Raekwon - Criminology (Feat. Ghostface Killah)

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

Intro: Raekwon (plus sample of Tony Montana having an argument)

"I told you a long time ago you fuckin little monkey
not to FUCK ME."
"Hey hey, who the FUCK you think you goin for huh??!"
"Who the fuck you think I am your fuckin dough-boy?"
"You wanna go to war?.... Wanna go to war, OK?"

Comin up on half a mil, we build
Get real God, taking you on another one Son
Uhh, Julio Igleasias
Makin CREAM like that nigga

[Verse One: Ghostface Killah]
Yo, first of all son, peep the arson
Many brothers I be sparkin and bustin mad light inside the dark
Call me dough snatcher, just the brother for the rapture
I handglide, holdin on strong, hard to capture
Extravagant, RZA bake the track and it's militant
Then I react, like a convict, and start killin shit
It's manifested, the Gods work like appliances
Dealin in my cypher I revolve around sciences
The 9th chamber, leave you trapped inside my hallway
You try to flee but you got smoked up by the doorway (blaow! blaow! blaow!)
No question, I send your ass back, right to the essence
Your whole frame is smothered in dirt, now how you restin
While I'll be trapped by sounds, locked behind loops
Throwin niggaz off airplanes cause +Cash Rules
Everything Around Me+ black, as you can see
Swallow this murder one verse like God Degree
Then analyze my soundtrack for satisfaction
You adapt like a flashback chain reaction

[Verse Two: Raekwon the Chef]
Just a minute son...
AK's black bust back like seventy Macs
I'm all that, street niggaz knowin my steez black
Ron G, you know he coincide with me see
Marvelous, Menace fo' Society
But anyway, let's toast, champagne thoughts with Ghost
I max the most shotguns through the nose
Phonograph hip-hop put me on top
'Lo wears, and Tommy Hil fly shit with a knot
The witty unpredictable live shit, drive by shit
Do or die shit, I'll take your lie and shit
And then you know, I'm runnin through the penal, foul
Four-toothed child was wild
The old lady snitched, but fuck it, you know it, one love kid
No I'm not doin a bid
Too much to get for what cause six niggaz got
stuck, and the nigga chain was truck
Yo fuck that, Criminology rap
Speakers stay jet black floatin in the flyest Ac'
Nigga... bring it! Yeah..

[Outro: Raekwon]
Much love go to New York City
All my Tommy Hil' ice rockin niggaz

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Raekwon
• Criminology
• Ghostface
• Killah
• U-God
• Only
• Built
• For
• Cuban
• Linx
• Wu-Tang
• Clan
• RZA
• GZA
• Method
• Man
• Inspectah
• Deck

[Broyale26]

This and Mobb Deep's The Infamous were two of the hardest cd's out during the summer of '95. Back when niggas weren't afraid to call out wack rappers. Back when the south was known for great music like 8 Ball and MJG, Geto Boys and Scarface, Outkast and the Goodie Mob.

Back when the music meant something, not sissy dancing and quasi homosexuality.

[Bigkahkistan]

"I told you a long time ago, you little fucking monkey, not to fuck me!"

It's the small details you appreciate about this song, and all Wu, really. The opening sample. The little trills in the beat.

[lemoine1996]

Best beat i ever seen

[DEVROE420]

Classic..!!

[IamHipHop77]

Rae & Ghost!

[steeltownbrown52]

@AQGOAT24 That's what I've heard but the only track underground radio would spin was that one J Dilla-produced track. And they spun it way too much, so it turned me off of OBFCL2

[AQGOAT24]

@steeltownbrown52 The second Cuban linx was actually one of the best albums that year.

[steeltownbrown52]

@Broyale26 Not saying "Immobilarity" sucked, but none of his following LPs could measure up to this. I think the only Wu members that comes close to having a series of good albums is Gza and GFK. And Masta Killa,so far so good. I'm excluding Deck cause I've only heard "Uncontrollable Substance".

[Broyale26]

@steeltownbrown52

I really can't find any fault with that opinion.

[cun7us]

@Broyale26 Fucking right. Well said man... hip hop was the shit back in the day.

[ReadeMoore]

@captainofyourstarshi I don't think I was clear with what I was saying - I was replying to some guy saying this song makes all today's hip-hop sound bad or something... I was just trying to say you can't be mad at kids not really checking for the old classics, since this might even be older than the kids we're talking about in the first place!

But yeah, I agree - Good music never dies. I hope to the godz that kids DO make the time to listen to this.

"Wu Tang, again?

Ah yeah... again and again!"

[steeltownbrown52]

I'm probably gonna get a ton of backlash but, in my opinion OBFCL was Raekwon's only good album.