Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
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This track comes off Wu-Tang’s classic, highly influential 1993 debut album Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers.
Although not the most popular song on the album, “Shame on a Nigga”’s smooth production and catchy sample causes many Wu-Tang Clan fans to call it the RZA’s cleanest production on an album kn...
[Intro: Sample, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, and Raekwon]
[Chorus: Ol' Dirty Bastard]
Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
Wu buck wild with the trigger
Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
Wu buck—I'll fuck your ass up!
[Verse 1: Ol' Dirty Bastard & Raekwon]
Yo, hut one, hut two, hut three—hut!
Ol' Dirty Bastard, live and uncut
Styles unbreakable, shatterproof
To the young youth, you wanna get gun? Shoot!
Blaow! How you like me now? Don't fuck the style
Ruthless, wild—do you wanna
Get your teeth knocked the fuck out?
Wanna get on it like that? Well, then, shout!
[Verse 2: Method Man]
Yo, RZA, yo, razor—hit me with the major
The damage, my clan understand it, be flavor
Gunnin', hummin', comin' at ya
First I'm gonna get ya, once I got ya, I gat ya
You could never capture the Method Man's stature
For rhyme and for rapture, got niggas resignin', now master
My style? Never!
I put the fuckin' buck in the wild, kid, I'm terror, razor-sharp
I sever, the head from the shoulders, I'm better than my compet'ta
You mean competitor, whatever, let's get together
[Chorus: Ol' Dirty Bastard]
Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
Wu buck wild with the tri—blaow!
[Verse 3: Raekwon]
I react so thick, I'm phat, and yo
Rae came blowin' and blew off your headphones, black
Rap from, yo, Cali to Texas
Smoother than a Lexus, now's my turn to wreck this
Brothers approach and half step
But ain't heard half of it yet and I bet you're not a fuckin' vet
So, when you see me on the real
Formin' like Voltron, remember I got deep like a Navy Seal
[Chorus: Ol' Dirty Bastard]
Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
Wu buck wild with the trigger
Shame on a nigga who try to run game on a nigga
I'll fuck your ass up!
[Verse 4: Ol' Dirty Bastard]
Yo!
I come with that ol' loco style from my vocal
Couldn't peep it with a pair of bifocals
I'm no joker, play me as a joker
Be on you like a house on fire—smoke ya
Crews be actin' like they gangs, anyway
Be like, "Warriors, come out and play!"
Burn me, I get into shit, I let it out like diarrhea
Got burnt once—but that was only gonorrhea
Dirty, I keep shit stains in my drawers
So I can get fizzy-funky for ya
Murder, taste the flame of the Wu-Tang
Rah! Here comes the Tiger vs. Crane
I'll be like wild with my style
Punk—you play me, chump, you get jumped
Wu! is comin' through at a theater near you
And get funk like a shoe
What?
[Produced by RZA]
Shame on a Nigga was written by RZA & Method Man & Raekwon & Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
Shame on a Nigga was produced by RZA.
Wu-Tang Clan released Shame on a Nigga on Tue Nov 09 1993.
The Kung Fu fight sounds heard on the Intro were taken from the 1983 Kung-Fu film Shaolin and Wu Tang:
The main horn sample heard throughout the beat was taken from the Outro on Syl Johnson’s 1967 song “Different Strokes”:
The iconic key samples that can be heard throughout the beat were taken...