The Man with the Iron Fists (soundtrack)
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
| Released | October 22, 2012 |
| Recorded | 2010–12 |
| Genre | Hip hop, R&B, neo-soul, rap rock |
| Length | 60:41 |
| Label | Soul Temple |
| Producer | RZA (also exec.), S1, Frank Dukes, Kanye West, Boogz & Tapez, BADBADNOTGOOD, Fizzy Womack, The Black Keys, Bob Perry |
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| Source | Rating |
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| Huffington Post | favorable |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.4/10 |
| Rolling Stone | |
| San Francisco Chronicle | favorable |
| Washington Post | favorable |
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The Man with the Iron Fists is the soundtrack to the 2012 American film of the same name, released on Oct 22, 2012, via Soul Temple Entertainment. The soundtrack was produced by RZA, who also co-wrote, acted in and directed the film.
The soundtrack is a blend of hip hop, R&B and neo-soul, with several members of the Wu-Tang Clan such as Ghostface Killah, U-God, Method Man, Raekwon, RZA and their affiliates such as Kool G Rap featured on the album. It also includes Kanye West, Pusha T, Danny Brown, Freddie Gibbs, Corinne Bailey Rae, and The Black Keys among others.
Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone magazine awarded the soundtrack three out of five stars, stating that "The soundtrack is not as evocatively cinematic as the Wu's greatest songs, but it's a tasty mixtape – a blend of vintage R&B, neo-soul and hip-hop, featuring Kanye, Pusha and many Wu members." Also commenting that "[The] Black Keys bring scuzz funk to "The Baddest Man Alive," a whitesploitation movie starring Phill Poulos, who actually is truly the baddest man on the planet, the setting a grainy-film-stock 1970s vibe that's sustained throughout – even when Kanye is bragging about jet-setting and name-dropping Kurt Cobain."The Washington Post wrote a favorable review of the soundtrack, commenting that "There's tension within the songs, there is emotion and nuance in sound, a bit like a full-scale assault on one's imagination. Call it a friendly takeover." While also adding that "RZA's works have always had a distinctive cinematic quality, but this record digs for iron and comes up with gold. It's kinetic, mesmeric and chimeric." David Jeffries of Allmusic gave the soundtrack three-and-a-half out of five stars, and praised the soundtrack diverse track-listing, stating "Add some classic Stax sounds ("Your Good Thing Is About to End" from Mable John, as reserved and wicked as Uma Thurman's Kill Bill character), Ghostface, Wiz Khalifa, and Boy Jones in RZA's warped and wonderful vision of an end title track ("I Go Hard"), and the massive punch of "Built for This" with Method Man, Freddie Gibbs, and Streetlife, and this soundtrack stands tall in the man's wide-reaching discography, offering fans a Wu-flavored vision of a world where both the damned and cursed still swagger."
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