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 rappers from Staten Island released an album that changed everything — and built the most ambitious collective in Golden Age hip-hop history.
Nine MCs from the forgotten borough. One master plan. How Wu-Tang Clan conquered the Golden Age of hip-hop and built an empire that nobody in the music industry saw coming.