Wu-Tang Clan
| Wu-Tang Clan | |
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 Wu-Tang Clan 2007 |
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| General information | |
| origin | New York City , United States |
| Genre (s) | East coast hip hop , hardcore rap |
| founding | 1992 |
| Website | wutangcorp.com |
| Current occupation | |
Production , MC
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RZA |
| GZA | |
| Method Man | |
| Ghostface Killah | |
| Inspectah deck | |
| U-God | |
| Raekwon | |
| Masta Killa | |
| Cappadonna (since 2007) | |
| former members | |
| Ol 'Dirty Bastard († 2004) | |
| Live and session members | |
DJ , production
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4th Disciple |
DJ , production
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Mathematics (since 1996) |
The Wu-Tang Clan is a hip-hop - group from New York City . In the early 1990s she established a musically new, dark and surreal style in hip-hop. In contrast to the increasingly cleaner funk and pop borrowings of the hip-hop world of that time, they used posse cuts and experimental beats. Her debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is now considered a milestone in hip-hop history.
The texts translated from the hedonistic influenced gangsta rap , and tried on a more pessimistic description of the ghetto world, but much of mythology from kung fu films were characterized. With the clothing brand Wu Wear, which was later introduced, they set a new trend that has been copied many times: Nowadays, many hip-hop groups earn more from their clothing brands than from music.
The group's name is borrowed from the film Shaolin and Wu Tang , from which they also took several audio samples for their first release Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). The theme is the fighting style Wudangquan, which is named after the Wudang Mountains in China , known as the home of the internal martial arts . People associated with the group who come from Staten Island are often referred to as Shaolin in the group's texts .
The clan
The Wu-Tang Clan introduced organizational reform into the hip-hop scene that had never existed before and that has been followed by many to this day. The appearance and organization as "posse" (circle of friends, group) were already widespread in the scene, but the clan formed a much narrower and strongly marketing-oriented system that was to be expanded more and more over time. The clan with its original nine members (after the death of Russel Jones, who became known as Ol 'Dirty Bastard , there were eight and since 2007 nine members) forms the core group around which a large number of artists are grouped. All members of the clan are also active as solo artists, have their own record contracts and their own management. Hip-hop musician RZA is responsible for the artistic direction and the decisions about what will be published. The logo, a stylized eagle, was so well known that hip-hop magazine The Source put it on the cover instead of the musicians in 1997.
Groups like the Ruff Ryders , Diggin 'in the Crates or The Diplomats later successfully adopted the concept.
There were also numerous companies around the clan that marketed it in many areas: the most famous of these is probably the clothing brand Wu Wear. The clan members published a comic, a website as early as 1993 and the video game Shaolin Style . Several record labels are very close to Wu. The latest project is the Wu-Latino label, which has signed several reggaeton and Latin hip-hop artists.
Clan members
- Robert Diggs alias RZA ; Producer and rapper. Is considered the main founder and head behind the idea of the Wu-Tang Clan. Also acts as Prince Rakeem , Abbott , Rzarector , Bobby Steels , Bobby Digital and has controlled a. a. Film music for Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Blade: Trinity, Kill Bill and Afro Samurai at.
- Gary Grice aka GZA ; Rapper, cousin of RZA and Ol 'Dirty Bastard and one of the three group founders. Also appears as The Genius or Justice Maximillion . The two cousins GZA and RZA named themselves after the sound that the names Genius and Robert would make if they were scratched on a turntable . The names are therefore pronounced in one word, usually with a preceding article, e.g. The Dsch'sa and The R'sa .
- † Russell Jones aka Ol 'Dirty Bastard ; Rapper, cousin of RZA and GZA and one of the three group founders. Was also very successful as a solo rapper, died in 2004 of a heart attack caused by an overdose of cocaine and tramadol . Also appeared as Dirt Dog , Dirt McGirt , Big Baby Jesus , Unique Ason , Cyrus , Joe Bananas , Jesus , BZA, and Osirus .
