Although he’s not got the exact same amount of mainstream success in his solo career as a few of his Wu Tang counterparts like Method Man, he’s got critical praise for his complex lyricism, as well as for his poetry on several of the group’s most revered tunes. He’s grown to be a producer in his own right, taking up tracks for fellow clansmen and his own endeavors.
Inspectah Deck’s debut record Uncontrolled Substance was initially set to get a late 1997 launch, yet, this experienced several delays as a result of flooding in producer RZA’s basement studio, which ruined over one hundred beats, including those made for the record. Wu Tang affiliate Cilvaringz said in a 2010 interview “Lately Deck pulled out some discs in the flooding plus they worked again and he used one for his forthcoming album on Koch.” The album received generally favorable reviews from music critics, but failed to garner the reception achieved by earlier Wu Tang solo endeavors. Soon next release, Deck returned to the Wu Tang fold for the group records The W (2000), and Iron Flag (2001). In 2003, Inspectah Deck released his second studio album, The Movement (which he’d later say didn’t meet his expectations), as well as in 2006, he released The Resident Patient, intended as a forerunner to The Movement. In 2007, the rapper reconvened using the Wu-Tang Clan to record the group album 8 Diagrams.
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