The only obvious samples are the Clan's signature borrowings from dubbed kung-fu movies, which are littered liberally among the tracks, most effectively on "Laced Cheeba", where the amplified whoosh, whizz and clang of ninja weaponry lends a steely reinforcement to Ghostface Killah's tirade of angry imagery. Ghostface is the reigning heavyweight among the Clan's rap corps, his four cuts providing the backbone to Legendary Weapons.
It's this sort of hip-hop dialectic — claiming both revolutionary fervour and hedonist indulgence as one's chosen territory — that makes the Wu-Tang Clan so hard to pin down, though the passing of Ol' Dirty Bastard has rather tipped the balance towards the former. Raekwon and RZA's references to Africa, Iraq and Islam in "Start the Show" may be accompanied by a cacophony of cheering and jazz saxophone, but I'd imagine Legendary Weapons is exactly the kind of thing muslim leaders are thinking of when they disdain popular music.
Admittedly, such sentiments are in the minority here. The familiar terrain of dope-dealing covered in Inspectah Deck, U-God and Tre Williams's "Never Feel This Pain" — the closest the album comes to a proper song — now has an added undercurrent of disillusion with Barack Obama lurking among the brooding swells of horns and bluesy guitars. And what are Method Man, Trifer Diesel and Cappadonna trying to suggest when they boast "My niggas carry big guns, your niggas carry books"?
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