Wu-Tang: An American Saga Raekwon Picks The Purple Tape

Wu-Tang: An American Saga. The Purple Taoe

[@amirritchie1600]

This episode meant everything to me Raekwon ,Nas and prodigy been my favorite rappers since I was 11 I’m 40 now

[@menace2society481]

Wait prodigy was in this episode?

[@chrisjackson5932]

I know Nas,Big L,Fat Joe was in it didn’t see Prodigy

[@amirritchie1600]

@@menace2society481 No P wasn’t on there I was just giving him a honorable mention

[@amirritchie1600]

@@chrisjackson5932 Just was giving P honorable mention

[@chrisjackson5932]

@@amirritchie1600 👍🏾

[@kaykilla1000]

Best episode of the series by far. They did Rae correctly.

[@jdepaz5933]

Yea unlike rza lol damn they butchered his character

[@DjIceCnS]

@@jdepaz5933 🤣

[@dj_dominic]

He got Rae to a "T"!! "Nah son!"

[@ricethrupower]

NAH MEEEEEANNNNN

[@prizzle9234]

That transition to the purple tape!!

[@Palayon]

Hard!!!

[@kagemaru2503]

I was really hoping for the Cuban Linx photo shoot that Ghost & Rae did it would’ve been mad cool and also with them making the album in the studio

[@emekaosuagwu6416]

Exactly my thoughts, this episode was not it all, that's what I wanted to see, for them to be in the studio making them joints smh

[@ldretv2448]

@@emekaosuagwu6416 understand this Son. This entire episode tells the entire story they rap about in OB4CL. The same thing you saw with ODB episode . It tells the story of the nature and inspiration behind their big solo albums . The best one will Be Liquid swords and ik that for a fact

[@emekaosuagwu6416]

@@ldretv2448 first of all am not your son, second of all,I understand the concept of both ODB and Rae episode,I would just prefer, to see more of them making the music in the studio, just the creation of the album, like they did protect your kneck and cream in season 2.. you could have just said all that without calling me son,be very careful

[@ldretv2448]

@@emekaosuagwu6416 or what ? What you gon do bout it son ?😭 word is bond this is how we talk in NY deadass💀

[@emekaosuagwu6416]

@@ldretv2448 I see you don't listen,so am a let u be

[@MrKwillis87]

This was the best episode

[@SkiiZa.Killah]

No debate it is the best episode

[@Eddiaz181]

Not really it was good but this whole season been consistent with the delivery of each episode

[@kickdreaming]

SECOND TO ME. BEST ONE FOR ME WAS SEASON 2 EP 6. RZA COOKING UP BEATS. 🔥

[@chrisjackson5932]

Yes ODB story was crazy

[@cmoney0Q]

Facts

[@CellTheRxpy]

The hottest shit out that summer! Sadly these youngsters will never know what it’s like to wait to cop a dope album

[@tyliekinc.]

Summer 95!! My mom was leaving 8th grade

[@KtotheG]

Even the girls was fuckin wit it. First time I seen a lot of them be into hardcore hip hop.

[@jdepaz5933]

@@tyliekinc. we can do without your sarcasm lol

[@FentySeroquel]

I bought Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... around 2004 or 2005, around the time I was starting high school. That was one of the last years the record store around my way was open. Tical 0: The Prequel led me into that chamber that year, and from there, the began perhaps my favorite journey through hip-hop history.

[@Polostar79]

If you wasn’t around at that time you’ll never truly understand the magnitude of this album when it dropped. Whatever else was happening musically all came to a standstill.

[@EsauistheCaucasian]

Hip Hop's Magnum Opus. I'm not debating ANYBODY on that.

[@TA-ht4jo]

Facts! I’m thankful I was around.

[@TA-ht4jo]

@@EsauistheCaucasian No need to debate anybody. Those who were there understand exactly what you mean.

[@TKSProductns]

And may I add if a person references this as anything other than “The Purple Tape” they are not from the cloth and are not down💪🏾💯

[@Polostar79]

@@TKSProductns I concur my good man 👍🏾

[@Will008]

The Purple Tape was one of the soundtracks of my high school years.