- Clifford Smith alias Method Man ; Rapper, next to Ol 'Dirty Bastard the most successful solo artist of the early days. Also appears as Johnny Blaze , Hot Nikkels , Long John Silver , Shakwon , Ticallion Stallion , The Iron Lung , Methtical , The MZA , Meth, and Mr. Meth .
- Dennis Coles aka Ghostface Killah ; Rapper, the only member who had a solo artist contract with a major all along. Also appears as Tony Starks or Ironman .
- Jason Hunter aka Inspectah Deck , The Rebel INS, Rollie Fingaz, 5th Brother and Manifesto. Acts as a rapper and producer. Significantly shaped the first Wu-Tang Clan album Enter The Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers with his parts on the two lead singles Protect Ya Neck and CREAM , which ultimately formed the foundation for the success of the Wu-Tang Clan. He released his debut album Uncontrolled Substance in 1999 after several delays , followed by The Movement in 2003 and The Resident Patient mixtape in 2006, which he brought to the market on his own label "Urban Icon" Records.
- Lamont Hawkins alias U-God ; Rapper, like Inspectah Deck, had to wait a long time for a solo album. Meanwhile falls out with RZA. Also appears as Baby U , Golden Arms , 4 Bar Killer or Lucky Hands .
- Corey Woods aka Raekwon ; Rapper, also successful solo early on. Also appears as Shallah Raekwon alias Chef alias Lou or Lex Diamonds . In 1995 he published one of the most influential hip hop albums of the 1990s, which is called Only Built 4 Cuban Linx ... bears
- Elgin Turner aka Masta Killa ; Rapper, had to wait until 2004 with his solo album (No Said Date) and represents the style of the early days. Also appears as Noodles , Jamal Irief or High Chief .
- According to RZA, Darryl Hill alias Cappadonna has been an official member of the Wu-Tang Clan for 8 diagrams .
environment
In addition to the actual members, the group also has an environment. These are record labels, groups that include Wu-Tang members, rappers who often have guest appearances on Wu-Tang albums, producers who produce them, and others.
One of the producers is Mathematics , who knows the members from an early age and produces records in a style that is very reminiscent of the group's early style. Mathematics, also known as a graffiti sprayer, designed the group's eagle logo, among other things. The Wu-Elements True Master and 4th Disciple also know the group members from the phase before the clan was founded. Like Ol 'Dirty Bastard's brother, they co-produced 12 O'Clock tracks on the first LP and produced several tracks on the second group LP. 4th Disciple now focuses primarily on working with the groups Killarmy , Sunz Of Man , and Wu-Syndicate, which also belong to the environment . 12 O'Clock not only works as a producer, but has also appeared as a rapper on numerous albums and is a member of Bklyn Zu.
Prominent rappers from the area include Cappadonna, Streetlife , 9th Prince , and Killah Priest . Streetlife is a close friend of Method Man, has appeared on all group and many solo albums since Wu-Tang Forever (1997), and is most likely to become a tenth official member alongside Cappadonna. Killah Priest is a member of the group Sunz of Man , which with the support of ODB successfully covered the Earth, Wind and Fire song Shining Star . Ol 'Dirty Bastard got help with his solo albums from the group "Brooklyn Zoo", whose name is reminiscent of the area from which the ODB originally comes and which he often refers to in his lyrics. After ODB's death, they released their first album in 2007.
Probably the best-known group from the clan environment is Killarmy . In addition to 4th Disciple, she also belongs to RZA's younger brother 9th Prince. The group released three albums under their own name from 1997 to 2001. The other members - Islord, Dom Pachino and Killa Sin - also appeared in various Wu-Tang productions. GP Wu also has family connections to the clan. In it, among others, Ghostface Killah's cousin "Pop Da Brown Hornet" raps. Her debut album Don't Go Against the Grain was released on MCA Records in 1998.
Redman can also be found in the immediate vicinity of the clan , who recorded various tracks with Method Man . With him he also directed the film How High , directed by Jesse Dylan . The soundtrack was created by the group Cypress Hill , whose member DJ Muggs and GZA released the album Grandmasters, DJ Muggs vs. GZA recorded. The duo Method Man and Redman also appeared on the song Red, Meth & B from the Cypress Hill album Stoned Raiders .
