RZA (Rapper)

Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge Produce an Album That's a Movie

Twelve reasons to buy

The Man With the Iron Fists

The RZA On His Feature Directorial Debut, Quentin Tarantino and Kanye West

RZA's bucket list must be down to a paltry few uncrossed items. Where does one begin when interviewing someone like RZA? Supreme Clientele, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Tical... The guy helmed some of the dustiest, grittiest, most timeless rap classics ever banged out on a drum machine. He's acted in Ju ... More >>

The RZA You Didn't Know Existed

Tonight, Wu Tang founder and hip-hop mastermind RZA takes the stage at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. One of the most respected names in the music business, he masterminded the transformation of a Staten Island supergroup into a brand whose logo is as recognizable as any in the past 20 years. Not c ... More >>

Q&A: GZA On Wrestling, His Hip-Hop Beginnings, Chess Metaphors, And The Chances of a Wu-Tang Kung Fu Flick

Much has been afoot in Gary Grice's professional life lately. The Wu-Tang Clan colonel better known as GZA or Genius is working on a new astronomy/physics-inspired record called Dark Matter and a re-recording of Liquid Swords, his 1995 stone-cold classic, that will incorporate instrumentation by liv ... More >>

The Wu-Tang Clan (4) Tries To Overcome Pete Seeger (5) In SOTC's March Madness

Disheveled musicians unite! After zipping by The Rapture in the opening round with his unkempt folksy style, Pete Seeger now faces Staten Island's original grimy, dirt-sodden rap troupe, who themselves dispatched Rammellzee to get to this stage of the showdown. With both artists embracing a stubborn ... More >>

Sounds Go Through The Muscles: Bjork's Top Ten Hip-Hop Connections

As you may have heard, Björk's latest album, Biophilia, has been specially designed to work best on an Alphasmart 2000 word-processor. This pioneering piece of multimedia is likely huge fun for tech-heads, but for music fans it might also be the aural equivalent of playing with your food. And Björ ... More >>

Ms. Lauryn Hill And Nas To Headline Rock The Bells Festival, Which Hits NYC In September

​The Rock The Bells festival returns to the New York area with a Sept. 2 date at Governor's Island. This year's installment is headed up by a slew of full-album sets that includes run-throughs of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Illmatic (which Nas will perform with AZ, Pete Rock and DJ Premie ... More >>

Week In Review: "In Reality, There Is No Greatest of All Time"

​"In reality, there is no greatest of all time," wrote Prodigy, wisely from prison. This sort of wisdom resonates in a week during which Phil Collins says "That's All" (sort of) to his epic career, and the Dropkick Murphys make a confusing Billboard Top Ten debut with an album called Going Out ... More >>

Q&A: Raekwon On Getting His Third Wind, Rapping About Crime In A Soft New York, And Giving RZA Tough Love

"Just growing up when we grew up and how we grew up and of course where we grew up . . . I seen enough to keep me inspired for decades, man." ​From the moment we all heard those kung fu effects on "Protect Ya Neck," the world was hooked. Smitten by the rugged wordplay and seemingly endless li ... More >>

Ten Reasons Why The Wu Tang Clan Are The Greatest Rap Group Of All Time

​Raekwon, the Wu-Tang Clan's resident slang scholar, released his new solo album, Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang, last week; it's the latest installment in a magnificent saga that's now nearly two decades strong and leaves Staten Island's finest rap representers firmly in the conversation for hip-hop's g ... More >>

HAPPY WU YEAR

Celebrate with your eight oldest pals

Q&A: Soul Singer Syl Johnson Prefers Money To Women, Loves Being Sampled By The Wu-Tang Clan, And Is Sorry He Had To Sue Cypress Hill

"I've met RZA, Raekwon, and Ghostface. They were cool, man, but it was a lot of cursing!"​"I'm sitting in the house now that was built with the Wu-Tang money," says Syl Johnson from his home base on Chicago's South Side. Johnson began his career working under blues folklore heroes Howlin' Wolf ... More >>

