Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... is the solo debut album of American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, released August 1, 1995, on Loud Records in the United States. The album was loosely composed to play like a film with Raekwon as the "star," fellow Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah as the "guest-star," and producer RZA as the "director." It features appearances from every member of the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as affiliates Cappadonna, and Blue Raspberry. It also features an acclaimed guest appearance from rapper Nas, which marked the first collaboration with a non-affiliated artist on a Wu-Tang related album. Read Full BioOnly Built 4 Cuban Linx... is the solo debut album of American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, released August 1, 1995, on Loud Records in the United States. The album was loosely composed to play like a film with Raekwon as the "star," fellow Wu-Tang member Ghostface Killah as the "guest-star," and producer RZA as the "director." It features appearances from every member of the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as affiliates Cappadonna, and Blue Raspberry. It also features an acclaimed guest appearance from rapper Nas, which marked the first collaboration with a non-affiliated artist on a Wu-Tang related album.
Upon its release, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 chart, and number two on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, while selling 130,000 copies in its opening week. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on October 2, 1995, and according to Nielsen Soundscan, it has sold 1.1 million copies in the United States alone. Although it failed to acquire the same initial sales success as previous Wu-Tang solo albums, Cuban Linx achieved greater critical praise, with many complimenting its cinematic lyricism and production.

Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... has increased its acclamation among music critics and writers over the years, as many have lauded it as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. With its emphasis on American Mafia insinuations and organized crime, the album is widely regarded as a pioneer of the Mafioso rap genre. It has been esteemed as being highly effective on hip hop music over the next decade, being heavily referenced and influential on albums such as Doe or Die, Reasonable Doubt, It Was Written and Life After Death. Along with GZA's Liquid Swords, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... is classified by many to be the best of Wu-Tang solo material. Its success spawned a sequel 14 years later with 2009's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II. In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Cuban Linx number 480 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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Striving For Perfection
Raekwon Lyrics


"No disrespect, but for real I'm tired of this shit"
"Aight, word, aight I'ma set it"
"Let's get it, fuck it, let's get it, tell me how you feel, man"
"Yo son, check the fly shit son"
"Sup, cousin, how you doin'?"
"Yo, baby, check it man, I got a new connect son, for real, man
Fuck all this twenty for a brick shit, man" (no doubt)
"My man got out of state for fifteen" (yeah)
"You know what I'm saying?"
"Yo, you know my man's and 'em is in VA they politickin' to death"
"Right, right, right"
"So it's all good, what's up? What you wanna do?"
"God, God, we gotta move God, we gotta move God, we gotta migrate
Get the f-, get the fuck outta New York, you know what I'm sayin'?
Bounce man, start fuckin' with bigger and better shit, man"
"So you tellin' me no more big eights, strictly bricks"
"No more, no more, no more, man"
"Then I'm with you, I been waitin'"
"No more, God"
"What's up?"
"It's a pot of gold right here, man
This is it man, this is glory, you know what I'm sayin'?
"So yo, the first thing we gotta do, man
Is just know what we gonna do with this cream when we get it, man" (right)
"'Cause I'm not tryna just be, sittin' on motherfuckin' two-hundred thou'" (right)
"And acting like I'ma just be a drug dealer all my life, son" (nah, nah)
"I got bigger and better plans, son"
"No doubt, we gonna move on, man"
"And you know I be fucking with anybody, man"
"Son, long as the love and the trust is there, son
We gon' grow, God" (you know-, yo, Tony)
"We gon' grow like a plant, son" (yo, you comin' at me like that, son?)
"For real son, come on you know me, man" (you know my style, son)
"You know how my heart feels though, God" (no doubt)
"But yo, God, for real, this is my last time, God
I'm hangin' this shit up, man, if this shit don't work right here, God"
"Word up, I feel the same way, I feel the same way kid" (you know what I'm sayin'?)
"Yo, God, you know what I'm sayin'?
When I got shot at, man, my mom's windows got shot the fuck up, man" (yeah)
"Yo God, my baby's in here God, see I gotta take the time, man
And raise my family, man" (yeah, yeah, yeah)
"You know what I'm sayin'? Sit around man, my grandkids, man"
"But yo son, it's like this man
We all living, man, we here now, man"
"Word, man"
"You know what I'm sayin'?
Let's not think like we gon' be stagnatin', man
Let's keep moving ahead, man
Keep our head up man
Take care of our families, man"
"God, word is bond, I'm your eyes that's in back of you kid"
"Let's do it"

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Written by: Corey Woods, Robert F. Diggs

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