GZA performs Liquid Swords in its entirety tonight at Neumo’s. I’m most excited to see him do “Shadowboxin’,” one of the most chilling and greatest rap tracks of all time from one of the most chilling and greatest rap albums of all time.

RZA’s production here is both lean and menacing and tense and lush; plus, that loop of the pitched-up “oh man” (a sample from Ann Peebles’s “Trouble, Heartache & Sadness”) has riveted the hell out of me since the first time I heard it in 1995. GZA and Method Man’s flow and lyrics are paradoxically vicious and urbane. I’m on pins and needles in anticipation…