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Winter Warz by Ghostface Killah

TRACK

Ghostface Killah

Winter Warz

Release date: 29th October 1996

From Ironman
Track 7
Hip-Hop/RapMusicEast Coast RapRap
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About This Track

Ghostface Killah enlists Cappadonna, Masta Killa, Raekwon and U-God for a Wu-Tang collective statement of intent. The track opens with a declaration of raw craft and group resurgence, the hook a simple, forceful assertion: "Wu-Tang's back for more." What follows is a masterclass in competitive rap rhetoric, each verse stacked with vivid threat and technical precision. Ghostface's own delivery cuts through with particular sharpness, his flow alternating between measured menace and breathless acceleration as he moves from boast to boast, comparing his technique to an Indian spear and his cultural impact to a vulture's strike. The production, courtesy of RZA, sits spare and heavy beneath the vocals, letting the wordplay breathe. Ghostface trades in vivid, sometimes violent imagery, duffel bags of guns, body bags, autopsy reports, but the real power lies in the density of the language itself. References to Vidal Sassoon and Al Capone sit alongside Wu-Tang mythology and street vernacular, the rhyme schemes intricate enough to reward close listening. It is a track built entirely on the principle that skill and aggression are inseparable from one another, and that Wu-Tang's return demands your full attention.

"Winter Warz" is a track by Ghostface Killah, from the album Ironman, released 29th October 1996. It's filed under Hip-Hop/Rap. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Ghostface Killah

Ghostface Killah

Lyrics

Winter Warz

Yes the shit is raw coming at your door
Start to scream out loud, "Wu-Tang's back for more"
Yes the hour's four, I told you before
Prepare for mic fights (and plus the cold war)

This rhyme you digest through the RZA console
X Y slam Nine Diagram pole
Raekwon dropped the bomb, Hunchback Notre Dame
Golden Arms is bronze Buddha palm hit Qu'ran
It blows extreme, mainstream be the theme, supreme team
America's Cream Team, redeemed
Vidal Sassoon, chrome tones hear the moans of Al Capone
Gun POW to the dome and split the bone
Wig blown off the ledge by the alleged
Full-fledged, sledge RZA edge
One dose of my feroc' handheld trigger cuts
A capella spitting shell paralyse if you get touched
And critical mic cords, hanging like umbilical
Cords, dope swords, five star general
Raw be the quote rap style sore throat
Through the fully operational, hand held tote, mhm

Yes the shit is raw coming at your door
Start to scream out loud, "Wu-Tang's back for more"

A hundred thousand times one, snatch up my styles get done
I hold a title, and here's how my belt was won, check it
Slick majestic, broke mics are left infected
Germs start to spread through your crew through lack of effort
You asked for it, shot up the jams like syringes
My technique alone blows doors straight off the hinges
Masked Avenger, I appear to blow your ear like wind
With a freestyle, sharper than the Indian spear
So sit back and let the king explore
Describe me, the kid's nice and he holds swords
And his name, black attack's the nerve like migraines
With more gains than beggars on trains, livid sharp pains
Poisonous Rebel like Deck, you can't destroy this
You get ambushed, skate, try to avoid this
Side effects of hot raps and hot tracks
A duffel bag full of guns son, dipped in black
My culture, glides and attacks you like a vulture
Ghostface in Madison Square is on your poster

Yes the shit is raw coming at your door
Start to scream out loud, "Wu-Tang's back for more"
Yes the hour's four, I told you before
Prepare for mic fights (and plus the cold war)

Be on the lookout for this mass murderous suspect
That fills more body bags than apartments in projects
And as far as the coroners know
The autopsy show it was a Shaolin blow
Put on by my family brought to the academy
Of the Wu and learnt how to
Fuck up your anatomy steadily, calm and deadly
Spatter-head lyrics I lick through your transmit
MCs submit to the will as I kill your
Juvenile freestyle, civilize the mental
Devils worship this like an icon
Bear-hugging mics with the grips of a python

Yes the shit is raw coming at your door
Start to scream out loud, "Wu-Tang's back for more"

You heard other raps before but kept waiting
For the Son of Song, I keep dancehalls strong
Beats never worthy of my cause, I prolong
Extravaganza, time sits still
No propaganda, be wary of the skill
As I bring forth the music, make love to your eardrum
Dedicated to rap nigga, beware of the fearsome
Lebanon Don, Malcolm X beat threat
CD massacre, murder to cassette
I blow the shop up, you ain't seen nothing yet
One man ran, tryna get away from it
Put your bifocal on, watch me a-cometh
Into your chamber like Freddy enter dream
Discombumberate your technique and your scheme
Four course applause, like a black dat to dat
You're stuck on stupid like I'm stuck on the map
Nowhere to go except next show bro
Entertaining motherfuckers can't stop O
In battling, you don't want me to start tattling
All up on the stage 'cause y'all snakes keep rattling
Bitch, you ain't got nothing on the rich
Every other day my whole dress code switch
So just in case you wanna clock me like Sherry
All y'all crab bitches ain't got to worry
Can't get a nigga like Don dime a dozen
Even if I'm smoked out I can't be scoped out
I'm too ill, I represent Park Hill
See my face on the twenty dollar bill
Cash it in, and get ten dollars back
The fat LP with Cappachino on the wax
Pass it in your thing, put valve up to twelve
Put all the other LPs back on the shelf
And smoke a blunt and dial 9-1-7
1-6-0-4-9-3-11
And you could get long dick hip-hop affection
I damage any MC who step in my direction
I'm Staten Island best son, fuck what you heard
Niggas still talking that shit is absurd
My repertoire, is U.S.S.R
P.L.O. style got thrown out the car
And ran over by the Method Man Jeep
Divine can't define my style is so deep
Like pussy, my low cut fade stay bushy
Like a porcupine, I part backs like a spine
Gut you like a blunt and reconstruct your design
I know you want to diss me, but I can read your mind
'Cause you weak in the knees like SWV
Tryna get a title like Wu Killa Bee
Kid change your habit, you know I'm friends with the Abbott
Me and RZA rhyme name printed in the tablet
Under vets, we paid our debts for mad years
Hibernate the sound and now we out like bears
In Born Power, born physically, power speaking
The truth in the song be the pro-black teaching

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Track details

From Ironman

1996
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Album
Ironman
Ironman
Ghostface Killah
29th October 1996
Track number
7
Release year
1996
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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Cappadonna, Ghostface Killah, Masta Killa, Raekwon, RZA, U-God
    Writer
    Darryl Hill, Dennis Coles, Elgin Turner, Lamont Hawkins, Robert Diggs
    Producer
    RZA
    Producer
    RZA
    Featured Artist
    Cappadonna, Masta Killa, U-God
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