His style of rap is distinctively smooth, but often described as "grimy," and he's achieved no shortage of musical collaborations with other notable artists.
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He lays claim to Platinum albums, a Grammy, and some TV and movie credits as an actor. He also reached the greatest heights of commercial success, while still managing to hang on to his gangsta reputation. His solo album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, is considered to be one of the best of any solo productions by a Wu-Tang Clan member.īorn as Clifford Smith, he was the first of the Clan to record a solo album, called Tical. It heavily features topics like mobsters, mafia men, and organized crime. Most of his lyrics involve tales of drugs, and he's one of the legends of Mafioso rap, popular in the last half of the 90's, a subgenre of Gangsta rap and hardcore hip hop and extension of the G-Funk rap notable on the West Coast. He is both the inventor and purveyor of countless classic New York slang terms, which he utilizes in his raps, usually presented in an aggressive style and fast tempo.
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Otherwise known as plain old Corey Woods, his other nickname is "The Chef" because he has a "lyrical flavor." Well, that, and because he has the culinary skill of cooking regular cocaine into crack rock. His style is deliberate and relaxed, utilizing heavy metaphors and many references to his interests: Samurai flicks, the game of chess, and the doctrine of Five Percenter. He was the first to take advantage of their odd hit-manufacturing scheme, releasing Words from the Genius in '91.
Gary Grice, RZA's cousin, has been in the hip hop biz since it was nothing but a trendy New York club act. Primarily a music producer, he also has a successful career in film, including box office hits like Kill Bill, American Gangster, The Man with the Iron Fists, and others. The unofficial leader of Wu-Tang is Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, or RZA. In terms of music, they produced 7 studio albums (under the name Wu-Tang Clan), an astounding 21 singles, and numerous compilations, scoring them some 6.5 million record sales in the US and a whopping 40 million globally (including sales of individual members, which was kind of the point). The last is a nod to the belief system most members ascribe to, known as Five-Percent Nation or the Five Percenters. Sometimes the Clan liked to create backronyms (acronyms formed after the fact that weren't actually used to create the name) for their name, such as "We Usually Take All Niggas' Garments," "Witty Unpredictable Talent and Natural Game," and "Wisdom of the Universe and Truth of Allah for the Nation of the Gods". The movie pits two schools of Chinese martial arts - Shaolin Kung Fu and Wu Tang or Wudang quan - against one another. Wu-Tang, as it is listed in the Master Killer Collection). The unusual name for the group came from a 1983 film produced in Hong Kong called Shaolin and Wu Tang (or Shaolin Vs. The Killa Bees include numerous rappers, music producers, record labels, and other industry professionals. As quickly as 1994 (the group was formed just one year prior in Staten Island, NY) they managed to build a fortress of more than 300 affiliates, known collectively as the Wu-Tang Killa Bees. Specializing in hardcore rap and hip hop, they top the charts both in terms of commercial success and in the realm of critical acclaim. Indeed, they managed to achieve both goals. No one could argue, whether Wu-Tang Clan was established simply to make money or to produce great music, that they weren't successful.
Wu-Tang's Un-Wu-sual Name & Business Model If you support free enterprise, the model is nothing short of sheer, unbridled genius.
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Their model merely planned from the beginning what most bands inevitably fall into, anyway, though other musicians probably fail to reach their full potential because the spinoffs, subsequent solo careers, and "band magic" weren't planned and executed from the beginning. Does this offend your purist musical sensibilities? It shouldn't.
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