[@KentuckyBlue502]

Purple, the color of royalty. Biblical royalty, Hebrew royalty 🙏🏿

[@hartfantom]

Stop it lol. It’s just a color

[@khiariaskew606]

​@@hartfantomyea it's a color to those who don't wanna learn nothing

[@77Productions77]

@@khiariaskew606right lol. People just love dumbing shit down cause they don’t want to deal with the intellectual debates that come with addressing certain multifaceted topics. Aka … people don’t like to think lol

[@Natehawk12]

The Summer of '95 Y'all had to be there!

[@DivineKingMade]

The nostalgia of being in middle school, and buying the purple tape in 95, what a time to be outside !!! Classic !

[@BlancoDasMe]

The greatest album ever recorded. I stand on that 10 toes!

[@grandmasterciphersupreme7751]

HELL, FUCK, YEAH!!!!!! 👐

[@Polostar79]

I still listen to it today the same way I did when it first dropped.

[@REAL6]

This and Liquid swords

[@Dmar-ih7kr]

Me too with the purple vinyl edition.

[@Mr704kiam]

I second that

[@thejeneralj.u.-iceforever6706]

😌 "Criminology" has been in my ears since I was 14. 😏 I remember back in 2010 I was stationed in Japan and the guy who lived next door was all into comics and video games and didn't know anything about hip-hop. His last name was Vossen and he lived on the other side of our connected bathroom. One day I'm bumping "Criminology" and the end plays where the beat is just riding. Vossen knocks on my door from inside the bathroom. I'm thinking he's gon' say something like "dude can you please turn that down?", but instead he gives me this look like he just discovered what the hell a pizza taste like for the first time. He was a white kid into heavy metal and shit but as soon as he started grinning like the damn Cheshire Cat, I already knew he was about to be a fan. He hit me with 😃 "dude what the hell is that you're listening to?!" and I put him on to "the purple tape". After I told him about the Wu-Tang Clan and let him listen to "Enter The Wu-Tang 36 Chambers, Return To The 36 Chambers, Liquid Swords, Tical, Iron Man, Made In Brooklyn, Uncontrolled Substance" and various Wu-Tang affiliates. Vossen was hooked lol. I'd come home from work, walk past his room in the barracks and he was bumpin' anybody he could from the Clan. 😏 Glad I put dude on to the best hip-hop group that ever lived because before that he thought hip-hop music was something he couldn't get into until he started listening to the Wu-Tang Clan.

[@Putch100]

Respect

[@criticalmath6684]

I remember how he felt, and every Wu head. A neighbour of mine back in school 2003, asked me to lend her the Iron Flag album because of the song "Uzi". It was crazy how she picked that one..(not for me, I love Wu)..out of all the songs on there. She would play "I got my Uzi back.." on repeat as she drew. She was an art student. Said the song helped her flow more as she created. I hope you played him No Said Date too ,that album was pure substance.

[@thejeneralj.u.-iceforever6706]

@@criticalmath6684 😏👉🏾😎👍🏾

[@rafaslb501]

Metal heads kinda like hip hop but they always loved wu

[@PontFlair]

​​@@criticalmath6684No Said Date is a great album. Wish Masta Killa got released sooner, with all Rza production. I preferred No Said Date over Made In Brooklyn. I did love how "ENY House" on Made in Brooklyn was an MF DOOM beat though. MF DOOM R.I.P is my GOAT 🐐

[@untilvictory]

Nobody from the time ever held a tape upside down like that

[@scribblebeck]

thank you!!!!

[@NamastayGangstaArt]

He’s 25 though lol

[@nomansland2111]

Picked up OB4CL the day it was released and I still have the PURPLE TAPE & CD. that album imo, one of the greatest WU-TANG solo releases that literally changed the course of HIP-HOP

[@prizzle9234]

The brilliance of of making that tape purple so it stands out. Perfection👌

[@Polostar79]

Redman did that three years prior with his first album. The tape was red.

[@Escobarr196]

Best album out of all the wu tang members🤌🏿

[@fp3055]

Goat episode of the series. I swear I can watch a spin off if this episode centered around rae and ghost

[@alexmathewmendoza]

And to this day the purple tape is the most famous hip hop cassette of all time.

