев назад +29

    That Pretty Toney album had some 🔥 on it.

  • @tyronemccray692
    @tyronemccray692 9 месяцев назад +27

    BulletProof Wallets and the Pretty Tony Album are both 🔥 you disrespected Ghost with those listings

  • @goodvibestv707
    @goodvibestv707 9 месяцев назад +19

    We all knew that Supreme Clientele By Ghost face Killah is number one because that was WU Tang Clan Comeback album

    • @killakiss7410
      @killakiss7410 9 месяцев назад

      DUH

    • @Dagrizzb
      @Dagrizzb Месяц назад

      The first track on that album (Nutmeg) sets the stage INCREDIBLY!
      That flute flutter on that beat sends me.

  • @nintendork23
    @nintendork23 9 месяцев назад +13

    i thought cappadonna was an official member of the clan?? it would make sense to include his albums

  • @3rdGenerationCancer
    @3rdGenerationCancer 9 месяцев назад +15

    Gotta stop the Ghostface disrespect. LOL 😉

  • @JDaMonsta24
    @JDaMonsta24 9 месяцев назад +43

    I might be the only one who thinks “The Pretty Toney Album” is hard 🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @hidephatl8053
      @hidephatl8053 9 месяцев назад +8

      naw i love that album

    • @treybanfield2084
      @treybanfield2084 9 месяцев назад +11

      That album is one of his best. These lists be in some shit sometimes

    • @volumeter5746
      @volumeter5746 9 месяцев назад

      You not wrong, I fw this channel heavily but their lists are so ass at times. The Pretty Toney album was critically acclaimed. Reviews and everything on the album were great. So idk what bro is talking about, The only truly questionable GFK album was Bulletproof Wallets but I heard that album got screwed by alot of the samples not being cleared. @@treybanfield2084

    • @christopherkanyuka5389
      @christopherkanyuka5389 8 месяцев назад +5

      That album from start to finish was heavy.

    • @videosurfah
      @videosurfah 8 месяцев назад

      Not even boss

  • @blackice3395
    @blackice3395 8 месяцев назад +6

    Ghostface should have had The top two spots with supreme clientele and fish scale

  • @goodvibestv707
    @goodvibestv707 9 месяцев назад +10

    Supreme Clientele
    Fishscale
    OB4CL 2
    No Said Dates
    Pretty Tony album
    The Movement
    Bulletproof Wallets
    Digital Bullet

  • @user-zk3th3ic1w
    @user-zk3th3ic1w 9 месяцев назад +9

    Prequel is way too high and bulletproof wallets and pretty toney is way too low BUT the top 2 is right so…..

  • @malcolmlewis9658
    @malcolmlewis9658 9 месяцев назад +10

    U must have missed Biscuits on Pretty Toney album

  • @triborogigolo
    @triborogigolo 9 месяцев назад +8

    Y'all list is terrible, no way in hell is pretty toney album worst than any of those solo rza albums after bobby digital.

  • @christopherkanyuka5389
    @christopherkanyuka5389 8 месяцев назад +6

    Naaaaaah The Pretty Toney album is way too low. That album had sick cuts like Be This Way and Run. IMO easily one of the best albums from 2000s WU. Yall got this one wrong

  • @noahegr3341
    @noahegr3341 9 месяцев назад +19

    Dopium, Pro Tools, The Movement and The Resident Patient are all massively underrated

  • @oneemperial
    @oneemperial 8 месяцев назад +7

    I liked the Ghostdini concept. I would love for him to do this again. Stay, Baby, lonely, Goner, Do Over?! This had some joints on there! Yeah, their were some skips. But we need a lil grown up music every once in a while. Stapleton Sex was out of pocket, though. Lol

  • @kingofwestbmore
    @kingofwestbmore 9 месяцев назад +12

    Awesome list! Bullet Proof wallet should’ve been higher but other than that, y’all nailed it

    • @JalilN
      @JalilN 5 месяцев назад

      Theodore is my shit 🔥🔥

  • @michaeljackson6613
    @michaeljackson6613 8 месяцев назад +6

    U God never gets his props. Even if you put him last in the clan he'll still bust 90% of rappers ass. He maybe 25 in my top 25 but with 1000 rappers out there that's still pretty good. I think beef with the clan at certain times and his labels not really promoting him, he never really reached his full potential. He really shines on wu albums and guest appearances most people agree.

