How Wu-Tang Clan Built Golden Age Hip-Hop’s Empire
In 1992, a shoestring-budget crew from Staten Island signed a record deal nobody else dared to write. Here’s how that one contract clause let nine MCs flood the Golden Age with solo classics.
In 1992, a shoestring-budget crew from Staten Island signed a record deal nobody else dared to write. Here’s how that one contract clause let nine MCs flood the Golden Age with solo classics.
In 1993, nine MCs from Staten Island signed a deal unlike anything the music industry had seen. This is how Wu-Tang Clan turned the Golden Age of hip-hop into an empire that no single label could have built.