[@luisperez-soriano2399]

Best album from wu tang best episode from wu tang

[@josecano9210]

The GZA episode outdid this one

[@eightoheight]

This episode made me love the album, had it on repeat for months

[@gilfordmccormack8140]

" Ain't no but make it happen" lol

[@johnnybraxton5539]

Word to mother son each WU member need their own individual episodes they all got there own styles

[@FreePlayMode]

I remember when "The Purple Tape" came out in the summer right before I was going to be a sophomore in HS. Oh my goodness! It was all you heard in Newark NJ, Patterson NJ, Jersey City NJ, anywhere in NYC, that shit was just outside. You couldn't go a single block in the hood without hearing some song off that album playing from SOMEBODY'S sound system be it from a car, a boom box, speakers from someone's house, or even off hot 97 on the radio.

[@theyoungesttward]

I was becoming a sophomore in high school during that time as well. This and that Russell Simmons The Show album was my soundtrack for the summer of 95. Great times.

[@chrisanderson7984]

The purple tape. I blew so many trees to that album

[@TreyStation64]

I'm making a samurai hip-hop manga heavily inspired by Wu-Tang. Listening to Cuban Linx and Liquid Sword sparked that idea, and this scene reminded me why.

[@wilsonfisk4741]

He actually chose the purple tape because it resembled the packaging for heroin sold on the corner

[@rgw1380rw]

Many youth today wouldn't known what a cassette tape is 😂!

[@ShogunDynamo]

This and Illmatic the best hip hop albums out there

[@Jrlegit608]

Could you plz post Shameik & Siddiq version of “Criminology”🔥🔥🔥

[@Hermit__]

I think they played the original version in the show. Not the one the actors did

[@Jrlegit608]

@@Hermit__ They played the actors version at the end of the episode💯

[@rgw1380rw]

I'm sure most of us in this comment section remember the procedure when recording us some heat from our favorite radio stations back in the day 😊👍🏾!

[@kevinerosa]

The ending where they show the guys chilling is weird. Wu was already known because of 36 chambers and tical. Why didn't he just say, "yo that new Raekwon is out and sh!t is crazy."

[@youngbliffordclothing9276]

Those years brought back the radios outside

[@bluebimmer8204]

Greatest album all Time

[@cambreezythecolorman0716]

That was an best episode

[@leonstroker4026]

Only Built For Cuban Links and Illmatic, tied for Greatest Hip Hop Album of all time.

[@s4mp_founder]

"Ain't no but...make that happen 4 me."

[@CARLJOHNSON-ny8sn]

watched this epsoide yesterday 1.25 you don.t see street corners like this no more the boombox at the end and puprle tape made this ending epsoide special to me the big l scene was awesome R.I.P LAMONT COLEMAM THIS SHOW WAS FIRE

[@soundbombin23]

I still got my purple tape since ‘95 🔥 ❤️

[@ZonedOutProductionz]

Imagine if this hit in 2020. Erbody would be inside slappin it

[@shawnpdavis9819]

Had this tape miss the old days frfr

[@bankzfotha9423]

Once I done that show ? I was like I gotta listen to my purple tape again and again and AGAIN!!!! Who still own the purple tape?

[@bombay3201]

All due respect to the Wu but I believe Compton's most wanted came out with a all blue tape in 1990 the tape I brought was all blue

[@celticsole7542]

He holding the cassette upside down

[@HipHopHeadGunner]

Wu Tang, Nas & Mobb Deep were the group that never became a group

[@christophercarson4119]

I don’t know why they keep saying it’s Rae purple tape because ghosts face is on every track on that album. After that Raekwon albums wasn’t hitting hard like that he was only good on features appearances.

[@Polostar79]

Ghost was technically the guest star but you’re right it was basically a joint album.

[@DynastyLuminous46]

@Apollo Spade Ghost got his own solo joint on the purple tape tho, Rae also got his own solo joint on Ironman. They were guest-starring on eachothers projects. Purple tape is still Rae's album and Ironman still Ghosts.

[@PontFlair]

​@@DynastyLuminous46I remember on Supreme Clientele, Ghost has a track where he says "The World can't stop Ghost's purple tape, Rae co-host.." LOL I knew what he meant though. Ghost is one of my favorite emcees of All-Time.

