Wu Tang, particularly RZA changed the music business. I believe they were the first group that signed to a label and had in their group contract that the individual members would be able to sign with other labels for their solo projects. That was unheard of back in the day. They changed the landscape of contracts with record labels.
When I was little, my father was famous He was the greatest samurai in the empire And he was the Shogun's decapitator He cut off the heads of 131 lords It was a bad time for the empire The Shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out People said his brain was infected by devils My father would come home, he would forget about the killings He wasn't scared of the Shogun, but the Shogun was scared of him Maybe that was the problem Then, one night, the Shogun sent his ninja spies to our house They were supposed to kill my father but they didn't That was the night everything changed.
As a 90s white kid, Wu Tang was the group that introduced me and my friends to rap music. Dop Shit was my favorite song for so long. Just imagine a chubby pastey white kid singing OBD in class and the teacher sening him to detention of throwing up the W on his way out. Wu Tang, Wu Tang, Wu Tang!
I'm 42, Moroccan-born, raised between Brussels and Paris suburbs, moved out at 21 and never settled more than a couple years somewhere. I hardly listen to Hip Hop nowadays but since 1993 Wu-Tang has always been by my side. I got to see them live twice, 1997 and 2015.
Writing this comment while banging "Walking through the darkness" by Tekitha from the Ghost Dog OST.
My first introduction to Wu was playing my dad's copy of Wu Tang: Taste the Pain on PS1. He used to hide the instruction manual from me so I couldn't turn on blood 😂