He writes about his journey in his new memoir, “ From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan.”īorn in Brooklyn, he moved to Staten Island when he was 9. If pizza fueled his body, Raekwon’s creativity was fed by his neighborhood where he hung out with RZA, Method Man, Ghostface and the rest of the giants who would make up the Wu-Tang Clan. And they have literally been there for about at least 50 years … They know me very well.” Learning valuable life lessons Like, I sat down to slices in the building with gangsters and all that, but the pizza is so good. We New Yorkers, so you know, we eat that every day … it’s owned by real Italians. Ask Raekwon for a restaurant recommendation and he gives the most Staten Island answer ever: a pizzeria, specifically Brother’s Pizzeria on South Avenue. And they are Shaolin through and through. Until he and the rest of the Wu-Tang Clan came on the scene, the borough was largely underrepresented in rap. The two had similarities: Raekwon is one of the genre’s greatest lyricists and he helped put his home turf on the map. You know, like I said, man, we got a lot of respect for Big and just him representing Brooklyn to the fullest man.” Like, is this where rap is going?’ You know, so that’s something we’ll never forget. “Broke my heart … It was like, ‘How? Wow. Both he and Ghost were devastated when they learned that their new friendship was over before it began. “We actually got a chance to apologize and get on the same page with him and talk about working together the day before he got killed,” Raekwon told me. On “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx” Raekwon’s first solo album, which also featured Ghostface Killah, the pair essentially insinuated that Biggie copied Nas’ album cover, which naturally caused bad blood in the hyper-competitive New York City hip-hop scene when it debuted in 1995. was gunned down in Los Angeles in 1997, my “ Renaissance Man” guest had a powwow with the great Brooklyn rapper over a beef that lingered between them. Fresh goes back to his rap origins with Jalen Rose Jalen Rose cracks jokes with 'scrappy' comedian Yvonne Orjiĭoug E. 'Black-ish' star Miles Brown talks to Jalen Rose about on-screen family, his famous dadĬharles Oakley tells Jalen Rose about James Dolan's diss From worst to best… here we go! 14.Wallo and Gillie of 'Million Dollaz' podcast talk origins and GAME with Jalen Rose A mathematical formula was applied to this ranking and these are the results. This ranking encompasses all the Wu-Tang solo albums from 1994 through to 2000, basically, the period between 1993’s Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers and 2000’s The W. By the turn of the millennium, the Wu had accumulated an incredible 14 solo albums and 2 group long-players. The strategy was nicknamed “the 5-year plan” and it was concluded in 1997/98 with Wu-Tang Forever. One of the key chambers to take over the rap game, was to have 9 group members who also freelanced as solo artists on separate major labels. The Wu-Tang was conceived as the brainchild of the RZA during his long walks from his project building in Staten Island all the way down to the Staten Ferry and back again. Or like Meth says, “I do my dirt for dolo”. This time around we’re going to rank one of the most legendary rhyme collectives to ever hit the earth….the one and only Wu-Tang Clan…the solo albums.
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