While many rappers will often exaggerate about their criminal lifestyle, others are quite candid about it. Judging from his FBI file, the late great Ol’ Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan belongs to the latter group. Through a Freedom of Information Act request, a website called Gun.io got hold of the 94-page document that contains lots of sordid details about the hip hip icon. Much of the information was provided by NYPD detectives who often worked jointly with the feds. Read more »
This thing is really happening. Universal just promised $20 million to RZA to finance his next project ‘The Man With the Iron Fist(s).’ RZA will direct, score and star in the film as a blacksmith that supplies a village in feudal China with weapons. Eli Roth will produce. Roth co-wrote the screenplay, describing it as “Kung Fu with a spaghetti Western mindset and a Hip Hop influence.” Read more »
Yup! Watch Ghostface discuss his cameo in Disney movie When In Rome that even had fellow Wu elder Raekwon surprised. But don’t get it twisted, we’re not talking about some sort of animation or Pixar production, way worse, it’s a “chick flick.” Adding to this comic tragedy, he says he didn’t watch it, was hardly paid, and didn’t even know how to DJ, which incidentally, is the role they cast him for. |Nah Right|
Here’s the trailer for the newly released documentary on the Wu-Tang Clan. It contains footage from the past two years and includes ultra rare footage of all its members performing together. See the official website for more. |Nah Right|
Typically uninspired, promo shwag is getting some extra attention from Tools of the Trade, a San Francisco company focused on making fine art “accessible and interactive for everybody.” Their first community-building venture is “Rollin’ High,” a pot-themed dice game “developed” with graffiti writer and artist Mike Giant. Read more »
Well here’s fate for ya! Method Man once narrowly escaped death by diverting his trip to make a purchase from his neighborhood weed guy by heeding a “come over here, yo” call from RZA, and if Method had been killed, Wu-Tang might never have formed. For realz! Read more »
Rappers, celebrities, and people like Ray Seacrest reacted to the death of DJ AM by expressing their grief on Twitter. He was found dead on Friday of an apparent overdose that TMZ says was accidental not suicidal. Read their pithy, publicist-free tributes after the jump. Read more »
Frustrated by the outdated, artistically uninspired covers of Wu-Tang affiliated albums, save for Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s mural worthy welfare card, graphic designer Logan Walters started remixing them in the style of Blue Note LPs. So far, the devout Wu-Tang fan has completed 7 covers and hopes to finish all 21 iconic remixes. Click the images above for a few of our favorites and click through for the rest of Walters’ Wu-Tang work. |Kounter Kulture|
With their fathers unable to even sell records anymore, it’s hard to understand why the marketing mavens over at Fila thought it was a good idea to use the sons of GZA, Power, & Masta Killa to hype the once successful Wu-Tang Clan’s new winter boots. Even more shocking is the idea that this “exclusive video” doubles as a sort of visual instruction for how to “properly put the boots to use” since just tying them the traditional way doesn’t fully showcase the hideous footwear.
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