The Twelve Days of Wu-Mas 2023 - Day #10

Lost Jewlry, and sadly that is not a misprint even though it bugs the shit out of me every goddamned day, is a mixtape-slash-compilation offering from Raekwon the Chef. It's made up primarily of tracks left off of his sixth solo album, Fly International Luxurious Art, which was released two years after this freebie hit the Interweb. Proofread that all you'd like, it doesn't make any fucking sense, but it's exactly what happened. It appears that Rae wanted to thank his fans for sticking with him even though his solo projects were taking longer and longer to drop, so he wanted to tide them over with some new music.

He did so with a twelve-track effort that contains zero Wu-related features, which one may see as a weird way to "thank" the stans that have looked up to the guy since Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Our host did score cameos from a then up-and-coming Freddie Gibbs and R&B songstress Faith Evans, which someone might enjoy, sure, and he secured beats from names such as Scram Jones, Buckwild, and Statik Selektah, none of whom are slouches behind the boards, so he might have been on to something here. Or not.

Click here to read my thoughts on Lost Jewlry (I hate that the poor spelling made it to the final product), a former Patreon exclusive that is now available to everyone!

-Max