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Nuthing ta F’ wit: Wu-Tang Clan’s greatest albums – ranked!

As hip-hop’s greatest group announce their final tour, we pick out the best of their LPs – from solo albums to a history-making, gamechanging debut

As chaotic and scattered as its author’s life had become by the time of its release, Nigga Please is the kind of album that requires the listener to let go and submit to its bizarre internal logic: garbled off-rhythm rhymes and jarring sonic leaps from taut Neptunes productions to grimy RZA-isms and more. “Weak MCs – take me to your leader!” Overshadowed by his better-know bandmates, his debut solo album – thick with freestyle interludes – fully revealed Inspectah Deck as an intricately skilled rapper who blended underworld storytelling with a homespun philosophical bent. “We were on a roll,” offered GZA of his contribution to the triumvirate of unimpeachable Wu-Tang classics, in which the collective’s most finessed and methodical MC – alongside RZA at his most atmospheric – conjure up an authentically eerie album, its lyrics packed with elaborate metaphors.

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