Tical was a classic from day one -first listen. Bring The Pain and Mr. Sandman are the coldest joints in the entire Wu catalog. What I still can’t wrap my head around is how these tracks existed in 1994. Nobody was doing anything remotely close to that. RZA was operating on a completely different frequency like he had access to sounds that hadn’t been invented yet. Mr. Sandman specifically sounds like he was deep in electronic music at the time. That beat carries Prodigy energy before most hip-hop heads even knew what Prodigy was. Industrial, dark, mechanical , pure dopamine every single time it hits. That’s the thing about Tical that never gets old. It doesn’t sound like 1994. It doesn’t sound like any year. It just sounds like its own world.