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The Parson Red Heads: King Giraffe

Jeff Weiss, Stylus, 6 February 2007

IN THE WU-TANG MANUAL, the RZA confessed that he used to make certain albums hoping they'd come out in the wintertime. He describes Liquid Swords, for example, as being a "winter-up-in-your face joint….songs like 'Cold World', with the wind blowing, I want people to be in their cars…just shivering."

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