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Wu-Tang Clan (Music)
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When it comes to hip-hop music, chances are you'll come across the Wu-Tang Clan, a collective of ten (now nine) men reading to throw in some beats and Shaolin/Wu-Tang style.A Hardcore Hip-Hop group from Staten Island, New York City that has been active musically since 1992, Wu Tang stopped being something to fuck with around the time you heard 'em for the first time, son. Their fame is largely derived from their Signature Style: highly conceptual lyrics with frequent name-dropping of comic books, an obsession with Hong Kong martial arts films (especially older classics from Shaw Brothers) note their name comes from the martial arts movie Shaolin and Wu Tang and their Crazy Awesomeness.They ain't nuthin' ta fuck with. | |
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Boisterous Bruiser | |
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Boisterous Bruiser: Ghostface Killah. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Shyheim was a rapper affiliated with the group who was 13-14 years old when he recorded his debut album, AKA The Rugged Child. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Method Man. With the combination of his rugged good looks and charismatic personality, it made the group appeal to the female audience as well as the male audience. | |
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Deadly Game | |
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Deadly Game: What the GZA claims drug dealing is like. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: Turns out Method Man can act, too. Also turns out The RZA is a financial wizard as well as being a hip-hop genius. RZA and the other members stressed this well with Ol' Dirty Bastard that beyond the crazy personality was a genius man. RZA himself lamented this in The Tao of Wu that ODB began to lose his depth due to prison and drugs and his eventual sad passing in 2004. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: For certain values of scary. The lyrical content certainly seems to deliberately invoke this. | |
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Money Song | |
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Money Song: "C.R.E.A.M." | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy: GZA has held a grudge against record labels since the failure of his first album: Words from the Genius. It shows in his raps, especially in early works. | |
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Concept Album | |
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Concept Album: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin tends to be seen as this due to it's mystique and the "tale" that as seen from the infamous book that came along with the one album copy. | |
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Cluster F-Bomb | |
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Cluster F-Bomb: Did you expect something else? | |
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Black and Nerdy | |
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Black and Nerdy: Immensely so. Part of the reasons why they use a lot of comic book nicknames is because they are comic book fans. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
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Batman Gambit: RZA claims the period between 36 Chambers and Wu-Tang Forever to be this, the goal being to take over the hip hop scene. | |
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The Smart Guy | |
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The GZA, AKA the Genius, Justice, Allah Justice, Maximillion (Real name: Gary Grice) Wu-Tang Solo Debut: Liquid Swords | |
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Band of Relatives | |
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Band of Relatives: RZA, GZA & ODB - Cousins Method Man & Raekwon - Cousins The familial connections expand for more cousins, children, siblings and adopted relatives with the second and third generation Wu members and affiliates. | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Living Lie Detector: Inspectah Deck, apparently: | |
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Spelling Song | |
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Spelling Song: "Method Man" starts with "M-E-T-H-O-D," itself a reference to Hall and Oates' "Method of Modern Love." | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture | |
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Cold-Blooded Torture: The beginning of "Method Man". | |
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The Storyteller | |
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Raekwon, AKA The Chef, Rae, Shallah Raekwon, Lex Diamond, Lou Diamonds (Real name: Cory Woods) Wu-Tang Solo Debut: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... | |
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Tagalong Kid | |
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Masta Killa, AKA High Chief, Noodles, Jamel Ireif (Real name: Elgin Turner) Wu-Tang Solo Debut: No Said Date | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: In 12 Reasons to Die, the crime family that took out Starks sealed his remains into 12 vinyl records, but little did they know, Starks would rise again as The Ghostface Killah. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Ol' Dirty Bastard. He died following an overdose of cocaine and painkillers in 2004. Worse, his cousin RZA was Forced to Watch, powerless to help him. | |
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Kid-Appeal Character | |
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Method Man, AKA Meth, Methtical, Shakwon, MZA, Iron Lung, Hott Nikkels, Ticallion Stallion, Johnny Blaze (Real name: Clifford Smith) Wu-Tang Solo Debut: Tical | |
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Sampling | |
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Sampling: From Shaw Brothers King Fu movies, old cartoons, other rap songs, other R&B songs...you name it, they've probably sampled it at some point. | |
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The Lancer | |
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Ghostface Killah, AKA Ghost, Sun-God, Ironman, Tony Starks, Starky Love, Pretty Toney, P Tone, Ghost Deini, The Wallabee Kingpin (Real name: Dennis Coles) Wu-Tang Solo Debut: Ironman | |
