The fan base is huge for the Wu Tang Clan, JayZ and Kanye West.
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Things worked well enough when punching in the name of an artist or a song (some Mobb Deep in our Wu Tang station, Tom Vek and The Rapture in our LCD Soundsystem one).
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The more recent evolution of the Wu-Tang Clan is also true of the best business teams.
Ghostface Killah and Raekwon made their marks on hip-hop and still do today, but they enjoyed more successes as members of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Wu-Tang Clan, who also celebrated 20 years in music Sunday, showed no signs of slowing down with a set that felt both fresh and nostalgic.
Though several 1990s hip-hop acts were featured, including the reunited Wu-Tang Clan, it promoted the next generation with 2 Chainz, Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt and others.
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Wu-Tang Clan hit the stage and were solid, though the energy of the audience filled with a good number of twentysomethings dwindled throughout the set.
Heirs of Brooklyn rapper Russell "Ol' Dirty Bastard" Jones, cofounder of Wu-Tang Clan, are still tussling over his estate three years after the troubled rhyme-master died of a drug overdose.
Two years later, he and eight friends including two cousins, who would become the RZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard released "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), " a critical entry in the hip-hop canon.
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The hood ornament on this jalopy is the rusted voice of Gonjasufi, who may just be the most unusual man on the mic since Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard.
He was famed for his unorthodox delivery, which became famous when he first hit the music scene in the 1990s with the Wu-Tang Clan, alongside Method Man, RZA and Ghostface Killah.
"He was the Genius, and we called him genius because we knew that he was a genius, " said Raekwon, another founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, the legendary Staten Island hip-hop crew formed in the early '90s.
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Its digital catalogue of 7 million tracks from artists and labels that include Guided By Voices, Wu-Tang Clan, Smithsonian Folkways and Sesame Street account for about 7% of all global plays on Spotify, according to data from the music-streaming service.
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One of the most successful and notorious personalities of the legendary hip-hop collective the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' Dirty Bastard lived a story of music, drugs and violence, which came to a sad conclusion with the rapper's death from an accidental drug overdose in November 2004.
And of course they have Cazals, iconic eyewear that is proudly displayed along with other time-warping oddities like a purposefully horrific hockey mask pendant, a homage to both Jason from the movie Friday the 13th and Ghostface Killah from hip hop collective Wu-Tang Clan, depending on which decade you are trying to transport back to.
Wang Jinan and Tang Zhenkun, Wu's mother-in-law and father-in-law, have been looking after their two granddaughters.
Wu's daughters, Tang Deyun, 14, and Tang Shanshan, 19, are proud of her.
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