"Straight from the slums of the Shaolin, it's... THEM!" Well, it's a few of them, at least. Last week we got out first taste of Only Built For Cuban Linx 2, Raekwon's eagerly anticipated sequel to his immortal street classic OB4CL, with the Ghostface-assisted "Criminology 2". While "Criminology 2" fit Rae's description of what we could expect from OB4CL2 (plenty of gun-clapping and rock-slinging), "Back From the Slums" (formerly known "Wu Ooh") manages to appeal to the greater Wu-Tang sensibility, complete with head-scratch slang and effortless flow. It's good to hear Method Man coming hard again (here on chorus duty, followed by a fourth-quarter killer of a verse), especially with Rae and Ghost bouncing off each other in such sublime RAGU fashion. It doesn't hurt that the track's a dazzler too, hypnotic and spooky, harkening back to the Wu days of yore (via Kanye).MP3/Stream:> Raekwon: "Back From the Slums"[from Only Built for Cuban Linx 2; expected in March 2009 from Ice Water Records]