There is no group Additional Change in hip-hop than Wu-Tang clan. They are dragging what hip hop CAN Be, for everlasting change and change music to run their image, can inspire many generations of artists and still reach the music. Simply, we struggle to imagine what hip hop – with all non-separate sub-genrees and greater than life look, sound, and be like Without Wu-Tang effect. So when it was first announced that tour this year would be a group, hit every hip hop fan of the heart.
Who is better to speak to that rather than the joint hop journalist Elliott WilsonWho covered Hip Hop over 30 years and met Rza before he was a household name? We cut it with Elliott about the first days of the group, what they took to the game, what was the end of the Wu-Tang to be rap and to go to this rap and to catch this research very important summer.
Can you talk to the importance of Wu-Tang culture? What are their greatest contribution to culture?
Well, I think that they just arrived as an independent force and from a place in New York City without a hip-hop connection, Staten island. It’s an anomaly. A crew of rappers all very well skilled, and nothing from anywhere, united, and brought it to the game. I heard about them independently when they put the ‘neck protection’ out. I met their manager, Mike Mcdonald, and clearly established a movement underground. It’s amazing to have all super talent rappers with a bad sound in a group.
And then, they not only make a record deal for themselves as a group, but each individual member signs their own recording deals. The manner signed by the person in the jam agreement, ol ‘dirty bastard signed his electra agreement, Raekwona also signed the group album. The idea of having these talent talent crews from the forgotten area of New York City and unite how they brought it. It feels like new and I think it brings a lot of excitement to the game because it’s something different we’ve never seen before.
Take us at the moment when you first hear ‘the neck protection.’ What are your early impressions?
Raw and incomplete. The mission is very referred to. They are convinced of them all this is a posse posse, everyone has taken their little six to eight bars on it. The presentation and connection I feel from the jump is that dudes are crazy charismatic. I remember Rza and Gza meeting, they used to be business experience but if they put music, it doesn’t reflect on their real image. So when they got Wu-Tang families, they had so much adapting – it was shown in their lifestyle and movement.
The main thing even if they put that one and then the album went out and had a little pushback. This is a different sound of time, but actually if the ‘cream’ record is removed, that’s awakening Wu-Tang to mainstream.
There is no denying them after that, it is set it from the local New York scene to the mainstream across the country. And at the end of the world.
Wu-Tang is used as shorthand to describe the sound of New York in the same way using G-Funk to describe the West Coast. As they are from Staten Island, still feel like New York’s race in time, or do they move the conversation around them?
At the time, when we think of New York Hip-Hop, we think of the sound of BAP bap. Heavy drums and it’s in one of the two. But I don’t think Rza thought it was a little off-kilter or a little mud. You know what I mean? Think with some criticism about that. I remember when the debut album came out, some people didn’t really connect with the production the same way and felt it wasn’t as traditional as the boom bap new york sound.
So I thought I was looking at Rza’s sound as a traditional New York Hip-Hop-Hop. The way he placed loops and samples do not equal compared to a person like DJ Premier or Pete Rock. Rza’s way is very different people take for a minute to understand it.
It’s a new york sound, but I think RZA’s way is different from the race. Until the ‘cream’ was taken, and then Wu-Tang actually became a movement.
Do you remember the first time you saw Wu-Tang? How do people talk about the group?
It’s New Year’s New Yect Show in New York in ’93. It’s always chaos because people think, “Well, who is in Wu-Tang?” There’s a mystique around it.
People who have known manual ways and some key members, but outside of them, people do not understand the perfect members.
How has the living experience of seeing Wu-Tang changed for years?
They claim to be one of the biggest mistakes they make when Wu-Tang forever Out of ’97, they keep a great tour with the rage against the machine. They don’t like it because it is designed to get it more mainstream. They follow listeners to stone fans, and they want to be in hip-hop scene and don’t like tour schedule with rock on time. So eventually stopped the tour and I think they recovered with roots. I think they can’t take the living show seriously.
Now, they continue their last tour, and I feel that they think serious and see the value, and see the importance of the tour and want their audience. At first, I don’t know what is connected to them.
Now, they got it. They understand the amount of tour. Their live shows better. This new tour, the RZA Alaign that all members will appear. This is more united right now and they can explain their heritage properly.
As someone who lives and breaths hip-hop for their entire career, can you take us to what kind of hip-hop before and after Wu-Tang? Without Wu-Tang, do we have people who want MF Doom? And if there is no MF Doom, where is the underground?
Yes, I think that’s probably. This type of uncompromising culture underground. Although ‘cream’ is removed, I don’t think they feel like it’s a single single radio. It’s raw and real. Wu-Tang brings a culture. More than music itself. That symbol to this day means something to people.
The extraordinary thing about them is not only they give you a lot of music, but also branding, organic shopping, all about it is before it. If you wear a Wu-Tang shirt not just as some promo t-shirt, you feel like a part of something, you are a part of an activity.
They are all beautiful writers. So the culture of that, the words, I think of what stood from jumping, why people seemed to logo mean something.
I remember that I was The source And we will do a Wu-Tang family cover, the publisher tried to say, “All members must agree to the picture.” They arrive at the office, and Raekwon doesn’t like this picture, the man’s way wants the picture, so we can’t make a final decision. Finally, we put the Wu-Tang logo on the cover and it is a big seller. We no longer need an image of them to sell it. It tells me that they carry not only music in the game, but they carry a whole birth and culture, which is truly unique at that time. That underweight, no control is that it continues to encourage generations to come.
Many hip-hop groups say they retire, and deal with it, no one certainly retiring again, but Wu-Tang is indeed perhaps. So why do people need to see Wu-Tang before it’s too late?
Deals have finished, they’re sure – you’ve got all members at this time. Think about how hard each member gets on the same page. If you are a fan of an individual in the group, you get your chance with your hero. I think if they say they retire, they really say “we can’t make sure it happens this way again.”
You will always get a form of Wu-Tang, but it’s the one to catch up because you want to do everything, probably for the first time done! This is the last time Rza can guarantee that he can save every member of their full potential. You’ll get your way out of time, you’ll get your ghost killah, you’ll get a momentary cyst. Every evening.
What do you think Wu-Tang’s purpose means for hip hop altogether?
They still represent the pattern of excellence. Every artist wants to be successful, but at the end of the day, if you make a real impact, you need to give the power of brotherhood, it represents power, it represents the effect. And I think that is something that keeps people inspired. It’s almost like a sports mindset. You want to play with your men, and you want to win the championship, but a team needs to do that.
Wu-Tang is the last team for hip hop. A person cannot do this; You have to find people who are united with what your mission is, put your goals, and achieve it. Wu-Tang is an internal part, and that’s why their effect works ahead of hip hop. That measure of brotherhood and collaboration and offering, is that all of us want to achieve, win, to unite, to reach a specific purpose. I think that Wu-Tang ingredients are that.
