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On the West Coast, the rap collective N.W.A. When “36 Chambers” was released in November 1993, hardcore rap had yet to find its place in music. “Check it, my method on the microphone’s bangin’/ Wu-Tang slang’ll leave your headpiece hangin’,” Inspectah Deck raps on “Bring da Ruckus.” “Bring da Ruckus” combines the producing prowess of RZA, who fuses funk and R&B samplings with vibrant, furious hooks throughout the record, with the rugged personality of each rapper, from the wisdom of GZA to the clean and punchy rhymes of Inspectah Deck. RZA integrated English dubs from the film into “36 Chambers,” and the group made the integration a solid theme throughout its career.īeginning with a film dub of Shaolin and Wu-Tang fighting styles, lead track “Bring da Ruckus” bursts into RZA’s hook like the Wu-Tang sword style itself, while Ghostface Killah slices through gritty couplets of rap like a dedicated swordsman. Led by the producing genius and gritty beats of RZA, Wu-Tang Clan was inspired by the 1983 Chinese kung fu film “Shaolin and Wu Tang” and incorporated the aesthetics of Eastern kung fu into its brand of rap. The album broke barriers from its humble and personal subject matter to the record’s rough, stripped-down production. Wu-Tang Clan’s debut album “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” demonstrates how strong of an influence one record and one group has had on the entire genre of hardcore rap music. The Wu-Tang Clan, a rap collective whose original lineup pioneered East Coast hardcore rap in the early ’90s, was able to capture each member’s character and importance in a way that not only gave the group a massive underground following, but drove the individual careers of members and inspired a generation of tenacious rap. When voices and rhythms, each with their own dynamic eccentricities, come together, some artists are overshadowed and individuality fades away.
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An influential rap collective is hard to find.