Hip Hop Clan

- resulted out of the by rza set up group called All in together now no productions from this time - some gigs on parties and smaller concerts -> won some friends and allied ones for their project -> resulted the wu tang clan (clan = members are allied) - formed by U-God, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killah, RZA, GZA and OL Dirty Bastard -Robert Diggs (RZA), Greg Grice (GZA), Russell Jones (ODB) from Staten Island-the most boring quarter of NY, -> Fans of cheap Kung Fu films -> visited often the cinema and hanged out on the streets one movie fascinated Robert -> called Shaolin and Wu-Tang => the cool gangsters from the cloister Wu Tang became to his idol -summer 1993 RZA + cousins and some friends as Wu Tang Clan produced a tape by investing 800 dollars -> surprisingly sold more then 10. 000 tapes - after that RZA brilliant idea lasting the contract negotiations persist on the independence of the individual ones because of the possible solo projects - Protect ya neck was the first single you can?t imagine what the track caused in the underground completely new style (hard beats, crazy kung fu samples, lyrics with real, tragedy stories performed by 9 angry men with 9 different interesting Rap flows and styles) - the commercial success leaded the track Method man on the b-site of the protect ya neck tape the first us-clubhit of the group - 09. 11. 93 first album enter the wu-tang (36 Chambers) produced in their own studio, but only debuted at US number 41 but something completely new devided into 2 styles shaolin, wu-tang => sold 1. 5 million cd?s -> it made the crew one of the hottest tickets in rap -1994 the year of the clan - the clan began to grow and the first solo projects started resulted the wu fam - Method man produced his own project, GZA signed some important contracts, and ODB went to Elektra Records just some ex.

- RZA ste up the formation of the gravediggaz and at the same time his label Razor Sharp - track C. R. E. A. M. (maybe the best hiphop track all time) established the wu tang clan at the top of the rap business - some problems in that year: U-God?s 2 year old boy was hurted in an gunfight and one day later a friend of the clan was killed in a gunfight too - the most successful project followed by method man tical and he became the most popular member success cause of the all I need remix with mary j. bilge this track was world famous - after that ODB started with the album Return to the 36 chambers similar success like meth.

- but some said, the album is really terrible, but the other ones loved ODB?s crazy style Raekwon, GZA, Ghostface Killah followed with their own projects but they couldn?t reached methodmans and ODB?s success -1997 the second album wu tang forever was released without advertising started on the 1st place in the US the album was similar to the first one ...