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The Leader | |
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The Leader: RZA. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Masta Killa, Ghostface Killah, 4-Bar Killer, Ill Irving the Murderer, The Razor, 60 Second Assassin, etc. Most were names taken from the villains in old kung fu movies, so this was bound to happen. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: ODB was completely insane, but he was a damn fine rapper. | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
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Four-Temperament Ensemble: Ghostface, Cappadonna, and Meth are Sanguine, ODB and RZA are Choleric, GZA, Raekwon and Inspectah are Melancholic, U-God and Masta Killa are Phlegmatic. | |
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The Old Gods | |
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The Old Gods: "Older Gods" is a track on Wu-Tang Forever: | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Their stage names each represent a trait they have, and this applies to a lot of their references. The title for Once Upon a Time in Shaolin... literally can be summed up as "Once Upon a Time in Staten Island", since the group has called their hometown of Staten Island "Shaolin". | |
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Chess Motifs | |
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Chess Motifs: All over the place, but most noticeably on "Da Mystery Of Chessboxin'". The GZA eventually released a chess-themed collab project with DJ Muggs called Grandmasters, with each track being an extended pun on some chess term. | |
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Moment of Awesome / Sugar Wiki | |
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GZA's "Labels" is a huge bitch slap, aimed at every single label that treated him poorly. "Paper Plate" drops the weight on 50 Cent and G-Unit, in response the verbal mudslinging they initiated. Furthermore, GZA does it all without a single profanity, save for one Precision S-Strike. | |
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Kamehame Hadoken | |
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Kamehame Hadoken: Cappadonna does one at the beginning of his verse in "Triumph". | |
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Baritone of Strength | |
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U-God, AKA Baby-U, Golden Arms, 4-Bar Killer, Lucky Hands (Real name: Lamont Hawkins) Wu-Tang Solo Debut: Golden Arms Redemption | |
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Friend to All Children | |
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Friend to All Children: According to ODB. | |
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Brooklyn Rage | |
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Brooklyn Rage: Straight from the slums of Staten Island. Wu Tang Clan are also nothing to f with. | |
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The Faceless | |
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The Faceless: Ghostface sometimes.◊ | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The RZA trades these with a girl he's breaking up with on the song "Domestic Violence" off his debut album. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: ODB and Ghostface Killah. Expect him to really Chew the Scenery on the more dramatic songs in the group's catalogue. Most songs featuring him and Ol' Dirty Bastard usually become Ham-to-Ham Combat. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothin' to fuck with! | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass | |
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Took a Level in Jerkass: RZA became this for many people (and the Wu) himself in recent years due to his Control Freak nature and Insufferable Genius tendencies, hence why many of the albums after Wu-Tang Forever are always filled with strife (in particular A Better Tomorrow). This was made worse with Once Upon a Time in Shaolin being kept a secret from everyone and prompting more of a With Friends Like These... mentality with everyone against RZA. This changed somewhat when it was revealed how dependant the Clan was on his leadership. They were known for being undisiciplined and often not even coming to their own video shoots. RZA's control freak tendencies were necessary. | |
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Reference Overdosed | |
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Reference Overdosed: To put it mildly. | |
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The Apprentice | |
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The Apprentice: Masta Killa and Killah Priest were both considered this to GZA with them battling each other for the ninth and last spot (at the time) in the group. | |
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Boastful Rap | |
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Boastful Rap: "Protect Ya Neck", for starters. Basically every song in their repertoire has this, in spades. | |
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Gangsta Rap | |
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Gangsta Rap: Type 1 plus a fair amount of Type 3. Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... is considered one of the trope makers for Type 4. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
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Odd Friendship: Bunny-Ears Lawyer ODB and pop princess Mariah Carey. They became close after he appeared on the remix of her song "Fantasy." Carey attended his funeral and included him in a montage of her deceased loved ones in one of her music videos. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: Too many to be counted, but the best one is "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing ta F' Wit". | |
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Animated Music Video | |
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Animated Music Video: The video for "Daytona 500". One of the earliest examples that cut anime footage in with the music, the anime here being Speed Racer. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Normally ODB was violent, aggressive and completely deluded, but he NEVER harmed children. He even saved a girl's life and visited her in the hospital discreetly. | |
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Make an Example of Them | |