  • @VinnieDangerous
    @VinnieDangerous 9 месяцев назад +14

    Ghostdini was lowkey dope. Not the best by a mile but a lot of sleeper joints on it. Pretty Tony & Bulletproof Wallets were decent

  • @boosiebadassmann9773
    @boosiebadassmann9773 9 месяцев назад +8

    That Ghost face pretty tony album is decent. It got some 🔥 on that album if you ask me. Is just that it was way different from his other albums.

  • @killakiss7410
    @killakiss7410 9 месяцев назад +5

    Pretty Tony album should've been way higher than that, and besides, the only weak song on that song was that Awful song with Missy Elliott

  • @owensmith6215
    @owensmith6215 9 месяцев назад +7

    Dang I don't mind Pretty Tony. Run, Holla & Biscuits are great songs, the project is pretty solid overall and I really, really like Last Night for some reason. It's even put in the tracklist as a skit but I honestly think it's one of the highlights. Tush is trash but I chalk that up to a lot of rappers having an awkward "one for the ladies" which doesn't fit their style and persona which is very common in hip-hop albums in general.
    It's bad as a ghost album because he doesn't really get many chances to flex his storytelling or vivid imagery which are his strengths as a writer but I don't think it's a bad project at all. I've had it since high school and it still gets an occasional spin to this day despite undeniably being on the weaker end of his catalogue. I'd put it above Bulletproof Wallets, which I also think is a bit over-hated.

  • @TheJoe676767
    @TheJoe676767 8 месяцев назад +1

    I don't know what more to say. I've been patiently waiting for this list and you guys did NOT disappoint!!

  • @mathewllewelyn137
    @mathewllewelyn137 9 месяцев назад

    Another solid list! Thanks for the video.

  • @rubski-ds9yc
    @rubski-ds9yc 9 месяцев назад +7

    Tical 0 is not better than pretty tony or rza digital bullet and birth of a prince. Only good song is the turn.ft raekwon

  • @abizzle100
    @abizzle100 9 месяцев назад +18

    Supreme clientele is arguably the best hip hop album released post 2000.

    • @nickpeitchev7763
      @nickpeitchev7763 9 месяцев назад

      College dropout better

    • @oneemperial
      @oneemperial 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@nickpeitchev7763 college dropout isn’t even Kanye’s best album, let alone best of the 2000s

    • @nickpeitchev7763
      @nickpeitchev7763 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@oneemperial wrong on both counts

    • @oneemperial
      @oneemperial 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@nickpeitchev7763 I think Late Registration is a better and more complete album than College Dropout. But hey, agree to disagree 🤷🏽‍♂️
      They are both great. I would listen to Supreme Clientele over both of them, though. I think it have aged better College Dropout. I don’t bump that shit no more

    • @jamescasey2379
      @jamescasey2379 2 месяца назад

      Taking TPAB, Tetsuo and Youth, RTJ, GKMC, College Dropout, Graduation, and soooo many more easily

  • @PoopFrogg1
    @PoopFrogg1 8 месяцев назад +3

    Yes…that Supreme Clientelle track list was HELL! 😂😂😂😂
    I LOVE Cherchez La Ghost! 😂

  • @trumooch1
    @trumooch1 8 месяцев назад +3

    Accurate list. I thought is was clever on how Raekwon sampled Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" on that song "Kiss The Ring" on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx PT.II cd. Dope!

  • @tubster105
    @tubster105 8 месяцев назад +4

    Cap not getting any respect still is crazy
    Manz was Wu before Wu was even a thing

  • @kennethbonura1
    @kennethbonura1 8 месяцев назад +6

    We need a 2010s wu tang solo albums video!

  • @preposteroussvideos
    @preposteroussvideos 9 месяцев назад

    Another banger cjay

  • @princemastaking
    @princemastaking 9 месяцев назад +8

    The RZA is my favorite out the clan. I absolutely love "Birth of a Prince" album along with his compilation album "The World According to RZA" that both came out in 2003. But after that "Digi Snacks" "Afro Samurai Resurrection" was not his best work, production wise he got too Hollywood and started experimenting with live bands. Not a good look at all. Plus I'm getting tired of the whole Bobby Digital persona as well. 👐

  • @nicholassimon1419
    @nicholassimon1419 9 месяцев назад +11

    Awesome list!
    I actually liked Pro Tools quite a lot, and I dug “life is a movie” especially. GZA spitting over Gary Numan was plain weird but I loved it

  • @TreFKennedy
    @TreFKennedy 9 месяцев назад

    Dope list

  • @kahjeemwilson9452
    @kahjeemwilson9452 8 месяцев назад +4

    Bulletproof Wallets in my top 10 of this list imo. It wasn't Ghostface's best of course but still a solid serviceable listen tho.

