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Wu-News of the Week
Twenty-five years after the single "Protect Ya Neck" made them kings of the underground, immortal rap-music collective Wu-Tang Clan continues to stamp their bootprints into popular culture. Recently, they skewered both the art world and the fraternity of tech CEOs with the single-copy release of their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which we're convinced contained an elixir designed to take down "PharmaBro" Martin Shkreli. Now comes "Wu-Tang: An American Saga," a 10-episode dramatic series headed to Hulu with Wu overlord RZA at the top of producer pyramid and most of the surviving members consulting. We trust they won't flinch from depicting how they emerged from the height of the crack epidemic into a global institution.
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Twenty-five years after the single "Protect Ya Neck" made them kings of the underground, immortal rap-music collective Wu-Tang Clan continues to stamp their bootprints into popular culture. Recently, they skewered both the art world and the fraternity of tech CEOs with the single-copy release of their album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which we're convinced contained an elixir designed to take down "PharmaBro" Martin Shkreli. Now comes "Wu-Tang: An American Saga," a 10-episode dramatic series headed to Hulu with Wu overlord RZA at the top of producer pyramid and most of the surviving members consulting. We trust they won't flinch from depicting how they emerged from the height of the crack epidemic into a global institution.
See our Rappers Who Act gallery
PeopleGhostface Killah, Masta Killa, Method Man, Raekwon, RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, The GZA, U-God, Wu-Tang Clan
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