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Make an Example of Them: Ghostface to several members of the De Lucas family in 12 Reasons to Die. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: GZA's "Labels" is a huge bitch slap, aimed at every single label that treated him poorly. "Paper Plate" drops the weight on 50 Cent and G-Unit, in response the verbal mudslinging they initiated. Furthermore, GZA does it all without a single profanity, save for one Precision S-Strike. Ghostface Killah took shots at D4L's "Laffy Taffy" on "The Champ" off Fishscale, then proceeded to further mock D4L, "Laffy Taffy", and snap in general on tour. | |
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Genius Bruiser | |
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Genius Bruiser: All the Wu Tang Members fit this, especially RZA, and GZA. | |
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Chef of Iron | |
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Chef of Iron: Raekwon. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: We Usually Take All Niggas' Garments, according to 7th Chamber. Also there's Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game from The GZA's Labels. Cash Rules Everything Around Me, C.R.E.A.M.!note Get the money! Dollar, dollar bill, y'all! Taking Into Consideration All Lives Training Is Commitment And Lifestyle Consider All Poor People Acceptable Dont Opress Nor Neglect Anyone According to The RZA, "peace" stands for Protons Electrons Always Cause Explosions. The GZA also rapped the immortal line: "What is the meaning of CRIME? / Is it Criminals Robbin' Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?" | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The Clan were prone to making references to comics and movies in their lyrics and their nicknames. | |
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Rags to Riches | |
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Rags to Riches: Went from having to literally steal canned food during the recording of 36 Chambers to being worth around $16 million a piece. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: The RZA is also this to an extent, given that the man basically wrote his own RELIGION. Ghostface Killah, especially due to his latter-career non-sequitur style of rhyming, definitely comes off as this. | |
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Word of God | |
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Word of God: Cappadonna had long been deemed an unofficial member of the group for multiple years appearing more than any other affiliate on official Wu-Tang albums as well as solo members albums. During an interview in 2014, RZA confirmed he officially is a member and has been a member since 2007. | |
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Title-Only Chorus | |
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Title-Only Chorus: A couple of songs of theirs, but most notably, "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' Ta Fuck Wit'" | |
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I Have Many Names | |
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I Have Many Names: And we mean MANY names, especially Ol' Dirty Bastard. A skit taken from an interview is hidden at the end of "Can It Be All So Simple" explains the meaning of some of the nicknames. | |
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Plato Is a Moron | |
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Plato Is a Moron: Inspectah Deck claims that even Socrates isn't capable of contemplating his style on the song "Triumph". | |
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Sixth Ranger | |
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Cappadonna, AKA Cappachino, Donna, Cap, Papi Wardrobe, Diggaler (Real name: Darryl Hill) Wu-Tang Solo Debut: The Pillage | |
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Bloodlust | |
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Blood Lust: Ol' Dirty on Raw Hide. | |
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The Perfectionist | |
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The Perfectionist: The RZA, by most indications. He admits this in his own autobiographies, saying that while he credits it for the Clan's success, it also very nearly destroyed his friendships. | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare | |
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From Nobody to Nightmare: Masta Killa's monster verse on "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" was supposedly the first rap verse he ever wrote. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Besides their adoption of the Supreme Alphabet and Supreme Mathematics and their deluge of references... well, there's their use of "Shaolin" as a synonym for "Staten Island". | |
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Something Person | |
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Something Person: Method Man, most obviously, and frequent affiliate Redman. | |
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Screaming Warrior | |
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Screaming Warrior: A persona they adopt a lot, especially on 36 Chambers. | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! | |
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Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: A lot of Wu stuff, but especially Raekwon and Ghost's work. Raekwon's debut solo project Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... started of the "Wu Gambino" style of mafioso-themed raps, and is largely credited with kickstarting the Gangsta Rap trend in the first place. GZA's solo album Liquid Swords, on the other hand, delivers some Deconstruction of the romantic image of the gangster lifestyle: snippets of Shogun Assassin interweave with a stark image of life in a bloody, soul-crushing Gangsterland. His Killa Hills 10304 is definitely playing this trope straight. | |
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Team Dad | |
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Team Dad: Popa Wu, in addition to acting as a road manager, was an actual father figure for several members growing up. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: One of the lines in the intro of "Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber": He was layin there with fuckin', all types of fuckin' blood comin' out of his fuckin'... | |
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