Week in Review: Report Gang Activity

Have seen you seen this man?​In the week we wondered if it was still possible to sell out in 2010 (short answer: no), we also found ourselves introduced to the horrific new term "rape gaze," about which the less that's now said, the better. Cleanse your palate with the six best things you can ... More >>

Q&A: Rapper 9th Prince On His Older Brother RZA And The Early Days Of The Wu-Tang Clan

​The Wu-Tang Clan is hip-hop's most enduring family. Thanks to seemingly unbreakable bonds both artistic and familial, the now eight-strong crew of rappers is still together, despite frequent -- and usually shoddily sourced -- media claims that they're about to implode due to rampant bickering ... More >>

Jim Jarmusch's Showtunes

On ATP 2010, musicians as actors, Tom Waits's threats, and what planet ODB was on

Week in Review: Let Us Soak in Positive Forces

New Year's Eve...no idea, basically. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we learned that Animal Collective's manager is apparently endowed with a baby leg, in the one dark place where that would be a meaningful statement, we did our best to otherwise cleanse the ol' SOTC soul, apologizing to ... More >>

The Greatest Painting of 2010: RZA's Victory or Death

​Um, 80" by 60", 50 hidden elements per canvas, an original acrylic handprint straight from the palm of the RZA, a Wu-Tang flag, and a website that plays a remix of "O Fortuna" at swelling volume as a camera zooms in and out on the details. Part of a greater project called the Monument Series. ... More >>

The Black Keys and Damon Dash Get to Know Each Other on BlakRoc

Say Hey to Brooklyn's Own Revelations, Stars of the New Sorta-Wu-Tang Disc

Today, as we struggle mightily to readjust from Long Weekend Mode to Back at Work Mode, seems like a good day to just play Wu-Tang Chamber Music on infinite repeat: As Mr. Breihan notes, it's neither a great album nor, technically a Wu-Tang album (no Method Man/GZA, no RZA production, etc.), but a r ... More >>

Recommended: Wu-Tang Clan at Hammerstein

STILL NUTHING TA F' WIT

Flopped albums and internal dissent can't keep Wu-Tang down

Interview: Jaime Lowe, Author of Digging For Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB

Bobby Digital's Digi-Snacks

More hippie bullshit, immaculately produced, terribly rapped

Live: The Wu-Tang Clan Comes Home

Ten Favorite Moments From the Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams

New Ghostface Album: Not Better Than New Wu-Tang, Still Great

Enter the 37th Chamber

The new Wu isn't nearly as bad (or bizarre) as some of its rappers would have you believe

8 Diagrams: RZA's Drug-Rap Masterwork

The Inescapable Allure of Grown-Man Shit

Ghostface Killah on the perils of your fans—or your co-stars—not wanting you to grow up

The Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams: A Preview

Bring Da Ruckus

Still don't nothing move but the money in thrilling Wu-Tang reunion-show doc

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Method Man

Loving the Ironman

The last Clansman standing delivers working man's Wu

Live: GZA Keeps the Wu-Tang Reunion Rolling, Sort Of

Return of the Ruckus

Still unhinged after more than an ol' dirty dozen years, the Wu-Tang Clan stage a Shaolin family reunion

Digging in the Dirt

Just another urban legend: The final interview with Ol' Dirty Bastard

Bildungshiphop

What Tarantino missed (and Jarmusch got) about the Wu

Throw Your Hands in the Air

Music

Music

Music

Sobs, Static, and Sweat

Wu-Tang Clan is Sumthing ta Fuck Wit

The World-Famous Staten Island Hip-Hop Collective Has a Government Informer Working Within Its Ranks; at the Same Time, the Group Is Being Investigated by the Feds for Gunrunning. Coincidence?

Turning Japanese

Wuclear Fission

A Nutcase and a Point Guard Rise Above Wu-Tang’s Solo Overkill

A to the B

Scrambling On Eggshells

Letters

Oh Gods