[.ca] Uncontrolled Substance

From Amazon.com:
Inspectah Deck's debut LP has been one of the most eagerly awaited in Wu-Tang's long history. As the Clan's vaunted lead hitter on pivotal posse cuts like "Triumph" and "Protect Ya Neck," Deck displays a gift for metaphoric mastery and complex rhyme schemes. In fact, few other MCs are more effective than Deck at creating evocative street-level images with single line strokes from his lyrical stylus. Line for line, Deck could easily outshine even fellow Wu members like Method Man or Raekwon, but in a new Wu era where RZA has opted out of handling the bulk of the group members' production, Deck loses out considerably. Uncontrolled Substance is nowhere as banal as GZA's Beneath the Surface, and there are some great tracks ("Femme Fatale," "9th Chamber"), but writ large, RZA's absence is the disc's more glaring shortcoming. How you gonna have the Wu's most venomous rhymer trying to come with an album without the clique's most accomplished beat chemist behind him? This is a great album, but it could have been far greater. --Oliver Wang

The Rebel:
I went to the music store without any idea in mind of what I was getting. As I walked through the door, the employee handed me a free CD. I looked at the cover and saw it said Inspectah Deck. I had know idea who he was, but I saw that it was a hip hop CD so I held onto it. I took it home and listened to it. It was a promotional CD, which had some spliced songs on it. I listened to it at first and didn't really like it, but I gave it another chance. It began to grow on me. After a while, I went to the store to buy the complete album. Ever since then I have been hooked. Let me say, it's hip hop at its finest. The Rebel INS is lyrically sick wit it. His beats would of been a little better if RZA were behind them, but they are still extremely satisfying. Now I am trying to get his new album, "The Movement."

Tight:
Inspectah Deck is always on point and for the fool on this that said that Meth should have been on this album is a fool.

A Definite Buy:
OK, Whoever just said this was the worst album he's ever heard needs to be shot cuz i dunno what that kid thinkin. He musta had Chingy in the background while he was listenin or somethin. Deck is raw on this album and his lyrics prove that he is DEFINITLY one of the top Wu emcees in the clan. Yes, i know RZA wasn't on most of the songs, but yo, you gotta realize in today's game its all about originality. BEING ORIGINAL, not monnotous, RZA cant do every beat, for every song, for every emcee on every album can he?? Look, if you love true, hardcore, raw hip hop, pick up Uncontrolled Substance, you'll be satisfied.

• Intro
• Movas & Shakers
• 9th Chamber
• Uncontrolled Substance - Inspectah Deck,
• Femme Fatale
• Grand Prix - Inspectah Deck, Street Life, U-God
• Forget Me Not
• Longevity - Inspectah Deck, U-God
• Word on the Street
• Elevation
• Lovin You - Inspectah Deck, LA the Darkman
• Trouble Man
• R.E.C. Room
• Friction - Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa
• Hyperdermix
• Show N Prove
• Cause - Inspectah Deck,