Image via Chad Trutt Last week, Wu-Tang commenced their search for interns who possess “excellent written communication skills, the ability to communicate with diverse audiences, interest in the music/entertainment industry, a professional demeanor, experience with social networking (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Ning, Blogspot, etc. Well organized with attention to detail and ability to carry out tasks […]
| Pazes – Capricorn Concerto Mix | July 9, 2011 |
Is there anything better to listen to on a broiling summer day than a mix of tropical Brazilian burners. No, there is not. Pazes understands our plight. Hence, the 19-year old wunderkind behind this February’s Southpaw EP, has quietly dropped this simmering mix of unalloyed gold gathered from the area around Asa Norte, Brasília. Not […]
| Cash Rules Everything Around Wu | March 31, 2011 |
Originally presented by myself and Tal Rosenberg at this year’s EMP Conference. Re-printed at the request of a few Wu-Tang disciples. Peace to all the crooks. “So what’s like your ultimate goal… Method Man: We trying to make a business out of this. We ain’t trying to affiliate ourselves with them fake-ass A&R’s. We’re trying […]
| Sach O: Raekwon – Shaolin VS Wu-Tang | March 17, 2011 |
Sach O doesn’t belong to anyone. He EVOLVES. With the critical and commercial success of Only Built for Cuban Linx 2, Raekwon the Chef instantly nullified 10 years worth of disappointments, false starts and taunts from rap fans who’d long since stopped checking for him. So spectacular was this return to form that it’s easy […]
| Question in the Form of an Answer: Oli “Power” Grant of Wu-Tang Clan | February 28, 2011 |
Last Friday at the EMP Pop Conference, Tal Rosenberg and I presented a paper on the economics of Wu-Tang. In the course of our research, I interviewed Power, the financial mastermind of the Wu-Tang. Therein, I learned about Wu-Wear’s re-launch, the history behind “Wu-Wear: The Garment Renaissance,” and the unfulfilled plans for Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s […]
| I Ain’t Like None of RZA’s Cousins, That’s That Brooklyn Shit | February 26, 2011 |
Where I’m From x Clifford Smith from Gasface on Vimeo. Wu-Tang.
| Word to the Gold Panameras | February 23, 2011 |
Say what you want about Rotund Ricky, he holds his own in rap battles like he does at an all-you-can-eat crustacean buffet. Forget “Devil in a New Dress,” he first put everyone on notice with “Knife Fight” where he arguably topped Kool G Rap. Blasphemy yes, but even if that’s hyperbole, the finish was photo. […]
| Sach O: Raekwon – Rock & Roll | February 2, 2011 |
A Seven Nation Army couldn’t hold Sach O back. I don’t know enough about the crack game to compare, but rap certainly reminds me of the pimp game in that it’s all about confidence. Theoretically, Rae shouldn’t be able to pull a track like this off but he knocks it out the park on momentum […]
| I Can’t Go To Sleep: Ghostface Killah’s “Apollo Kids” | January 6, 2011 |
Doc Zeus never had baked alaskan. Age is not a valued commodity in the dog-eat-dog world of professional rapping. Aside from the young pups clamoring to rip the necrotic, fleshy careers of the flabby and sick, age often robs rappers of that certain youthful couldn’t-give-a-fuck attitude that made us love our most esteemed veterans in […]
| Blu Shampoo | November 4, 2010 |
There’s a mild hypocrisy in championing Blu’s sporadic output while crowning Jay Electronica with this year’s Chuck Norris: Missing in Action Award for Absentee Rapping (a prestigious throne alternately held by Dr. Dre, Andre 3000, Del the Funkee Homosapien, and Slick Rick). Via their occasional appearances and withdrawals from the LED limelight, both MC’s have […]
