There are dozens of Wu solo albums, so it's easy for amazing songs to fall through the cracks. Here's some of the best.
Method Man, "Torture" [1998]
Meth's second album Tical 2000: Judgement Day was extremely spotty but this top-notch slow song brings out a pensive, melancholy side of him that tends to be very underrated.
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Cappadonna, "Slang Editorial" [1998]
Cappadonna has been a Wu-Tang mainstay since Wu-Tang Forever, but to this day is only considered to be the unofficial tenth member of the group. As such, even his best-known solo single, "Slang Editorial," is fairly obscure. That's too bad, really – its woozy horn sample and slow yet rugged beat sounds great alongside classics from the Wu's mid-Nineties glory days.
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RZA featuring Method Man, "NYC Everything" [1998]
RZA's experiments with clean, purely electronic production in the late-Nineties yielded mixed results, but this bouncy cut from his Bobby Digital solo album is excellent and sorta mesmerizing. The verses are great too, even when RZA inexplicably makes the word "menstruate" sound more like "administrate."
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Inspectah Deck, "Movas and Shakas" [1999]
Inspectah Deck is beloved by Wu-Tang fans, but he never caught on beyond that audience because his debut solo album came out well after the first wave of Wu hype. If "Movas and Shakas" had come out in 1995 instead of 1999, Deck's career might be very different today.
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