I've heard a lot of mixed opinions about the Wu-Tang Clan and The W. A lot of people truly like it, but some hate it. Well im here to give you the truth about this album. You may remember the Wu-Tang's classic Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers, well this is nowhere near like it, at all. But its not horrible either. Its a relatively good CD... well.. i dont got much to say with this intro since most people know these guys... so check out the review...

1. Shaolin Finger Jab / Chamber Music (5 Stars)
2. Careful (Click, Click) f/ Cappadonna (5 Stars)
3. Hollow Bones (4 1/2 Stars)
4. Redbull f/ Redman (4 Stars)
5. One Blood Under W f/ Junior Reid (5 Stars)
6. Conditioner (3 1/2 Stars)
7. Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off) f/ Cappadonna (5 Stars)
8. Let My N*ggas Live f/ Nas (2 Stars)
9. I Can't Go To Sleep f/ Isaac Hayes (5 Stars)
10. Do You Really (Thang, Thang) f/ Streetlife (2 Stars)
11. The Monument f/ Busta Rhymes (2 Stars)
12. Gravel Pit (5 Stars)
13. Jah World f/ Junior Ried (5 Stars)
14. Clap (2 Stars)

The aftermath of this is Careful (Click, Click). This is one of the more unique Wu songs. We get an appearance from the Wu-elite in this one, along with old buddy Cappacino, whos performance is only average. My personal favorite parts of the song are Ghostface, Masta Killa, and Inspectah Deck. The production on this track is even darker than that on the opening track, and its now more haunting, and dark. The feel of the song is very oriental and deep, and incredible, with a hard bassline. This is also the second single from this album, but its tough to find this video (but ive got it).

Any of these are potential singles, but of course now ill examine the two lead singles from this album: The Jump Off (Protect Ya Neck) and Gravel Pit. The first of the two is a Clan classic, in my opinion. Featuring every member of the Wu-Tang Clan, plus Cappadonna, we get an incredible masterpiece of a single. Rza gives us his traditional production, only jiggies it up a tiny ounce, making it a suitable club, yet underground track, which is something hard to do, but Rza has accomplished it perfectly, which shows his genius. The production features grimy and simple drum and bass accompaniment, with a jiggy synthesized guitar pluck, which changes when we get to U-God's verse, to a darker beat, but slowly the original is brought back. As for lyrics, each member of the Wu drops humorous and incredibly witty lyrics, but my personal favorites are Inspectah Deck, Ghostface, Meth, Masta Killa, and Gza.

Besides Cappadonna being on a bunch of songs, we get other guest appearances on The W. The first is on Redbull, which has Meth's buddy Redman popping up. Though the production is nothing special, using synthesizers, its still tolerable and very listenable. The big surprise here is that Inspectah Deck's verse was slightly less crafty than usual, so the track loses a few points.

Afterwards, we get an interesting track with Snoop Dogg, who has ridiculously fallen off, and some left over vocals from the "at the time" incarcerated Old Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang. Snoop delivers a sleep performance, and ODB is his usual crazy self, luckily Gza comes in at the end with a ridiculously incredible verse which scores a song a sh*tload of points. As for the production, Rza delivers with an incredibly gritty and grimy track with simple and dirty drum loops and slightly strange sound effects.

One of the things we usually dont get from a Wu-Tang Clan album is introspectiveness. Well they deliver it twice by Rza and Ghostface. On the two tracks I Cant Go 2 Sleep and Jah World, we get plenty of it from these two talented emcees. On the first, I Cant Go 2 Sleep, Rza and Ghostface are joined by Isaac Hayes on the fourth single from this album. They rap extremely emotional rap about the problems with the world, and it really sounds like they are crying. The production gives us a deep and sad, yet classical and jazzy mood, which is perfect for this song. These three artists give us an extremely emotional song, which even touched me, and im not afraid to say it. Nothing BUT Pure Classic.