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| The revolutionary course of hard-core rap took a sharp turn to the real in 1993. That year, the platinum debut album ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS), struck a strategic, genre expanding blow for the hip-hop nation. Eternally elevating the urban art-form, it justly propelled the WU-TANG CLAN to the apex of rap music. Bonafide superstars, Staten Island�s Wu-warriors: Prince (The RZA) Rakeem, Raekwon, Ol� Dirty Bastard, Method Man, GhostFace Killah, Genius (GZA), U-God, Master Killa and Inspectah Deck, fearlessly returned to rap�s forefront with WU-TANG FOREVER, their aptly titled second Loud Records (enhanced double) CD. They are now back again with a new CD, "W". In all of hip-hop�s history there�s never been a rap aggregation like the Wu-Tang Clan. However, it didn�t happen overnight. On the real, each member had his own sad street struggle story before the group blew up. Life on the cold concrete of "Gaten Island" was, and still is, haunted by crime, drugs, violence, hustling and poor people striving to survive. Living under such life devaluing conditions had most of the bad-ass brothers we now know as the Wu-Tang Clan, caught up in the thick of it. How else could the stark street images they rap about come off so genuine, so vivid, so cold, so Wu-Tang? Members: RZA U God Raekwon Ol' Dirty Bastard Method Man Masta Killah Inspectah Deck Gza Ghostface Killah Cappadonna |
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