Genre: Hip-Hop
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Wisemen
Wisemen Approaching
Flipping through the FM dial these days, its difficult to recall a time when integrity was pervasive in hip-hop, when lyricism and commercial viability were neither conflicting nor mutually exclusive. In 2004, with crunk music aspiring to airwave dominance, a movement was...
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Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
The Wu-Tang Clan's chief producer, RZA (aka the Abbott, Prince Rakeem, the Rzarector, and Bobby Steels) was born Robert Diggs; he first surfaced during the early '90s as a member of the rap unit All in Together Now, a group which also featured fellow Wu-Tang members the Genius (aka GZA) and Ol' Dirty Bastard. Following All in Together Now's... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Flipping through the FM dial these days, its difficult to recall a time when integrity was pervasive in hip-hop, when lyricism and commercial viability were neither conflicting nor mutually exclusive. In 2004, with crunk music aspiring to airwave dominance, a movement was brewing in Detroit amongst a collective of disenfranchised, yet... [+] Read More
Genre: Hip-Hop
Decades Active: 90s, 00s
Emerging in 1993, when Dr. Dre's G-funk had overtaken the hip-hop world, the Staten Island, NY-based Wu-Tang Clan proved to be the most revolutionary rap group of the mid-'90s -- and only partially because of their music. Turning the standard concept of a hip-hop crew inside out, the Wu-Tang Clan were assembled as a loose congregation of nine... [+] Read More