BIOGRAPHY
THE WU-TANG CLAN WAS FORMED IN THE EARLY
NINETIES BY THE RZA, GZA AND OL' DIRTY BASTARD
MANY OF THE CLAN
MEMBERS WERE FRIENDS AS CHILDREN OR GREW UP ON THE SAME BLOCKS, IN STATEN
ISLAND NYC, NEW YORK
RZA SAYS" WE ALWAYS HUNG AROUND EACH OTHER ,
AS FAR AS IDENTIFYING OURSELVES AS WU-TANG THAT HAPPENED IN THE EARLY
NINTIES.
THE CLAN GOES BACK TO WHEN WE WERE JUST 9 OR 10 YEARS OLD,
THATS WHEN WE JUST STARTED TO EXPERIMENTING WITH RAPPING.
WE ALL GREW
UP IN THE SAME NEIGHBOURHOOD, WENT TO SCHOOL TOGETHER AND HUNG AROUND
TOGETHER. SOME OF US ARE EVEN FAMILY.
BEFORE THE WU-TANG CLAN
WAS FORMED RZA AND GZA HAD ALREADY RELEASED SOLO ALBUMS:
GZA MADE
"WORDS FROM A GENIUS" AND RZA MADE "OOH WE LOVE YOU RAKEEM". BOTH
WERE FAILURES.
IN 1993 THE CLAN WAS FORMED AND SIGNED A RECORD
DEAL WITH LOUD/RCA RECORDS, AND RELEASED THEIR DEBUT ALBUM " ENTER THE
WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS)
AFTER THE RELEASE OF THE ALBUM RZA WANTED THE
MEMBERS TO GO OUT AND EACH GET A SOLO LABEL, TO GATHER MORE FANS AND THE
CLAN WOULD BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE LABELS AND MAKE MORE MONEY
METHOD
MAN WAS THE FIRST TO RELEASE AN ALBUM, WHO WENT TO DEF JAM AND BROUGHT PUT
"TICAL"
AFTER GATHERING FANS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, THE CLAN
RE-FORMED AND BROUGHT OUT THE HIGHLY AWAITED "WU-TANG FOREVER" CD IN
1997
THIS DOUBLE CD WAS A HUGE SUCCESS GOING NUMBER 1 IN US AND
EUROPE
THE NEW WU TANG ALBUM "WU-CHRONICALS" IS DUE OUT IN
SEPTEMBER 2000