![]() The film is clearly important to him, but so is Glastonbury, and a deal has been struck for him to join the rest of Wu-Tang Clan last week. "I've always wanted to show the world that hip-hop artists aren't limited to the bubble we were put in, you know, just a bunch of guys rapping about drugs and streets and things like that," he explains. ![]() RZA wants the film, The Man with the Iron Fist - his directorial debut and produced by Tarantino - to show "the creativity of hip-hop artists". WU TANG CLAN FOREVER FOR THE CHILDREN MOVIE"I'm in the middle of editing a movie right now and I'm not allowed to leave California due to contractual agreements," he says. It's his idea of them being more of a family than a group that means when he goes off to act or write film scores (as he has done for Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill and Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog), it's understood that he'll always return. When 1997's Wu-Tang Forever knocked the Spice Girls off the No 1 slot in America, selling more than 600,000 copies in a week, RZA was true to his word, handing over all aspects of the Wu-Tang franchise (which by this point included a successful clothing line, Wu-Wear) to his associates. Central to Wu-Tang Clan's success form the start was Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, aka RZA and his cousins Ol' Dirty Bastard and GZA, along with six other rappers, formed the group in Staten Island.Īs well as producing the majority of the Wu-Tang output (including various solo albums), RZA was also the de facto leader, outlining early not only his commitment to the group but also his business mind by creating a "five-year plan", which stated that as long as he had total control, Wu-Tang Clan would dominate hip-hop within five years. At the time, the genre was dominated by west-coast rappers and G-funk, with Dr Dre and Warren G creating hypnotic, synth-heavy summer anthems that usually involved someone driving a convertible that "bounced" in the video.īy November of that year, Wu-Tang Clan's classic debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), had cast a long shadow with its lyrical wordplay referencing everything from martial arts movies to darkly humorous threats of violence. In 1993, way before most members of current gonzo rap collective Odd Future could even walk, New York City's Wu-Tang Clan were busy reinventing hip-hop.
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