{"id":3958,"date":"2021-11-01T01:20:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T07:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2021-11-01T01:20:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T07:20:37","slug":"wu-tang-clan-smooth-beats-hard-rhymes-the-wus-scene-shaking-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Wu-Tang Clan – Smooth Beats, Hard Rhymes, The Wu\u2019s Scene-Shaking Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1993, the Wu-Tang Clan were a grim, grimy, grindhouse alternative to G-funk\u2019s baroque gangsta cinema: If Dr. Dre\u2019s lush, lowrider-ready grooves were Terminator 2, then the scratchy, bloody, distorted productions of RZA on their debut album were Reservoir Dogs. Emerging from New York City\u2019s most underrepresented borough\u2014the literal island of Staten\u2014here was a sound that, by nature or nurture, existed in its own raw, unapologetic bubble: corroded soul breaks, snatches of dialogue and sound effects from arcane turn-of-the-\u201970s Hong Kong kung fu flicks, distended keyboard lines, tape noises, snaps, and stutters.<\/p>\n

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Stream Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) [Expanded Edition]<\/strong><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>Wu-Tang emerged as a nine-member crew in the post-MTV age of small cliques, a mix of styles and voices that eventually carried more than a few solo careers: The violent beat poetry of Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, and Inspectah Deck; the drunken sing-to-scream ping-pong of Ol\u2019 Dirty Bastard; the $5 words and scientific flows of GZA and Masta Killa; the boisterous coaching of RZA; the gritty rasp of U-God; and the fame-ready slick talk of Method Man, who was already getting a star turn on his eponymous track. Though melancholy reminiscences like \u201cCan It Be All So Simple,\u201d \u201cC.R.E.A.M.,\u201d and \u201cTearz\u201d made a trilogy of evocative narratives, the Wu provided few easy inroads to their mythology and poetry. Instead, America was forced to enter their chamber, a lyrical swarm of hip-hop slang, the Five-Percent Nation\u2019s Supreme Mathematics, and skits that sounded like taped conversations. They brought a singular ruckus and everyone from the similarly crew-oriented Odd Future, the wordy Logic, the mafioso-fueled Pusha T, the wild-styled Young Thug, and the noisy Sheck Wes all owe different types of gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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