Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture

Posted on 10.18.2005

Various
Album: Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture
Release Date: Oct 18, 2005
Label: Babygrande

Review:
Dreddy Kruger Presents…Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture is an unprecedented pairing of Wu-Tang artists, producers and affiliates with some of independent hip-hop’s East and West Coast elite. RZA, GZA, U-God, MF Doom, Ras Kass, Aesop Rock, Del tha Funky Homosapien, Sean Price, J-Live, Tragedy Khadafi, C-Rayz Walz, Planet Asia, RA the Rugged Man, Littles, Cannibal Ox, and many more artists, producers and even award winning filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, have come together for what will be a milestone release in the hip-hop landscape.

The first single, "Biochemical Equation," featuring The RZA and MF Doom premiered on ITUNES on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005.

Dreddy Kruger, who conceptualized and A&R’ed the album, began his career as an artist signed to RZA’s Wu-Tang Records label. Most recently, he A&R’d the debut albums for Masta Killa and Black Market Militia which led to the formation of Think Differently Music Group and the A&R’ing of this first release, Think Differently: Wu-Tang
Meets the Indie Culture.

The next two projects from Think Differently Music Group will be (i) a solo album from Wu-Tang affiliate producer Bronze Nazareth who recently produced tracks for RZA, GZA, Masta Killa, Immortal Technique and Black Market Militia and (ii) a solo album from long time Wu-Tang
affiliate LA the Darkman/Embassy Entertainment. Babygrande Records Inc. is an independent record label based in New York City whose artists currently include Dipset’s Purple City, GZA/Genius of Wu-Tang (w/ Liquid Swords Ent.), Immortal Technique, Jedi Mind Tricks, Lord Jamar (of Brand Nubian), Canibus, 7L & Esoteric, Outerspace, Sharkey and more.

Featuring guest appearances by Wu-Tang members and the underground elite, including:
GZA • RZA • U-God • MF DOOM • Aesop Rock • Ras Kass • Tragedy Khadafi • Cannibal Ox • Del the Funky Homosapien • Jim Jarmusch • C. Rayz Walz • J-Live • R.A. the Rugged Man • Casual • Prodigal Sunn • Sean Price • Byata • Solomon Childs • Planet Asia • Littles • C.C.F. Division • La the Darkman • Timbo King • Rock Marciano • Khalid • Scaramanga Shallah

Produced by:
RZA • Bronze Nazareth • Allah Mathematics • Preservation • DJ Noize

Tracklisting:
1. Lyrical Swords - GZA & Ras Kass
2. Slow Blues - Vast Aire, Timbo King, Prodigal Sunn & Byata
3. Still Grimey - Sean Price, U-God, C-Rayz Walz & Prodigal Sunn
4. Think Differently - Casual, Rock Marciano, Vordul Mega & Tragedy Khadafi
5. Biochemical Equation - RZA & MF Doom
6. O.D.B. Trinute - DJ Noize
7. Fragments - Del The Funky Homosapien
8. Street Corners - Bronze Nazareth, Solomon Childs & Byata
9. Listen - Little Khalid & Planet Asia
10. Verses - La The Darkman, Scaramanga Shallah, Ras Kass & GZA
11. Preservation - Aesop Rock & Del Tha Funky Homosapien
12. Cars On The Interstate - C.C.F. Division
13. Give It Up - J-Live & R.A. The Rugged Man
14. Black Dawn - Bronze Nazareth

Bonus CD:
15. Think Differently Music (Dreddy Kruger Presents) - ’Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture: Pod-Casting Show’
16. Recorded Live On Oct 7, 2005 @ 36Chambers Studio In New York City
17. Exclusive interview with Dreddy Kruger highlighting the conceptualization and creative genesis of Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture
18. O (Snippet): Written by Gza, Narrated by Jim Jarmusch (Director Of ‘Ghost Dog’, ‘Coffee & Cigarettes’ & ‘Broken Flowers’)
19. Biochemical Equation (CHOCO Remix)
20. A very special exclusive by Gza done for ‘A Bathing Ape’
21. Live Interview with Gza about the process of him writing his lyrics