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...group has maintained its original membership since 1993 (U-God, RZA, Raekwon, Method Man, Masta Killa, Inspectah Deck, GZA/Genius, and Ghostface) minus the notable absence of Ol’ Dirty Bastard who died...
...influence is strong: five of the Clan’s nine members contribute to the record, beginning with Ghostface Killah on “Back in the Air.” Ghostface has had a Midas’ touch lately, but he can’t turn this lackluster RZA track into gold; the ghost of ODB just can’t keep up with him. “Intoxicated,” featuring Raekwon, and Method Man is also flat. Parts of ODB’s verse here have already appeared on Ghostface?...
...next single would consist of David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” “in its entirety,” with no rapping whatsoever. But for every beat-jacker, there exist producers like the Wu-Tang’s RZA, who compares his use of a wide variety of short samples in a given song to that of “painter’s palette,” and biters’ approach to a “Xerox machine.”But even this distinction, between creative reuse...
...come as a surprise that the Wu-Tang Clan were classically inclined; in the beat for Ghostface Killah’s “Black Jesus,” the RZA samples a chorus from Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” If the German composer’s rabidly racist devotees (Hitler was one of many) had lived long enough to hear it, they would have surely soiled their lederhosen...
...RZA, he the sharpest motherfucker in the whole clan, he always on point. Razor sharp—with the beats, with the rhymes, whatever…” There is no better description of the man, the myth, the legend of the RZA, then this excerpt from an interview with Method Man, on “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers),” the Clan’s debut LP. Hip-hop’s original dynasty, the Wu-Tang clan—which includes the RZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Method Man, GZA and others?...