Shabazz The Disciple and Hell Razah - T.H.U.G. Angels: Welcome To Red Hook Houses

It seems like its becoming a trend for good Wu-Tang Affiliates to collaborate with each other and subsequently become respected underground artists. In the past few years some of my favorite albums and album moments have stemmed from that very formula. I don't know why it is happening so often, my only guess would be that many labels and people within the grassroots underground of hip-hop had always dreamed of getting a chance to spit alongside any of the remaining Wu members or put out a record from them. And while that dream in itself has frequently become more attainable in the past few years (did fucking Rza just do a song with David Banner?) many heads within and apart of the industry find the Clansmen still to be ever the more elusive, perhaps even more so than in their hay day. Leave it to Shabazz The Disciple one of the hardest working Wu affiliates out there to link up with Hell Razah; the over achieving lyricist who also like Shabazz is a member of the ultra popular Wu affiliate group Sunz Of Man to come together and make a truly memorable LP. I've always been a sucker for cover art. It's one of the things that hip-hop artists have managed to do so well over the years and the cover for this is no exception. Poignant, realistic, stark, dusty and sepia. I love that shit, truly, hats off to whomever hooked them up with that. Shit is beyond brilliant and a very much needed break from all these niggas posing with grills in they mouth tryin to look tough on they cover. Musically "T.H.U.G. Angels" is what you would expect. Hard beats, honest rhymes and some very well thought out songs that are odes to the infamous housing projects located in Red Hook, Brooklyn that go by the same name. The Red Hook Houses are where both Shabazz and Hell Razah spent a good deal of their youth and perhaps where they might of met as well. undoubtedly, their experiences there contribute widely to much of the content on this LP. I'm sure the both of them always talked about doing an album together back in the day and i'm happy they finally got a chance to do so in 08'. The fact that it's really good is just the icing on the cake.

- BIG D O


1. Cab Ride Opening
2. Welcome To Red Hook Houses
3. Jail Saga
4. The Obituary E.B.G.G.
5. My Brother’s Keeper
6. Gang Love
7. South Brooklyn Anthem
8. Audiobiography (Remix)
9. Apt. 7G Blacksmiths
10. The Visit (w/ 7th Ambassador)
11. Under The Wing
12. Confessions Of A T.H.U.G. ANGEL Closing
13. 144,000

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