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Trace the geneology of the Wu-Tang Clan
December 24th 2008 05:03
It's a satirical piece from The Onion, but, like The Onion does best, there's an element of truth in the story:
Staten Island Historians Piece Together Wu-Tang Clan Geneology
"According to Wilburn, it took trained scholars hundreds of hours to parse out Wu-Tang's complex lineage, with experts in nearly every discipline studying the group's dope oral traditions, as well as its customary and often fresh style of dress. "
At one point, the Wu was so influential that they seemed omnipresent on the radio and MTV... hip hop kids were buying into the kung fu mythology so hard that the Clan even managed to put out a video game:
Of course, Wu-Tang delirium reached its apex when Ol' Dirty Bastard rushed the stage at the Grammys, announcing that Wu-Tang was 'for the children':
... he was one of a kind, a criminal poured into a business suit because of his insane skills on the mic. He wasn't built for this, and even though he wasn't the leader of the Clan, he was its most prized figure, the one that kept the attention on the Staten Island group.
When he died of a heart attack, after diving back into a huge pile of cocaine, that was probably the moment that the world turned the page on Wu-Tang. Let's go out on a Brooklyn Zoo:
*this image is from The Phoenix
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