Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Critic Score
Based on 7 reviews
1993 Ratings: #1 / 416
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1993 Rank: #1All Time: #14
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Pitchfork

36 Chambers, an insular and weird album by design, arrived not a moment too soon in a decade where insular and weird music found unexpected traction in the mainstream.

100
AllMusic
Subsequent group and solo projects would refine and deepen this template, but collectively, the Wu have never been quite this tight again.
100
Consequence of Sound

Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) has become such a standard — not only in hip-hop but in music, period — that imagining a world without it is nigh impossible.

100
Entertainment Weekly

With its rumble jumble of drumbeats, peppered with occasional piano plunking, Enter has a raw, pass-the-mike flavor we haven’t heard since rap was pop’s best-kept secret.

100
The Needle Drop
Some of the most amazing and influential and groundbreaking hip-hop songs of all time.
80
Rolling Stone

This is hip-hop you won't find creeping up the Billboard charts but you will hear booming out of Jeep stereos in all the right neighborhoods.

halbery
90

ok but what if the ninja turtles were real and also they were rappers

BradTasteMusic
100

There is no other album that debuts talent quite as intensely as this does. After hearing this, as soon as I heard a feature from any of the classic Wu Tang members on any modern day track, I would lose my shit.

One of the best hip hop albums of all time

Craigold
100

I once met Wu-Tang back in 1998, and they asked to do some chores for me. They mowed my lawn, Vacuumed, babysat my son, and fed my dog. Not only that, they PAYED ME to let them do it. Such nice young men. always helping out their neighbors. The only issue is that they took my wife away, but what would I need her for? Food? I know how to cook, damnit!

AlexOrlando
100

G.O.A.T Tier Album !!!

DarthChilling
98

Hot bangers and perfection.

Owenx33
95

You know, they couldn't have predicted this, but the fact that all of the skits/intermissions are at the beginning of the songs goes to show that this was meant to be listened to front to back. They'll scare away all the insta-dopamine TikTok babies that want gratification now because it takes time to get into the songs, you gotta let them do their thing, and when you get into it, it's so rewarding.

I'm not saying they meant to do this, but the way it's paced is incredible, some of the best ... read more

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Added on: September 8, 2012