Wu-Tang Solo Albums (2000's) Ranked Worst to Best | Culturalist Theory

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  • Опубликовано: 23 сен 2024
  • 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 Год назад +83

    Pretty Tony album being that low is crazy lol

    • @bluu_ice6554
      @bluu_ice6554 Год назад +1

      No it's not. That album was weak

    • @charliemiles7072
      @charliemiles7072 Год назад

      Pretty Tony was dog turd served warm on a cold plate

    • @JEStheUniversual
      @JEStheUniversual Год назад +14

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

    • @gambitgrey3920
      @gambitgrey3920 Год назад +4

      Agreed... Strongly

    • @husman3109
      @husman3109 Год назад +11

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

  • @forever8671
    @forever8671 Год назад +33

    That Pretty Toney album had some 🔥 on it.

  • @dmx7361
    @dmx7361 Год назад +18

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

  • @tyronemccray692
    @tyronemccray692 Год назад +29

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

  • @Triboro_Gigolo
    @Triboro_Gigolo Год назад +10

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

  • @JDaMonsta24
    @JDaMonsta24 Год назад +45

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

    • @hidephatl8053
      @hidephatl8053 Год назад +9

      naw i love that album

    • @treybanfield2084
      @treybanfield2084 Год назад +12

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

    • @volumeter5746
      @volumeter5746 Год 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 Год назад +6

      That album from start to finish was heavy.

    • @videosurfah
      @videosurfah Год назад

      Not even boss

  • @goodvibestv707
    @goodvibestv707 Год назад +21

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

    • @killakiss7410
      @killakiss7410 Год назад

      DUH

    • @Dagrizzb
      @Dagrizzb 5 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @3rdGenerationCancer
    @3rdGenerationCancer Год назад +16

    Gotta stop the Ghostface disrespect. LOL 😉

  • @Mark-r6v9s
    @Mark-r6v9s Год назад +10

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

  • @michaeljackson6613
    @michaeljackson6613 Год назад +8

    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.

  • @goodvibestv707
    @goodvibestv707 Год назад +11

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

  • @blackice3395
    @blackice3395 Год назад +7

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

  • @christopherkanyuka5389
    @christopherkanyuka5389 Год назад +7

    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

  • @kingofwestbmore
    @kingofwestbmore Год назад +13

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

    • @JalilN
      @JalilN 8 месяцев назад

      Theodore is my shit 🔥🔥

  • @noahegr3341
    @noahegr3341 Год назад +21

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

  • @nintendork23
    @nintendork23 Год назад +13

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

  • @malcolmlewis9658
    @malcolmlewis9658 Год назад +10

    U must have missed Biscuits on Pretty Toney album

  • @oneemperial
    @oneemperial Год назад +8

    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

  • @VinnieDangerous
    @VinnieDangerous Год назад +15

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

  • @killakiss7410
    @killakiss7410 Год 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

  • @seanjjpaul
    @seanjjpaul Год назад +2

    Great video!! Makes me want to dive back into their catalogue again

  • @gambitgrey3920
    @gambitgrey3920 Год назад +4

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

  • @tubster105
    @tubster105 Год назад +4

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

  • @shallahlogan
    @shallahlogan Год назад +6

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

  • @rubski-ds9yc
    @rubski-ds9yc Год 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

  • @kennethbonura1
    @kennethbonura1 Год назад +6

    We need a 2010s wu tang solo albums video!

  • @boosiebadassmann9773
    @boosiebadassmann9773 Год 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.

  • @owensmith6215
    @owensmith6215 Год 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.

  • @abizzle100
    @abizzle100 Год назад +18

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

    • @nickpeitchev7763
      @nickpeitchev7763 Год назад

      College dropout better

    • @oneemperial
      @oneemperial Год назад +2

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

    • @nickpeitchev7763
      @nickpeitchev7763 Год назад +1

      @@oneemperial wrong on both counts

    • @oneemperial
      @oneemperial Год 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 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @2k7digga
    @2k7digga Год назад +5

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

  • @princemastaking
    @princemastaking Год 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. 👐

  • @Coltrane360
    @Coltrane360 Год 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

  • @kahjeemwilson9452
    @kahjeemwilson9452 Год 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.

  • @PoopFrogg1
    @PoopFrogg1 Год назад +3

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

  • @isaiahedwards6586
    @isaiahedwards6586 Год 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.

  • @TheJoe676767
    @TheJoe676767 Год назад +1

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

  • @KodakKid
    @KodakKid Год назад +2

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

  • @trumooch1
    @trumooch1 Год 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!

  • @kevinrobinson4848
    @kevinrobinson4848 Год 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 Год назад

      Facts

    • @nikolaimyhre1187
      @nikolaimyhre1187 Год назад

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

  • @GioFukinton88
    @GioFukinton88 Год 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 🔥

  • @nicholassimon1419
    @nicholassimon1419 Год 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

  • @mr.culturefreedom2073
    @mr.culturefreedom2073 Год назад +3

    Ghostdini got heavy play in my ride.

  • @jlaw6036
    @jlaw6036 Год назад +4

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

  • @MEEZLEMONSTER
    @MEEZLEMONSTER Год 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

  • @dippedinbutterprogram1132
    @dippedinbutterprogram1132 Год назад +2

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

  • @dalej.rodriguez9209
    @dalej.rodriguez9209 11 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @thablackkat9905
    @thablackkat9905 Год назад +1

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

  • @enigmasept927
    @enigmasept927 Год назад +2

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

  • @nicolesherman8974
    @nicolesherman8974 Год назад +3

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

  • @HBCSTL9587
    @HBCSTL9587 Год назад +3

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

  • @HEEZTV
    @HEEZTV Год назад +1

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

  • @rayedmonds6108
    @rayedmonds6108 4 месяца 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.

