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WU-TANG CLAN Wu-Tang Is Forever! Die legendäre Rap-Gruppe rund um RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa und Cappadonna, deren Debüt „Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" die Hip Hop-Kultur der Folgejahre prägte wie kaum ein zweites, ist zurück und veröffentlichte zum 20-jährigen Bestehen des Clans am 28. November 2014 das lang erwartete Album „A Better Tomorrow“. Das Werk markiert zugleich die Reunion nach sieben Jahren Pause und das Label-Debüt bei Warner Bros. Records. Wu-Tang, mit RZA als Mastermind, sind bekannt dafür, neue, innovative Wege zu gehen, die zugleich auch das Nostalgiker-Herz höher schlagen lassen. So erscheint neben dem digitalen Produkt eine Wu-Tang Clan Boombox. Darunter kann sich eine mit dem Logo versehene portable Box vorgestellt werden, die ausgewählte Tracks des Albums „A Better Tomorrow“ enthält und damit das Konzept des physischen Tonträgers neu definiert. Damit nicht genug, denn auch das Cover Artwork wurde nicht als konventionelles Standbild, sondern als animiertes Gif gelauncht. Die Animation, in der die Skylines verschiedener Metropolen wie u.a. New York, Los Angeles und Paris vereint dargestellt werden, zeigt eine dunkle Wolkendecke, die aufbricht und sich zum Wu-Tang Logo formt. Der 1993 in New York gegründete Wu-Tang Clan entwickelte sich zu einer der revolutionärsten Rap-Gruppierungen der mittneunziger Jahre. Als lose Vereinigung von neun MCs, stellten sie eine völlig neuartige Hip Hop-Konstellation dar. Ihr Ziel war es, den Namen Wu-Tang schon bei ihrem Debüt als unverkennbare Macht zu positionieren und demnach so viele weitere Projekte wie nur möglich ins Leben zu rufen. Was ihnen gelungen ist, denn alle Mitglieder sind auch individuell zu Stars avanciert. Und so könnte der folgende legendäre Ausspruch zu keinem Anlass passender sein als zum Release des 20-jährigen Jubiläums-Albums: „Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nothing To F*** With“! http://www.wutang-corp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/wutangclan https://twitter.com/WuTangClan https://www.youtube.com/user/WuTangClanVEVO *** Ticketservice: 040 413 22 60 // 01806 62 62 80 (Festnetz: 0,20€/Anruf, Mobilfunk: max. 0,60€/Anruf)) Online: kj.de // [email protected] Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion GmbH | kj.de 0 0 0 0 0 Telefon: ( 4 ) 41 47 88- | Fax: ( 4 ) 41 47 88-11 | [email protected] .

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The Evolution of Commercial Rap Music Maurice L
Florida State University Libraries Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations The Graduate School 2011 A Historical Analysis: The Evolution of Commercial Rap Music Maurice L. Johnson II Follow this and additional works at the FSU Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS: THE EVOLUTION OF COMMERCIAL RAP MUSIC By MAURICE L. JOHNSON II A Thesis submitted to the Department of Communication in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science Degree Awarded: Summer Semester 2011 The members of the committee approve the thesis of Maurice L. Johnson II, defended on April 7, 2011. _____________________________ Jonathan Adams Thesis Committee Chair _____________________________ Gary Heald Committee Member _____________________________ Stephen McDowell Committee Member The Graduate School has verified and approved the above-named committee members. ii I dedicated this to the collective loving memory of Marlena Curry-Gatewood, Dr. Milton Howard Johnson and Rashad Kendrick Williams. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the individuals, both in the physical and the spiritual realms, whom have assisted and encouraged me in the completion of my thesis. During the process, I faced numerous challenges from the narrowing of content and focus on the subject at hand, to seemingly unjust legal and administrative circumstances. Dr. Jonathan Adams, whose gracious support, interest, and tutelage, and knowledge in the fields of both music and communications studies, are greatly appreciated. Dr. Gary Heald encouraged me to complete my thesis as the foundation for future doctoral studies, and dissertation research.
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“MY LOGO IS BRANDED ON YOUR SKIN”: THE WU-TANG CLAN, AUTHENTICITY, BLACK MASCULINITY, AND THE RAP MUSIC INDUSTRY By Ryan Alexander Huey A THESIS Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of History – Master of Arts 2014 ABSTRACT “MY LOGO IS BRANDED ON YOUR SKIN”: THE WU-TANG CLAN, AUTHENTICITY, BLACK MASCULINITY, AND THE RAP MUSIC INDUSTRY By Ryan Alexander Huey The rap group, the Wu-Tang Clan came out of a turbulent period of time in both the rap music industry and American society in the early 1990s. Lawsuits over sampling in rap music forced producers to rethink the ways they made music while crack cocaine and the War on Drugs wreaked havoc in urban communities across the nation, as it did in the Clan’s home borough of Staten Island, New York. Before the formation of the group, Gary “GZA” Grice, had managed to land a recording contract as a solo artist, but his marketing was mismanaged and his career stagnated. He returned in 1992 as one of the nine member collective, who billed themselves as kung fu movie buffs melding low-fi, eerie productions with realistic raps about ghetto life. Drawing from the vibrant underground rap scene of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, Brooklyn’s rich African American chess tradition, the teachings of the Five Percenters, and the cult following for Hong Kong action cinema, the Clan became a huge hit across the country. Each member fashioned a unique masculine identity for himself, bolstering their hardcore underground image while pushing the boundaries of acceptable expressions of manhood in rap music.
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Form Like Voltron Wu Tang
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The Struggle to Prevent Genocide the Promise of Never Again
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Wu-Tang Clan Ready for Northside
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