With the soundtrack for The Man With The Iron Fists just hitting stores, the legendary Wu-Tang Clan hit the stage of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Accompanied by the best house band on television, The Roots, they performed “The Six Directions Of Boxing,” on the late night show.
First and foremost, happy born day to Gary “Genius/GZA” Grice, aka “Justice” for you god bodies, who is a wise 46 years-old today. This box set for the Wu-Tang Clan rapper’s classic sophomore album, Liquid Swords, dropped a month or so back, but all you mainstream leaning rap listeners may have missed it. Besides the […]
Although Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killa famously said on the classic track “Criminology” that he “revolve around sciences,” it would seem that his fellow swordsman the GZA has literally taken those bars to heart. The Brooklyn native has immersed himself in working alongside MIT professors for research and mixing his potent bars with scientifically-influenced facts. Just a […]
Rappers like really like Gucci; see 2 Chainz, T.I., Future or that guy with the ice cream cone tattooed onto his face. Rappers like chess, too; see GZA, RZA and the Hip Hop Chess Federation (big up to founder Adisa Banjoko). That’s why we’re posting about this Gucci checkers set. Oh wait…
Italian artist and photographer Allesandro Simonetti has self-published a book called IL Clan del Wu that documents the Wu-Tang Clan’s 2010 reunion. The project features no words, strictly fresh black and white images of the Staten Island super rap group doing what they do.
Fascinating Hip-Hop fact, Santigold has writing credits on GZA/Genius of the Wu-Tang Clan’s third solo album, Beneath The Surface. We’re mentioning this because Justice (as he was renamed when gained “knowledge of self”) makes a cameo in the singer’s new video for “The Keepers.”
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz stays trying to prove that he can kick a rhyme. Yesterday, while announcing BK’s annual Northside Festival in Borough Hall, alongside Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA, Markowitz decided to spit his own version of the opening lines of the rapper’s “Liquid Swords.” “Through cyclones or typhoons, I represent Brooklyn from midnight to […]
The blame can only be placed on Raekwon as New York is pushing this trend of creating the sequel. Rappers that were part of the golden era are introducing themselves to the new generation by revisiting their classics. With the help of producer RZA, GZA the Genius is going back to 1995 and returning to […]
