Manifesto(Explicit Version) CD

MUSIC

RAP / HIP-HOP

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Tombstone Intro ~ Inspectah Deck

2. Champion, The ~ Inspectah Deck

3. Born Survivor - (featuring Cormega) ~ Inspectah Deck

4. This Is It ~ Inspectah Deck

5. Luv Letter - (featuring Ms Whitney) ~ Inspectah Deck

6. P.S.A. ~ Inspectah Deck

7. T.R.U.E. - (featuring Meshel) ~ Inspectah Deck

8. We Get Down ~ Inspectah Deck

9. Big Game, The - (featuring Raekwon) ~ Inspectah Deck

10. Tombstone Interlude ~ Inspectah Deck

11. 9th Chamber ~ Inspectah Deck

12. Really Real - (featuring Carlton Fisk/Fes Taylor) ~ Inspectah Deck

13. Serious Rappin - (featuring Termanology/Planet Asia) ~ Inspectah Deck

14. Do What U Gotta ~ Inspectah Deck

15. Crazy ~ Inspectah Deck

16. Gotta Bang - (featuring Billy Danze/Kurupt) ~ Inspectah Deck

17. Bad Apple, The ~ Inspectah Deck

18. Brothaz Respect - (featuring Fes Taylor/Cappadonna) ~ Inspectah Deck

19. 5 Star G ~ Inspectah Deck

20. Neverending Story, The - (featuring Pleasant) ~ Inspectah Deck

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Recording information: View Studio.
	One of the original Wu-Tang workhorses, Inspectah Deck has remained one of the group's most consistent and capable lyricists. And while the solo success achieved by a Method Man or a Ghostface has eluded him, on his fourth LP, Manifesto, Deck shows he isn't ready to abandon the tried and true approach that's brought him this far. After trying out a rapid-fire quasi-Dirty South flow on "Tombstone Intro" (which he reprises in a later interlude), the Rebel INS is quickly back to his old self by track two, "The Champion," delivering a plethora of ghetto images with signature brute force ("I stream machine gun funk, trunk-slayer/Major pain game-hunter") over a haunting Alchemist slow-burner. Next Cormega joins him for the lofty "Born Survivor," which mixes thrash metal guitars and a scattering of excerpts from an Obama speech. Elsewhere, the Staten Island MC does his ghetto love song schtick on "Luv Letter," calling to mind some of Uncontrolled Substance's highlights. Throughout Manifesto's 20-deep track list, Deck demonstrates his capabilities -- though perhaps not much imagination -- behind the boards, as he handles executive production duties as well as personally producing four tracks. His beat on "T.R.U.E." revisits a familiar Gwen McGrae sample but still works as a serviceable backdrop to INS' well-cadenced verses, while the uninspired piano loop behind "We Get Down" sounds like every unremarkable 50 Cent beat that made you press FF. Aside from a few stale beats, Manifesto also sinks to downright embarrassing depths on occasion. The vocoder-tinged hook on "The Big Game" will likely be considered unforgivable by boom-bap purists still on Deck's side, while failing to win over any new fans who prefer the club-friendly efforts of, say, T-Pain or Flo Rida. Similarly, the sleazy pickup rhymes of "5 Star G" come off like an impromptu Jigga-at-his-worst rendition. Still, despite a handful of throwaway cuts, Manifesto has more than enough heat to prove that Deck's mike skills still stand up up to any of his Wu brethren (check INS' juggernaut force flows on "P.S.A." or "Brothaz Respect" to put any doubts to rest). Among latter-day Wu-Tang efforts, it ranks somewhere above 4:21...The Day After but still well below Cuban Linx, Pt. 2. ~ Matt Rinaldi
Musical Guests
	Cormega
	Ms Whitney
	Meshel
	Raekwon
	Carlton Fisk
	Fes Taylor
	Termanology
	Planet Asia
	Billy Danze
	Kurupt
	Cappadonna
	Pleasant

Compilation Appearances

	Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (Explicit Version)
	Heavy Mental (Explicit Version)
	Full Clip-A Decade Of Gang Starr (Explicit Version)
	Vol. 2-Chapter Ii (Explicit Version)
	Tbd
	School For The Blindman
	Legendary Weapons(Explicit Version)
	Phazed Out
	Fantastic Planet
	Wu Block
	Mass Appeal: Best Of Gang Starr(w/ Bonus DVD)(Explicit Version)
	Mass Appeal: Best Of Gang Starr(Explicit Version)
	Beyond Measure

Associated Artists and Works

	Czarface [Digipak] ~ 7L & Esoteric
	Czarface [Digipak] ~ Esoteric (Rap)

Technical Info

	Release Date : 03/23/2010
	Original Release Date : 2010
	Catalog ID : UIR 1661
	Label : Traffic (England)
	Number of Discs : 1
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00166166166124

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Manifesto(Explicit Version) (2010)

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