[@arazie117]

Ah yes I love the purple taoe

[@aaronavilez954]

Ain't no checking, what u mean check with Steve? I'm telling you 😅😅😂

[@jenielcross4156]

Classic

[@geepee1500]

The Red Tape is Redman Dare Iz a Darkside.😁

[@littlenickydiablo8543]

Whoever this actor is.. he was GREAT for Raekwon. 😤💯

[@mauriciohernandez116]

The Mace Windu of rap albums

[@davidmurray6949]

Loved this episode but don't forget about Ironman 🤷‍♂️ all I'm saying 🤷‍♂️

[@murderwitahashtag840]

This NOT TRUE!! RAKWON said himself in past interviews that GREEN is his favorite color and at the time they ddnt have GREEN cassette cases...so his next choice was PURPLE... If they wpuldve had green we'd all know it as the GREEN TAPE!! #FACTS

[@bansheebwoi5056]

yeah but that’s a boring story to try and translate into a dramatized tv show

[@murderwitahashtag840]

@@bansheebwoi5056 and so is biggie wit a beard! Lol

[@premiumnetwork1953]

@@murderwitahashtag840 facts. Had Biggie looking like Santa Claus

[@waynewatanabe2207]

True Capricorn style ♑️

[@danieldenis9586]

Legendary Shit

[@josephrandall4516]

So this what pusha was talk about

[@davidmurray6949]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jackedkerouac4414]

I wish I bought two of them and kept one sealed

[@cobrakainevereverdies6940]

I bought the CD and ain't nothing purple about it !!!!!

[@jaren2159]

💯

[@brandonloaiza8595]

Why you puttin it on the table if it aint an option

[@WitchBoozy]

Anyone notice how everyone overreacting to music at the wrong time throughout the show or am I tripping? Like at 1:16 and later the guy who put on the tape is like "you hear these bars" and the song is just starting

[@LuizGustavo-sl3hd]

♾️

[@robmaddison8645]

'Yo, first of all son, peep the arson Many brothers I be sparkin' and bustin' mad light inside the dark Call me dough snatcher, just the brother for the rapture I hand glide, holdin' on strong, hard to capture'

[@Polostar79]

“Extravagant, RZA baked the track and it’s militant, then I react like a convict and start killing sh*t”

[@queensmickey]

is this Shameik Moore as Raekwon?

[@kameronwright9925]

Yepp

[@JakeKoenig]

This wouldn't have been complete without a "We Wuz Kings" mention. 🤣 Instant comedy.

[@HuskeyYT]

Tbh this was the only album story fantasy I enjoyed. ODB is my favorite member but I couldn’t get into his. Gza’s was ok.

[@100milesnrunnin]

Debate only built for cuban linx or Liquid Swords

[@harveylittlechief1202]

liquid swords. the best album by far

[@lkjp07]

Only Built For Cuban Link

[@100milesnrunnin]

@@harveylittlechief1202 Hells Wind staff

[@97sveryown63]

Nigga look more like Asap Ferg than Reakwon

[@kordellricesnax]

Hard to find good actors who look exactly like someone

[@dannyhunter6271]

MOVIE RIGHT KIDS NOTHING LIKE IT I SEEN IT HIP HOPS NOTHING TODAY

[@IronCapo-dy3qt]

I’m one of the biggest Wu fans out here. I’m 39 years old but idk why this whole tv show is extra cringey to me. Half this shit is exaggerated, most of it is fabricated , and some of this shyt never even happened. I’d rather rewatch all the real documentaries with actual real footage.

[@Pops-bh4nz]

Duh dumbass what do you think tv shows and biopics are? They are strictly entertainment. Brian May said it best "You want entertainment watch the movie, if you want accuracy watch a documentary"

[@darianbirckett1933]

Such a bad show

[@BigjayB]

Nas talked about this very episode on last real niggas a live.

[@solomonbukhaidze4972]

How I can find this song?can enywan tell me that?

[@solomonbukhaidze4972]

@@criticalmath6684 thanks broo i have already found it thanks eny ways