Divine, another younger brother of RZA, and Poppa Wu, for example, are not directly active as musicians. While Divine is the CEO of the Wu Music Group, Poppa Wu is a philosopher of the Five Percent Nation . He strongly influenced the members in this direction; References to the teachings of the Five Percent Nation appear frequently in later publications. Poppa Wu regularly gives readings on individual Wu-Tang tracks and published 2000 Visions Of The 10th Chamber - in fact a compilation of various Wu-Tang tracks with intermittent speeches by Poppa Wu.
history
Founding of the clan
The three founders and initiators were GZA, ODB and RZA. They were also the founders of the hip-hop group Force of the Imperial Master, known by the name of their most popular track - All In Together Now Crew . It was able to arouse the interest of several producers, including Biz Markie , but ultimately did not get a record deal and the scene did not react overly enthusiastically to the group. It therefore disbanded in the early 1990s. RZA (as Prince Rakeem ) and GZA (as The Genius ) tried their hand at solo careers, got record deals, but remained unsuccessful overall. Triggered by their previous frustrations with the music industry , they developed their revolutionary business plan.
RZA is the de facto decision maker in the group and produces the Clan and many of the solo albums. He was shaped by early New York hip hop by DJ Jones and MC Punch , numerous kung fu films , especially from Hong Kong, that played in cinemas in Times Square , and the preachers of the Five Percent Nation.
From 1992 onwards, the three of them gathered the other members of the clan together: they resorted to friends and relatives from Staten Island (simply called "Shaolin" among the artists) in New York City, each of whom paid 100 US dollars for the production the first single. The other original members are Method Man, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Raekwon, and Masta Killa.
Like other hip-hop acts, they made the group name a backronym . According to the clan, it could mean “Witty Unpredictable Talent And Natural Game” , “Wisdom, Universe, Truth, Allah, Nation, and God” or “We Usually Take All Niggaz Garments” .
Enter the Wu-Tang
The group first became known in the scene with their 1993 track Protect Ya Neck . The single was self-produced, the Wu-Tang members sold it at concerts, out of the trunk of their car, and tried to get the single in person on radio stations.
The group still had problems signing a major contract: the clan concept included setting the clan on a label, but giving all members the freedom to publish with other companies. They wanted to preserve their independence and take a stronger position vis-à-vis the big record companies. Finally, Loud Records agreed to these terms. The production for Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers was in the hands of RZA, who did not let the other band members hear the mixed album, including their own parts, until it was completely finished. 36 Chambers became a worldwide success and is now regularly featured in Best Hip Hop Album Ever compilations. In Protect Ya Neck , GZA sums up the artistic concept of the group and its relationship to major labels: Who is your A&R . A mountain climber who plays electric guitar // But he doesn't know the meaning of hip hop while looking for a tie-suit rap that's cleaner than a bar of soap // And I'm the dirtiest creature in sight to um to be specific, get the girls and let's mudcat.
The group quickly became known for their claustrophobic lyrics, bass-heavy, experimental breakbeats , as well as a weird sense of humor, which they embedded in a mythical world from traditional Chinese folk culture, legends and stylistic devices from martial arts films . The New York trendy magazine The Village Voice describes it 13 years later as a sprawling collective of grimy, violent, hyperarticulate knuckleheads coming out of nowhere.
The track Wu Tang: 7th Chamber of their debut album gives an insight into their style at the time . A total of seven of the clan members rap on the Posse Cut. Scenarios of violence, which are repeatedly broken by humor, take up a large space, as do various self-references and the repeated claim to change the hip-hop scene.
The success of the album established the band name and made the members well known to allow GZA, RZA, Raekwon, Method Man and Ol 'Dirty Bastard solo contracts with major labels. True to the concept of maintaining the greatest possible independence from a record company, the members signed their contracts with various companies. The clan's publications appeared on RCA, GZA signed with Geffen , Ol 'Dirty Bastard with Elektra Records , Method Man with Def Jam , Raekwon stayed with RCA, The concept of signing various contracts for group and solo artists, then kept that for a few years Nicknamed "Wu-Tang Deal". In the meantime, however, it is so widespread in the scene that it no longer needs its own name as a quasi-standard. The band is also famous for their battle rap skills.
