GZA’s “Liquid Swords” 4LP Box Set To Release, Includes Chess Set, Instrumentals

    On July 24, 2012 Get On Down Records will collaborate with Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA and Geffen Records to release a deluxe 2CD box set of the emcee’s sophomore album, Liquid Swords. The November, 1995 album’s re-issue will include a bonus disc of the album’s instrumentals, almost entirely produced by RZA. Also included are liner notes penned by the emcee, and a chess set pulling from much of the album’s lyrical influence.

    Liquid Swords featured the single “Cold World,” and was a mainstream introduction to Killah Priest. In recent years, GZA has alluded to releasing a sequel to his first and only Top 10 album.

    Previously, Get On Down has partnered in vinyl and CD deluxe reissues of Ironman and Supreme Clientele by Wu-Tang’s Ghostface Killah.

    (June 7, 2012)

    UPDATE: Get On Down Records has announced that they have released a 4LP vinyl package of the GZA’s Liquid Swords deluxe edition in production for 2013’s Record Store Day. The new packaging will hit stores in honor of the retail holiday of April 20, 2013. This will include instrumentals, liner notes and the wooden chess set. The 2CD remains available.

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    40 thoughts on “GZA’s “Liquid Swords” 4LP Box Set To Release, Includes Chess Set, Instrumentals

    1. what? who? when? huh? damn. no. wtf? ah… oh dis nigga? no way.

      Where is I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING 2. I’m waiting to cop it. swag

      1. yo your always on here with this weirdo shit so let me ask you this…why do you not show yourself??please link your fb so we can see the idiot behind the keyboard please.just so I can friend you and talk shit.

    2. I’M 30 NOW…
      GREAT ALBUM, CLASSIC ALBUM,DUEL OF THE IRON MIC KILLS ANY SONG OUT IN THE LAST HUMMMM…10 YEARS…ALONG WITH ETEHER…..GREAT CLASSIC ALBUM

    3. Probably the best lyrical album that came out of the Wu-Tang camp that epitomized everything they were about. Probably one of the top 5 most lyrical hip hop albums ever.

    4. BEST WU-TANG Solo Album! 4th chamber, cold world, investigative reports, killa hills10304, gold, B.I.B.L.E., duel of the iron mic, i gotcha back! CLASSIC!

      1. “4th chamber, cold world, investigative reports, killa hills10304, gold, B.I.B.L.E., duel of the iron mic, i gotcha back!”

        Basically, every song in that album is a classic lol. I don’t blame you, though. If I have to list the classic songs off of that album, I’ll end up listing them all. My personal favorites are “Liquid Swords” and “I Gotcha Back.”

      1. Damn, you got an original pressing? That’s great, all I have is an import pressing but I am definitely picking up this one. My all time favorite album.

    5. yo, hiphopdx, get your fact right….

      the song that was the “mainstream introduction to Killah Priest” was ‘B.I.B.L.E’ not ‘Cold World’ (‘Deck was on ‘Cold War’)

      Get your facts right.

      1. There was a comma in the middle of that sentence, so it wasn’t implying that Killah Priest was featured in “Cold World.”

    6. “I’m on a mission that niggas say is impossible/But when I swing my swords they all choppable/I be the body dropper, the heart stopper/Child educator plus head amputator”

      Loved every minute of this album. Classic in every sense.

    7. GZA has had 2 albums in the top 10, the other being “Beneath The Surface”. Liquid Swords is without a doubt one of the best hip hop albums of all time.

    8. “What is the meaning of “crime”?/Is it Criminals Robbing Innocent Mothafuckas Everytime?”

      The most memorably smart line in that album, IMO.

      Anyways, just like that “Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version” deluxe set, I wanna get my hands on this one too.

    9. I slayed MC’s back in the rec room era
      My style broke motherfuckin backs like Ken Patera
      Most rap niggaz came loud but unheard
      Once I pulled ut, round em off to the nearest third
      Check these non visual niggaz, with tapes and a portrait
      Flood the seminar, tryin to orbit this corporate
      indsutry, but what them niggaz can’t see
      must break through like the Wu, unexpectedly
      Protect Ya Neck, my sword still remain imperial
      Before I blast the mic, RZA scratch off the serial
      We reign all year around from June to June
      While niggaz bite immediately if not soon
      Set the lynchin, and form the execution date
      As this two thousand beyond slang suffocate
      Amplify sample through vacumn tubes compressions
      cause RZA, to charge niggaz twenty G’s a session

    10. Picture bloodbaths in elevator shafts
      Like these murderous rhymes tight from genuine craft
      Check the print, it’s where veterans spark the letterings
      Slow moving MC’s is waitin for the editin
      The liquid soluble that made up the chemistry
      A gaseous element, that burned down your ministry
      Herbal vapors, and biblical papers
      Smokin Exodus, every square yard is plush
      Fuck the screwfaced photo sessions facial expression
      leaves impressions, try to keep a shark nigga guessin
      Give praise and shouts Son, here’s the outcome
      Cut across the semi-gloss rhymes you floss
      Shit is outdated, just like neckloads of Sterlings
      Suede-fronts, bell-bottoms, and tri-colored Shearlings
      I ain’t particular, I bang like vehicular homicides
      on July 4th in Bed-Stuy
      Where money don’t grown on trees and there’s thievin MC’s
      Who cut throat to rake leaves
      They can’t breathe, blood splash, rushin fast
      like runnin rivers, I be that whiskey in your liver

      CLASSIC RAP ALBUM

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    12. Grandmasters was another waaaaay dope GZA release. do yourself a favor and get it if you havent.
      production is from dj muggs and the beats are ridiculous.

    13. Absolute certified classic. I love that there are subjective opinions in life, but if you don’t think this album is dope then you are a hip-hop retard.

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