Wu-Tang Clan

GZA Plays the Master at the Independent, 1/30/13

GZA Equipto DJ Apollo Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 The Independent GZA has absolutely nothing to prove to you, and he performs accordingly. Last night, the smoky-voiced, smooth-rhymin' Genius of the Wu-Tang Clan stood over a whooping crowd at the Independent and gave the room exactly what it wanted: a ... More >>

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Berkeley Ice Cream Sandwich Shop C.R.E.A.M. Vets National Franchise Opportunities

If you've been on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue on a weekend afternoon over the past two years, you've encountered lines to rival any popular East Bay nightclub at C.R.E.A.M. (Cookies Rule Everything Around Me), a cookie and ice cream sandwich shop that gets its name from a classic Wu-Tang Clan song. ... More >>

Before Hip-Hop Squares: Eight Links Between Rap Music and TV Game Shows

A game show that people have ever cared about -- even a little bit -- can go down, but it will never truly be out. Know the Dick Clark version of Pyramid that started in the 1970s and continued throughout the decade? No? Well, you've probably encountered the Bill Cullen version (also from the '70s), ... More >>

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Rhyme Master Run Amok

Veteran Rappers: Do You Really Need to Continue Making New Records?

There was a time, back in the late '80s, when the legendary Bronx rapper KRS-One was a candidate for the title of Greatest Rapper of All Time. Twenty-five years later, though, the self-anointed Blastmaster's latest long-player, The B.D.P. Album, suggests that compulsory retirement from the recording ... More >>

The Eight Most Memorable Pop Culture References on Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

The rap game -- well, any game -- could use more people with the ambition of the RZA and the ability to make good on it. The man born Robert Diggs is more than an MC, a producer, and an actor. His resume also includes "DICTATOR" in big, bold letters: When the Wu-Tang Clan was just a bunch of young b ... More >>

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How to Make Your Own Cannabis Flour for Edibles

Cannabis butter. Love it, but unless I make it myself, I end up suffering from Geicoschizophrenia. Yeah, Geico. You know, somebody's butter will make you feel like a witty lizard, or a metaphor man on a microphone, or a disenfranchised caveman. I need more consistency with my cannabis edibles. Reve ... More >>

Wanna Be an Intern for Wu-Tang?

These guys could be your new bosses.​Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with, but they could be an excellent internship opportunity. If today's (very legitimate-looking) Craigslist post is to be trusted, the group's management firm is looking for an office intern. So what does it take to work ... More >>

Last Night's VVM SXSW Party: Wu-Tang Packs It, Wild Flag Rocks It, and Yelawolf Goes Shirtless

Shannon CottrellWu-Tang Clan​Still only on Day 2 of this ridiculous conflagration, last night forced even more torturous decision-making on festival-goers with a crazy-stacked series of shows. (The Strokes even had fireworks!) But the Village Voice Media party at Austin Music Hall, featuring Wu-Ta ... More >>

Our SXSW Party: Wu-Tang Clan, Erykah Badu, Wild Flag, and More

​And so we join the SXSW deluge: Village Voice Media, the parent company of SF Weekly, yesterday announced the details of our annual SXSW party: We'll deign to spare you any unfortunate lyrical references to the Wu-Tang Clan but it is headlining. Other eyebrow-poppers you'll want to check out ... More >>

Turns Out Michael Chabon Is a Huge Hip-Hop Nerd

MIchael Chabon, wishing he was bangin' some Wu-Tang​If you haven't been obsessively up to date with the world of Internet news, Bay Area author Michael Chabon has been guest editing the culture section of The Atlantic's culture blog this week. The nifty gig also revealed perhaps one of the lesser ... More >>

Soul-Funk Outfit The Budos Band Wants To Harsh Your Mellows, Hippies

Lotsa people, lotsa attitude.​You've got to love New Yorkers for their blatant honesty. Speaking to Jared Tankel, baritone saxophone player in 10-piece Staten Island global-funk group The Budos Band, he makes it clear to aspiring rappers that his instrumental band is not interested in collaboratin ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan Is Playing San Francisco's Mezzanine This December

Nothing to fuck with.​YES: the Wu-Tang Clan (R.I.P. O.D.B.) is bringing its Shaolin magic on the road next month, and San Francisco lies in the path of destruction. (This less than a month after Ghostface Killah's show at Slim's next week.) So boom-bap to that! Come this way for details.