Liquid Swords: Successful solo releases 1993–1997
RZA started the founding of the Wu-Tang Clan with a "five-year plan": he promised the group members that they would conquer the hip-hop world within five years if he had absolute control over the artistic output of the group members. After the first album had made an immense impression on critics and the scene, he began to bring individual clan members to the public.
The first side project to release its own album was RZA's own Gravediggaz project . Together with producer Prince Paul ( De La Soul ) and MCs Frukwan ( Stetsasonic ) and Poetic ( Brothers Grimm ), he released the album Six Feet Deep , probably the most commercially successful horrorcore album in hip-hop history.
Until 1997, RZA produced all publications by Wu-Tang members. The first solo releases continued the line of the 36 Chambers : Method Mans Tical musically corresponded to the 36 Chambers , Ol 'Dirty Bastards Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version seemed more focused on the essentials, less catchy and harder than the 36 Chambers , but was noticeably oriented towards it.
At the end of 1995, the two releases followed, which, next to the clan albums themselves, are most likely to be among the hip-hop classics: Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx was a diverse epic that was set in the criminal milieu. The beats were more opulent, RZA began to incorporate string instruments and samples of classic soul from the 1960s. The guest appearance of Nas was the first time a non-Wu-Tang artist was heard on a Wu-Tang album. GZA's Liquid Swords had similar tendencies to an inner-city epic as Raekwon's album, but was lyrically and musically darker, RZA worked a lot with keyboards there.
In 1996, Ghostface Killah followed suit with his own album: Ironman was somewhere between the very dark Liquid Swords and the more sentimental Cuban Linx . During this time the influence of RZA could be clearly heard on every album; although the albums were sold as solo albums, they were marked by numerous guest appearances by other clan members. Raekwon's and Ghostface's albums only had two and three true solo tracks, respectively, while other tracks on the album only featured other Wu-Tang members, but not Raekwon or Ghostface.
After all albums had garnered excellent reviews and sales figures, the individual members were also established as solo artists in the market. The Wu-Tang-Clan double album Wu-Tang Forever made no effort to adapt to the mainstream market. The first single Triumph was a nine-minute “ posse cut ” without choruses; many of the raps on the album were stream of consciousness raps that were difficult to understand when listening . Even so, it sold 600,000 times in the first week after its release and entered the charts at number 1. Musically it built on the last solo releases: keyboards and string samples played an important role, the raps were dark, mythical and influenced by the teachings of the Five Percent Nation . RZA gave up its role as a producer for the first time and had larger parts of the album produced by the Wu-Elements True Master and 4th Disciple. The clan broke off the live tour for the album about halfway through the tour; Many in the music press speculated that there had been disputes within the clan.
The Swarm: Expansion 1997-2000
After its first successes, the clan expanded rapidly and primarily produced and promoted the clan environment: Cappadonna appeared for the first time on Raekwon's debut album and played an important role on Ironman and Wu-Tang Forever . His solo LP The Pillage was released in 1998. Killah Priest released Heavy Mental with great critical acclaim. Various groups also released albums that were produced and promoted by the clan: Sunz of Man with Killah Priest and Killarmy with RZA's younger brother. The compilation Wu Tang Killa Beez: The Swarm contained solo releases by various members, but above all presented a large number of other crews who had close ties to the clan.
This was followed by further solo publications by the members. The four members, who had already released an album, pushed a second release afterwards. Most of the other members released their first solo LP, with the exception of Masta Killa, who had to wait until 2004 to make his debut. RZA produced the soundtrack for Jim Jarmusch's film Ghost Dog - The Way of the Samurai : various clan members had tracks on the Music inspired by the film album.
In addition to the musically high-quality releases of the members and certain friends, there were also numerous mediocre productions under the Wu label that met with little approval from fans and critics: the records by Poppa Wu, Shyheim, GP Wu, Wu-Syndicate, the second Releases by Gravediggaz and Killarmy, a best-of album and a B-side collection damaged the image of the Wu-Tang clan.
