GZA - Mixtape (Vol.2) (feat. Method Man, Raekwon, Masta Killa, Buckshot, Jedi MInd Tricks...)

Описание: 1. U-God - Heads Up (feat. GZA & Jackpot Scotty Wotty) 0:00
2. Method Man (feat. Raekwon & GZA) - Check Out The W 2:24
3. Masta Killa - Silverbacks (feat. Inspectah Deck & GZA) 4:58
4. Busta Rhymes - The Monument (feat. Raekwon & GZA) 8:18
5. Prefuse 73 - Just The Thought (feat. GZA & Masta Killa) 10:52
6. Buckshot & GZA - The Feeling (feat.Tabi Bonney) 13:50
7. Jedi Mind Tricks - On The Eve Of War (feat. GZA) 18:14
8. La The Darkman - Verses (feat. Scaramanga Shallah, Ras Kass & GZA) 22:04
9. Sunz Of Man - Do You (feat. GZA & RZA) 26:33
10. GZA - Its Like That (feat. Havoc) 30:07
11. Ghostface Killah - Silent (feat. GZA & Streetlife) 33:00
12. GZA - 7 Pounds 35:36
13. Masta Killa - Tiger And The Mantice (feat. Inspectah Deck & GZA) 38:07
14. Tom Morello - Lead Poisoning (feat. GZA, RZA & Herobust) 40:38
15. Wu-Tang Clan - Cinema (Chimpo Remix) (feat. GZA & Justice Kareem) 44:37

Gary Eldridge Grice (born August 22, 1966), better known by his stage names GZA and The Genius, is an American rapper and songwriter. A founding member of the hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan, GZA is the group's "spiritual head", being both the first member in the group to receive a record deal and being the oldest member. He has appeared on his fellow Wu-Tang members' solo projects, and has maintained a successful solo career starting with Liquid Swords (1995).

His lyrical style often dismisses typical rap story lines in favor of science and wide-ranging philosophies and has been characterized as "armed with sharp metaphors and a smooth flow". An analysis of GZA's lyrics found that he has the second largest vocabulary in popular hip hop music. He teamed up with an education group to promote science education in New York City through hip hop.

After he was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on August 22, 1966, Gary Grice developed an interest in hip-hop by attending block parties as a child in the early 1970s. He was involved in breakdance, graffiti, and DJing. Early on he developed an interest in writing, studying Mother Goose and nursery rhyme. In 1974–1976, before moving from Staten Island to Brooklyn, he listened to The Last Poets; however, he was attracted by profanity rather than content, and didn't understand the underlying messages until many years later. The Last Poets, as well as songs by The Isley Brothers, the Commodores, and the O'Jays had a big part in his early life, especially regarding the tone and cadence of speech. Later on, he began to listen to hip hop and R&B, for example by Secret Weapon and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. In 1982, Grice dropped out of high school in the tenth grade.

He formed a three-man group with his cousins, Robert Diggs and Russell Jones, who would later be known as RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard. At the time he didn't like the sound of his voice. The group, FOI: Force of the Imperial Master, and later All in Together, saw the three rapping and DJing, switching names and performing local shows; since they lived in different boroughs, GZA and Ol' Dirty would travel from Brooklyn out to Staten Island to meet up with their cousin RZA, after which the three would travel across New York City and challenge other MCs to battles. He left school in the 10th grade, but nurtured his affection for science as he developed his skills as a lyricist.

After some years of this, GZA was signed to Cold Chillin' Records as a solo artist under the name The Genius. He released his debut album, Words from the Genius (1991), produced mostly by Easy Mo Bee, but after it failed to sell, as the label didn't promote it, and his rocky experience on tour, Grice became fed up and asked to be released from the label. The album's beat selection is similar to the classic boom-bap sound of the early 1990s, while the lyricism subject is the everyday situations of an individual living in the parts of New York. At the time he worked as a bicycle messenger.

In 1992, GZA joined the Wu-Tang Clan, a group of nine, formed by his cousin RZA. GZA had some high-profile appearances on the group's debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993), including a solo track, "Clan in da Front". This, combined with appearances on other Clan members' albums such as Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (1995) and Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (1995) brought him much recognition. According to Method Man, "we form like Voltron and GZA happens to be the head".