Review and Download: Curtains' 'The Dissertaion (The Wu Thesis)'

​The past month has been a pretty great one for rap. New Orleans weed aficionado and sometime Lil Wayne sidekick Curren$y released Pilot Talk, featuring a terrific single, "The Day," where Jay Electronica waxes "young, black, intelligent, elegant, blasé," and Mos Def sounds like his jaw is still ... More >>

Why The Critics Are Wrong: Rap Albums You Probably Don't Know But Should, Part II

​Since many recent Next Big Things in rap have proven disappointing -- see Wale, Asher Roth and B.o.B. -- it might be time to consider the possibility that hip-hop tastemakers don't know what to look for in the first place. Here's an alternative to the critical consensus on rap. Yesterday, we ... More >>

Rap Albums You Probably Don't Know But Should, Part I

Illmatic isn't Nas' only good album, despite what you may have heard​Since many recent Next Big Things in rap have proven disappointing -- see Wale, Asher Roth and B.o.B. -- it might be time to consider the possibility that hip-hop tastemakers don't know what to look for in the first place. T ... More >>

The Honor Roll Crew is the West Coast's Wu-Tang Clan

Listomania: Top Hip-Hop Picks For 2009

While year-end, catch-all wrap-ups are common to every musical genre, in no other style of music do they turn into the hand-wringing, "state of the game" examinations that hip-hop seems to provoke. (I've certainly written a few.) We worry because we care, of course. But at some point, like a thirty- ... More >>

13 Reasons Why Yoga-Hop Is Gonna Be Huge

Doze Green"Kali Dwapar"​ Big tip o' the ASD hat--hey, do we have hats?--to SF Weekly Clubs Editor John Graham for passing along this tasty tidbit about what could be the Next Big Hip-Hop trend. In JG's words: "Now that MC Chris has agreed to appear at Insane Clown Posse's Gathering of the Jugg ... More >>

RZA Drops Afro-Samurai S/T, Prepares to Rock S.F.

Courtesy of The RZAYour kung-fu cannot defeat mine, you pathetic fool! My medallion is also a thowing star! Is it just our imagination, or has Wu-Tang producer the RZA become even more prolific since leaving the slums of Shaolin for La-La land? Having freed himself from the burdens of making gritty ... More >>

Wu-Tang Inc.

GZA: Going Back in Wu-Tang Time

RZA Leaves Wu-Tang Tour

Wu Hu!

CD Review: Wu-Tang Clan -- 8 Diagrams

Wu-Tang Clan

8 Diagrams (Loud/SRC/Universal)

Renaissance Man

Wu-Tang producer RZA's balancing act

Wu-Tang Clan's '8 Diagrams' -- Sneak Review of the Leak!!

Intro to Hip-Hop Statistics

New Music: Wu-Tang Clan: 8 Diagrams Mixtape

Is Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah as Dumb as He Sometimes Acts?

When I'm 64

Rock the Bells, The Expendables, New Monsoon -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Saturday, August 18

SF Weekly and Pharoahe Monch Chop It Up About Rock the Bells, White People

Misc. Reviews

Beat Kings: The History

Method Man gets a bit too methodical

This week: a marriage of vinyl dolls and records at Milk; Slum Village helps introduce you to the "Lower Haters."

ODB

A Son Unique

Ol' Dirty Bastard

Osirus: The Official Mixtape

Handsome Boy Modeling School

White People

Hear This

Back with a new album, Wu Tang Clan's Method Man stops in San Francisco before taking over Hollywood.

GZA

Legend of the Liquid Sword

Wu-Tang Forever?

U-God comments on the state of the Wu nation after a tumultuous year for its members

Reviews

Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy

Recordings

Recordings