The flood of publications between 1997 and 2000 is therefore often blamed for the slump in popularity that began during this period and continued massively after 2000. In 2000 Melody Maker started a review with Another month, another Wu-Tang side project . The reactions even to the solo albums of the clan members were mixed, the sales figures fell. Individual albums such as Ghostface Killah's publications continued to inspire the critics, while Method Man and Ol 'Dirty Bastard were able to establish themselves as solo artists: the ability to revolutionize the music world and create excitement had apparently lost the Wu-Tang over the years . Both critics and fans often complained that RZA was producing less and less with its experimental and exciting beats. More and more productions came from more solid and predictable producers in the area or were given entirely to outsiders like Trackmasters Entertainment or The Neptunes . Numerous albums, the release of which had already been announced, had to be postponed, sometimes by several years.
There were initial tensions in the group. The Wu Tang Clan played on a tour before Rage Against the Machine in 1997 . The large audience were not classic hip listeners, the clan was supposed to be made known in wider circles. However, some clan members felt uncomfortable and in the wrong place in front of a rock crowd. Finally, the clan decided by majority decision to cancel the tour and to appear at the Summer Jam 1997 of the radio station Hot 97 . A decision that in turn bitter other clan members. The performance at the Summer Jam was a disaster, Ghostface Killah, for example, abused the audience and organizers and the radio station itself boycotted the clan for a few years after the performance.
Adding to the artistic problems was the increasingly eccentric behavior of Ol 'Dirty Bastard, which regularly landed him in the headlines and jail. At the 1998 Grammy Awards , during Shawn Colvin's acceptance speech on stage , he protested that the clan hadn't won the Grammy for Best Rap Album. He has been arrested multiple times, including for assault, coercion, shoplifting, passive arming, and cocaine possession. His problems increased as he regularly ignored court hearings.
Trendsetter: Wu Wear
The clan created a further mainstay through the clothing brand Wu Wear, whose products meanwhile generate annual sales in the millions. Originally created only as a reaction to numerous bootleg shirts, a large collection of designer wear developed from it. The clan set a trend in street fashion production, which numerous other rappers followed from 2000. Ludacris , Jay-Z , Puff Daddy , Busta Rhymes , Nelly and many others also produced their own designer clothing: many of the rappers now earn significantly more from their clothing brands than from their music.
The Yin and the Yang: Disintegration 2000–2011
After 1997, signs of disintegration began to appear. Various side and side projects had less and less to do with the style and image of the clan. A new release of the group followed in 2000 with The W . The critics reacted positively, if not nearly as enthusiastically as before, to the Wu-Tang album. The single Gravel Pit , promoted by an extravagant Feuerstein- style video , became a hit. Missing from the recordings of The W was Ol 'Dirty Bastard, who was in prison in California for breaking his final parole. While he was nearing completion of drug therapy while in custody, he suddenly escaped, disappeared without a trace, and surprisingly appeared on stage at the record release party for The W. He managed to escape from the club, but a little later he was caught by the Philadelphia police who transferred him to New York City, where he was jailed for cocaine possession.
RZA (as Bobby Digital ) released Digital Bullet , Ghostface Killah Bulletproof Wallets and Cappadonna The Yin and the Yang shortly thereafter . The next release of the whole clan followed in 2001 with Iron Flag , again Ol 'Dirty Bastard was not involved. The criticism was mostly positive.
This was followed by many solo releases by GZA, Cappadonna, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa and Mathematics. The reactions to the albums were not very enthusiastic, however. Only Masta Killa's No Said Date , which was much closer to the original Wu-Tang sound, and Ghostface's The Pretty Toney album , which was also popular in the mainstream, were able to inspire fans and critics. No other clan member was involved in Ghostface's work: a situation that would have been unthinkable before. Ghostface is one of the few who has had a record deal with a major label the entire time since it was founded and has regularly released critically acclaimed records.
