Rock The Bells is gearing up to celebrate its 10th anniversary the right way, and by right, we mean a reintroduction of the posthumous performance. The revelation was made earlier today when Guerilla Union announced this year’s official lineup, which surprisingly featured Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Eazy-E as performers.
Hot 97‘s yearly Summer Jam concert is always a marquee Hip-Hop event and this year is no different. Yesterday, the station revealed the Summer Jam XX lineup and it features a murderer’s row of old school and new school MCs including Wu-Tang Clan, Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky and more.
Troubled rapper Shyheim Franklin began his career at the age of 14 as a young affiliate of the Wu-Tang Clan back in the 1990s. The former “Rugged Child” is now in his 30s and has endured some legal issues along the way. Last week, Shyheim was arrested on felony and gun charges after police raided […]
Little to the knowledge of some, Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge‘s well received collaborative LP Twelve Reasons To Die had an alternate version entirely produced by Mello Music Group’s own Apollo Brown. Titled Twelve Reasons To Die: The Brown Tape, the project was initially thought to be exclusively released on cassette via Record Store Day.
Raekwon has been on a tear lately, dropping consistent heat rocks and leaving his much younger competition in the dust. After two decades in the game, the Chef is reuniting with his Wu-Tang Clan brothers for the upcoming 20th anniversary album, A Better Tomorrow.
Who isn’t inspired by Wu-Tang Clan? Even OGs that preceded the WTC, like De La Soul, pay homage to the Staten Island collective. That said, the Long Island trio (Posdnous, Dave & Maseo) drop a new single called “Get Away,” which features the “Spirit of the Wu.”
As if fans weren’t already anticipating the upcoming release of Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge’s 12 Reasons To Die album, the record gets some fancy packaging updates as well. Similar to earlier announced re-issues of Wu-Tang Clan favorites in Tony Starks’ Ironman and Raekwon’s classic Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, 12 Reasons is getting the […]
The Wu-Tang Clan referred to member GZA as the crew’s de facto genius for a reason. The veteran rapper and science junkie combined his love of music and education recently at New York’s Park East High School, assisting the ninth graders in writing educational rhymes.
The world of Hip-Hop and comic books are more intertwined than you may know. Ghostface Killah, who also goes by the moniker Tony Starks otherwise know as Ironman, comes from the era where DC and Marvel reigned supreme, and has in turn prepped a comic to accompany the release of his forthcoming Twelve Reasons To Die […]
Attendees of New York City’s Studio 48 last night were in Hip-Hop dreamland, as legendary MCs Raekwon The Chef and Rakim graced the stage. The night was filled with nonstop performances of hit after hit, first by the Wu-Tang lyricist, who ran through an assortment of joints from the Clan and surprised folks by unveiling a few new […]
Over the years, GZA has displayed a thought process that’s on an upper echelon in his music and in interviews, so it’s no surprise that a thinking man’s game like chess would appeal to him. The FADER caught up with the Wu-Tang Clan lyricist at the Chess Forum in New York City to discuss how he first became […]
