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Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... was the debut album of Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon, released in 1995 on Loud Records. It is considered to be one of the best hip-hop albums of the 1990s and a pioneer of the mafioso hip-hop genre for its story and creabilty of the drug lord life. Raekwon released Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...—originally to be titled Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Niggaz — as his first solo album. It was a diverse, theatrical criminological epic that saw The RZA move away from the raw, stripped-down beats of the early albums and towards a richer, cinematic sound more reliant on strings and classic soul samples. Lavish living and the crime underworld are referenced throughout, with the mystique of the Wu-Tang Clan deepened by the adoption of crime boss aliases and the crew name Wu-Gambinos. This album is commonly referred to as The Purple Tape because the original cassette's plastic was entirely purple. Raekwon made this decision because he wanted to make sure people knew his album, in a way similar to how drug dealers may mark their goods.Raekwon's solo album is widely considered to be one of the most influential albums of hip hop in the 1990s. In fact, it was one of sixteen hip-hop albums to be included in Pitchfork Media's Best Albums of the 1990s Redux list, and was listed as one of thirty-three hip hop/R&B albums in Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 1990s list. In addition, Stylus Magazine called it one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever, AllHipHop.com called it "incredible," and fellow emcee Busta Rhymes regarded it as "one of the best albums ever." It was retroactively given a 5-mic rating from The Source magazine in 2002, and was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums, even though it was originally rated 4.5 mics in 1995.


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