In this time were several television appearances, while taking advantage of the popularity of the clan, but had little to do with the original artistic concept: RZA, Cappadonna and Killarmy appeared in the episode "Adolf Hankler" in the US sitcom The Larry Sanders Show on . In one of the two scenes they sing the song And Justice For All with the film character Hank Kingsley . Some members of the group starred in two skits on the Chappelle's Show on US cable TV channel Comedy Central . The first sketch can be seen in episode 107 and was called " Wu-Tang Financial ". As a result, RZA and GZA operate an investment company . The second sketch was Racial Draft 2004 in episode 201. The cousins GZA and RZA also starred with Bill Murray in the Jim Jarmusch film Coffee and Cigarettes . Only the soundtrack for the film Kill Bill , which RZA produced in 2003, showed an artistic proximity to the original concept.
U-God and Cappadonna publicly complained that they were being denied royalties. In a press conference in 2004, U-God compared his membership in the clan with slavery and complained that his solo career had been systematically suppressed in favor of other members. He left the clan, founded his own group, the Hillside Scramblers, and released the DVD Rise Of A Fallen Soldier , which detailed his problems with the clan and especially RZA. The conflict escalated into an emotional phone conversation between the two of them during a live radio show, which ended with a rapprochement and ultimately convinced U-God to rejoin the clan.
The exact status of Cappadonna within the clan is still unclear. While 1997 Wu-Tang Forever as featured was thus clearly marked and as a guest, he seemed to 2000 The W to be a regular member of the group. Also in 2000, the clan learned from the New York City newspaper Village Voice that Cappadonna's personal manager Michael Caruso was working as an informant for the New York Police Department. Raekwon then stated on a radio show that same year that Cappadonna would never have been a member. He is missing entirely on the 2001 album Iron Flag , but was probably still involved in the recordings and was only cut out afterwards. One of his legs can still be seen on the cover photo; the rest of him were apparently subsequently removed from the photo. A week before the tour started in 2006, he told the Village Voice that he still didn't know if he would be on the tour and that the other members had yet to come to an agreement. In mid-2007, RZA declared that Cappadonna had recently become a member of the Wu-Tang Clan from a legal perspective, but nothing more was known. Due to several disagreements within the clan, it is not possible to say how much you can believe in.
Individual members left New York City: Raekwon moved to Atlanta , Ghostface Killah to Miami , Cappadonna to Baltimore .
In the summer of 2004, despite all rumors of a dispute, the group went on another major tour. Concerts also took place in Europe, including in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Zurich. The only concert in Germany took place at the beginning of July 2004 in Berlin's Columbiahalle. Method Man and Ol 'Dirty Bastard were absent from this tour. However, Cappadonna, Beretta 9 and Cilvaringz were there.
On November 13, 2004, Ol 'Dirty Bastard died of a drug overdose two days before his birthday. This happened one day after the group's last concert until 2006, in which he had not participated.
In August 2006 the clan went on tour together again. This time they were able to perform in almost 17 cities in the USA. Only one concert took place outside the USA in Oslo. Rumors surfaced that the clan was going to disband. These were directly denied by the most official sources and justified by the fact that Ghostface and Method Man are on tour, RZA is working on three films and a large part of the rest is working on their new solo records. This in turn engaged the thought leader RZA one more time, so that a joint cooperation of the whole clan was not possible at that time. Several members of the Wu-Tang clan wanted to take part in Raekwon's not yet released album Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 .
In December 2007, six years after Iron Flag , the Wu-Tang Clan released the album 8 Diagrams on Bodog Music Europe . In the run-up, there were various events that postponed the publication or even called it into question. Initially, it was postponed by several months because the use of a The Beatles sample still had to be legally clarified. In the meantime, several members of the clan announced that they were dissatisfied with the album, because RZA designed it according to its orchestral ideas and did not respond to the wishes of the other members. Raekwon even said that the clan would publish music without RZA in the future, as long as the concept and the beats were not changed again. On the tour for the album, on the other hand, RZA was hardly present.
Since 2007, Wu-Tang Clan have performed annually at various European open-air festivals. In 2013, for the 20th birthday of the legendary debut "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)", the clan went on a European tour again and also performed in Germany.
