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By Ron Nachmann

Published on November 24, 2008 at 4:47pm

Products of Staten Island's notorious Park Hill projects, the nine-member Wu-Tang Clan surfaced in the '90s to forge a unique roughneck New York hip-hop style. Their music absorbed obsessions with technology, kung fu and gangster flicks, and the street-level Islamic faction Five Percent Nation. More than that, though, Wu-Tang also introduced hip-hop to corporate-style diversity, with individual members generating numerous solo projects and the group developing a Wu Wear clothing line.