  • @gambitgrey3920
    @gambitgrey3920 9 месяцев назад +4

    Why is Pretty Tony ranked that low? Y'all should be ashamed

  • @Coltrane360
    @Coltrane360 8 месяцев назад +2

    Every wu tang list throws so much insults at them but got 50 lists of No Limit with nothing but praise for every single album. What's todays mathamatics god

  • @deviant4life25
    @deviant4life25 8 месяцев назад +1

    Quality Content as always. But deviant gotta ask for that E-40 and Too $hort list…. Tradition

  • @thablackkat9905
    @thablackkat9905 9 месяцев назад +1

    That Masta Killa Wish Bone reference was EVERYTHING!!!!

  • @jlaw6036
    @jlaw6036 9 месяцев назад +4

    Would be cool to do Def squad and hit squad ...solo albums

  • @mr.culturefreedom2073
    @mr.culturefreedom2073 9 месяцев назад +3

    Ghostdini got heavy play in my ride.

  • @KodakKid
    @KodakKid 8 месяцев назад +2

    I agree with the list entirely apart from Pretty Toney. That is probably right for number 6.

  • @rayedmonds6108
    @rayedmonds6108 Месяц назад

    Glad you mentioned the SC track listing. If I remember correctly, the songs were listed but the skits were not. So there were 21 tracks on the album but only like 13 songs listed on the back cover.

  • @GioFukinton88
    @GioFukinton88 8 месяцев назад +4

    Dam pretty Tony and bullet proof wallets blows lex diamond/protocols and tical prequel out the water and all those rza solos! Ghost switched it up the most and took risks but he still had bars and good replay value. I would put them at 10 and 11 at least. The Top 5 was accurate tho 🔥

  • @isaiahedwards6586
    @isaiahedwards6586 9 месяцев назад +4

    I slightly disagree, Never be the same again and Back like that were 🔥🔥bruh, Ghost fr found his niche mixing in R&B.

  • @enigmasept927
    @enigmasept927 9 месяцев назад +2

    This list is fitting since Ill be attending a Wu Tang concert on Sept 20th 😏

  • @nicolesherman8974
    @nicolesherman8974 9 месяцев назад +3

    We need a 1993/1994 hip hop album list ranking 🤔…

  • @kevinrobinson4848
    @kevinrobinson4848 9 месяцев назад +7

    Real respectable list. That top 5 is almost perfect imo except I would have easily swapped More Fish and No Said Date positions. To me, outside of the obvious stars of that decade Ghost and Rae, I feel Masta Killa reped the Wu the best with his 1st two albums. I never thought I would love a Masta K album but NSD is a personal classic. I don't think I ever heard a U God solo album and obviously I was right on lol. Rza and Gza solos from that decade are forgettable and aight at best. Same with Meth solos. Outside his debut, honestly, his solos have been overall lackluster and weak to me. My top 5 2000 Wu solo would be: Supreme, No Said Date, OB4CL 2, Fishscale, and maybe Big Doe or Made in Brooklyn.

    • @tumishomogano1574
      @tumishomogano1574 8 месяцев назад

      Facts

    • @nikolaimyhre1187
      @nikolaimyhre1187 8 месяцев назад

      You should listen to some of U-Gods work though, especially since you enjoyed NSD. Dopium is his best album followed by Venom

  • @2k7digga
    @2k7digga 9 месяцев назад +5

    Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm , this ain’t it…………. This list is heavily flawed and biased. I still fucks with y’all though.

