Bring da Ruckus Lyrics
"Shaolin shadowboxing and the Wu-Tang sword style"
"If what you say is true, the Shaolin and the Wu-Tang could be dangerous. Do you think your Wu-Tang sword can defeat me?"
"En garde, I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style"
[Chorus: RZA]
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da mother, bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
[Verse 1: Ghostface Killah]
Ghostface! Catch the blast of a hype verse
My Glock burst, leave in a hearse, I did worse
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk
Your head rush, fly like Egyptian musk
Aww shit, Wu-Tang Clan spark the wicks, an'
However, I master the trick just like Nixon
Causin' terror, quick, damage your whole era
Hard rocks is locked the fuck up or found shot
P.L.O. style, hazardous, 'cause I wreck this dangerous
I blow spots like Waco, Texas
[Verse 2: Raekwon]
I watch my back like I'm locked down
Hardcore-hittin' sound, watch me act bugged and tear it down
Illiterate-type asshole, songs goin' gold
No doubt, and yo, watch a corny nigga fold
Yeah, they fake and all that, carryin' gats
But yo, my Clan roll with like forty macs
Now you act convinced, I guess it makes sense
Wu-Tang, yo, soooo—represent!
I wait for one to act up, now I got him backed up
Gun to his neck now, react what?
And that's one in the chamber, Wu-Tang banger
36 styles of danger
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da mother, bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da mother, bring da, bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da mother, bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
So bring it on!
[Verse 3: Inspectah Deck]
I rip it, hardcore like porno-flick bitches
I roll with groups of ghetto bastards with biscuits
Check it, my method on the microphone's bangin'
Wu-Tang slang'll leave your headpiece hangin'
Bust this, I'm kickin' like Seagal: Out for Justice
The roughness, yes, the rudeness, ruckus
Redrum, I verbally assault with the tongue
Murder One, my style shocks your knot like a stun gun
I'm hectic, I wreck it with the quickness
Set it on the microphone, and competition get blown
By this nasty-ass nigga with my nigga, the RZA
Charged like a bull and got pull like a trigga
So bad, stabbin' up the pad with the vocab, crabs
I scream on your ass like your dad, bring it o-on!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da mother, bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
[Verse 4: GZA]
Yo, I'm more rugged than slave man boots
New recruits, I'm fuckin' up MC troops
I break loose, and trample shit, while I stomp
A mudhole in that ass 'cause I'm straight out the swamp
Creepin' up on site, now it's Fright Night
My Wu-Tang slang is mad fuckin' dangerous
And more deadly than the stroke of an axe
Choppin' through your back *swish*
Givin' bystanders heart attacks
Niggas try to flip, tell me, who is him?
I blow up his fuckin' prism, make it a vicious act of terrorism
You wanna bring it, so fuck it, come on and bring the ruckus!
And I provoke niggas to kick buckets
I'm wettin' cream, I ain't wettin' fame
Who sellin' 'caine? I'm givin' out a deadly game
It's not the Russian, it's the Wu-Tang crushin' roulette
Slip up and get fucked like Suzette
Bring da fuckin' rockets!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
Bring da motherfuckin' ruckus!
[Outro]
“En garde, I'll let you try my Wu-Tang style.”
So, bring it on!
So, bring it on!
So, bring it on!
So, bring it on!
So, bring it on!
So, bring it on!
So, bring it on, nigga!
About
The opening track of the Wu-Tang Clan’s classic debut album Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers sets the stage for a Shaolin takeover of the rap game.
“Bring da Ruckus” is remastered from their original demo tape.
The drums were lifted from Melvin Bliss’s “Synthetic Substitution,” a popular break also used in G.O.O.D. Music’s “New God Flow.” They initially intended to use the loop from Ralph Vargas & Carlos Bess’ “CB#2,” but were unable to clear it for the master version.
In a January 2017 interview with ROLI, RZA notes how they produced part of this in an unlikely place:
We took the snare and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it… and that gave us that [crash].
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
The dialogue on the Intro was sampled from the 1981 Kung-Fu film Shaolin and Wu Tang:
The vocal sample “En Garde, I’ll let you try my Wu-Tang style” heard throughout the beat was taken from the 1980 Kung-Fu film Ten Tigers of Kwangtung:
The drum samples that can be heard throughout the beat were taken from the intro of Melvin Bliss’s 1973 song “Synthetic Substitution” and Ralph Vargas and Carlos Bess’s 1993 drum track “CB#2”:
The sample introduced in the Chorus that resembles a delayed horn is actually a guitar sample taken from The Dramatics’ 1971 song “In the Rain”:
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