The Man with the Iron Fists(soundtrack)

The Man with the Iron Fists
Soundtrack albumby RZAand various artists
Released	October 22, 2012(2012-10-22)
Genre	Hip hop,R&B,neo-soul,rap rock
Length	60:41
Label	Soul Temple
Producer	RZA(alsoexec.) BADBADNOTGOOD The Black Keys Bob Perry Boogz & Tapez Corinne Bailey Rae David Porter Fizzy Womack Frank Dukes Isaac Hayes Kanye West S1 Steven James Brown
RZAand various artists chronology
The RZA Presents: Afro Samurai Resurrection OST (2009) The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
SinglesfromThe Man with the Iron Fists
"Tick Tock" Released: October 31, 2012 "White Dress" Released: November 9, 2012

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Huffington Post	favorable
Pitchfork Media	7.4/10
Rolling Stone
San Francisco Chronicle	favorable
Washington Post	favorable
HipHopDX

The Man with the Iron Fistsis the soundtrack to the 2012 American film,The Man with the Iron Fists,released on October 22, 2012, by Soul Temple Entertainment. The soundtrack was produced byRZA,who also co-wrote, acted in and directed the film.

Background

The soundtrack is a blend ofhip hop,R&Bandneo-soul,withWu-Tang Clanand their affiliates featured on the album. It also includesKanye West,Pusha T,Danny Brown,Freddie Gibbs,Corinne Bailey RaeandThe Black Keys,with production by RZA himself, along withFrank Dukes,BADBADNOTGOOD,West, andS1,among others.

Reception

Critical reception

Jody RosenofRolling Stonemagazine awarded the soundtrack three out of five stars, writing, "The soundtrack is not as evocatively cinematic as the Wu's greatest songs, but it's a tasty mixtape – a blend of vintageR&B,neo-soulandhip-hop,featuring Kanye, Pusha and many Wu members, "adding, "[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-droppingKurt Cobain."The Washington Postwrote a favorable review of the soundtrack, commenting, "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."The review added, "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 ofAllmusicgave the soundtrack three-and-a-half out of five stars, and praised the soundtrack diverse track-listing, saying, "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."

Commercial performance

The Man with the Iron Fistssoundtrack debuted at number thirty-one on theUSBillboard200,selling 12,000 copies in the first weekand 6,400 copies in the second week of its release, totalling approximately 19,000 copies sold.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"The Baddest Man Alive" (The Black KeysandRZA)	Dan Auerbach,Patrick Carney,Robert Diggs	The Black Keys, RZA	3:50
2.	"Black Out" (Ghostface Killah,M.O.P.andPharoahe Monch)	Dennis Coles,Jamal Grinnage,Eric Murray,Troy Donald Jamerson	Fizzy Womack	4:11
3.	"White Dress" (Kanye West)	Kanye West, Diggs,Homer Banks,Carl Hampton,Raymond Jackson,Jayceon Taylor,Mario Bennett	RZA, West(co.),Boogz & Tapez(add.)	3:35
4.	"I Forgot to Be Your Lover" (The RevelationsandTre Williams)	William Bell,Booker T. Jones	Bob Perry	3:22
5.	"Get Your Way (Sex Is a Weapon)" (Idle Warship)	Talib Kweli Greene,Shareese Ballard,Matthew Tavares,Chester Hansen,Alexander Sowinski,Kendra Ross,Adam Feeney	Frank Dukes,BADBADNOTGOOD	4:10
6.	"Rivers of Blood" (Wu-Tang ClanandKool G Rap)	Diggs, Coles,Corey Woods,Lamont Hawkins,Nathaniel Wilson,Tavares, Hansen, Sowinski, Feeney	Frank Dukes, BADBADNOTGOOD	4:40
7.	"Built for This" (Method Man,Freddie GibbsandStreetlife)	Clifford Smith,Fredrick Tipton,Patrick Charles	Frank Dukes	4:24
8.	"The Archer" (Killa Sin)	Jeryl Grant,Feeney	Frank Dukes	2:55
9.	"Just Blowin' in the Wind" (RZA andFlatbush Zombies)	Diggs,Meechy Darko,Zombie Juice	RZA	4:34
10.	"Chains" (Corinne Bailey Rae)	Corinne Bailey Rae,Steven James Brown	Steven James Brown, Corinne Bailey Rae	3:41
11.	"Tick, Tock" (Pusha T,Raekwon,Joell OrtizandDanny Brown)	Woods, Feeney,Terrence Thornton,Joell Ortiz,Daniel Sewell,Larry Griffin Jr.	Frank Dukes,S1	6:18
12.	"Green Is The Mountain" (Frances Yip)	Frances Yip,Feeney	Frank Dukes	2:58
13.	"Six Directions of Bo xing" (Wu-Tang Clan)	Hawkins, Coles,Gary Grice,Darryl Hill,Jamel Arief,Jason Hunter	Frank Dukes	4:50
14.	"Your Good Thing (Is About to Come to an End)" (Mable John)	Isaac Hayes,David Porter	Issac Hayes, D. Porter	2:57
15.	"I Go Hard" (Ghostface Killah, Boy Jones andWiz Khalifa)	Coles,Cameron Thomaz,Boy Jones	RZA	4:16
16.	"Bust Shots (Bonus)" (Sheek Louch,Ghostface Killah &Inspectah Deck)	Sean Jacobs,Coles, Hunter	Frank Dukes	3:21

Notes

• "Black Out" features additional vocals by IFresh Beatz.
• "Bust Shots" features scratches by DJ Mekalek.

Sample Notes

• "White Dress" contains samples of "I Could Never Be Happy", written byHomer Banks,Carl Hampton, andRaymond Jackson,as performed byThe Emotions;and a sample from "All the Way Gone", written byJayceon TaylorandMario Bennett,as performed byThe GamefeaturingWaleandMario.
• "I Forgot to Be Your Lover" is a cover to the song of the same name, written byWilliam BellandBooker T. Jones,as performed Bell.
• "Get Your Way (Sex Is a Weapon)" contains dialogue fromThe Man With the Iron Fists,spoken byLucy Liu.
• "The Archer" contains dialogue fromThe Man With the Iron Fists,spoken byByron Mann.
• "Tick Tock" contains uncredited samples of "I’ve Been Watching You", as performed bySouthside Movement.

Charts

Chart (2012)	Peak position
USBillboard200	31