  • @JEStheUniversual
    @JEStheUniversual Год 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’

  • @duecedime1345
    @duecedime1345 Год назад +2

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

  • @thablackkat9905
    @thablackkat9905 Год 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.

  • @stloushug9830
    @stloushug9830 Год назад +2

    The Ghostdini album was fire

  • @oneemperial
    @oneemperial Год 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

  • @SEBAS31077
    @SEBAS31077 Год назад +1

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

  • @kriscoadams97
    @kriscoadams97 Год назад +4

    Bulletproof Wallets was aight tho lol.

  • @jl_4_preZz
    @jl_4_preZz 5 месяцев назад

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

  • @mathewllewelyn137
    @mathewllewelyn137 Год назад

    Another solid list! Thanks for the video.

  • @TalkingHip-Hop
    @TalkingHip-Hop 2 месяца назад

    I listened to the movement for the first time this week and was surprised to see it so low I thought this album was awesome tbh, yeah the lyricism from Deck left me wanting a lot more but it was pretty well produced with a lot of swagger

  • @BrenttheBlackSheep
    @BrenttheBlackSheep Год 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.

  • @Cappadonna72
    @Cappadonna72 11 месяцев назад +3

    Poor Cappadonna
    Poor U-God

  • @RobSkillz881
    @RobSkillz881 Год назад +4

    Why U God always gotta come in last sheesh

    • @bigloc3442
      @bigloc3442 Год 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 Год назад

      @@bigloc3442because it was ass😂

  • @RobSkillz881
    @RobSkillz881 Год назад +2

    Jamel Irief got ranked much higher than I thought

  • @deviant4life25
    @deviant4life25 Год назад +1

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

  • @barzkeeper2057
    @barzkeeper2057 Год назад +2

    Not gonna be the Wish Bone of the group 😂😂

  • @preposteroussvideos
    @preposteroussvideos Год назад

    Another banger cjay

  • @nicolesherman8974
    @nicolesherman8974 Год назад +1

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

  • @damianedwards8827
    @damianedwards8827 Год назад +1

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

  • @BONEHEADSbro5625
    @BONEHEADSbro5625 Месяц назад

    If Cappadonna is not included then we need a solo album ranking

  • @O.J.S.
    @O.J.S. 23 дня назад

    Supreme Clientele is a Top 5 rap album of the 2000's PERIOD thus far.

  • @videosurfah
    @videosurfah Год назад +1

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

  • @zillzultraboy
    @zillzultraboy Год назад +1

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

  • @TreFKennedy
    @TreFKennedy Год назад

    Dope list

  • @VICENTEIRIZARRY-u7f
    @VICENTEIRIZARRY-u7f 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @jaykaynum5569
    @jaykaynum5569 Год 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)💯

  • @rayedmonds6108
    @rayedmonds6108 4 месяца назад

    Also, No Said Date was FIRE!

  • @brandonreed3670
    @brandonreed3670 Год 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.

  • @videosurfah
    @videosurfah Год назад

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

  • @infamous2702
    @infamous2702 6 месяцев назад

    Pretty Tony is dope, you are crazy.

  • @bencromwell707
    @bencromwell707 Год назад +1

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

  • @mariocovone498
    @mariocovone498 5 месяцев 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!!!

  • @aftermath20
    @aftermath20 Год назад +1

    Please do Public Enemy

  • @peterobinson1895
    @peterobinson1895 6 месяцев назад

    Supreme Clientele is my favorite Ghostface album.

  • @jameshart1410
    @jameshart1410 Год назад +1

    Digital bullets was the worst of that decade in my opinion

  • @liedub
    @liedub Год 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

  • @SmokingHydro
    @SmokingHydro Год назад

    Mathematics album was that truth too.

  • @zillzultraboy
    @zillzultraboy Год назад +1

    This list started out accurate, with the U-God albums, & fell apart.😆 Tical 0, was a horrible album, & it was put before 2 GF albums?!? Ain't no way, bruh. 😂 The The top 3 are very correct, though. Supreme Clientele is a classic! There are no skips, period!

    • @blissz4
      @blissz4 Год назад

      Tical 0 was far from horrible. But Bulletproof wallets and pretty toney album def shoul've been higher

  • @Dave-ug4cd
    @Dave-ug4cd 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @NEGUSRICANStCroix
    @NEGUSRICANStCroix 8 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

  • @saturnstar718
    @saturnstar718 Год назад

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

  • @bryanlyricsbbm
    @bryanlyricsbbm Год назад

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

  • @dmercy8477
    @dmercy8477 5 месяцев назад

    Pretty Tony and Bulletproof Wallets are overhated projects. Both are in my Top 10. Ghostdeni was the only project from Ghost in the 2000’s that wasn’t good.

  • @michaeltaylor9033
    @michaeltaylor9033 Месяц назад

    Legend of the liquid sword is a great album

  • @bigzizzo
    @bigzizzo Год назад

    Pretty Toney, Bulletproof Wallets, Pro Tools and Ghostdini are all way better than Tical 0. Tical 0 was absolutely horrible. Pretty Toney was better than More Fish in my opinion.

  • @chrisveraa9756
    @chrisveraa9756 9 месяцев назад

    Pretty Toney is the joint!!

  • @javonsumpter9678
    @javonsumpter9678 Год назад

    What up CJ

  • @wutang7414
    @wutang7414 11 месяцев назад

    GHOSTFACE KILLAH KEPT THE WU AFLOAT IN THE 2000s