There’s no way that I could have posts dedicated to Jay-Z & Nas, respectively, and not talk about the greatest hip hop group ever, which is the Wu Tang Clan? I grew up listening to these guys. In my uncle’s room, early mornings & late at night, it was either that or Bob Marley seeping through the speakers of the 5 CD disc changer all day long. It’s how I grew to appreciate hip hop in the first place. The raw delivery and the funky beats caught on to me as a young kid, and it grew with me as I progressed through my adolescence and my current young adulthood.

The group itself was really the first of its kind of hip hop, because not only did they make music, they’re also a brand, and essentially a nation within itself (which they reference to on any and every occasion possible). The Kung Fu movie references and the influence that they had, was something that wasn’t heard of, but they broke ground in the hip hop world and their creativity & uniqueness showed throughout all formats of their work whether it be individual albums or music videos. The RZA, GZA, Inspectah Deck, Method Man, ODB (R.I.P), Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, U-God, and Masta Killa didn’t know that with this first album in Enter The Wu Tang, would they change the face of hip hop not only music wise, but wholly as a business (Read The Big Payback: History of Hip Hop as a Business, it’s a good book, but long as hell).

Several of the group members went on to great success after the release of this album, some have not, but this is a classic album because it started a movement bigger than anyone could have ever imagined from a bunch of kung fu loving kids from Staten Island & surrounding boroughs in New York. So, I give you this album, and pretty much a piece of hip hop history at that.