Hell yes. The G5, G5.2 mixtapes are packed with amazing freestyles but they're from 08-09 and the studio quality was lesser. Zero gravity was my personal favorite mixtape, zero gravity 2, worth the wait, and the crown ain't safe were all instant classic mixtapes. His one weakness though is hooks, he can't write them and he hires cringey singers to do them.
Have you heard wither? It's Corey taylor(slipknot and stone sour singer) ft. Tech and it's great. And krayzie was on MWC2, he had the best verse.
I can respect gza too but I can't respect rza and inspektah deck that low. My mans what the fuck is you doin I'm ready git busy, fuck is the deal...
Tbh I don't really judge by their solo works, I don't like most of their solo works, liquid swords was phenomenal(and rza stamped himself a legendary producer on that) and OB4CL was really good. But their group projects just outshine their solo works so much and inspektah deck and rza always outshined all of them on albums. That raw aggressive sound paired with the use of syllables just really grabbed your ears
A lot of people are like this lol, I personally never liked Raekwon at all, ghost on the other hand... I just felt like rae was too laid back for wu and he didn't have the brilliance in his lyrics that gza had.
As much as I love Raekwon, I loathe the fact that he's a Steelers fan.
Be real bro... do you actually like joe budden or do you just say that because he is self proclaimed real hip hop? Lmao