No Said Date [CD + DVD] [Enhanced]

Right from the start, MK hits you with an old-skool badly-dubbed Kung-fu skit that Wu fans of old have been dying for since Liquid Swords. It's usually a sign of a good Wu-Tang album, and when "Grab The Mic" comes on, it only cements the initial thought that this IS what we've all been waiting on. Over a really nice beat produced by Brock (who I've honestly never heard of), Masta Killa introduces the crowd to his album, literally - "Greetings ladies and gents/Good evening I'm your speaker for this evening". What follows is pure fire.
After this comes the title track and with it, something that too many Wu-tang albums have been missing recently, a banger by RZA. MK doesn't disappoint either as he makes this another bomb of a song.
The trend continues, and whether its the lyrical warning on "Last Drink" or the respect to his "Queen", Masta Killa doesn't drop an average verse on this album - They're all hot!
The fact that the entire Wu-Tang (and Killah Priest) is featured (first time since Liquid Swords?) on the album only adds to its brilliance.

RZA produces another 2 songs, the first video "Old Man" (featuring RZA and the ever-insane rants of Ol' Dirty) and "School" which also features RZA is one of my personal favourites on the album.
Most of the other production duties are handled by other 'in-house' Wu producers. Perhaps the most interesting song on the album is Choco's "Digi Warfare". A strange song, that REALLY grows on you if you give it time. A mix between Old-Skool and some Sci-fi techno ish, MK Kills the track like a Master.

The holy trinity of unrecognised Wu-Tang MCs reunites on "Silverbacks" when GZA and Inspectah Deck join Masta Killa to produce the type of track that even believers of these three could never imagine.

The album closes out with "Masta Killa" produced by Baby Dooks (another producer I've never heard of) and whether it's the sound of Bruce Lee talking about how water is the most powerful substance in the world between verses(from a film where his character was called "Master Killer"), the oriental tinged beat, Masta Killa dropping some of the best verses on the album or most likely the way it gels together, the album closes with one of the best tracks.

Everyone will have their favourites on this CD, but the truth of the matter is that there isn't a bad track, there isn't even one that you could refer to as "good", because that word just doesn't do justice to this album that can only be described as a Masta-piece.

Par for the Wu course, there are guest spots from Ghostface, Method Man, Raekwon and Gza (all as good as you would expect), but this is very much Killa’s party. The production from Rza (whose rejigging of Outkast’s Skew It On The Bar-B on the title track ranks among his best work) is exemplary and the Wu chieftain even manages to pilfer samples from the themes of Sanford & Son and Cheers. Elsewhere, Mathematics and True Master are close to their best on cuts like Secret Rivals and Last Drink. In fact, the whole thing sounds like it came from the Wu’s 1994 heyday, which seeing as many of these tracks have been cocooned for over a decade, isn’t all that surprising.

That’s not to say there isn’t some degree of innovation, Digi Warfare, D.T.D. and School all broaden the Wu canon with a selection of vicious beats.