This is credited to GZA but is to all intents and purposes a Wu-Tang Clan effort. Between 1993 and 1995, the Wu (as they’re known, though it’s always sounded a bit daft to me) released one album under their own name and four solo efforts on which various Wu collective members cross-guested. The best of them IMO is Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx but 4th Chamber as a single track stands above everything else, and is from GZA’s Liquid Swords. It features, in order, Ghostface Killah, Wu-associate Killah Priest, the RZA and finally GZA himself
It’s my favourite hip-hop track but I should caveat that by saying that I’ve only ever bought a relatively limited number of hip-hop albums and a lot of them were Ninja Tunes and Mo Wax chin-stroking stuff. So I’m not talking from a great position of expertise here. Nonetheless, I love this. I remember a mate of mine saying to me in 95 or so that the Wu were a real gang in a way that Happy Mondays were playing at. A bit unfair to the Mondays but there was a swagger, danger and kind of glamour to the Wu-Tang Clan of the time and they combined that with incredibly inventive rhymes and beats. 4th chamber has a hypnotic sample/beat and each verse complements or outdoes the one before. I’ve never got tired of playing it in the years since I first heard it.
I know there are proper hip-hop heads on here who can give insight into how this and the Wu-Tang Clan are regarded in that world but to me, without that knowledge, this track is the business.