  • @dippedinbutterprogram1132
    @dippedinbutterprogram1132 8 месяцев назад +2

    Lol I still call stroke of death “untitled”
    SALUTE! Y’all do not miss

  • @jl_4_preZz
    @jl_4_preZz 2 месяца назад

    Pretty Toney, Bullet Proof Wallets and the Ghostdeni albums were all dope. To be that low is bananas

  • @MEEZLEMONSTER
    @MEEZLEMONSTER 8 месяцев назад +1

    Best 2000-decade Wu SOLO album cuts: "Silent" -- GZA feat. Ghost & Street prod. by Bink!
    "Is It Me?" -- Meth prod. by Scott Storch
    "Pop Shots" -- Dirty prod. by Premo
    "Gihad" -- Rae feat. Ghost prod. by Necro

  • @saturnstar718
    @saturnstar718 9 месяцев назад

    Culturalist Theory,
    31:20, If you're referencing the "Knuckles" sketch at the end of SK, that was actually Raekwon, not Method Man.

  • @dalej.rodriguez9209
    @dalej.rodriguez9209 8 месяцев назад +1

    Facts on this list! Supreme Clientele is 2nd only to the Purple Tape.

  • @HEEZTV
    @HEEZTV 8 месяцев назад +1

    PRETTY TONEY ALBUM 🔥🔥🔥🔥
    Y’all need to hear that shit over again..

  • @HBCSTL9587
    @HBCSTL9587 8 месяцев назад +3

    2005 GZA vs Muggs Grandmasters album.
    Should be #3 after Clientele and Cuban Links 2

  • @kriscoadams97
    @kriscoadams97 9 месяцев назад +4

    Bulletproof Wallets was aight tho lol.

    • @2k7digga
      @2k7digga 9 месяцев назад

      FUCKING FACTS

  • @stloushug9830
    @stloushug9830 9 месяцев назад +2

    The Ghostdini album was fire

  • @aftermath20
    @aftermath20 9 месяцев назад +1

    Please do Public Enemy

  • @thablackkat9905
    @thablackkat9905 9 месяцев назад +2

    I said to myself in the beginning of this video that if Supreme Clientele wasn't number 1, CJ and I will be fist fighting lmao.

  • @infamous2702
    @infamous2702 3 месяца назад

    Pretty Tony is dope, you are crazy.

  • @Dave-ug4cd
    @Dave-ug4cd 6 месяцев назад

    Ya'll do Cypress Hill yet? Best albums/or songs.

  • @shallahlogan
    @shallahlogan 8 месяцев назад +6

    Brooklyn Babies is a top track, one of the best Wu tracks from 2000’s

  • @villain6208
    @villain6208 8 месяцев назад

    please do Z-Ro, Lil Flip or Slim Thug next

  • @oneemperial
    @oneemperial 8 месяцев назад +2

    Y’all really slept on Ghostdini joint. And why did you omit Cappadona, but not Masta Killa? They are both officially members. Cappadonna is not an affiliate. And why y’all sleeping on Ghostface so hard!? Bullletproof Wallets was wack?! I agree with the rest of the list, though

  • @RobSkillz881
    @RobSkillz881 9 месяцев назад +2

    Jamel Irief got ranked much higher than I thought

  • @duecedime1345
    @duecedime1345 9 месяцев назад +2

    Bulletproof Wallets and Pretty Tony should've been higher up on the list and Prequel and More Fish should've been lower.

  • @nicolesherman8974
    @nicolesherman8974 9 месяцев назад +1

    Damn this is y’all’s longest video lmao 🔥🔥🔥…

  • @Cappadonna72
    @Cappadonna72 7 месяцев назад +3

    Poor Cappadonna
    Poor U-God

  • @SEBAS31077
    @SEBAS31077 8 месяцев назад +1

    most of the comment is about the pretty toney album,i agree that album was fire

  • @user-pi2zd4re6f
    @user-pi2zd4re6f 5 месяцев назад

    my favorite affiliate release of the 2000's is murder in a minor

  • @videosurfah
    @videosurfah 8 месяцев назад

    Trife and Shyheim and Shorty Shitstain are slept on like a hammock

  • @JEStheUniversual
    @JEStheUniversual 9 месяцев назад +2

    I know you typically don’t want to flood a list of just Ghostface records, but how about ‘Twelve Reasons to Die’? and you guys are buggin about ranking ‘Pretty Toney’ so low. ‘Made in Brooklyn’ should had been in this list as well as ‘Shaolin vs Wu-Tang’

  • @javonsumpter9678
    @javonsumpter9678 8 месяцев назад

    What up CJ

  • @barzkeeper2057
    @barzkeeper2057 8 месяцев назад +2

    Not gonna be the Wish Bone of the group 😂😂

  • @rayedmonds6108
    @rayedmonds6108 Месяц назад

    Also, No Said Date was FIRE!

