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BRONZE NAZARETH - OUTSIDE PRODUCTIONS
REVIEW : NOTES FROM THE BRONZEMAN
[DAY
5: GRADUATION]
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As our Bronze week is running to its
end, we wanted to use this opportunity to thank Bronze
Nazareth for cooperating and working with us to bring the fans
this exclusive week, we also felt it was the right time to not only look at his
“Blindman” album but to also look back at some of his finest
work with other artists in and outside of the Wu camp. As you
all realize Bronze’s number of output has been impressive over
the last years. So Reccollectah and Dark 7 Invader ran through
all of them to handpick some of their favorite Bronze joints
of the past years including productions he had done for the
likes of The RZA, Raekwon, Cilvaringz, Timbo King, Jedi Mind
Tricks, Immortal Technique and much more. Here’s what Bronze had to say about their
selection, Enjoy!!
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Written By:
Bronze Nazareth
for Wu-International.com
Date: 24th December, 2011
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A Day To God Is A 1000 Years (from
RZA’s “Birth Of A Prince”):
2003...I was out in New York that summer. So I would
chill all days and meet Rza and crew at 36 Chambers
at night. I would spend most of the day observing,
and soon as we got to Rza's sessions, he ran thru a
bunch of beats and as soon as he heard “Day to God”,
he wanted it. I tracked it out as he dabbled in his
notebook. Choco Reynoso set it up to record and I
watched as Rza laid the vocals. Maybe it was because
it was my production but I was thinking this was
some of the best RZA shit in years...he didn't spend
a lot of time on it, he kinda spit it a couple times
and it was done. Then we moved onto “The birth”.
That's a song I'm super proud of and grateful to
have been my debut.
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Killa Bee Swarm
(from The Almighty ‘s “Original SIN-Strength In
Numbers”):
M eighty hooked this up. I had
the beat already so it fit the mc's well. I chopped
up and old church song, piano everywhere...made my
own pattern with it. Then Killa Bees swarmed. I
loved Timbo on here.... his voice and presence on
the mic is incredible.
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Concrete Jungle
(from 9th Prince’s “One Man Army”):
That's
just old grime courtesy of the 9th Prince. 9th
always been cool, and gives you that unadulterated
Wu shit, so out of some beats I sent him, he chose
the most cityish, filthy banger. I loved the line
about shit being rugged like a Bronze Nazareth beat!
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Brothers Ain’t
Brothers (from Cilvaringz’ “I”):
Ringz wanted this beat so I chopped it up and sent
it to him. It was one of my favorites but that shows
the love I have for Ringz as I let him go ahead and
rock it. One day he called and told me he had done
some shit that was talking about some of the shit he
been experiencing in the Wu. I really didn't want
him to do that over my joint but I'm not one to hold
back any expression of art so...there you have it.
Banging ass beat tho...
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Thinking Cap
(from Timbo King’s “From Babylon To Timbuktu”)
Basically on this one, I sent the beats to
Timbo, and he came up with the joint. The beats is
some nasty horns, I added the xylophones, chopped in
some vox samples...I came to Indianapolis where
Timbo was recording and first heard what he laid
down. Felt like this was some real NY shit...like
walking in a blizzard thru NY streets.
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M.O.A.N.
(from 60 Second Assassin’s “Remarkable Timing”)
M Eighty put this together too. He gathered
everyone's verse after picking the beats. We had
everyone's in except Shabazz. We then took it to 60
Sec who chose a rhyme from his book and added on.
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Hypnotic Prophets
(from The Unknown’s “Death's Birth: The Grip Of
Behemoths”)
Awww man, this is the early days
of Bronze......I was chopping back then so I chopped
up some classical library CD's and came up with this
one. The beats was just sinister so we went in
lyrically. Then it was all about saying the most
advanced lyrical shit we could think of, so we were
on that. We did that at this place called Soundstage
Studio, in climax Michigan. There was this engineer
there from like VA or somewhere. He heard our stuff
over a few sessions and asked for our contact info.
He felt like we really had some raw talent, and his
friend who was working on a label named "Darkchild"
(Rodney Jerkins) might want to sign us. We lost
touch with the guy somehow and nothing ever
materialized. “Hypnotic Prophets” was one of our
favorite songs. We did an even crazier remix once I
realized the lyrics and flows were getting better.
Kevlaar murked it.
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Columbian Ties
(from GZA’s “Protools”)
This was all Gza ...
I just sent the beats ... I was blessed he picked a
couple. I was also surprised as this was a pretty
simple beat, still dope but not what I expected him
to pick from the batch. That's GZA though:
unpredictable when it comes to beats, never really
know what he'll paint on.
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The Payback
(from Immortal Technique’s “The Third World”)
I linked up with Immortal Technique at the blind
Pin in Ann Arbor MI. Gave him a CD of like 60 beats,
he fell in love with payback. So one day I'm in the
crib and I'm checkin my voicemail, and a number from
NY left me a msg. So I play it and all I hear is the
payback beat....so it goes on for a minute and then
Immortal Technique, jumps on the phone and says "Pay
back.....yeah that's mine motherfucker!! Name your
price!, It's Immortal Technique...." Got the deal
done and sent it off.
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Slow Blues
(from Dreddy Kruger’s “Think Differently Music:
Wu-Tang Meets The Indie Culture”)
This was
put together by Dreddy as well, I just sent the
beat. When I came to NY to arrange and mix, Dreddy
was going crazy about this Russian chick who he
thought was super nice. So when I heard the song, I
can't front I was kinda underwhelmed. Not that she
was that bad but I just wasn't feeling her too much.
I liked her shit on “Street corners” though. I then
saw her on Queen Rap Supreme on VH1, she came close
to winning. It was cool to see her on that. Vast
Aire ripped it on here, him and Timbo.
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Butter Knives
( from Raekwon’s “Shaolin vs Wu Tang”)
I Sent
Rae some serious work. like 40 beats...and that's
basically one that he picked. It fit him perfectly.
I spoke to him quite a few times, sent files over,
sent sessions. Then he had one of his people call me
and say congrats as I had made it on the album and
it would be the first street single. I consider
Raekwon not just big in the Wu world but he is still
large in general hip hop, so it was an honor to be a
part of “Shaolin vs Wu Tang”. He invited us out to
Chicago soon after so I got a chance to build a
working relationship with him. He then blessed us
for the Wisemen album on 'Thirsty Fish'...
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Role of life
(from Vinnie Paz’s “Season Of The Assassin”)
This too was brokered by M80, Paz loved the beat, we
knocked the business out the way and sent thru the
music. Paz laced it barbarically!! It's one of the
more brutal tracks in my catalogue . I have a Vinnie
Paz verse on standby for the people soon. Look for
more work from him
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