The Wild
Wu-Tang workhorse Raekwon has kept impressively high standards over the past 20 years, turning low-key street epics into a cottage industry. Toning down the slick production of 2015’s *Fly International Luxurious Art*, *The Wild* returns to the gritty boom-bap of *Only Built 4 Cuban Linx*—variations on a theme that the rapper still manages to make vivid and fresh, from the tense “M&N” to the touching “Marvin,” a tribute to Marvin Gaye.
Raekwon’s reflective new solo LP is his first to feature zero Wu-Tang Clan members. Amid its casual braggadocio and nimble wordplay, The Wild surveys the Chef’s experience and legacy.
Raekwon the Chef has always been the type to craft incredibly focused bodies of work as opposed to singles. He demonstrated as much right of...
25 years after the tightly-knit nine-man cell broke out of their Staten Island confines to become the all-conquering juggernaut that steamrollered its way