1 The 10 Best Wu Tang Clan Albums to Own on Vinyl
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And you just felt free, like you couldn’t wait to come outside tosee your boys and get back in the same activity that you did last night. Break ofday on the bench, break of dawn, you know what I mean. I mean, yeah, 40ounces, just getting into stuff, though, but it was like the good old daysfor us. Then you had the best music out there. At the same time, you had [BigDaddy] Kane and Rakim and, I mean, it was just all the greats, they was all balled up into one.

It worked for the Black Eyed Peas, but the wu tang name generator came from Shaolin. You can’t protect your neck with a scarf. Back home from solo shows in California and dates in Canada with the wu tang generator, he’s spending his days "gathering information, writing, listening to music. A little bit of reading, and maybe some television here and there." And, while he’s planning on getting up with RZA soon, he’s mostly been alone in the studio. This is his baby, and he seems in no rush to finish it. "It’s not the first time I’ve spoken about astronomy or the planets or things of that nature," GZA the Genius says from his studio in Jersey City.

I wanted to be legit, and get out the street. Type of kid never had a job, my last job might have been a summer youth job. You know what I’m saying, so anything that could just tell the cops, ‘Listen, I can stand in front of my building, like I got a job’, you know what I mean. Like that was the main thing for me though too, but at the same time we was in that life. We was around it and we wanted to escape it in a great way and do something positive. A long stretch of the film also examines a tour with Rage Against the Machine billed as a crossover moment, and the subsequent ban from New York radio station Hot 97 after a defiant performance at its annual Summer Jam.

RZA asked me if I wanted to throw some bars up on there. See what’sgoing on and show my face in the place." He was like, "Nah, nah, I really wantyou. I think you should get on this right here.

It might be because of RZA’s magic on the backend, stitching together loose threads as only he can. It might be because pretty much everyone was a more skilled rapper than they were four years earlier. But I like to believe that it’s in tune with the Hong Kong action movies they worshiped. In those films sometimes blood and non-blood brothers engage in a sword duel or point handguns at each other’s faces, but when they finally team up, the connection is almost mystical.

He’s smoking a blunt he’s carefully wrapped in a few layers of paper towel. "Let me get one question on you real quick? Or was they saying, ‘Oh, RZA thinks he know it all’?

He said up top,he ain’t had no money, but we went because he gave us what we wanted. I mean,the money came after that shit, so all everybody had shitted on us at onetime, because they said there was too many motherfuckers, it wasn’t going towork. And I respect RZA for that, because he made the right decision, and wehistory now. Wu-Tang Clan nonetheless continued to record, including the albums 8 Diagrams (2007) and A Better Tomorrow (2014).

We didn’t ever choose them like that. Sometimes theysay you got to go with your heart. That’s what we was doing at that time. Wewas looking at each other like we all knew we all was stars.

It was just amatter of how to play chess and really come with the right thing. We wasletting the fans choose it after that. The fans made the decisions thatencouraged a lot of our decisions. Like I said, when Method Man album droppedfirst, we knew Method was on fire. From the "Protect Ya Neck," he was our guy.Of course, that’s our brother.

But in short order, RZA and GZA had solo deals with Gee Street and Geffen, respectively. Raekwon remained with Loud and Ghostface signed with Epic—the two would crisscross heavily on each other’s albums, forming one of hip-hop’s great duos. Inspectah Deck also stayed with Loud. Ol’ Dirty Bastard signed to Elektra, U-God to Priority and Masta Killa to the indie Nature Sounds. It’s very possible that many of us will never listen to the Wu-Tang Clan’s new album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. With only one copy made, as all the digital copies had been destroyed, it has morphed the album itself into an artifact worth the consideration of high art.