Gravel Pit [Single, Import]

Wu-Tang Clan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Phantom Sound & Visi
• ASIN: B000050X4A
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #826,247 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gravel Pit (Explicit)

2. Gravel Pit (LP Version Clean)

3. Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off) (Dirty LP)

4. Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off) (Dirty DJ Mix)

Editorial Reviews

First single off the hardcore rap act's long awaited third album, the 2000 release 'W'. No U.S. release is scheduled for 'Gravel Pit'. Tracks, 'Gravel Pit' (Explicit and LP Version Clean) and off their 1993 debut 'Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)', 'Protec

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scooby Doo rap that works?... Zoiks!!, November 18, 2000

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Martin Saffu (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gravel Pit (Audio CD)

So we have stepped across the threshold of the new millenium and rap is bigger than ever. Commercial rap is riding high on a crest of multi-ethnic popularity and possible contractual duress is forcing artists to churn out 'less than inspired' pieces. This was never the case with the Wu Tang Clan.

Pioneers of a refreshing wave of 'live' hip hop in the early nineties, they injected a much-needed energy into hip hop when it was at risk of stagnating in a pool of lazy West Coast production and mundane lyricism. They now return in 2000 with a hark back to those halcyon days with a new album and two new singles.

Media snippets and rumours abounded as to the post-millenial direction they would take and it seems that the promise to recapture the late eighties/early nineties hip hop zeitgeist has been kept. After the slow, sombre beats and loops that dominated late nineties Wu production, we are now treated to an accelerated tempo suffused with an array of sounds which emanates an almost comic vibe (a little bit Slim Shady, actually). Lyrically, Gravel Pits is bereft of the metaphorical imagery we have come to expect from the Clan but, as such, maintains the ethos of the track. Ghostface in particular shines with his dextrous reciprocal verse - his style fitting the tune like elegant fingers in a velvet glove.

All in all, not the deepest or indeed best display of the Wu Tang brand of hip hop, but it certainly displays a diversity and overshadows the majority of hip-'pop' out there.