  • @BrenttheBlackSheep
    @BrenttheBlackSheep 8 месяцев назад +1

    Pretty Tony should be higher. Also bulletproof Wallets is better if you hear the original track listing and some of the missing tracks.
    Also birth of the prince is better than its ranking.

  • @bencromwell707
    @bencromwell707 9 месяцев назад +1

    Bullet Proof Wallets & The Pretty Tony Are Great Albums #Solid #List

  • @SmokingHydro
    @SmokingHydro 8 месяцев назад

    Mathematics album was that truth too.

  • @bryanlyricsbbm
    @bryanlyricsbbm 9 месяцев назад

    ghost really took the whole top 5, yes including the raekwon that he featured real heavy on... sheesh

  • @videosurfah
    @videosurfah 8 месяцев назад +1

    Best UGod song is Shampoo and he is the Lil Turk of the WU

  • @RobSkillz881
    @RobSkillz881 9 месяцев назад +4

    Why U God always gotta come in last sheesh

    • @bigloc3442
      @bigloc3442 9 месяцев назад +7

      Rza didn't put no kind of love on his albums smh . This is why u god has something against him till this day. They never promoted his shit like they did everyone else..

    • @hahaharvey3068
      @hahaharvey3068 9 месяцев назад

      @@bigloc3442because it was ass😂

  • @Historicutuber
    @Historicutuber 9 месяцев назад

    Only built 4 Cuban linx 2 made me a fan of the Chef

  • @RellLife78
    @RellLife78 9 месяцев назад

    How isn't only built for Cuban link not number one?

  • @antoniolugo4727
    @antoniolugo4727 9 месяцев назад

    I got alot of thay solo joints in my collection

  • @jaykaynum5569
    @jaykaynum5569 9 месяцев назад +1

    City High n Juks are bangers you never mentioned??? Birth of a Prince was dope(A day to God is a 1000 years)💯

  • @mariocovone498
    @mariocovone498 2 месяца назад

    You are either mental or trolling us for comments!!! Pretty Tony and Bulletproof Wallets are both awesome albums and should be much higher up!!!

  • @peterobinson1895
    @peterobinson1895 2 месяца назад

    Supreme Clientele is my favorite Ghostface album.

  • @FromThe36thChamber
    @FromThe36thChamber 4 дня назад

    Ghostxini Wizard of poetry?

  • @aldeniro1983
    @aldeniro1983 9 месяцев назад

    I think you forgot raekwon immobarlarity 1999 bro

  • @nicholassimon1419
    @nicholassimon1419 9 месяцев назад

    I love y’all and will be back with a good and helpful comment at the end once I’ve watched the whole video…. But I have to say… Roaches are not rodents and they aren’t flies either 😂

  • @liedub
    @liedub 8 месяцев назад +1

    🧢 Idek why I watched dude. I guess I wanted to see where this was going. GHOST being low like that is wild, he buggin

  • @KamikazeCINCIN
    @KamikazeCINCIN 8 месяцев назад

    Is it just me who loved RZA - Digi Snacks?

  • @chrisveraa9756
    @chrisveraa9756 5 месяцев назад

    Pretty Toney is the joint!!

  • @user-lp7cs5oj5b
    @user-lp7cs5oj5b 5 месяцев назад

    This is why you don't let a fl dude tell u about the wu bulletproof wallets is better than any ugod or rza project sir

  • @civicplayer33
    @civicplayer33 8 месяцев назад

    GZA Grandmasters?

  • @brandonreed3670
    @brandonreed3670 9 месяцев назад +2

    The original Bulletproof Wallets which had The Sun and The Watch on it was way better. I think sample clearance issues messed it up.

  • @damianedwards8827
    @damianedwards8827 8 месяцев назад +1

    Just say RANKED in ORDER
    Not best to “Worst”
    There is no worst with Wu-Tang

  • @jameshart1410
    @jameshart1410 9 месяцев назад +1

    Digital bullets was the worst of that decade in my opinion

  • @zillzultraboy
    @zillzultraboy 9 месяцев назад +1

    To say "Gun & Razors", off More Fish is filler, is an absolute atrocity, btw. 🤦🏽‍♂️