#Enter the wu tang clan 36 chambers zip movie
Produced entirely by the group’s de facto leader RZA, the centre of the hive mind, Enter The Wu-Tang utilises gritty, concrete-hard beats and achieves a ghostly atmosphere through snatched, echoing soul samples and martial-arts movie clips. Chef’, a throwdown between Method Man and Raekwon over the rights to rap over RZA’s beat – a track that eventually surfaced on Method Man’s 1994 debut album Tical. This competition led to the track ‘Meth Vs. To decide who appeared on each song, RZA made Wu-Tang rappers battle with each other on the mic. They were soon signed, but because of an extremely limited budget, the group was only able to record in a cramped, inexpensive studio at The Hit Factory with up to eight of the nine Wu-Tang members in the studio at once, the quarters were frequently crowded. The rappers decided to create a hip-hop group whose ethos would be a blend of “Eastern philosophy picked up from kung fu movies, distorted Nation of Islam preaching picked up on the New York streets, and comic books. However, with renewed focus in the face of their disappointment, the group really took shape when they joined forces with fellow Staten Island rapper Dennis Coles (Ghostface Killah). Each individual had found some limited success in the rap game, but all found themselves dropped by their record labels (RZA even at one point making an album on De La Soul’s Tommy Boy label). The New York collective were less a rap group than a kind of musical equivalent of an extended cinematic universe, a nine-strong squad of MCs and producers whose galaxy of solo albums, in addition to body of work from their parent group, represents almost a sub-genre of hip-hop unto itself.Įssentially, Wu-Tang Clan formed around the nucleus of Gary Grice (GZA), Robert Diggs (RZA) and Russell Jones (Ol’ Dirty Bastard), who had worked together since the late Eighties.
Not only did it discount the burgeoning Southern rap scene, personified by the likes of OutKast, but it also didn’t take into account the presence of complete outliers like the Wu-Tang Clan.
The binary, East Coast vs West Coast paradigm of thinking about Nineties hip-hop may have been popular but was too restrictive. Influenced by: Run-DMC, Boogie Down Productions, Eric B & Rakim, Public Enemy, Gang Starr Influenced: Cypress Hill, Mobb Deep, Tricky, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Kanye West, J Dilla, Dead Prez, Roots Manuva, Madvillain, Action Bronson, Childish Gambino, A$AP Rocky, Tyler The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Bishop Nehru, Kendrick Lamar, Vince Staples
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