Once Upon a Time in Shaolin and A Better Tomorrow (from 2011)
In 2011, Raekwon announced that the group was working on a new album. After some back and forth, the album A Better Tomorrow was released on November 28, 2014 for the 20th anniversary of the group. The album Once Upon a Time In Shaolin , produced by Cilvaringz , which is not open to the public and from which only was released before that a physical copy exists. It is owned by US hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli , who paid around $ 2 million for it. However, on March 9, 2018, the album became the property of the US state, as Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for financial crime.
The album The Saga Continues was released on October 13, 2017 . The album contains songs from each of the group members except GZA and U-God, the latter suing the group a year earlier for not having received any royalties.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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| 1993 | Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) | - | - | - |
UK83  (3 weeks)UK |
US41 × 3
(43 weeks)US |
First published: November 9, 1993
Sales: + 3,300,000 |
| 1997 | Wu-Tang Forever |
DE8 (21 weeks) DE |
AT17 (14 weeks) AT |
CH11  (14 weeks)CH |
UK1 (14 weeks)UK |
US1 × 4
(41 weeks)US |
First published: June 3, 1997
Sales: + 2,100,000 |
| 2000 | The W |
DE11 (15 weeks)DE |
AT13 (15 weeks) AT |
CH24 (13 weeks) CH |
UK19th (14 weeks)UK |
US5 (17 weeks)US |
First published: November 21, 2000
Sales: + 1,400,000 |
| 2001 | Iron flag |
DE44 (6 weeks) DE |
AT36 (7 weeks) AT |
CH39 (9 weeks) CH |
UK77 (2 weeks) UK |
US32 (13 weeks)US |
First published: December 18, 2001
Sales: + 500,000 |
| 2007 | 8 diagrams |
DE79 (1 week) DE |
- |
CH19 (5 weeks) CH |
- |
US25 (9 weeks) US |
First published: December 11, 2007
Sales: + 200,000 |
| 2014 | A Better Tomorrow |
DE64 (1 week) DE |
AT51 (1 week) AT |
CH21 (2 weeks) CH |
UK74 (1 week) UK |
US29 (2 weeks) US |
First published: December 2nd, 2014
Sales: + 60,000 |
| 2015 | Once Upon a Time in Shaolin | - | - | - | - | - |
First publication: 25 November 2015
auctioned as a single item |
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Out and about with Wu-Tang , rap giants at the rest stop, one day
- Wu-Tang Clan at laut.de
- Wu-Tang Clan at Allmusic (English)
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- ↑ RZA Reveals Cappadonna's Status In Wu-Tang Clan . Hiphopdx.com. October 7, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d e f Amos Barshad: Wu-Tang, Atomically , Grantland March 19, 2014
- ^ Village Voice: Wu-Tang Clan to Reunite. ( Memento from June 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) January 11, 2006
- ↑ AMG: Wu Tan Clan. checked May 17, 2006
- ↑ Uh-Young Kim, When the rap Klinsmann calls Der Spiegel
- ↑ Tour dates of Wu-Tang Clan (2005-2013). Retrieved August 27, 2013 .
- ↑ Wu-Tang Clan with anniversary album and tour. Retrieved October 1, 2013 .
- ↑ Raekwon reveals Wu Tang Clan is work in on a new album . Hiphopdx.com. June 29, 2011. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
- ↑ A Better Tomorrow: Amazon.co.uk: Music . Amazon.de. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
- ↑ Wu-Tang Clan producing one copy of new album Once Upon A Time In Shaolin . theguardian.com. March 27, 2014. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/vermischtes/article206807421/Wu-Tang-Clan-verkauf-Album-an-umstrittenen-Pharma-Manager.html
- ↑ U-God Sue's Wu-Tang Clan for Over $ 2 Million . In: Spin . November 30, 2016 ( spin.com [accessed October 19, 2017]).
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ a b c d US sales of studio albums
Members: RZA | GZA | Method Man | Raekwon | Ghostface Killah | Inspectah Deck | U-God | Masta Killa | Cappadonna
Former members: Ol 'Dirty Bastard († 2004)
Studio albums: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993) | Wu-Tang Forever (1997) | The W (2000) | Iron Flag (2001) | 8 Diagrams (2007) | A Better Tomorrow (2014) | Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (2015)
