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...week as "special days" for which visitors required specific tickets. Tourists with valid tickets got turned away at the front gates after the park quickly filled up; the jilted travelers screamed at park employees, while TV cameras filmed one family trying to pass a child over the fence. Henry Tang, the city's Financial Secretary, voiced concern that this disarray "might affect the image of Hong Kong's tourism industry." Bill Ernest, Hong Kong Disneyland's managing director, says the company "had no idea" that demand would spike so sharply at that time and adds that Disney has since expanded...
...Tang Clan's last reliably great member hasn't exactly softened his material (fishscale is apparently slang for uncut cocaine), but then he hasn't lost his ability to tell a story either. In Ghostface's dexterous delivery, a line like "Workin' out, all I curl is my index finger" is less a boast about control than one more detail in a life of paranoia. The production puts equal value on melody and tension and even has room for nostalgia--9 Milli Bros. is a Wu-Tang reunion--but the truth is that Ghostface is better...
Everyone can stop the hand-wringing about that empty New York hip-hop throne. Thirteen years after the Wu-Tang Clan released one of pop music’s most bafflingly brilliant records, “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers),” one of the Clan’s most durable members has shown that he hasn’t lost a step...
...Fishscale,” Ghostface Killah’s fifth solo album, is the best of his career, an all-time rap classic on par with other great Wu-Tang solo efforts like Raekwon’s “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx” and GZA’s “Liquid Swords...
...vital, slicing the intricate mesh of hip-hop’s connections into easy “lineages” of progressive influence and success, as a conventional exhibition format is likely to do, is antithetical to the genre’s amorphous structure. Underground pioneers the Wu-Tang Clan hint at this dilemma when they ask nostalgically, “Can It Be All So Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clichés” and easy street/smart dichotomies in favor of an epic, all-American mythos that draws on everything from pulp comic...