This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
These Wu-Tang dudes and their names.
First, ODB (if you don’t know what it stands for, I’m not going to tell you in this family newspaper) wanted to be called Big Baby Jesus. Now Raekwon has dubbed himself Chef Raekwon on this latest solo CD. Hopefully, he doesn’t mean that in the South Park sense. Whatever — either way, he never really gets cooking on Immobilarity. Although he steps outside the Clan camp, using outside producers including Timbaland, Raekwon still leans too heavily on the kind of dark, skittery beats and sparse, spookhouse piano he could have got from RZA. And his rushed, breathless style and overuse of unfunny skits makes you think he could use a little Chef Aid.
