Wu-Tang Forever: How Nine MCs from Staten Island Rewrote the Rules of Rap
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.
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.
On February 12, 1990 — the same day Nelson Mandela walked free from Victor Verster Prison — a 27-year-old kid from Oakland named Stanley Kirk Burrell released his third studio album and accidentally changed pop culture forever. By August, it was selling 100,000 copies a day. By the following spring, it had gone diamond with…